I spent part of my movie just looking at the =details= like the embroidery (the coverlet that Frodo wakes up under is white-work quilting with the white tree on it)

It's nice to know someone else is doing this. I've been freeze-framing anything with a decent shot of the Elven cloaks, trying to figure out the sett. My loom needs a workout, and I've already been thinking of what fibers to blend for best effect.

See also: "Rohan, Banners of" and "Quilting, Applique"

Err, Anne, I'm sure that there may be copyright issues, but I can't see as how if you were to make some cloaks for friends and they chose to send you bits of paper as recompense that it could be in anyway wrong.

:: loves Anne and her loom ::

the banner of Dol Amroth at the coronation!

Really! That's very cool. It's a swan, yes? I'll look for it on my next viewing.

amych:

Aha. I should really read "previous," shouldn't I?

2. That army of the dead. Simply awesome.

You thought so? I mean, I love that they were in it and they kicked ass all over Minas Tirith, but I thought the effects were super-cheesy (did they have to be green?).

That's a big geekdom. None of my friends has a geekdom that big.

The meta in this statement makes me very happy. I love you guys.

trying to figure out the sett

Hail, Anne W, queen of the fiber arts geeks! (fortunately no one's wearing any bobbin lace, so I don't have to figure that out in my head. Though I have been trying to deduce the patterns of Eowyn's funeral dress)

The Big Green Army of Creeping Doom always makes me think of that X-Files episode where they're out in the forest and the glowy bug things from the trees wrap them in cocoons. Or, Scrubbing Bubbles, when they're climbing the walls of Minis Tirith.

Some really well-written fanfic has made me an Imrahil fan

Link? I've always been an Imrahil fan. He's possibly more of a Golden Boy than Faramir in the books.

Anne, one of the women at The Two Towers does costumes for the Folger, and has actually fondled the elven cloaks. Let me see if I can get the sett from her.

Scrubbing Bubbles

Yes! and *snerk*

Link? I've always been an Imrahil fan. He's possibly more of a Golden Boy than Faramir in the books.

Captain, My Captain by Isabeau of Greenlea has one of the best Imrahils I've read. It's a saga (53 chapters!), and starts out very Faramir-centric with an original female character who's not a Mary-Sue but who manages to get herself involved with just about every minor character (and a few major ones) from RotK. The writer does an excellent job of inserting this original story in and around the events after Frodo and Sam leave the Rangers in Ithilien all the way through and succeeding Arwen and Aragorn's wedding. Imrahil shows up pretty quickly and becomes a major character in the fic after a few chapters. Her Faramir and Elrohir are also well-written, and I like the way she shows Aragorn's discomfort with his new role as King.

Is Imrahil, Faramir and Boromir's uncle?

Because, wasn't their mother from Dol Amroth?

(And doesn't this mean that Eomer and Eowyn marry cousins?)

Otherwise -- I've been EXTREMELY lucky with the audiences that I've seen the movie with -- no weirdness or wrongness or rudeness. And I've seen it 4 times now.

BTW, don't bother with IMAX, the shape of the IMAX screen messes up the lighting and the color of the movie. (Possibly everyone already knew that it would do that.)