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doug*platypus · 01-03-2003, 11:35 PM

...thanks, Alex but don't encourage me I'll go on for days!<P> <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR> I don't blame Sam for falling off the cliff! Was it his fault the cliff edge crumbled away beneath him? I don't really think so. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>Nah, I didn't think it was Sam's fault either. Definitely PJs fault. I can understand how they wanted to make the danger more palpable than in the book, and they did this really well. I just can't help but feel slighted that the way they chose to do it was by making Sam look clumsy and careless. Alas, poor, Sam. I knew him, Horatio, and he wasn't as bumbling as that! Too Pippin.<P>Good call on the Easterlings being from the far east. That would help to explain their crazy armour styles. Tolkien always portrayed them as wild men, maybe like the Dunlendings, but Far East is a fair interpretation I guess. Yeah, one really did look female. Great call, a lot like Zam Wessell the changeling bounty hunter from AOTC. Weird.

01-03-2003, 11:35 PM	#17
doug*platypus Delver in the Deep Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Aotearoa Posts: 960	...thanks, Alex but don't encourage me I'll go on for days!<P> <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR> I don't blame Sam for falling off the cliff! Was it his fault the cliff edge crumbled away beneath him? I don't really think so. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>Nah, I didn't think it was Sam's fault either. Definitely PJs fault. I can understand how they wanted to make the danger more palpable than in the book, and they did this really well. I just can't help but feel slighted that the way they chose to do it was by making Sam look clumsy and careless. Alas, poor, Sam. I knew him, Horatio, and he wasn't as bumbling as that! Too Pippin.<P>Good call on the Easterlings being from the far east. That would help to explain their crazy armour styles. Tolkien always portrayed them as wild men, maybe like the Dunlendings, but Far East is a fair interpretation I guess. Yeah, one really did look female. Great call, a lot like Zam Wessell the changeling bounty hunter from AOTC. Weird. __________________ But Gwindor answered: 'The doom lies in yourself, not in your name'.