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Ramble On: THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY

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From one perspective, it’s ironic that the adaptations of J.R.R. Tolkien’s "Lord of the Rings" books have been so successful; they owe their success to technological progress, and yet an argument against such progress is one of their underlying themes.