On Thu, 20 May 2004 02:44:11 -0500, Pat Flannery wrote:

Oh great, I'd forgotten about the god-damned winged monkeys....ever
notice how many things in "The Wizard Of Oz" resemble things in "The
Lord Of The Rings"?

I think that the best description of WOZ was the one in the TV listings of
a Bay Area (I think) newspaper and was something like:

Transported to a surrealistic landscape, a young girl kills the first
woman she meets, and then teams up with three others to kill again.