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Something else about LotR I almost forgot to point out. And this one's a gripe.
Elrond actually says "The Ring must be cast back into the fire from whence it came."
This incorrect usage is turning into de facto acceptable English just like "alot" and "alright" and "you've got another thing coming" (as opposed to the correct "think")... it's been used like this over and over throughout history by people who don't understand the actual meaning of "whence", which is "from where". So "from whence" is redundant.
If JRRT had been alive and involved in this project, this is one stumble that would never have made it to the screen. Just one of the side benefits of the book being written by one of the most prominent linguists and English historians of the modern age.
A small flub in the scheme of things, but one that bugs me.
