Before and after the movie

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Those buttons were great, Pio! Time for me to scour E-bay and find some for my very own.

it was the exorcist Bilbo at Rivendell - yikes. For an oldtimer, it was dissapointing stick with the authors narrative - that scene would have been just as powerfull if you could have dropped the freakish melodramatics

It would have been cool if it had suddenly gone very surreal, with Frodo envisioning Bilbo a tad "Gollum-ized" -- like was planned for Frodo to look for a moment in the EE of TTT, although they took that bit out.

I wish I was an "old-school" fan... too bad I'm too young! I could have been one of the "first born" had I only had a bit more willpower around the age of twelve... I couldn't make it past Tom Bombadil at that age, tricky guy that he is. So I'm just one of the Edain, a new-school book fan. Woohoo!