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::Thursday, January 09, 2003::
NEWS OF THE KING - Here is a great website with a first look at some of the scenes in "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King." They are really fantastic, but they confirm what I have begin to fear with the second film...Peter Jackson is moving farther and farther away from Tolkien's orginal work. Since the above website displays a picture of Sauraman getting his throat cut and then impaled on a spike I can be pretty sure Jackson has now removed the final four chapters of "The Return of the King" and made up his own version.
That really angers me, but what are you going to do. At least it appears they are finally going to deal with the reforging Narsil in the film's opening scene (that comes from the mouth of Peter Jackson himself). It all looks like we will get a look at how Gollum was transformed by the ring as we will learn how he found it and what he was like before it corrupted him.
Shelob looks positively hideous so at least that's one thing to look forward too. ROTK was always by favorite book. How could you not like The Paths of the Dead, Gandalf fighting the Nazgul, Theodan, Pippin, Eowyn and Gollum's final treachery. I suppose I may have to get over my love of Tolkien's prose and accept the cinematic version of this storytelling. I mean how can I not be pumped over the King's return.
:: Posted by Citizen Ryan | 7:29:38 AM| Link This ::
This is the best one-volume treatment of its subject I have ever come across. It may actually be the best ever published. It is comprehensive yet succinct, scholarly without being pedantic, eloquent but unrhetorical. It is compellingly readable. I was swept away, feeling as if I had never heard the saga before. It is most welcome. I am conscientiously bound to report that itis not quite perfect. The maps are accurate and intelligent, but they are printed on a gray ground that makes the gray lines and arrows of the Southern forces hard to see. 'These defenders of the South doth protest too much' is a horrible solecism. And there never was such a place as the 'Kingdom of Palermo.' I can think of nothing else to complain about. . . . This is a deeply satisfying book.
Bush at War is a gripping book that takes us behind the scenes, showing our leaders confronting some of the greatest issues confronting us in modern times. Watergate icon Bob Woodward uses quotations from 50 National Security Council meetings in the 100 days following 9/11, tracking the process by which policy and program were hammered out. To this record he added takes from White House, Pentagon, and Camp David conversations, in effect giving us a front-row seat to history unfolding. At the heart of the story is how the Bush team forced out the Taliban, scattered Al Qaeda, and created a worldwide anti-terrorism alliance -- all within 100 days.
Woodward captures the tension of competing agendas: as the president focused on rapid response, other top officials worked on signing up allies, winning time to develop workable military plans, and validating intelligence on Osama bin Laden, Al Qaeda, and the Taliban.
As the "Let's roll" pressure builds, Woodward captures the principals' anxieties about their risk-heavy plan. They had listened and learned, but garbled communications, lost aircraft, collateral damage, defecting allies, and post-Taliban quagmires still threatened. Yet surprisingly little went wrong as a new-style, post-9/11 rapid response war was fought and won.
:: Posted by Citizen Ryan | 4:24:30 AM| Link This ::
Battle Cry of Freedom
Bush at War
