Huh. It may be the whiskey, but I could swear I just saw RotK take every Golden Globe for which it was nominated. Yay! [whitefonted for those on GG tape delay]

Can you say, "RotK Oscar sweep"? I knew you could!

I am sooooo looking forward to the announcing of the Oscar nominations this Tuesday morning. I'm betting RotK gets 13, possibly 14 noms--all 10 techs, except for possibly Makeup (TTT was shafted last year), Picture, Director, Adapted Screenplay, and Supporting Actor for Sean Astin. I'd be flabbergasted if Elijah Wood's name popped up in Best Actor, though that fifth spot that looked to be locked by Jude Law might be vulnerable.

From your lips (fingertips) to the Academy's ear, Kathy.

YAY. GGs were very fun last night. I had never actually seen Fran Walsh before - she's adorable!! I have never loved PJ more than when he thanked Tolkien when accepting the Best Picture award. And I was so happy that "Into the West" won, too. Yay.

I wish I had watched the Golden Globes. Instead, I watched "Cold Case," which was very depressing.

Fran and PJ are so freaking adorable! I just love them.

I saw RotK again yesterday, and it holds up mighty well on second viewing. Still the shortest 3.5 hours I've spent in a movie theater.

The only section where the pacing started to bug me was the sequence leading up to Mt. Doom. The march to the Black Gate intercut with the last leg of the journey in Mordor seemed to compressed (Aragorn calls out at the gate and the eye moves off Sam and Frodo, but the time necessary after the two events doesn't seem to synch up).

Really liked EW when he chooses to keep the ring. That and the look back at Grey Havens were my two favorite Frodo moments.

I had never actually seen Fran Walsh before - she's adorable!!

I was convinced I'd never put a name to the voice, based on the way the DVDs are presented. I guess, though, that if I were going to pick a moment to be the 'public face' of a creative couple, it would be while accepting awards for a large accomplishment. You're right, she is pretty, but I hadn't been paying attention, and I had to ask my roommate, "Who is that on the stage with Howard?" And I didn't believe her till Fran opened her mouth.

Ken, word on the compression of the march to the Black Gate. If it only took the combined armies of Everyone and Everybody 30 seconds to get there, how come it took Sam and Frodo seemingly weeks (and 2+ hours) to traverse the same territory heading in the other direction?? I mean, I know Hobbit legs are shorter, but this is ridiculous.

With luck, that means there's more to be put in there in the extendo-return. If the extendo edition is really going to be 4:15, I worry -- I can think of a lot of footage, probably more than 45 minutes, that needs to be shoehorned in!

If it only took the combined armies of Everyone and Everybody 30 seconds to get there, how come it took Sam and Frodo seemingly weeks (and 2+ hours) to traverse the same territory heading in the other direction?? I mean, I know Hobbit legs are shorter, but this is ridiculous.

Either Pelennor Fields took place much earlier than it seems, or Frodo and Sam were standing on that cliff for several hours twiddling their thumbs waiting for the orcs to move. But as cut, the chronology doesn't hold up.

Well, there's an awful lot of slogging across the Gorgoroth that doesn't get into the movie.