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

[queenofthorns.livejournal.com]

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!

[fenchurche.livejournal.com]

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!!

Nope, it's not that the writing is hard to read, per se... just long-winded about things that aren't as interesting to me in a story. If I do read them again, I think it'll help that I've got someone else's imagery in my head for the overly descriptive scenes.

[queenofthorns.livejournal.com]

I SO think we should do the book-discussion group - I'm sure I'll pick up stuff I've missed, and it would be fun to talk about what's different (for better or worse) between the movies & the books ... Maybe we can do a LJ community or something - I'll get on that after the holidays!