ahhhhh i can TOTALLY relate to EVERYTHING you said in that post. my dad discovered how to work dvd's on his laptop so i spent two days [minus the 10 hours i spent at work] holed up in my room watching LOTR over and over..........i have become totally obsessed now.......in fact, i'm not speaking to my parents because they got tickets to go to a special screening [the night after the premier (sp?)] in the cinelounge of readings, which is funny, coz if they had got tickets LAST week, i wouldn't have even given a fuck about going to see the second movie......

why 14 trix? [thanks for signing my guestbook btw......]

god girl!!!! i feel bad now, like i've let the lotr people down or something. i've only seen it four times - once on big screen, twice on dvd, and once on the airplane on my way over to L.A...........you're like a marathon movie goer - good girl. he he.

when i get a chance i'll go check your site out.

YAY! I soooo can't wait for Two Towers.... 2 more days...

mmm... aragorn!

is it a crime for me to find Aragorn handsome?

but i'll have all 4 hobbits thanks :D

//i dont find orlando or viggo very handsome without their wigs on :P

i agree about viggo - he looks sooo much better in the movie, so so sexy. But as for Orlando, i think he just gets better and better looking to me - wig or no wig! Plus I cant believe he was straight out of acting school! Imagine landing such a huge role for a first job! Pretty impressive.

i loved the mohawk! other than his wig, that was the only thing he ever had going for him :P

Seen it now, and - he's really your favourite character?? Sure, love him too, but what about Karl Urban? Or Orlando?? "You're late. You look terrible..."

Hmmmm....well, I reckon there's a certain Guy in the movie who's just a wee bit on the ...tubby... side.

Granted, for some reason it just seemed to be the front-on shots his chin somehow sorta dissolves into his neck. In profile he looked really good.

Well, someone must think Orlando makes a very good elf. Otherwise they would've cast some other Guy as Legolas, wouldn't they.

where does legolas ride a skateboard?

i think the second lotr was alot cheesier than the first. they added the comic relief character (gimli), threw in some cheeeeeesy lines (frodo and sam anyone?), and seeing leggy slide down the stairs on that piece of metal (i think it was a piece of armour) was so gay i had to roll my eyes.

// I can't think of a single important character dying.....?

i never said he was important, i just said he was my favourite :)
he died in the big fight scene... uhh... he has pretty hair? *tries not to give away much*

i loved the ents, they were awesome!

Woah!! one of those movies that I have to sit quietly through the credits and completely ignore my friends for at least half an hour afterwards, just to come down.

//Didn't like how Gimli was used as comic releif. He's basically the stupid one that says funny stupid stuff all the time.
Actually, I'm quite sure just about everything he said and did was in the books. I thought he was pretty good, although the cross-eyed thing he's got going on doesn't really do him any favours...

//Can't believe they put Legolas on a skateboard :-| (briefly I'll admit, but pathetic)
Agreed. Bad move.

//Gollum/Smeagol was slightly disappointing to me.
I really liked Gollum. He wasn't what I was expecting, but I realised that they had the character right, and my impressions had been wrong. He was more - ummm - human, which made it more apparent what a tragic creature he was. Every scene with him in it made me want to cry.

//Ents were better than what I'd seen on making-of-LOTR shows
I wasn't that impressed with the Ents. I think the book describes them as wading through the earth as if it was water, which they didn't really, and I was expecting them to be a bit more....bulky. Their fight scene was pretty amazing though.

my favourite character died!

*cries*

oh well... he lives on in my memory! *cheese*

It would've been a bit more heartrending if I hadn't been distracted by thinking "aaaaahhhhhh, that's Prozaco's fave character..."

we havent given away much. all you know is that gimli is funny har har, leggy can skate, the ents look cool, and someone dies :P