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[kimby1967]

I watched part of FOTR and most of the Two Towers yesterday on TV. At the scene in TT where the Orcs are hatching, Saruman makes a comment about them destroying "all who oppose us". But I could have sworn he said, "We will destroy all posers." Close enough. But the movies meddled too much with "how it REALLY went

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[dreamflower02]

Well, of course they meddled in "how it really went" because they were PJ's AUs.

I suppose if I'd thought at all, I assumed he'd left Bill at a stable nearby, and that the Red Book was in with his stuff. Did he have his pack? I don't recall. I was more disturbed that he wasn't living at Bag End. But I understood the logic of that decision. Many of the changes were made so that it would be less complicated for people who did not read the book.

[kimby1967]

He didn't have his pack; I watched it again the other day and he's just strolling down Bagshot Row packless. But that's okay. Baby Frodo wasn't supposed to be there either but he was. :-)

[dreamflower02]

Actually, having a four year gap instead of a two year gap made sense to me. As a calligrapher myself, I had always wondered how the heck Frodo could have handwritten the entirety of the Red Book in only two years!

And if the gap was four years instead of two, then little Frodo would have been there, since he was born when Elanor was two.

Perhaps Sam's pack vanished into the same area of sub-space as the here-again-gone-again waistcoat he wore at the Grey Havens! 0;-)

[kimby1967]

You're right about Frodo writing the book in two years, especially if his dominant hand was the one missing the finger. Four years would make more sense, unless he was ambidextrous, of course. ;-)