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News from Bree
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Mar 3 2010, 8:46pm
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From Empire.com: We want to know your favourite Lord Of The Rings moment The world is changed. You feel it in the water. You smell it in the air. Yes, that's right: Peter Jackson's Lord Of The Rings trilogy is finally coming to Blu-ray, meaning that this April you'll be able to gawp at the sight of the Misty Mountains' peaks and matted Warg fur in crystal-clear high-definition. To celebrate, we want to find out what your all-time favourite moment from the trilogy is. More..
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One Ringer
Tol Eressea
Mar 4 2010, 1:59am
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When it comes down to picking one, I have to go with the close of the adventure. "I'm glad you're here with me Samwise Gamgee, here at the end of all things." (as quoted in the movie). Perfect moment, in my opinion.
"Welcome. Wilkommen to Kino Das Bang Bang Boom Boom 1970 Gjong Hai Ich Habe Diese Nacht Wilkommen, 2004."
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Kangi Ska
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Mar 4 2010, 2:05am
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Boromir is wounded and dies.//
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At night one cannot tell if crows are black or white.
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SirDennisC
Half-elven
Mar 4 2010, 2:11am
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when the Eagles and Gandalf come to find them...
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Aunt Dora Baggins
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Mar 4 2010, 2:11am
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That moment of eucatastrophe always gets me.
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"For DORA BAGGINS in memory of a LONG correspondence, with love from Bilbo; on a large wastebasket. Dora was Drogo's sister, and the eldest surviving female relative of Bilbo and Frodo; she was ninety-nine, and had written reams of good advice for more than half a century."
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White Gull
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Mar 4 2010, 4:17am
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When the Shire first unfolds before our eyes in Fellowship of the Ring.//
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A poet is a nightingale that sits in the darkness and sings to cheers its own solitude with sweet sounds.
-Percy B Shelley
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Chiticot
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Mar 4 2010, 8:18am
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There are so many... But I would choose two:
1. The last moments of Boromir: "I would have followed you my brother! My captain! My king!"
2. The images where the beacons are lit.
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grammaboodawg
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Mar 4 2010, 10:02am
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I don't have just one. I've been sitting here trying to be grown-up and disciplined. Just ain't gonna happen.
SO... some of mine from each film that are "stop everything" moments that also includes the music in most cases...
Discovering the Shire for the first time... starting with Gandalf coming into scene in the cart... scarf dangling from the lamp and his staff sticking out the back... singing. *sigh*
The Stairs of Khazad-dum!
Frodo and Sam above the lava flow... "I remember the Shire..."
The lighting of the beacons
Gandalf and Pippin talking about death
The opening of The Two Towers! Fabulous!
Legolas taking on the Oliphaunt
Gollum enticing Frodo into Shelob's cave
Frodo talking to Faramir while Smeagol fisssshesss in the pool
Frodo holding the Ring out to drop... "Just let it go!" and Sam... "Don't you let go REACH!"
Gandalf and Frodo talk in Moria ...
Legolas has shot the rope holding the ladder full of Uruks who balance for a moment, thennnn.... whoaaaa! Same with the first Uruk to fall by that slipped-up arrow. TIMBER!!!!
Sam charging Cirith Ungol!
The Havens... just killls me.
Frodo and Sam picked up and carried by the eagles
Gandalf riding out to drive away the Fell Beasts and save Faramir
Arwen out-riding the Nazgul and challenging them at the Ford
I gotta go... don't have time to finish... don't think there is a finish!!!!!
Wanna NZ Moot?
 
"There is more in you of good than you know, child of the kindly West."
~Hug like a hobbit!~
I really need these new films to take me back to, and not re-introduce me to, that magical world.
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Kangi Ska
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Mar 4 2010, 10:10am
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Kangi Ska
At night one cannot tell if crows are black or white.
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Eledhwen
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Mar 4 2010, 10:34am
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"Mine was the attack of the Rohirrim at Pelennor Fields."
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Eledhwen
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Mar 4 2010, 10:35am
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""I would have followed you my brother. My captain. My king"
Battle at the Black Gates/Crack of doom
Fall of Gandalf
"Have you ever seen it, Aragorn?"
definitaly comes high up."
(Cross-posted from Movie).
