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[tarotgal]

*sigh* It was really nice seeing RotK with people who could have a halfway intelligent conversation about it afterwards... even if I, in my little knowledge, still knew more. We went out to dinner at midnight after the movie and talked a lot about it.
I cried through, maybe, 50% of the movie. And I'm even more annoyed at people who come out saying "Ah, it's way too long" WTF? I'd be happy with another few hours at least! Silly people with tiny bladders and inclinations to buy large drinks, or people who get bored watching beauty for 3 and a half hours. We should all be so lucky.

I picked up a lot of little things this time... I made a point of not watching where the action was primarily, for a change, but took note of other things in scenes and such. That was nice. But I still cried a whole lot. *sigh* My boyfriend had the audacity(sp?) to reach over and poke me several times and whisper "he's not really dead" after the Shelob scene RIGHT when Sam gives his "Don't go where I can't follow" line. ACK! I could have killed boyfriend. How dare he talk over one of my Samwise's most beautiful lines! Hell, I cry during that part in the book, too. But Sean up there on the big screen crying- I cannot resist. And boyfriend ruined the moment. I swatted him away several times at that point. Grrr!

Anyway, just thought I'd ramble a little.... but the corrination scene, where Aragorn and Legolas have a little shoulder squeeze (as we watched TTT last night I made a point of calling out 'Shoulder Squeeze' at each one, LOL) I like the expressions in their eyes. In MY mind, Legolas and Aragorn were a couple up until Gimli/Legolas happened in Lorien. And thus I like to imagine that at that moment, when Legolas' eyes move down and to the side, he's explaining that now he's with Gimli, and Aragorn is releasing him to be so and giving his blessing. And at the same time, Legolas is blessing Aragorn to go with Arwen. Two lovers moving on to be forever with their soulmates, so to speak, and yet acknowledging what they were and that they'll always love each other. *G* Okay, I know they, um, probably didn't mean for me to think that at that point, but it works SO well there. And thank GOODNESS there's no dialog to disrupt my fantasy, eh? Man... that moment... I will never get tired of it.

Okay... my eyes hurt from so many tears... but I'm going to try to finish up my HP story tonight and post it :-) I'm so in a LotR mood though. Wonder why? :-)

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[(Anonymous)]

I LOVE your interpretation of "the look" that Aragorn and Legolas give each other at the Coronation! How beautiful, to give each other the blessings to move on to true loves, but never forgetting what they shared together! Purely selfless, just as these two characters always are! I think you are absolutely right!

And I know what you mean about people who complain about Return...WHF? indeed! That movie has so much in it to make you feel every single emotion possible, and if there are people out there who don't want to deal/experience/ enjoy/ live/ it...then their loss! *WE* get it, we know these characters and have loved them through the entire journey. When Sam, arguably the most loyal character ever written, begs Frodo not to go where he cannot follow...there's not a way to say what you feel, you just have to allow yourself to feel it. And you can't do that when someone is telling you that the basis for what you are feeling (Frodo being dead) is not true! Aghh! I get it, I get it! Do you think it's a guy thing? Or what?

And don't even start on where in the movie you cry! I am sure that I cry at about 50 % of it too, and I mean tears dripping onto my shirt, not just little tears squeezing out of the corners of my eyes! This movie has so many heroic, loving, courageous, grieving, painful, inspiring, triumphant passages in it, that once you reach a certain point in time, there is literally *always* something to make you cry, whether it's for sadness or from laughter, or just that a line or a look moved your heart so....you see these people you care about moving slowly and painfully and bravely and with great strength and resolve toward the end...and it's wonderful and it's tragic and there has been a tremendous gain but at the cost of so much loss...

Well, I won't ramble either...or is it too late to say that! Just wanted to let you know that I hear you!

Patti

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Hello, and back from viewing 5 yesterday. Cried again too, right at the end. This makes me 4 for 5 in times I have cried for ROTK. I didn't cry that very first viewing, because it was Trilogy Tuesday,and the energy of the theater was just so charged and I was so utterly blown away and so thrilled that I spent over half the movie with my mouth hanging open, but I was just too excited to cry. The second time I saw it, after I'd had time to process it, I flat out sobbed the entire last 20 minutes, to the point where my friend had to ask if I was going to be ok.

I seem to have fallen into a nice medium at this point...I get chills at the same places every time: the introduction of Minas Tirith, the lighting of the beacons, the ride of the Rohirrim from camp, Faramir's suicide charge and the amazing way they filmed it (I LOVE the shot of them riding toward the camera with Minas Tirith in the background, and the line of horses stretches the entire width of the screen, with the waves of heat distortion rising up from the ground, all set to the amazingly beautiful and haunting voice of Billy Boyd. If I had to name one single moment that really stands out for me as great cinema, this is it.), Gandalf's ride to chase away the Nazgul, the charge of the Rohirrim at Pelennor, Aragorn jumping off the Corsair ship with this 'I am SO gonna kick your ass' hero-look, Frodo and Sam crawling up Mount Doom, Aragorn's line 'For Frodo!', Gollum holding the ring as the camera pulls back through the Ring and the eerie music plays, and finally practically the entire coronation gives me goosebumps.

Interestingly, a different place seems to trigger my tears each time. Second viewing, Frodo and Sam's conversation on the rock surrounded by lava is what set me off, and I cried all the way through the credits. Third viewing, the 'you Bow to no one' did it, Fourth viewing, it started way back with Gandalf talking to Pippin about death and the 'grey curtain, silver glass, far green country, etc' made me tear up, but I recovered, only to lose it again when Eowyn cries over Theoden. Yesterday, I was slightly preoccupied with my bladder screaming at me that I shouldn't have had that cherry slushie, but I still lost it when Pippin was crying as he hugged Frodo goodbye at the end.

I adore that interpretation of 'the look' Aragorn and Legolas give each other! My one complaint from the coronation was that Legolas and Gimli weren't standing anywhere near each other (call me silly, but I was almost expecting a Star Wars: A New Hope-ish scene with them playing the R2/C3PO role, standing together off to the side, all nice and shiny in their new clothes and Legolas with his arm around Gimli), but I like your explanation of Legolas glancing in his direction.

I am so glad I can talk to you about this stuff! My best friend, though I love her to death, really doesn't like LOTR at all. She's never forgiven me for dragging her to see FOTR without warning her that it doesn't end. She gets bored by fantasy, and was pissed that they didn't destroy the ring at the end of the 3 hours. At least I've managed to win her over regarding Orlando Bloom now. She absolutely adored POTC, and thinks Will Turner is just the cutest thing, but the blond hair and pointy ears of Legolas really turn her off for some reason which I shall never understand! *G*

So thanks for giving me a place to pick these scenes apart and analyze them! And I'm happy that everyone's LOTR muses seem to have returned. Does this mean that there might be a chance of seeing another Legolas fic out of you soon? Pretty, pretty please, with sniffly elves on top? ;)