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Well, actually it’s an interview with John Rhys-Davies<\/a> — but a fine interview it is, talking about dwarves, the movies, his career, Tolkien, and some geopolitical stuff. Interesting.<\/p>\n

But what are the books? Something\u2019s quite nice, and then something bad goes wrong, and then there\u2019s a fight, and then something gets worse, and then there\u2019s a bigger <\/i>fight, and then things look really <\/i>bad, and then there\u2019s a battle, and then things look really really <\/i>bad, and then there\u2019s a bigger battle, and then things look REALLY really <\/i>bad. That\u2019s the structure of the damn thing. And you can\u2019t have that mounting tension all the way through. So we needed to find ways of releasing the tension. And we decided that Gimli was probably the way to do it. Because there\u2019s something innately funny about Gimli.<\/p>\n

I’m not sure I agree with the Gimli-as-humorous-relief — but he’s probably done more thinking about it than I have, and he certainly seems to have accepted it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, actually it’s an interview with John Rhys-Davies — but a fine interview it is, talking about dwarves, the movies, his career, Tolkien, and some geopolitical stuff. Interesting. 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