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Message: [QUOTE="dogged1, post: 3969468, member: 7301"] I agree with the critique, elevation of female characters, disagree with the conclusion. Just wasn't a real problem for me that Jackson saw the work thru his own, more modern, eyes. Was sad not to see Tom Bombadill, but saw the necessity Also agree that The Hobbit was stretched way to thin. I was only referring to the original LOTR trilogy. By the humerus town, do you mean Bree, where Frodo met Strider? Not quite sure what your alluding to there. Read The Once and Future King as a Freshman at college, on an english lit required reading list, loved it. BTW, while the Sharpe's series is based on the Napoleonic wars, it is firmly focused on the infantry of England, it's lead character has a certain disdain for British Naval Officers and all that "Rule Britannia" nonsense. Kind of fun, after Horatio and Jack. [/QUOTE]