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[Kathryn Cawte]

 Geoff
> I always said I didn't want to see a film of LOTR (especially after
> the 1978 cartoon), probably because I couldn't see it being done by
> real actors. I have since eaten my words. It took me some while to
> get my head round TTT because of some extra ideas being introduced -
> Aragorn going over the cliff, the elves at Helm's Deep but I think I
> am now comfortable with them. The only bit which leaves me cold or
> possibly puzzled is the face to face encounter between the Nazgul and
> Frodo on the battlements of Osgiliath.... However, I eagerly await
> 17/12/03 and the arrival of ROTK.
>


K

I loved TTT in the cinema and now I have got hold of the special edition dvd
(bought it this afternoon, just finished watching it) I am just blown away.
It's so much better with the extended and new scenes - it's almost a
different book in places. I loved the new bit of the trees coming to Helm's
Deep especially and the Boromir-Faramir flashbacks were wonderful. I rather
thought patience was an Elvish virtue - but if it is then Legolas must have
been hiding behind a door when it was handed out :) Oh and the Ent draft and
the scenes with the stores at Isengard (I'm a big Merry and Pippin fan - I
thought he was making them into comic relief a little too much at first but
on reflection I think he's got the balance right). Still the one thing Peter
Jackson has going in his favour above everything else is the total removal
of Tom Bombadil from the storyline - can't fault him for that. It is the
most boring and pointless section of the books, other than Weathertop I
spend all the pages between Bree and Rivendell wishing JRRT would just get
*on* with things!

A friend of mine has a theory about the Aragorn "Hug of Death", basically if
he hugs you (and you're male) you're doomed to die before the end of the
film. Poor Haldir is most reluctant to return the hug - perhaps he's heard
this theory :)

K