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GreyIstar · 11-12-2002, 11:06 AM

I got it yesterday. My walmart put it out early and I watched it last night. To truely appreciate the extra scenes you had to have read the book. My favorite small insert is when Aragorn is leading the hobbits through the marshes and the great line when all the mesquitos are biting: "What do these things eat when they can't get Hobbit?" But Lothlorien is now, with all the stuff put into it, the best sequence in the film, and Galadriel is portrayed much more like she is in the book. The best is Gimili falling in love with her and Legolas smirk when Gimli tells him how beautiful she is.Also when the Nazgul are chaing the hobbits in the original version you see the 3 way ahead of Frod and I always wondered how Frodo got so far behind. In the SE you clearly see why.The only thing I do miss is at the beginning they took out Gandalf telling about the third age as he rode with Frodo and had Bilbo do it as he wrote his book. That didn't flow as well with me as the original.This is the version that should have been put in the theater.I really only got to watch oneof the appedices features. The one about JRR Tolkien and the writing of the book was really well done.[ November 12, 2002: Message edited by: GreyIstar ]

11-12-2002, 11:06 AM	#1
GreyIstar Wight Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Dallas Posts: 116	I got it!! I got it yesterday. My walmart put it out early and I watched it last night. To truely appreciate the extra scenes you had to have read the book. My favorite small insert is when Aragorn is leading the hobbits through the marshes and the great line when all the mesquitos are biting: "What do these things eat when they can't get Hobbit?" But Lothlorien is now, with all the stuff put into it, the best sequence in the film, and Galadriel is portrayed much more like she is in the book. The best is Gimili falling in love with her and Legolas smirk when Gimli tells him how beautiful she is.<P>Also when the Nazgul are chaing the hobbits in the original version you see the 3 way ahead of Frod and I always wondered how Frodo got so far behind. In the SE you clearly see why.<P>The only thing I do miss is at the beginning they took out Gandalf telling about the third age as he rode with Frodo and had Bilbo do it as he wrote his book. That didn't flow as well with me as the original.<P>This is the version that should have been put in the theater.<P>I really only got to watch oneof the appedices features. The one about JRR Tolkien and the writing of the book was really well done.<p>[ November 12, 2002: Message edited by: GreyIstar ] __________________ Keeper of the site Ring Lord. "Dangerous!" cried Gandalf. "And so am I, very dangerous: more dangerous than anything you will ever meet, unless you are brought alive before the seat of the Dark Lord."