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[Rachel Bray]

So glad you liked it!  And yes, it's funny to hear people's 
responses to the end. "Wait a minute....!"  :-)

I had to explain to a friend of mine that the movie ends  
about a chapter or so into The Two Towers and it made sense 
to end it where it ended.  Could you imagine watching a 
main character die in the first 10 minutes of a movie?  
That would be horrible!  :-)  So I think it ended well.

I'm so eager for the next movie.  I said I would rename it 
The Adventures of Merry and Pippin but I'm 
biased....they're my favorite characters in the books.  The 
Fred and George of the Shire.

And tonight I'm seeing LOTR for the 6th time.  :-)  I need 
my Merry and Pippin fix.  Still isn't close to Moulin 
Rouge, viewing-wise.  That holds the record at 19 times. 
(which beat the record of Empire Strikes Back).

Anyway, glad to hear you liked it.  The scenery is 
breathtaking.  My parents were vacationing in New Zealand a 
bit more than a year ago and there were little towns here 
and there they couldn't drive through because of security.  
"There's a movie being shot today."  Little did they know 
at the time......

Rachel Bray
The Ohio State University
Fees, Deposits and Disbursements

The most heartbreaking thing about faithful moviegoing
is that awe, beauty and excitement, three of the things
we go to the movies for, are the very things we're 
cheated of the most. The great wonder of "The Lord of the
Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring" is that it bathes us 
in all three, to the point where we remember -- in a 
vague, pleasurably hallucinatory sensation from another 
lifetime -- why we go to the movies in the first place.