When I was waiting in line for Trilogy Tuesday last year, there was a girl in line behind us who hadn't seen any of the movies. Her boyfriend was a huge fan, so as a labor of love, she was accompanying him to the theatre to sit through twelve hours of LOTR. She was pretty excited, actually, but I couldn't help wondering how thrilled she'd be by the end of the day.

Trilogy Tuesday was the best. thing. ever. Our passes were laminated and hung on a lanyard. I still have it hanging in my bedroom.

eta: I really should proof before I post.

My Trilogy Tuesday pass is hanging next to my computer, and my giftee is sitting on top of my digital cable box, next to the mini-Minas Tirith that came with the RotKEE boxed set.

Oh my, I suddenly realized that I don't know where my laminants are! They need to go next to the DVDs and Minas Tirith and Smeagol. I'm keeping the film cell things in their boxes until I can backlight them.

I can't really tell what the first film cell is. I'm thinking it might be one of the scale doubles without his wig. The scene might be when Gandalf hands his staff and hat to Bilbo in Bag End, but I'm not sure.

I keep mine at work along with my Trilogy Day-by-Day calendar.

At work I have a map of Middle Earth on the back of my office door. I'm considering a calendar, but that'll probably live at home, where I can drool in privacy.

StY's film cells were reversed. He's keeping it, greedily speculating it'll be worth money someday, like those stamps that were accidentally printed upside down that are worth a fortune today.

I have Elrond at the battle in the prologue, Arwen in her widow's weeds, and Gandalf on the balcony at Minas Tirith. You can just see Pippin in bed. Billy talks about that in the commentary.

I still have to send off for the rebate, and I'm struggling with whether or not I want to order Minas Morgul. I'm also cruising for a set of the Argonath on ebay. I have the calendar page of Boromir with the horn of Gondor that Jessica sent me framed and on the wall in my office. And my screensaver cycles pictures from my hard drive every 20 seconds--nearly half of them are LotR caps and stills.

This is goofy. And yet hilarious: [link]

It always comes back to ninjas.

I'm struggling with whether or not I want to order Minas Morgul

Right there with you. On the one hand, want; on the other, $75 is a big chunk of change. But still, want.

One of my co-workers (a fellow LotR buff) just gave me a pretty neat something that a friend of his wife's had made for them but really didn't fit in their house, so he passed it onto me. They're four glass display bottles filled with bead and stones, but hotglued to the top are the Witchking (with sword drawn)--his bottle has an eyeball charm tied around the neck; Gandalf on Shadowfax--his bottle's charm says "Protect"; Frodo with Sting--his charm says "Courage"; and Sam with Sting and a little blob in his left fist which I think is the starglass--his charm says "Friendship." I've got them sitting on top of my CPU now.

Oh, neat, Kathy! I'd love to see pictures.

-t, while we're dithering whether or not to spend $75? Minas Morgul is bringing up to $199, with a $239 Buy it Now price. Just FYI.