Did anyone see ROTK with a "newbie"?"

[The Only Real Estel]

Eriathiel: Have any of those friends you'd spoken of seen the other movies?

[Elentári_O_Most_Mighty_1]

I was, however, disappointed at not being able to rant about the book-movie changes to them.

Ahh...well, I had the opportunity to rant to the entire class about that- I did an assessed speaking and listening speech thingy on it...(although that was only on FOTR and TTT- ROTK hadn't come out yet).

Yes, Paladin Took, I'm afraid I do mean who you think I mean...

My newbies were all right- not the ever giggling one (a high pitched giggle too, for goodness' sake!), but the rest were fine. And the ones sitting closest understood it the best, because I answered all their questions- and gave them information when I felt like it.

[The_Hand]

I love seeing Lord of The Rings with people who haven't read the books... It is so funny.

On the promier I went with a whole bunch of people and I sat next to my best friend who isn't really the reading type.. When Frodo went over with Gollum she cried out. I mean really cried out and everybody (almost) gave a gasp. I remember my sister (she's read them) saying to herself:
PJ if you **** this up I'm gonna kill you!
Hehe, so funny.

During the Shelob sceen I almost fainted because I have a huge phobia for spiders.... You don't want to be sitting next to me during Loth or Harry Potter 2.

[Laitoste]

I went to see it with a newbie (my mom), a semi-newbie (my dad-he loved them in high school, hasn't read them since), and my brother, who's started RotK, and was whining about the changes more than I was! I, fortunatly, didn't have to sit next to my mom, and thus didn't have to answer her questions. I did sit next to my brother, who whined about the disappearance of Halbarad, Elladan & Elrohir, & Irmahil&Co. the entire time (kinda cute when he doesn't even like the books). Anyway, my mom did ask my dad questions, which (I believe) he was able to answer, either from whatever's left of his knowledge of the books (if you don't use it, you lose it, and he hasn't used it for about 20 years...), or from paying attention to the movie. My mom did enjoy it. She had watched the other movies a few weeks before. It was really nice to go with my whole family. It was like a family Christmas present. But now that it's in the budget theaters, I'd like to go again, alone, so that I can rethink it.

[tar-ancalime]

My husband is quite a good sport--he is not at all interested in Tolkien, but he has been to each of the movies with me more than once. He does, however, feel the need to punctuate all of Elrond's lines with "Mr. Anderson."

After waaaay too much begging, my sister and I finally got to the theater to see ROTK. (My parents really don't like LOTR and they wish we would get into something more worthwhile, they say it is a waste of time ) Anyway, I couldn't drive yet then and for some very odd reason my mom insisted to watch it with us. Anyway, the main thing was that she thought Denethor was king...and I was like, if he was king and Gondor had a king why would it be called Return of the King? And I went on to explain the whole Steward thing....i don't think she ever got it though. I also had to confront some people in the bathrooms about the ending, they said that it could have ended like halfway through the film! It wouldn't have been finished...it still isn't finished in my opinion!

[Orophin]

I went to see the Fellow ship of the ring with a couple of my friends on the first day that it came out. Neither of my friends new the first thing about LOTR so it was a totally new experience. When the movie was done both of my friends turned to me and began to ask in a distressed and urgent manner "What the heck! Why didn't they make it to the mountain yet." They of course were talking about Mt. Doom and they were under the impression that the ring was destroyed in the first movie and the others were about something different. I laughed as I explained it to them and they were kind of angry but I thought it was hilarious.