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Wow .. I actually managed to see it
Ours arrived on Friday .. Chris and I MADE TIME to see it together on Saturday ... loved it and it brought back a lot of memories of last year and the GOTF

Rodia wrote:

So sue me, I was watching it on my mother's computer with the phone ringing constantly and my mother coming in every now and then- I had to say 'LOOK MUM LOOK THIS IS A GOOD PART'....and then she'd walk out just before the good part began.

*Pats Ro friendly on the head*

I'm avoiding like hell all the ROTK EE spoilers since my copy hasnt arrived yet from the UK but curiosity is killing me...
Could any of you, lucky enough to have seen the film, confirm if there is any extra dialogues in Elvish or Anglo-Saxon?

None, I'm afraid, but in the first documentary on Disc 3: The Legacy Of JRRT, there's a documentary on how he evolved the two main elvish languages.

Damn! po'ed

Thanks Steve.

Hi, I'm just back from watching the whole thing (the 3 EEs) and as you can imagine I'm shattered...

Bré, like Steve said, there are no extra lines in other than English, sorry. RotK does suffer a bit in that department by comparisn with the other two.

But it has Quenya. :mrgreen:

I enquired about "Elvish", so that includes Quenya.

But there's nothing new, just Aragorn singing "Et Earello Endorenna utúlien..." :mrgreen:

I like the word 'utulien'. It sounds like the Polish 'utule' which means 'I'll hold you to make you feel better'.

Has anyone recognised Tolkien's voice saying "A Elbereth Gilthoniel, silivren penna míriel" when Aragon is trying to master the Palantir and sees Arwen dying?

Breogan - no. Did they actually use a sound clip? Or channel his ghost?

"Et Earello Endorenna utúlien..." sounds Elvish to me. What does he say? "Come all ye loaden and worried ones, and get polish group hugs..." ?
I just saw there was an alternate shot of him "just speaking" these rites. Augh, it was as poetic as Rumsfeld announcing somwthing.

Et Earello Endorenna utúlien
Sinome maruvan ar Hildinyar tenn´ambar-metta

Out of the Great Sea to Middle-earth I am come
It shall be my dweling, and that of my descendants, until the end of the world

(from memory) :mrgreen:

I watched it yesterday (and the day before yesterday) - and my husband fell asleep.....

and in the middle of the coronation said: "what are they already? Gremlins? Gobbelins?"

And it was okay, even if not as breathtaking as the two precendent EEs - maybe it's a question of getting used to it. And TTT needed an EE, whereas ROTK was more or less all right before already.

Well, ROTK was already the longest Theatrical, and there weren't all that many things added. Instead of a lot of short new scenes, we have the long Isengard, Corsairs, and MoS sequences. The rest is variations in editing. ROTK was breathtaking enough before the EE.

I remember awarding an 4/10 to the TE of ROTK after having seen it once. On following viewings, it managed to score a 5.
After having watched the EE once, and probably being a victim of the first view syndrome, I give it almost a 6/10...
I reckon I quite safely say, to me, ROTK has been the great disappointment in this trilogy.

And I loved it most of the three... but that may be because it's also my favourite book of the three, plus the best bits of TTT...

I don't know. I'm past nitpicking, I just sit and enjoy.

Rodia

It is my favourite part of the book too, hence the disappointment.

The thing with me is my disappointment has a very short attention span. When I saw FOTR for the first time, I didn't know whether to laugh or cry. By the eighth time I was set on laughing. I guess I just accepted PJ's adaptation. Sometimes it's just dumb, like Osgiliath, but I ignore those times. Sometimes it's a matter of taste, like the washing up liquid army of the dead, and for those times I just adapt my taste. It's not how I saw it, but I can see it my own way when I read the book. It's not gonna change in the movie, might as well accept it and enjoy it.


(I actually bought a glow in the dark King of the Dead action figure today. He kicks ass. And was cheap, too.)

Well, I think I've kept an open mind throughout the whole trilogy.
Even being quite the purist, I understand the inner difficulties of telling such a story in such specific format. I also understand this is PJ's vision of LOTR, and so, certain changes have not bothered me much or at all, and I believe a few of these changes are great calls made by PJ, which enriched the story, even surpassing the original material JRRTolkien wrote... but ROTK still is a great disappointment.

I am with Breogan on this, I see the films and book as two seperate tellings of the same tale. A bit like reading Mort d'Arthur and watching 'King Arthur'.

I do enjoy both, and I think I am over the dissapointment of ROTK now. Must watch EE over the weekend to see :mrgreen: