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To get things started I'll go first. I thought the movie portrayed the original fantasy genre fairly accurately. Anyone who has read The Lord of the Rings (the original fantasy novel) will recognize the darkness that was quite apparent in the death of Boromir and the overall toll of the war which essentially destroyed the elves (who all left at the end of the war) and the few dwarves who were still around, bringing about the Age of Men. Originally, fantasy was supposed to be a creative vehicle to parallel reality and express realistic ideas in ways which were unique and original. To this end, I thought the movie did an amazing job at portraying this parallelism. As to the death of Leslie, I guess most people who wrote about it being so sudden and unforeshadowed were not writers, or didn't pay very close attention to the details. As a writer I saw it coming at the very first mention of the Dark Lord. Reading some of the complaints about the movie that appears to be the writer side of me moreso than the audience side of me. But I am curious to see what other people thought, because I thought that all things considered it was one of the better films I've seen in recent childrens' movies.
"If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you."
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