My daughters sat enraptured in front of the TV -- no rare occurrence, actually -- watching a battle during "The Two Towers," the middle movie of the Tolkien trilogy.
As they watched the dwarf, the elf and the man battle the ugly cross-bred evil called orcs, I watched them.
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