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Friday, April 25, 2008 12:00 AM

Guillermo del Toro to make "Hobbit" films: Bleah!

A director who hates Tolkien, enslaved in New Zealand by a latter-day George Lucas. Whose brilliant idea was this?

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  • Saturday, April 26, 2008 09:52 PM

    Who cares?

    The Lord of the Rings movies sucked - as movie adaptations of the books, that is. They may have been fine fantasy movies, but Jackson took far too many liberties with the originals, abusing the language, the characters, and many essential themes. So who cares about The Hobbit?

    Jeeze...I still can't believe how often Jackson "improved" on Tolkien's writing by substituting his own prose instead. What a jackass!

    —Peter Maranci Read Peter Maranci's other letters

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