regardless of what you think of America there are a lot of good people here worth fighting for, and that’s what I’m going to hold onto regardless of what happens in November
and those people are worth celebrating
Another good on is "I've found it is the small things, everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay. Simple acts of kindness and love."
slightly odd, it’s “Some believe it is only great power that can hold evil in check, but that is not what I have found. It is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love”
which i like tho its also invented whole cloth for the hobbit films
Exception maybe being Gandalf's "do what you have to do with the time you're given" speech, which is a bit different and moved to an entirely different point in the story, but McKellan is so good it makes you unashamedly weep. And by "you" I mean "me."
something i think jackson and the writers were really good at is shuffling dialogue around to maintain the feel of tolkien gollum singing the barrow wights song, giving treebeard bombadil quotes etc
Moving the “the walls of her bower” speech from Gandalf to Grima, speaking TO Eowyn, was my favorite one of these. I gasped the first time I saw it. Hair raising.
And I mean I get it. The first movie of a trilogy needs a different dramatic structure than a very long novel does. Gandalf needs a big speech at that moment when he's about to [DECADES OLD SPOILERS REDACTED]
