Highlights of ROTK -- SPOILERS HERE! (WAS Re: ROTK - First Impressions

[Geoff Bannister]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "dudemom_2000" 
<dudemom_2000 at y...> wrote:
> --- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, thomasmwall at y... wrote:
> > 
> > June:
> > One watching will not be enough for me.  In fact, I can see me 
> going 
> > 4 or 5 times at least just to catch every visual and nuance.
> > 
> > Tom:
> > Yep, I'm going to see it again on Friday! ;-)

Geoff:
I saw TTT three times, partly bacause I had to get my head round one 
or two changes to the story line - Aragorn going over the cliff, 
Elves at Helm's Deep etc. Having seen ROTK on its opening night here 
in the UK yesterday, I shall have to see it three times I think just 
to digest how Peter Jackson has shifted up another gear....

Like Christopher Lee, I have read LOTR a lot - probably 25-30 times
since I first discovered it as a teenager about 1956.

One of the things which annoyed me about the book (annoyed? Is that 
rumbling sound JRRT turning in his grave?) was that in Volumes 2 and 
3, the story line of Sam/Frodo/Gollum was separated from the others. 
This sometimes made their story rather heavy going and also I found 
it difficult to match up contemporaneous events. Jackson has done a 
marvellous job of intercutting the story threads. The final scenes, 
meshing the Battle of the Black Gate with Frodo and Sam approaching 
the Sammath Naur, are brilliant put together.

I said for years that I would never go to a film of the Rings after 
the Bakshi shambles. I publicly eat my words. ROTK is the best of the 
three, the first one I have felt totally at one with at first viewing.