I second/third/fourth/fifth everyone's recommendations on reading the books - I think Tolkien's somehow getting this bad rap for being "turgid" these days, but I read those books over and over again as a kid, so they couldn't have been *that* hard!!
Just so's you know - the lovely scene of Arwen's fate in TTT (the one where he's dead and she's mourning him?) - it's straight out of the appendices... I love how they translated that onto film.
And Faramir & Eowyn have some GORGEOUS stuff in the book - I expect some of that will be in the extended edition of the movie, which I really want RIGHT NOW!
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Just so's you know - the lovely scene of Arwen's fate in TTT (the one where he's dead and she's mourning him?) - it's straight out of the appendices... I love how they translated that onto film.
And Faramir & Eowyn have some GORGEOUS stuff in the book - I expect some of that will be in the extended edition of the movie, which I really want RIGHT NOW!