They just had so much magic. I couldn't help myself.

Please don't punish me.

Heh, Allyson. It was a little disconcerting when my folks came home and announced that they'd been to see Return and had some questions. These are the people who haven't been in a theater for, say, twenty years or so. They said, "It was kinda loud."

But I don't think ita got to them. I think they must have had their own magic.

Man, I'm still such a sap. I can't watch the end of ROTK without my allergies acting up. I still think the scene at the Grey Havens is perfect.

Also teared up a little during the coronation, when Aragorn said "My friends, no. You bow to no one". I think it's the distress in Aragorn's voice when he says "My friends" that does it for me.

The movements of the Eye didn't seem so comical on the small screen. It didn't seem to be a double-take with this viewing.

I've finally been able to see the end credits and the outstanding drawings. I never saw them in the theater because after three plus hours, I had to hit the restroom as soon as possible.

The "What, Gandalf? See what?" scene still makes me cry, no less for being tv-sized.

Total sap, as well. 4 times in the theater, and I still got weepy watching at home today. My thing is that I love the Rohan folks too much, so everytime Theoden would do anything I would get all proud and teary. I love them and their glorious death-in-battle wishes.

I saw Return of the King. I have many infuriating questions.

Okay, so infuriate us already.

So, the bad guy was an eye on fire on top of a tower? I thought Eric the Viking dies in the first one, does his brother have the same name? Where the hell were the stinky elves going? Wasn't Frodo supposed to die? Did ita's Boytoy also go sailing, or is he a Knight of the Round Table? Aren't those hobbits a buncha ingrates for not throwing a party for the Frodo Contingency? I mean, they have celebrations for Snack Time, the little bastards.

What was CrazyAss Daddy's problem?

The eye was symbolic of his evil spirit, the whole actual eye thing in the movie brought to you by New Zealand's excellent psilocybin crop. Brothers Mir were similarly named. People in ye olden tymes had limited naming imaginations and didn't have access to MTV or the internet. Frodo doesn't die, getting his finger chewed off by filthy Gollum and getting kicked out of Middle-Earth are supposed to be punishment enough for his good deeds. Orly goes off to BoyToy heaven, eventually. He isn't the smartest elf in the boat. Yes, the hobbits are ingrates. They are party animals, but also Amish. No one should stand out. To be fair, they didn't start the party for Frodo, but they didn't stop the party, either. CrazyAssDaddy was mainlining too much Mordor crack via having one of those secret globes that Pippin found and screwed with. The flaming yoni was giving CADaddy secret happies in the White Tower and the guilt was just unbearable once the good guys showed up. (His sin is despair)

Got more? There was hair-washing behind the scenes, but apparently it just makes some guys look creepy.

So, the bad guy was an eye on fire on top of a tower?

Yup

I thought Eric the Viking dies in the first one, does his brother have the same name?

The EtV scenes were a flashback. His name was Boromir, the brother is Faramir.

Where the hell were the stinky elves going?

To a place across the sea in the west where there are elf showers and they can live happily ever after.

Wasn't Frodo supposed to die?

Nope.

Did ita's Boytoy also go sailing, or is he a Knight of the Round Table?

He goes sailing later, after he works up a good elfly sweat with the dwarf.

Aren't those hobbits a buncha ingrates for not throwing a party for the Frodo Contingency? I mean, they have celebrations for Snack Time, the little bastards.

Yup.

What was CrazyAss Daddy's problem?

They didn't show it in the film, but he had one of those direct line to the flaming eye sphere thingies that almost drove Pippin all whackaloon.