Bob wrote: > In a message dated Sun, 27 Jan 2002 12:22:37 AM Eastern Standard Time, "Dan Minette" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I agree that it was overdone with Bilbo, but it wasn't totally off the mark. > > With Bilbo we have > > > > "to his distress and amazement he found that he was no longer looking at > > Bilbo; a shadow seem to have fallen between them, and through it he found > > himself eyeing a little wrinkled creature with a hungry face and bony > > groping hands. He felt a desire to strike him." > > I agree with Dan. The scene was completely in keeping with the book
And another vote of agreement - the scene did not jar for me at all. Having dealt with helping get my mother's parents placed in assisted living facilities due to senile dementia last year, I was struck by how much that scene reminded me of the sudden mood changes my grandmother experiences now. In some ways, that made the scene a little more scary for me. The wizard's duel worked fine for me, as well. The addition of those scenes in the movie served to ratchet the tension higher. The style of the fight was a new take on the wizards' duel, and I liked that it had less flash. Adam C. Lipscomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft." - Teddy Roosevelt
