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Her writing partner on "LOTR" and "The Hobbit," Philippa Boyens (Guillermo del Toro also shares credit on the latter), displayed their working relationship for Barnes and admitted that "we collaborate in bed":
Ms. Walsh: “Phil is definitely Shelob, with the hairy legs.”
Ms. Boyens: “Don’t hold back, Fran. Tell him what you really think.”
Ms. Walsh: “We started out extremely sensitive to the other person’s feelings. Now we don’t worry about it.”
Ms. Boyens: “We do disagree about things. It’s part of how we work off each other.” She paused for a moment, and added, “This is going to sound bad, but we collaborate in bed.”
Ms. Walsh: “In our jammies.”
Ms. Boyens: “Surrounded by dogs. We gave up going to the office.”
Ms. Walsh: “It just seemed like one more thing to do.”
Barnes boils down their combined writing powers: "Ms. Walsh has a knack for conveying emotion, Ms. Boyens excels at structure (and line readings), and Mr. Jackson is the visual genius." Check out the complete story on Walsh here.
The first of the three "Hobbit" films arrives in theaters December 14. Here is the first review off its New Zealand premiere.
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