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Lyta_Underhill · 12-21-2003, 01:34 AM

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Frodo's "naked in the dark" speech( not even ruined by immature friend giggling "he said naked!")<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> I know what you mean! My husband was sniggering during the "I would've married Rosie" lines on the rock, and told me that Frodo's reactions looked like he wished Sam were marrying HIM! "What about me?" he intoned in an imitation of Frodo...oh well! Now I'll never get the image out of my head...but it did not ruin my enjoyment of "I'm glad you're here with me, Samwise Gamgee...here at the end of all things." Beautiful!<P>I'm not sure if anyone had this experience, but I just saw the movie for the second time and I got blindsided into crying at a part I never thought I would for a reason I could only realize in hindsight. When Arwen is revealed to Aragorn at his coronation, I looked into the eyes of Elrond next to her and could not stop crying--suddenly and unaccountably (completely unmoving and silently too, to the everlasting relief of the rest of the audience). Hugo Weaving's face spoke to the entire sadness of the Elvish race and it all hit me at once--the Long Defeat, the extinguishing of the evergreen realms of the Eldar, the echoes to the First and Second Ages, the valor in the dark dungeon of long dead Finrod Felagund, the journey into the uncertain Sea by Earendil, the beginning and the end of the Great Rings, all of it...seemed to come together in Elrond's face at that moment and it was too much! <P>I had to share that! Thanks for listening..uh, reading! <P>Cheers,<BR>Lyta

12-21-2003, 01:34 AM	#34
Lyta_Underhill Haunted Halfling Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: an uncounted length of steps--floating between air molecules Posts: 841	<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Frodo's "naked in the dark" speech( not even ruined by immature friend giggling "he said naked!")<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> I know what you mean! My husband was sniggering during the "I would've married Rosie" lines on the rock, and told me that Frodo's reactions looked like he wished Sam were marrying HIM! "What about me?" he intoned in an imitation of Frodo...oh well! Now I'll never get the image out of my head...but it did not ruin my enjoyment of "I'm glad you're here with me, Samwise Gamgee...here at the end of all things." Beautiful!<P>I'm not sure if anyone had this experience, but I just saw the movie for the second time and I got blindsided into crying at a part I never thought I would for a reason I could only realize in hindsight. When Arwen is revealed to Aragorn at his coronation, I looked into the eyes of Elrond next to her and could not stop crying--suddenly and unaccountably (completely unmoving and silently too, to the everlasting relief of the rest of the audience). Hugo Weaving's face spoke to the entire sadness of the Elvish race and it all hit me at once--the Long Defeat, the extinguishing of the evergreen realms of the Eldar, the echoes to the First and Second Ages, the valor in the dark dungeon of long dead Finrod Felagund, the journey into the uncertain Sea by Earendil, the beginning and the end of the Great Rings, all of it...seemed to come together in Elrond's face at that moment and it was too much! <P>I had to share that! Thanks for listening..uh, reading! <P>Cheers,<BR>Lyta __________________ “…she laid herself to rest upon Cerin Amroth; and there is her green grave, until the world is changed, and all the days of her life are utterly forgotten by men that come after, and elanor and niphredil bloom no more east of the Sea.”