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Eruanna · 01-04-2004, 11:51 AM

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR> I found the length of his beard to be a good way to aesthetically convey this growth.<BR> <HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>Yes, I also thought it a useful way to convey to the audience the passage of time, so that we are not perplexed at seeing a fully healed Faramir etc.<BR>Another touch that pleased me, was when Gandalf goes to see Frodo as he is recovering from his ordeal....they look at each other and begin to laugh and giggle...just as they had when they met on the road at the beginning of Fellowship. It really seemed that the circle was complete, the journey framed by these two small incidents. <BR>I am sure that there are a lot more that will occur to me when I have seen the film for the second time.

01-04-2004, 11:51 AM	#2
Eruanna Memento Mori Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Past The Point Of No Return Posts: 1,117	<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR> I found the length of his beard to be a good way to aesthetically convey this growth.<BR> <HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>Yes, I also thought it a useful way to convey to the audience the passage of time, so that we are not perplexed at seeing a fully healed Faramir etc.<BR>Another touch that pleased me, was when Gandalf goes to see Frodo as he is recovering from his ordeal....they look at each other and begin to laugh and giggle...just as they had when they met on the road at the beginning of Fellowship. It really seemed that the circle was complete, the journey framed by these two small incidents. <BR>I am sure that there are a lot more that will occur to me when I have seen the film for the second time. __________________ "Remember, hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things. And no good thing ever dies."