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I saw the Return of the King last night, three minutes after midnight.

Whew.

I'm a total Pippin fan in this movie. He is so sweet and cute, and I don't mean by appearance (at least not only). He has the best scenes, I think. The scenes with the hobbits are my favourites. Perhaps it's because they have such a strong bond of friendship and they are somewhat dependent on each other - Merry and Pippin of each other, Sam and Frodo of each other. Legolas, Aragorn and Gimli just don't have that. Merry and Pippin are anyway my favourite characters, and I was so happy to see more of them in the TT extended edition.

It was funny - I had tears in my eyes in many parts. There were three reasons for that - one was because I could recognize the lines, or the scenes (usually I get shivers down my spine, but this time I got tears in my eyes), the other was because a scene was so well done or beautiful, and the third was that, well, it was sad and touching. Mostly the parts with the hobbits, naturally (?). They are just so far of everything they know, and yet they have also changed so much. Pippin was my favourite, as I have stated, and the scenes with Merry and Pippin. I thought it would be Sam and Frodo that would get to me, and of course they did to some extent, but the other two friends just hit my heart.

There was a lot of scenes cut off, as far as I can tell - well, the movie still is 3 hours 20 minutes long, so I guess they had to cut something off. As I've read the book, I could tell where there should have been scenes, and what scenes they probably had also shot. There weren't that many "slow" parts in the middle, they just went from one battle to the other, and I know there is much more there. I'm looking forward to the extended edition.

Finally: FIGWIT LIVES! Figwit had a line!!!!! (Was I the only person laughing in the audience at the "anonymous" elf?)