Bleeding Heart with a Bloody Fist

Fanfic comes in two flavors

Person: [Plays C, D, E, F, G, A, and B on a piano.]

The funniest book-to-movie dialogue change is Gandalf’s whole speech about how he believes that Bilbo and Frodo both were meant to have the Ring, because in the movie he ends it by saying, “And that is an encouraging thought,” and smiling kindly until the scene cuts away but in the book it just goes:

“I once asked my friends if they’d ever held things that gave them a spooky sense of history. Ancient pots with three-thousand-year-old thumbprints in the clay, said one. Antique keys, another. Clay pipes. Dancing shoes from WWII. Roman coins I found in a field. Old bus tickets in second-hand books. Everyone agreed that what these small things did was strangely intimate; they gave them the sense, as they picked them up and turned them in their fingers, of another person, an unknown person a long time ago, who had held that object in their hands. You don’t know anything about them, but you feel the other person’s there, one friend told me. It’s like all the years between you and them disappear. Like you become them, somehow.”