[DaughterofVana]

Impressions from the Extended Edition:<P>1. CELEBORN IS AN ACTUAL CHARACTER! WOO-HOO! I posted on another thread a while ago how disappointed I was on the theatrical version cutting him down--now he actually seems like the King of Lothlorien instead of Mr. Galadriel. <P>2. And Galadriel is a NICE PERSON! My mother, a Tolkien layman in every sense of the word, thought initally that Galadriel was up on the evil meter with Saruman. Her character is so much more fleshed out and developed, and I was exceedingly pleased. <P>3. Didn't mind the Haldir scene, though some subtitles when he and Aragorn were conversing (arguing?) would have been nice. And I think he WAS that mean in the books, up to a point--he initially made everyone go blindfolded though Lothlorien, and before the company convinced him otherwise Gimli was going to be barred from entering at all. At least in the ExEd there was some trip-ups on getting into Caras Galadon because of the company of a dwarf--more true to FSotR.<P>4. MORE ELVISH!! WOO-HOO!! I was in heaven. In the first movie, Arwen got the most elvish lines, and since she wasn't supposed to get that many lines, period, I thought it was sort of unfair. But now Aragorn tops the cake (and as Elessar, he should) and the extended scenes with Elrond at his mother's tomb, singing in the Marshes about Tinuviel, and conversing with Haldir and Galadriel lets us believe fully now that the guy grew up with the elves. And LOTHLORIEN?? Broken record that, so I'll stop. <P>5. But my favorite scene of all: the passing of the elves. That song that they sing is the most beautiful thing I think I have ever heard. I could listen to that over and over again. I wish they had it on the soundtrack!<P>That's enough for me.<P>-'Vana