12-18-2003, 09:20 PM
whyBish,Dec 18 2003, 09:28 AM Wrote:And a side order of a paedocidal father who is suddenly cured of his mental illness when torched.The steward of Gondor (the father) had been corrupted by Sauron through a palantir in the book, and that is what drove him mad. The book didn't have Frodo fall into Mount Doom, and if he had done so in the movie, me and my fellow geeks would have formed a lynch mob out for Peter Jackson's head, or something to that effect. I personally thought that it was the best movie that I have ever seen, with the possible exception of Star Wars: A New Hope.
IMO it would've been better had Frodo sacrificed himself in Mt. Dune to destroy the ring,
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