Quick ROTK thoughts

[fenchurch]

I need to go through and read everyone's LJ comments still, but I'm about to drop from exhaustion so I figured I'd post some of my own really quick thoughts...

ROTK is the best movie ever made. Seriously. I walked out of there wanting to turn right around an watch it again... while also lamenting the fact that it's likely to be quite awhile before we get a chance to see the extended version.

Eowyn totally kicked ass! She's is *so* my hero. There's real girl
power for you...

My OTP is canon! I'd been hoping Eowyn and Faramir would get together since Two Towers... and when it looked like Faramir was going to die all I
could think was "No!!! He hasn't met Eowyn yet!!!" They're so much more interesting to me than the Arwen/Aragorn, who were actually a bit bland on the 'ship scale of things.

I was so surprised that Frodo went with the elves too... I wasn't expecting that at all. I kind of wonder what happens to Merry and Pippin, because I'm not sure they'll be able to settle back down into Shire life like Sam did.

Anyway, that's it for now. I got almost no sleep last night (and woke up at 7:00 this morning with no alarm while it was still pitch black outside!), so I think I'll just go lapse into a coma now. Anticipation is the worst source of insomnia.

Comments

[jerrymcl89.livejournal.com]

The books are very much worth reading, and the appendices to RotK explain what happened to everyone in a good deal of detail. As I recall, Merry and Pippin do settle back into the Shire, although they also maintain their ties to Rohan and Gondor, respectively. And Sam ultimately follows Frodo into the West, although not until after a long life in the Shire.

I'm impressed as well that you could pick up on Eowyn and Faramir from what was in the movie. I would expect to see more of that in the extended edition.

[fenchurche.livejournal.com]

The books are very much worth reading, and the appendices to RotK explain what happened to everyone in a good deal of detail.

I've been tempted to go through and just browse the appendices... I've always enjoyed the stories, but I could never get into Tolkien's writing style. I've started The Hobbit and Fellowship of the Ring many, many times over the years (because I *should* like the books), but he writes like Melville... getting so bogged down in the details that it distracts from the plot.

I'm thinking of giving them another go... I've got some friends who've been talking about doing a group read -- a few chapters a week and then discussing them in chat. I might be able to get through the books and enjoy them that way.