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Old 08-01-2013, 11:19 AM
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Way too long and way too humourless for me. Two hours is the absolute max I can take in front of a movie screen these days, and if there's not much humour (or none at all in the case of Tolkein's stuff) I won't even give it two minutes.
Hmmm, Gimli's and Legolas' relationship throughout the Lord of the Rings Trilogy was a real comic adventure for mine. Gimli's character was written into the trilogy beautifully IMO.

Merry and Pippin smokin weed was also pretty funny I thought. Difficult to write humour into fantasy.
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