Re-saw, re-read

Rating: 10/10 (1 January 2003)

Needed to see this film again as I grappled with unsettled thoughts the first time I did. Saw it twice more for a total of three times in a week and loved it more each time. The first time I wrote here I was e-mailed by a Tolkien fan about something I had missed in the books. So, I used that as an excuse to pick up the books and spent Christmas week re-reading, for the fifth time, the trilogy yet again. As it was 20 years since I have read it, it was an incredible journey. So many things I had forgotten. When I finished this morning I wept like a baby, as I did the third time I saw this movie.
For all the discrepancies and the ommissions, the movie certainly grasped the essential feeling of the books. It is a powerfully moving experience. The movies and books can be experienced simultaneously and compliment one another.
After being re-immersed visually and literally in Tolkien for a solid week, this is my resolution: I want to go back to Middle Earth and begin my life over. I want to live in a castle-keep ruled by a king, with walking trees and elves and beautiful rivers with flowering trees growing on the banks and ballads sung all thru the day.
I would gladly trade in my computer for a ticket!
Happy New Year.