[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Fw: How to get kicked out of Return of the King (fwd)

[Jen Faulkner]

On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 delwynmarch at yahoo.com wrote:

> So back to the point : reading those Shelob parts in the books was a
> real torture for me. It was so bad that when we bought a magazine
> with a double page picture of Sam fighting Shelob, my husband *taped
> it together* before I got to it !! So my question is : is it safe for
> me to go and see Return of the King ? Is there any chance I can get
> through the Shelob scene without being irrevocably traumatised for
> life ? I know it sounds funny, but I would rather skip the movie than
> see my worst nightmare on a big screen...

My gf, likewise, *really* does not like spiders.  Really.  Really really
really. *g*  She still wants to see RotK, but she hasn't even watched
the trailers/commercials, because of not wanting to see Shelob.  We're
planning to have her go with me, and she's absolutely not going to open
her eyes while Shelob's on screen (I'll tell her when she can look);
I'll have seen it once before, at least, so we'll be prepared.

I think that's the only way to get through it -- if you can sit in the
theater when they're talking about spiders and have someone you can
trust to accurately tell you when she's gone, I think you'd be okay.
But even better will be to go with someone who's *already* seen it --
and leave the theater during those parts, if necessary (if there's a lot
of cutting between Sam and Frodo and the battles elsewhere, with
surprise spider, or if you don't want to hear them *talk* about the
giant spider, even).

Good luck!

--Jen :)

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