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.

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.

Hee! One of the (many) things that pissed me off about Titanic was the focus on the fakey-fakey Doomed Romance (TM). They should have just set the cameras on Bernard Hill and Victor Garber and let 'er rip.

That would have been one hell of a movie.

They should have just set the cameras on Bernard Hill and Victor Garber and let 'er rip.

Now that I have it on DVD, that IS the movie I see.

There's a B&W British A Night to Remember which was a fairly low-budget effort in comparison (though it has file footage of the actual Titanic in it) which practically is the movie you really want. Except for the different cast, of course.