[Kalimac]

I was fairly young (ten) when I first read LOTR and had read nothing even remotely like it before - lots of mythology, but no fantasy - so quite frankly, almost every official "twist" surprised me; with the exception of Dernhelm turning out to be Eowyn - she had been so upset about being left behind that I was hoping she would sneak along, and the face being "strangely familiar" to Merry was enough for me. The one that I thought was most amusing was the twist of having the trolls they come across in the glade turning out to be the same trolls Bilbo had encountered sixty years or so before. Especially when Strider mentioned that they obviously weren't a threat anyway, since what troll goes out in daylight - it was definitely one of those SMACK! "Oh, why didn't I remember that?" moments, especially since I'd read "The Hobbit" just before.