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Right on both counts and comment on reviewer BS

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I agree with you; Clark wouldn't know a good flick if it hit him on the head, and, my post was nasty. I guess Santa will be bringing me a lump of coal this year. But since you used up the word "bullshit" let me just say that, as someone who has actively researched Tolkien's LOTR trilogy and The Silmarillion during the past three decades* I have a very low tolerance for the kind of bullshit that many reviewers are slinging around. Most of the BS revolves around conjecture that the trilogy is an allegory about Nazism and WWII but there is also a fair amount of misinformation about Tolkien ripping off Wagner that is absolutely false and without merit.

There is a lot of very authoritative material available to substantiate my position, and I would certainly invite you to read the aformentioned material for yourself in order to draw your own conclusions.

BTW, while I think the three films (in their extended edition form) are a remarkable achievment, I have severe reservations about the liberties taken with plot points; and I am not much of a fan of the third part, which has many, many problems (far too many to go into right now).

*I have read the trilogy all the way though aproximately 50 times -- once a year since 1969 plus many readings in college courses and lectures I attended on the subject.

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