"Frodo lives, " declared the flower children's buttons in the 1960s, but everyone here lives vividly, from Viggo Mortensen's Aragorn, Ian McKellen's Gandalf, Orlando Bloom's Legolas, Sean Astin's Sam and Elijah Wood's Frodo to Miranda Otto's radiant Lady Eowyn, who delivers, with joyous understatement, the movie's most rousing line: "I am no man!"

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They are heading for around 15% under Krista Sager, a tough Realpolitikerin about as far as could be from the flower-power children who founded the Greens in the late 1970s.

ECONOMIST: Germany

Today, Kopila -- which means "flower bud" in Nepali -- is home to about 50 children, from infants to teenagers.

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Historically, children from the Fields have had the right to attend primary school in Pagford, a place of flower baskets and other middle-class comforts, and the town has also supported a drug-treatment clinic that serves the neighborhood.

NEWYORKER: Mugglemarch