Diamond18 (and everyone),<BR>I do accept the need to establish certain things with that ending scene, and I agree with much that you had to say...we see Aragorn's strength in his ability to resist the ring...Merry and Pippin are set up to be the more serious characters that they will be in TTT...non-read audiences will need that sort of transition to set up what M and P will be experiencing...<BR>The scene with Sam drowning was touching, and I loved it, and thought that it really showcased his dedication to Frodo...it was still painfully long for him to be floating in the water and drowning...it would have been as effective if it was at least a few seconds shorter...Best use of slo-mo combined with music only was following Gandalf's fall in Moria...I felt it was a bit gratuitous and overused in the Sam drowning scene...the simple fact that he is doing what he was doing was powerful enough..it didn't need to be drawn out.<BR>Reeded Goat is a name I use and created myself. I am an Uilleann Piper, and am really into mountain goats - I think they are cool...so I am a piper who digs goats - pipes are reeded instruments...reeded goat...that was the development of it. It is also the name of a pub in the fantasy novel I am writing.<P>Peace,<BR>RG
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11-10-2002, 05:51 PM
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