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The really great thing about having children is the unashamed return to those old pleasures - something got me at about 20, and I put away childish things (and, I suppose, starting seeing through a glass darkly) - and then Josh, my oldest son, read the LOTR, prompting me to revisit it. I'm just finishing reading it out loud to Zoe, who's two years younger - I guess it's taken us the better part of six months. Some marathon! Best Alison >it was a treasured book to me too - and I read it aloud to both of >my children in turn with undiminished pleasure. (Tomas used to hide >it under his pillow, because if he didnt, when we stopped at night, >I would take it and read ahead, which he considered unfair!) > >The film is really lovely - thoughtful, subtle, very well edited and >beautiful to look at. Plus scary. Without being gory or very >explicit, which is a lesson to filmmakers all I think. The menace >of the Dark Riders was really well captured and all this in the >opinion of all three of us. We are all reading the book again - >three copies in the house now (I managed to hold on to the battered >old copy I first read. > >I'm baffled too about why they didnt use Tolkien's own songs - too many words? > >Liz -- Alison Croggon Home page http://www.users.bigpond.com/acroggon/ Masthead http://au.geocities.com/masthead_2/