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Podcast: Exploring Tolkien
Episode: Should The Lord of the Rings Films have kept the Barrow-downs?
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Dropping the Barrow-downs removes one of the most important callbacks in the final Battle of the Pelennor Fields before Minas Tirith. It also excises some of the wonderful depth of Middle-earth that Tolkien reveals in these nods and glances.
We also take a look at the new game, “Tales of the Shire.”
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* If Tom Bombadil was removed from the film, how could Jackson have integrated the Barrow-downs scene into his film...