Oooooo, Theo. Can one drool and shiverr in anticipation all at the same time? All those lovely sets, props and costumes! Not relegated to some "museum," never to be worn again. I mean, if your armour is lined in leather, with "made for Theoden, king" tooled on the inside, and you've worn it for weeks on end...how could you part with it? Send it back to wardrobe, knowing you'd never put it on again? Or even though your horsey helmet wouldn't fit without the wig, how could you say goodbye to it, knowing how handsome you look in it? And how crosseyed anyone less heroic would look in it? I'll bet the actors would be up for it.

I still think it's a damn shame that Brad Dourif did not get Best Supporting. He ownz every scene, no mean feat when sharing said scene with Christopher Lee or Bernard Hill.

Got my husband the Weapons and Warfare book for Xmas and he's loving it, so add another recommendation to the chart.

Hill has the chops, but I'm soooo glad we got him as Theoden, instead. I've been thinking, and can't come up with anyone who'd have been as good in the Theoden role.

Word to this. I think Hill would have made a fine Gandalf, but I'm glad we got him as Theoden instead, as it's hella fun when watching Titanic to shout "HAIL, THEODEN KING," every time he comes on screen as the captain of the ship.

I think there's a decent possibility that if I ever meet him in person I might shout "HAIL, THEODEN KING," and bow down on one knee to swear featly to him. I hope he won't be too terribly embarrased.

PJ could have done a film entirely about Theoden, Eowyn, Eomer and Wormtongue

Want now.

Theoden had me at chasing Wormtongue out of his hall with a sword. Bernard Hill had me at two-stepping down his trailer steps wearing jeans and a sleeveless t-shirt (on the TTT EE features). Hail, Theoden King, indeed.

They should get to keep those costumes, but a Weta/LotR archive should also be publically available.

We saw RotK again today--yeah, movies for Christmas! Are we still whitefonting? Ought to, just in case.

Still think Eowyn shouldn't have been so afraid in front of the Witch King. In the book she's weeping but there's also the mad Rohirrim defiance that shouts "Death!" during a charge. In the book she had given up on surviving, but, by damn, the Lord of hte Nazgul was going down with her. What's Merry's thought, "She should not die, so fair, so alone." Loved his ecstatic "My Lady!" as they ride off.

Elijah Wood is such a hottie I feel more than a little perverted. He's such a baby! But such a pretty baby. And there on Mount Doom, he doesn't look like a baby. When Sam pulls him up after the Eye is drawn away--and why didn't Sauron pick up the fact that "Look! The Ring! It's.Right.There!" I don't know--Frodo starts up that mountain side with such a look of grim determination that I get chills. As he gets dirtier and dirtier, his eyes just get bigger and bigger. Gorgeous eyes. The lighting as he's holding the Ring over the edge, with those eyes and his skin almost bronze, is phenomenal. I want that shot as an icon.

It's too bad that Elijah's scale double wasn't standing a little more turned in the last shot there at the Havens. You get a clear shot of his profile, and you can tell it's not Elijah. Serves me right, though, for being such a Mrs. Robinson that I was staring at him.

I cried more this time than the first time.

Just popping in. I think my reactions are spoiler-free enough, but someone let me know if you disagree.

I had to bite down on my finger for most of the last half hour to keep from sobbing, as I was afraid I wouldn't be able to stop if I started. Damn you, Sean Astin.

My crowd was astonishingly well-behaved. Light laughter at a few (appropriate) moments, no cheering (which I rarely consider not annoying), no screaming kids, dead silence punctuated with the occasional gasp or sniffle during the aforementioned last half hour.

There were, however, a couple of little girls further down our row who always had to leave and reenter the theater as a pair. It was like an assumed: "I'm going to the bathroom!" "Yeah, well, me too!"

Must buy the first two EEs post haste.

I discovered that two of my nieces and my soon-to-be niece-in-law, who range in age from 18-21, all saw the movie and loved it, but complained at the relative lack of Orlando screentime. It was like those Foxtrot cartoons come to life.

Did not get Viggo in my stocking. This Santa thing is a fraud--FRAUD, I say. Fraud. Fraud. Fraud.

Sign you've seen LotR too many times: this makes you giggle.

Oh dear. I've not only seen LotR too many times, I've been a housewife for too long. After I stopped giggling, I thought, "It's mine! It came to me. My precious!"

Hee. "I return to you now, at the turn of the Tide (tm)."

It was a very LOTR Xmas around here, with the notable exception of another printing of the books themselves. Which is fine, as I believe we have about 10 versions in English alone.

Obsessive? Surely not.