I just saw it...loved it.
Tad
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From: "Candice Ward" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, December 25, 2001 11:09 PM
Subject: Re: He leans out...
> Very glad to hear your positive take on it, Frank, as I'm going to see it
> tomorrow myself, with my daughter and her boyfriend, here from Pitt.
They've
> already seen it once and want to go again, which is a good sign as they're
> both such film snobs. From what I've read, it seems to have achieved the
> impossible in satisfying those who know the books, while making those who
> don't want to.
>
> The NY TIMES has been running an online "Tolkien Archives" feature all
month
> (http://www.nytimes.com/specials/advertising/movies/tolkien/index.html),
> which I highly recommend. Pieces come and go, but what's gone can be
> accessed in the Archives' archive, and the guided tour of Tolkien web
sites
> ("Web Explorer: Journey to Middle-Earth") just gets bigger each week.
> There's also a new quiz each week with movie-merchandise prizes (though
I'm
> hot to get a Burger King souvenir goblet myself), a slide show of Tolkien
> cover art, readings by him of excerpts from _The Hobbit_ and _The
> Fellowship_, downloadable first chapters of both books, a feature on the
> making of the film's soundtrack, and period reviews of the books,
including
> two by Auden. His Halloween 1954 review ("The Hero Is a Hobbit") begins
"Mr.
> Tolkien has succeeded superbly. No fiction I have read in the last five
> years has given me more joy than 'The Fellow of the Ring.'"
>
> Check it out!
>
> Candice
>
>
>
> on 12/25/01 10:18 PM, Frank Parker at [log in to unmask] wrote:
>
> > Thank you, Candice. Glad to greet your day :)
> >
> > I saw 'The Fellowship of the Ring' yesterday, btw. Can hardly wait for
the
> > next
> > chapter to screen!
> >
> > cheers,
> > Frank
> > ***************
> > Frank Parker
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