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"‘"of The Two , the Secon "part of JRR Tolkien’s classic Lord of the

‘_ Rings trilogy, was more vast and

i“ thrilling than its fine predecessor, The *“ Fellowship of the Ring.

Jackson has taken sensible liberties with his source material from the off, banishing Tom Bombadil and the barrow wights while preserving the mood of Tolkien’s elegiac epic - and keeping the book’s rabid fans impressively happy. The Return of the King features the finishowdown at Mount Doom, as well as charging elephants, mighty armies, ancient arachnids and Aragorn's return

a to the land of his fathers. The question is not will it V“ :- succeed, but what will ' v” .. .,_the‘fans will do when“ the .Show is over’? Wait for the ‘*

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