Watched Fellowship of the Ring again last night

[annathepiper]

Wanted to do that to get into the mood for Return of the King today--I've been all about the Tolkien lately, having re-listened to the soundtrack from the first film as well. And I even punted Russell off my desktop and replaced him with Galadriel. ;)

(This caused amused consternation from flashfire, but as I told him, just because Russell isn't on my desktop doesn't mean he doesn't get looked at! I frequently have a browser window open to my ogle pic of the day. And hell, half the time I have so many programs running I can't see what's on my desktop anyway. And it was all rather brought about by flipping my desktop at work to a Return of the King desktop poster off lordoftherings.net, since I wanted something else on that desktop due to having Russell on the actual wall. Plus, Galadriel is just gorgeous.)

And I amused myself remembering that technically speaking, Aragorn and Arwen are in fact distantly related. Telling solarbird this, I got her to remark wryly that oh, THIS was why Aragorn was worth bothering with--he's got elf blood. ;)

Anyway, re-watched Fellowship last night and was delighted to note that this movie still makes me cry at the following four points:

1. "FLY, YOU FOOLS!"
2a. Boromir's last stand against the charge of Uruk-hai.
2b. "I would have followed you anywhere... my brother... my captain... my King."
3. "I made a promise, Mister Frodo! 'Don't you leave him, Samwise Gamgee!' And I don't mean to!"

Off to see the king return!

Comments

[holyoutlaw.livejournal.com]

Sheesh, those all get me just reading about them. Hah!

[annathepiper]

I am completely and absolutely blown away by Return of the King, but Fellowship is a magnificent movie in its own right! We may be renting the extended version of Two Towers to watch tomorrow night during our household's observation of the Solstice--which'll be odd, having watched the trilogy in the order of 1, 3, 2, but hey! We haven't seen the long version of Two Towers yet and now I am dying to know what else is in there. :D

[holyoutlaw.livejournal.com]

It's good. It adds a lot. Have fun!

If you have the time, watch the featurette about the making of Gollum.

[annathepiper]

We'll probably have time, we're going to be up all night for Longest Night! I'll pass that on. :D

[wildshadowstar.livejournal.com]

The Samwise one doesn't really get me, but the first three sure do.

[annathepiper]

Oh, I cry like crazy at Sam's line there... just because his love for Frodo is enough that he'll walk out into a lake without question to follow him, even if he can't swim. :~)

And the rest... OH MAN. Watching Part 1 of this entire work last night and having just seen Part 3 today... DAMN, my head is full. :D