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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jdavis" data-source="post: 1232859" data-attributes="member: 8704">IF Jackson did want to keep the scene then the petition might just help, of course at this point it's probably too late to change things anyway.  For me, as long as the scene makes the extended version then I'll live, the extended version is the version that matters to me as it is the version I'll be watching for years to come. They've already said it will be in the extended version so I'm fine. I just thought people might want to know about the petition (heck I didn't sign it myself as I felt it was too late to change things anyway). As for the changes they made from Book to movie well their is a whole documentary on disk 3 of the extended verson dedicated to them explaining changes they made from the book and why. They didn't make any changes at all just to leave their mark, heck Peter Jackson is probably as big a fan of the books as any of us are (he apparently agonizes over every change too).  Also sort of funny is the documentary where they talk to authors and the original publishers of the books. They pointed out that the books were such a mess storywise that they would of never been published today and talked about all the things that Tolkin did wrong because he wasn't a profesional author, yet everything came together so well in the end. Sort of funny that the books that set the standard for modern fantasy might of never been published by modern standards. For all of us book purist it seems the books were actually flawed by professional writing standards (sort of funny isn't it).</blockquote>

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