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The hint of Eowyn and Faramir standing together at the coronation makes me hope that there will be more of that particular story in the dvd, since Eowyn is one of my favourite characters.

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The hint of Eowyn and Faramir standing together at the coronation makes me hope that there will be more of that particular story in the dvd, since Eowyn is one of my favourite characters.

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Considering that the first two 'Extended Version' DVD's had almost 30% more footage a piece, which helped fill in some of the gaps, I am inclined to believe that you will find a similar amount of "hole plugging" in the third one.

Your Most Humble Servant,

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Hi all! Amazing discoveries!!!

First, a bit of extreme pedantry. When I said earlier that
I had seen the Hobbit cartoon before I knew about LOTR,
that was not really true. My mom got me the storybook
to the cartoon and the record (yes vinyl) when I was in
nursery school. I remember a babysitter bringing over
something called LOTR. Then, I was channel surfing in
the mid 80s, and saw a cartoon on TV that looked like the
Hobbit...but how old is Bilbo?! What happened to Gollum!?

Intrigued, I got my mom's old psychedelic Christmas Tree
Emu covered Hobbit and LOTR and read them in Spring 1987,
age 10 1/2. Then I rewatched the cartoons and the Bakshi
rotoscoped version over the next 5 yrs. </pedantry>
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1) I was at a Teaching Assistant prep seminar today, and there
was a girl from Kirghizstan named (I kid you not) NAZGUL !!
She said it means "flower" and she gets a lot of jokes
from friends [I told it I had my share of yuks when the Little Mermaid
was named Ariel]
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2) There is a Tolkien expert at my school, University of MD.
She strongly dislikes the movies, except for Boromir's performance,
which she says is still not excellent. Still, she loves the books,
so I'll give her the benefit of the doubt...
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3) Saving the absolute best for last: In the book _The Road to Middle
-Earth_, by Tolkien scholar T.A. Shippey (Boston: Houghton Mifflin,
1983), p. 223) notes [I abbreviate and paraphrase at times]:

"anyone who reads the 'Introduction' to [an English folk song
book; info available upon request]...will be struck by the strange
resemblance of the mountain country of North Carolina before WWI
to the Shire...Mr Guy Davenport in the New York Times (23 Feb 1979)
records JRRT grilling an American classmate of his for 'tales of
Kentucky folk...family names like Barefoott and Boffin and Baggins
and good country names like that'. Old country names, one might add:
in Kentucky etc., JRRT obviously thought, there had for a time
been a place where English people and English traditions could flourish
by themselves free of the chronic imperialism of Latin, Celtic, and French.
[Here comes the really juicy stuff]

In the same way Fenimore Cooper's hero Natty Bumppo
prides himself on being 'a man whose blood is without a cross';
and Tolkien recorded an early devotion to Red Indians, bows and
arrows and forests [The quote, from "On Fairy-stories" in _Tree and
Leaf_, pp.39-40: "I had no desire to have either dreams or adventures
like _Alice [in Wonderland], and the account of them merely amused
me. I had very little desire to look for buried treasure or fight
pirates, and _Treasure Island_ left me cool. Red Indians were better:
there were bows and arrows (I had and have a wholly unsatisfied
desire to shoot well with a bow), and strange languages, and glimpses
of an archaic mode of life, and, above all, forests in such stories.
But the land of Merlin and Arthur was better than these, and best of all the
nameless North of Sigurd of the Volsungs, and the prince of
all dragons."]
Shippey continues:
The journey of the Fellowship from Lorien to Tol Brandir, w/ its
canoes and portages, often recalls LOTM

, and as the travelers move from forest to prairie, like the American
pioneers, Aragorn and Eomer for a moment preserve faint traces of
'the Deerslayer' and the Sioux...The complaint in one of the
sillier reviews of LOTR, that none of its characters (except Gimli
:)) had 'an even faintly American temperament', is as imperceptive
as irrelevant. Once upon a time all Americans were English
[!? Shippey is generalizing here];
caelum non animam mutant qui trans mare currunt."
[Elaine, what does Shippey mean??]

WHEW....there you have it!!
Now back to Masters' thesis, teaching, class...I won't be posting for
a whil