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I love that one little moment in the movie when Gandalf first arrives and all the children run to meet him.....he seems to ignore them at first and they are all disappointed....then shortly after his wagon passes by, he lets loose with a few fireworks, to the delight of the little ones.

the limited world of the hobbits....

......sigh..........doesn't sound all that bad to me.............

.........wish I could book a vacation in the Shire...........

Glancing back over some of the earlier discussions, I noticed you all placed Aragorn on a particularly high pedestal...obviously a gal thing. :-)

Strider the Ranger is a character I quite liked throughout Fellowship of the Ring but as he gradually emerges in the second and third books as the Second Coming of Christ (bringing the dead 'back to life,' healing the sick and performing various other miracles), I found him increasingly more of an icon, a symbolic manifestation of the 'right and proper order of the world,' and less a man with heroic qualities. It should be interesting to see how they portray this metamorphosis in the movies...I wouldn't be surprised by the end to see him cloaked in a glowing aura with a halo over his crown.

Perhaps it's the anti-statist in me, but why must so many heroes in such tales be the long-lost heirs of some royal house or another come to save 'their' people?