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Old 08-28-2021, 02:40 AM   #3334
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Agreed. The one step I wish they took was to have Sam overtake Frodo and throw the ring into Mt Doom himself. Like you needed to have a future friend to really dispose of the evil.

Either, those films truly are a fear of filmmaking and if you haven’t seen the appendices of the extended version you are missing the best film school that exists. Just hours and hours of how to make a movie
And make it feel real.
Except that the point of the novels was that the (at the time) almost pointless act of mercy by Bilbo towards Gollum would have enormous and unpredictable repercussions.

The biggest theme of the books is mercy and compassion vs power and calculation which is why they are gigantic Christian allegories.
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