I hum the "oh-wee-oh" (or "all we owe," if those lyrics are actually real) song in my head when the orcs march out.

Evil viewing companion leaned close and whisper-sang, "Where there's a whip, there's a way!"

(And since childhood I've always heard and sung "Oh, B.O, oh, B.O." I figure there have to be some deodorant failures amongst 'em.)

At our The Two Towers party, a friend did the "oh-wee-oh" for the Black Gates of Mordor. But Minas Morgol is WAY more Emerald City.

I think I'm going to see it for my third time today. I'm not sure I'll be able to sit still for the long "Gollum recaps his goals" scene, and despite my Legolas love, I will rage about trading the Mumakil scene for Saruman's end. But still. Not a bad way to start the year.

Evil viewing companion leaned close and whisper-sang, "Where there's a whip, there's a way!"

See, he's got to wait for the EE where there's reportedly a whip-wielding orc captain and his troops marching for that.:)

One of the oddest reviews about the old Hobbit animated movie I read complained that the movie tried to turn the book into a musical, when IIRC, almost every song in that movie is actually sung by somebody in the book. (And I still vividly remember the "15 Birds in Five Fir Trees" song despite it being years and years since I last saw the movie, though reading the book a couple years back probably helped rekindle the memory.)

Now, "The Return of the King" animated movie with the whip song, the reviewer had every right to gripe about.

One of the oddest reviews about the old Hobbit animated movie I read complained that the movie tried to turn the book into a musical,

Hell, the dwarves sing a song in the first chapter, "An Unexpected Party," while cleaning up Bilbo's dishes.

She tried to cover her eyes with her sweater at one point.

That's what I did during the Shelob scenes. I'm not ashamed to admit it.

Hell, the dwarves sing a song in the first chapter, "An Unexpected Party," while cleaning up Bilbo's dishes.

Exactly. I know there were quite a few songs in the LotR books that were never seen in the movies. I hope, if Peter Jackson does end up making The Hobbit after he finishes with King Kong, he keeps a good number of the songs. I just can't imagine The Hobbit feeling right without at least the dwarves clean up song and the goblins singing when they've got them all stuck up in the trees.

Hmm. Just remembered a couple of notes I made, and then forgot in the tide of emotion in the rest of the film, at the return to Edoras.

The first was in response to a restored scene in EE TTT, when Theoden says to Gamling, paraphrased, "this is not a rout. We shall return" to Edoras. And here they were, come home again.

The second was a strong desire to catch even a second's glimpse of Haleth, son of Hama, and Éothain, the boy who brought his sister, Freda, from the burning village to warn Edoras. Freda was safe in the cave, but both boys fought at Helms Deep. I wanted to see that one or both survived, just as a matter of hope.

Um, I am new to this thread, so I don't know if this has been posted or not. A friend sent me this link.

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Happy New Year, all. I saw the movie yesterday. A couple of quick questions, as I haven't read the books yet:

1. Where did the elephant army come from, what is its origin? And the men riding them seemed even more evil and relentless than the orcs and the urok-hai, which up to that point had been portrayed as most evil and relentless. They turned and ran in the big battle.

2. That army of the dead. Simply awesome.

3. Where in tarnation is Saruman? Alas, Christopher Lee escapes Yoda AND Gandalf on the silver screen!

Where in tarnation is Saruman?

The EE DVDs, one fervently hopes.