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kleinbl00  ·  3411 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: How I Defeated the Tolkien Estate

"Drinking tea at each other" is graduate-level wordsmithing.

Realize two things:

1) The hobbit movies were going to suck. Now that we've made the decision that every.fucking.book gets to be three-plus movies, stretching something shorter than To Kill A Mockingbird into nine hours of cinema is going to involve ridiculous amounts of improvisation. That improvisation will be designed to sell Burger King commemorative cups. If The Fault In Our Stars received similar treatment, it would be three two-and-a-half hour movies.

2) You're getting closer and closer to convincing me to read the fucking things.