[Knight of Gondor]

Corwyn, I salute you for summing up the idea of "painful" beauty so well. I found few such moments in Fellowship (sorry!) and the one that hit me the most in The Two Towers was Theoden's and Aragorn's grim determination to charge out the causeway, defying death in a flame of glory...and then Gandalf's charge down the hill. Sam's speech re-did the same thing for me.<P>For Return of the King, there were so many of those moments I can scarce recount them all. Check my "Most Poignent moments" thread if you want, because I wrote it when the movie was fresher in my mind. Most notable was Gandalf's discussion on death, the war-beacons, and the best was the Horns of Rohan. Wow.