There and "never" back again

Rating: 10/10 (24 December 2003)

This is one of those unique moments where nothing can truly express how one feels.In fact the second in my life. The first was when my wife said yes to me in a wedding ceremony. The second is this.
When I had watched the Shire unfold before my eyes in the Fellowship of The Ring, I had uncontrollably started crying. My utmost cherished Middle Earth was there in front of my eyes, every place, every character as I had imagined them to be. The white screen, a window into a beloved priceless land. I was there and I had never really been anywhere else since then. The Two Towers and now The Return of the King.
A moment I had waited not for three years but for 20 or more.Ever since I turned the cover of a really old copy of the Lord of The Rings. A moment I also dreaded for so long.
Now the journey is over. The memory of it will remain even to my dying day.

Thank you J.R.R.Tolkien for letting us step into a world so reminiscent of our own yet where honour, friendship, love and loyalty could actually result in something greater then ourselves. "The world is what we make of it" and if it can make you smile there up in the heavens -for I sure believe you are there- we will do our best with the time given us. You may be sure of that.
Thank you Mr. Jackson and all the actors and every single being included in the production, may you get all that you deserve, I wish I could offer you more then my numerous admission fees to the theaters and my eternal gratitude. There is no real return-favour for what you have given us all.
Thank you Mr. Shore for your music is still and will be ringing in my ears as long as I live, reminding me of the spirit triumphant over all thrown in its way.
As hard as I try right now I will not be able to express my feelings as I said before.. But I know only this. I am not the only one. Not the only one changed. Not the only one lost.
Not the only one there and "never" back again..