[Beanamir of Gondor]

Amen to that, Nimrodel! I was doubly disappointed in the fact that, not only did the uncharacteristically jealous Sam ask for another nice @#%* shiny dagger, Galadriel didn't even give him the box with earth and the nut!

Ahem. Back on track, about the comic relief. Instead of being angry with Gimli in TTT (he at least gave us a break from the endless, endless Arwen-Aragorn theme) I was disappointed that Sam's great one-liner to Gollum was absolutely NOT funny: "Oh, you're hopeless. Go to sleep!" It was absolutely overshadowed by "po-ta-toes", which I didn't think was the funniest line in the chapter Of Herbs and Stewed Rabbit, and of which I have become absolutely sick of hearing every time anyone serves boiled, mashed, or stewed potatoes, invariably with a little "precious!" giggled after it. The utter disdain with which poor Sean Astin was forced to mutter the line "you're hopeless" only added to my distaste for TTT, my least favorite movie...

I suppose, as a Chopin fanatic, I am somewhat of a purist when it comes to any artistic media. Some of the licences taken with characters were OK with me--for instance, Sean Bean's Movie!Boromir. I liked him because he was a little friendlier than Book!Boromir (and admittedly a little shallower). But I must dare those angry saucepans--which are getting closer by the second--to say that the artistic licence taken with Gimli was a bit extreme in the Edoras Elf-Dwarf Drinking Game. That, to me, was a travesty.