[Diamond18]

I'm in heaven. Pippin steals the Palantír! I was sure that they'd have him peek in as soon as he retrieves it at Isengard, like in the BBC radio production. Moves the plot forward, but loses all that character developement. But he's definitely stealing it! Looks like nighttime, too! Squeeeeeeeee!<P>Ahem. All the pictures are awesome. I'm especially excited about the Sam attacking "Gorbag", Pippin in Gondorian armor, Faramir and Boromir in Osgiliath (I was always intrigued by the stuff in the Appendix talking about B&F's relationship, it'll be cool to see a flashback of them together!!!) That picture of Merry and Theoden is also great. Any picture with Pippin and/or Merry is great (I mean, we <I>know</I> Frodo and Sam are going to get lots of screen time, but I need reassurance that M&P aren't going to be glossed over.) I would have liked to see a picture with Faramir and Éowyn, though....<P>I haven't been paying much attention to spoiler reports, 'cause unless it's clearly a picture from the movie I find it tedious to sift through all the hearsay. So I haven't seen/read that much about RotK so far. These pics are so cool....<P>Impatience sets in....