It's like all those hours in the game store debating the D&D alignments of comic book superheroes.

I think we came up with Batman as neutral evil.

I think we came up with Batman as neutral evil.

That's just wack, yo.

What, you think he's sane enough to play on the Good side? If they had a category Psychotic Good, I'd go for it.

edit: and to take this back on topic, our showing of RotK was sponsored by the game store Hubby used to manage. God, I miss those whacked-out geeks. I speak their language, and they speak mine. We got a preview of SpiderMan 2, and after it was over someone in the back yelled "Jason, are you happy now?" and Jason, resident Spidey freak and sitting in the very front row of the theatre yelled "Yes! God, yes!" It was like sitting in a very large living room with all my bestest buds.

There is the great watchtower of SomeGuyIForget

"This was the great watchtower of Amon Sul."

Sorry, Jess. I don't have a transcript handy, but I don't remember a reference to Weathertop in FotR.

For ita and Nutty and amych, yes, Bob Anderson is god. I sure hope he has some prize students who can take up his trade when time finally overcomes him.

I know of at least a couple of guys who call themselves swordmasters because they make their living entirely from having a salle and teaching fighting with swords. Seems fair to me.

"He taught Errol Flynn."

"Cool! (Who's Errol Flynn?)"

I thought the pumpkin hobbit was played by the Deagol actor, rather than Serkis. I could be wrong.

I also don't rmember Amon Sul having been referred to as Weathertop previously onscreen.

I don't remember a reference to Weathertop in FotR.

I do-but it could be a false memory.

Ted

My reactions, as posted in my lj. They basically boil down to "wow!"

I sat through most of the movie with my mouth open, and I didn't spend much of it with dry eyes, though for the most part I was expecting things and I didn't get into the whole sobbing-so-hard-you-can't-see-the-screen that FotR and TTT have sometimes done to me. Mind you, I suspect that a home viewing, where I'm prepared to be really emotionally involved and not analysing the plot changes may do that to me yet.

TOR.n's got a link to a new TV commercial for RotK up. It's one of the "critics' best" reviews, and it has only three voiceovers: Gandalf's "We come to it at last..." , Mippin's "We'll see each other again." "I don't know." , and Frodo's "I'm glad to be with you, Sam, here at the end of all things." BTW, I never noticed that it's a neat inversion of the book line, "I'm glad you're here with me..." and changes the tenor by somehow making them more equals, IMO .

"I'm glad to be with you..."

I did, in fact, notice the change, and thought Frodo (or Jackson-Walsh-Boyens) was going for a deliberate acknowledgement of Sam as a partner, without whom they wouldn't have succeeded.

Also, maybe I blinked, but the confrontation on the street in Minas Tirith of Shadowfax, bearing Gandalf and Pippin, skidding to a halt before the grounded, wing-bated Nazgul scene from the trailers wasn't in the movie, was it?