In the line at the cinema, I ran into an acquaintance who is a movie-fangirl. I told her, "They all die. Especially Legolas. He dies a horrible, painful death." I think she almost believed me until I added the bit about Leggy...
I saw TT with a newbie. When Aragorn "dies", she was like, "bah! They're not showing a body, so of course he's not dead."