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Lucius Shepard reviews Return of the King, with some fair criticisms and a lot of biting wit. I agree I could have done without some of the weepy wrap-up at the end. And this comment about Frodo and Sam made me gasp with laughter.
This relationship came to seem so cloyingly godawful, I half-expected a scene in which Sam, on his knees, tongue lolling, receives a snausage from Frodo’s hand.
And this one, on the "patently unnecessary pronouncments":
Legolas is given to intone, “There is a sleepless malice in the West,” the only appropriate response I could think of, considering the circumstance (not long before the final battle), was, “Duh!”
(link via Confessions of a Science Librarian)
Posted by Hilary at January 20, 2004 12:41 PM