[General Woundwort]

Originally posted by Growltigger:
Woundwort, the English have a great and rich musical tradition, and yes, we have ceilidh-esque musical, which could easily have been used rather than the "insert CD random Irish jigs" used in the Hobbiton scene. Anyhow, as Dogscoff said, neither musical genres are appropriate as the hobbits are Shirish!!

You took that jibe much better than I expected. Maybe losing the Cantina mellowed you out...? Yeah, right.

From my sources (a friend who's even more a Tolkiengeek than I am, theonering.net), I hear the ROTK:EE will be almost an hour longer than what's out in the theatres, and that several scenes that are vital to plugging these holes (i.e. the Houses of Healing) along with a few others (the debut of the Mouth of Sauron, played by the gyrocaptain from Road Warrior) will be added back in. Evidently the New Line Cinema bosses thought that "OK, yes, there are actually lots of people out there who will sit through this whole thing, but if we cut it to 3 1/2 hours, we can show it many more times and make more money - so PJ, cut it anyways." As my friend said, that decision ought to cost New Line the Best Picture Oscar, because what's out there is not the acutal picture.

Speaking of which, any Oscar/Golden Globe/fill-in-the-blank-award speculations in ROTK?

EDIT - link error

[ January 08, 2004, 10:35: Message edited by: General Woundwort ]