[Rose Cotton]

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR> I stared mesmerized at the credits and when I finally wandered into the parking lot, it was as if I was ripped from one world to another, and not altogether willingly. I looked around and began asking myself what the cars and pavement were doing there. Very strange. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>I felt the same exact way. I didn't want to leave. I really was prepared to say at the theater the rest of the day. (this is after the midnight showing)<P>I loved this movie. I think the best part was being around so many fans. For the other two films I hadn't gone to the opening shows so I was never with the hard-core fans. But this time I was right in the mists of people who just wanted a good show. <P>They cheered when Elrond brought Anduril, when Theoden said that Rohan would come to the aid of Gondor (even though we all knew he would), and whenever Sam did something heroic.<P>These are parts of the film I personaly enjoyed:<P>SAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!<BR>Sea n Astin deserves so much praise! His protrayal of Sam is just incredible. I even don't mind the part where Frodo sends Sam away. I understood that it was supposed to get Frodo and Gollum alone, increase the tension, and to make Sam's appearance all the more exiting. <P>SHELOB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!<BR>She was wonderful! Terrifying! Spectacular! I thought she was so creepy and her fight was Sam was all that I could have hoped for. And when Sam thought that Frodo was dead I cried for the first time in any movie.<P>Mount Doom! Elijah's acting here was beautiful and puts into perspective his whole journey. This part was exactly as I pictured it.<P>PIPPIN! Wow! I have been waiting for this for so long and Billy delivers. The sequence when Pippin is singing over shots of Faramir riding to battle is so chilling!<P>I also enjoyed Denethor's part. The pyre scene was great! And the Witch King death was just as I pictured it.<P>The only things that I didn't like was the absence of the Houses of Healing and the Mouth of Sauron. I also think there should have been a bit more Merry.<P>By the way, did anyone else notice that two of the Gondorian children looked alot like two of the Rohan refugees who looked remarkibly like hobbit children!! <P>I didn't see PJ though. I assume that he has a cameo in this movie. <P><BR>I'm going to see the movie again on Friday so I'll have a better opinion of the whole movie.