LotR3-RotK-Seq11

[Elladan and Elrohir]

The assault on Minas Tirith is good overall, maybe not quite as lights-out as it could have been. It does, however, become spectacular when the Nazgul show up, accompanied by a new rendition of their theme, courtesy of Howard Shore, that's meaner, bigger, and badder than the one we're used to from the continual horse charges in FOTR. There's a line in the book about the Nazgul descending and destroying all hope. I think it's actually in the "Black Gate Opens" chapter, but that's what I always think of as I watch them here. It's extremely difficult to portray the sheer terror they invoke in their enemies, but PJ does it about as well as you can.

The Corsair scene is stupid and is nearly identical in form to the later scene at Pelennor Fields. It was nice to see PJ die, though. The "Cameras in Middle-earth" documentary on the third disc has a great feature on this scene and all the crew members who got transformed into corsairs. The most stunning, to my mind, is Richard Taylor: The geeky, Bill Gates-ish head of WETA looks downright dashing, and is literally unrecognizable.

EDIT: Hey, sweet, I just got upgraded to Shade of Carn Dum! I probably have one of the slowest posting rates on this board, like once a week or so.