COOL TO THE ENT DEGREE

Just came from Toys R Us, having purchased the gloriously huge talking Ent, Treebeard. And, just to be complete, I also picked up Merry and Pippin who are sized close to proportionately correct. Sure beats the heck out of my previous Ent action figure, which consisted of a carefully carved broccoli stalk.

By the way, I wonder: Would people start crabbing that “Two Towers” is “inaccessible.” After all, it makes zero effort to summarize the previous film. It just assumes you know what’s going on.

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