I really enjoyed all the additional and extended scenes. There were so many things that were directly from the books and it really warmed my heart. I was thrilled to hear Sam to say his 'highest quality' line to Faramir, and Faramir's 'gardeners must be held in high honor' to Sam. I, for one, thoroughly enjoyed the theatrical version (seeing it in the theatre an excessive number of times), but some things <I>were</I> a bit choppy & incomplete. The extra scenes just tied things together nicely. I loved the bit about Sam's salt & the rope, the Huorns, the Ent draught, Treebeard saying Bombadil's lines, the 'flotsam & jetsam' scenes, and the whole Faramir/Boromir/Denethor sequence. Boromir acting like the indulgent 'big brother' and Faramir the admiring 'little brother'. When Denethor turned up in Ossgiliath, Boromir's "One moment of peace. Can he not give us that?", implying that while he might be his father's favorite, the feeling was not necessarily mutual. After multiple viewings of TTT, I had come to terms with movie-Faramir and grew to like his character...even though he was like a jigsaw puzzle with some pieces missing. The extra footage added those missing bits to show a more complete character.
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"It's impossible to have Frodo without Sam, or Sam without Frodo. They're like two halves of one heart..."
"If your hurts grieve you still and the memory of your burden is heavy, then you may pass into the West..."
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