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<blockquote data-quote="Agback" data-source="post: 1887414" data-attributes="member: 5328">Hear! Hear!&quot;Begone, foul dwimmerlaik!, lord of carrion! Leave the dead in peace.&quot;&quot;Come not between the Nazgûl and his prey. Or he will not slay thee in thy turn. Rather he will bear thee away to the House of Lamentation, beyond all darkness, where thy flesh will be devoured, and thy shrivelled mind left naked before the Lidless Eye.&quot;&quot;Do what thou wilt. But I will hinder it if I can.&quot;&quot;Hinder me? Thou fool! No living man can hinder me.&quot;&quot;But no living man am I. You look upon a woman! …&quot;One of the cool things about Tolkien's writing (which has its flaws, in my opinion) is that the characters are often aware of it when their are in an historical moment, and they take care to say something appropriately grand, and slip into archaism. Jackson's girlfriend's re-writes turn much of this into bland pap.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Agback, post: 1887414, member: 5328"] Hear! Hear! "Begone, foul dwimmerlaik!, lord of carrion! Leave the dead in peace." "Come not between the Nazgûl and his prey. Or he will not slay thee in thy turn. Rather he will bear thee away to the House of Lamentation, beyond all darkness, where thy flesh will be devoured, and thy shrivelled mind left naked before the Lidless Eye." "Do what thou wilt. But I will hinder it if I can." "Hinder me? Thou fool! No living man can hinder me." "But no living man am I. You look upon a woman! …" One of the cool things about Tolkien's writing (which has its flaws, in my opinion) is that the characters are often aware of it when their are in an historical moment, and they take care to say something appropriately grand, and slip into archaism. Jackson's girlfriend's re-writes turn much of this into bland pap. [/QUOTE]

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