'Jaynestown'
Frodo: Please, what does it always mean, this... this "Aragorn"? Elrond: That's his name. Aragorn, son of Arathorn. Aragorn: I like "Strider." Elrond: We named the *dog* "Strider".
A discussion of Lord of the Rings - The Return of the King. If you're a pervy hobbit fancier, this is the place for you.
Actually, ita, it's not Gamling Eomer's holding in the trailer, it's Eowyn. The Japanese trailer has more of the picture available, and the person is definitely identifiable there.
They also filmed Sam ditching his pans, and, if you remember the trailer, there's a shot with Frodo asleep and Sam looking up. I hope that that scene is where he sees the star .
Why did I think I read that we see Eomer mourning Gamling? He does die, right?
Ah -- the Sam scene was shown being filmed in the special I saw.
I remember when the FotR theatrical came out, I'd seen all of the extra bits on it. Not so for TTT, but I'm pretty sure I'll have done it again for RotK.
How much longer is the EE of RotK going to be than the theatrical release?
The EE will be four hours, ten minutes. I don't recall how long the theatrical release was.
I don't recall how long the theatrical release was.
It's listed as 3 hours, 30 minutes.
Have we had an official release date for the theatrical cut?
I don't recall how long the theatrical release was.
It's listed as 3 hours, 30 minutes.
Forty extra minutes of footage? That's not shabby.
Saw ROTK yesterday for the first time since December and I was in a crappy crappy mood. I had a red wine hangover and would not have chosen to go, cept I had made a date with my dad that I couldn't break. Little things annoyed me. The only part that gave me shivers and goosebumps of joy in the first hour and a half was Gandalf and Pippin arriving at Minas Tirith. I swear I just have wave after wave of chills when they are riding through the streets.
The love came back when the Rohirrim arrived on the Pelennor Fields - it got my first tear. From then on, pretty much, I was happy to be watching it and marvelling at it like I did on the first viewing. I only cried a teency teency bit at Merry's "are you going to leave me" when Pippin finds him on the field and at Frodo and Gandalf seeing each other alive for the first time. And then at the goodbyes at the boat. There was no sobbing or open weeping. I must be a little dead inside.
My sister, who has not read the books, saw it for the first time. She made it now 100% of people who I have spoken to who have not read the books that do not understand why Frodo leaves at the end.
She made it now 100% of people who I have spoken to who have not read the books that do not understand why Frodo leaves at the end.
I didn't read the books, and I think I understood it -- when I saw it, I mean; BEFORE I read people's posts in this thread. But maybe I didn't.
Frodo's been in pain for years, yes? Both mental and physical. After his experience as the ringbearer, he really wasn't part of the world of the Shire any more -- it changed him irrevocably, much more so than it did Merry, Pippen, and even Sam. (We see their sense of dislocation in the scene at the Green Dragon after they return to the Shire, yes, but Frodo never really fully returns to the Shire. Or maybe it's more accurate to say that all of Frodo never returns to the Shire.)
In the books there's a nice bit about Sam being out and about during one of Frodo's illnesses and not knowing about it. Isn't Frodo mayor once or twice, in the books?