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Kyriel
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Mar 4 2010, 10:56am
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"I can't carry it, but I can carry you!"
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I'm surprised no one else has mentioned that one yet. Ohh, the feeling I get in my chest, and the tears in my eyes, when Sam picks up Frodo and struggles on up Mount Doom!
Of course, Boromir's death, the lighting of the beacons, and the first view of the Shire do pretty much the same thing to me. But Sam's moment of heroism is the creme de la creme.
Those left standing will make millions writing books on the way it should have been. --Incubus
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maddsrocks
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Mar 4 2010, 12:33pm
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When Gandalf arrives at Bag end
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I was literally spellbound - in fact i think i burst into tears in the cinema because it was SOOOO perfect just as I had imagined from the books.
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"In a hole in the ground there lived a Hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat; it was a Hobbit hole, and that means comfort."
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sador
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Mar 4 2010, 12:35pm
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We've discussed this a few times before
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The last time was this. And my answer there is as good as any I could post now, and considerably longer.
"It will support thee and defend thee from weariness" - Cirdan.
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acheron
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Mar 4 2010, 1:51pm
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It's a huge departure from the book, and even within the world of the movies it doesn't make a lot of sense (as Jackson et al. make fun of in the commentary, who's living up at the very peak of the mountains to maintain the beacons?). And yet the sequence is so fantastic, I absolutely forgive everything they did to bring it to us. 
For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much -- the wheel, New York, wars, and so on -- while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man, for precisely the same reasons. -- Douglas Adams
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Alassėa Eruvande
Valinor
Mar 4 2010, 1:58pm
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"Forth Eorlingas!"
"The grey rain-curtain of this world rolls back, and all turns to silver glass. And then you see it....White shores... and beyond, a far green country under a swift sunrise."
"Well, that isn't so bad." "No, no it isn't."
*sniffle*
Uh, gotta go now.
And suddenly the Ainur saw afar off a light, as it were a cloud with a living heart of flame.
  
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Patty
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Mar 4 2010, 5:10pm
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Always, it's Frodo and Sam in the boat. But the first view of the Shire is a close second.
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Followed by the first view of Rivendell and the moment when Aragorn says "we will not abandon Pippin and Merry to torture and death". The background music has a lot to do with my love of that moment. The gift-giving and leave-taking of Lothlorien, with Gimli and Legolas in the boat are in there, too, as is the heart-break of Arwen as she envisions standing at Aragorn's funeral. What a long list this is!
I may go ahead and watch the TE in Blu, cause I see that many of my favorite moments are in the TE. But I wouldn't buy it--I've only so much money, and with it, I've gotta hold out for the EE.
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Jazmine
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Mar 4 2010, 10:11pm
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The grey rain curtain... that moves me every time. It is such a wonderful take on the afterlife.
There are so many for me. But that one really stands out.
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MrCere
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Mar 4 2010, 10:57pm
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The mourning of Gandalf's fall {NT}
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Oiotįri
Tol Eressea
Mar 5 2010, 12:21am
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"Death is just another path, one that we all must take"
makes me want to cry every time
Faithless is he who says farewell when the road darkens
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aranelthehobbit22
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Mar 5 2010, 2:00am
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I'm sorry but I can't pick just one . . .
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So here's my list:
(In chronological order, well mostly)
1. When Bilbo is talking about the Shire and we see how beautiful and peaceful it is, I almost cry seeing Frodo so happy and carefree and then thinking of him in just a few months where he'll be climbing Mt. Doom, reduced to crawling.
2. Frodo and Bilbo reunited and Frodo in the council of Elrond: "I will take it! I will take it! I will take the Ring to Mordor! Though, I do not know the way."
3. Gandalf and Frodo's conversation in Moria about Bilbo, Gollum, Pity, and "All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is give to us."
4. Boromir's death and Aragorn saying "They will look for his coming from the White Tower. But he will not return."
5. Frodo and Sam leaving for Mordor.
6. Almost all of the conversations between Frodo and Gollum
7. Merry talking to Pippin about the Shire
8. Theoden "Let them come!"
9. Sam's speech in Osgiliath
10. Frodo and Sam talking about hearing their story told
11. Theoden's death scene
12. Eowyn and Merry defeating the Witch King of Angmar
13. Frodo's last desperate climb up the mountain and Sam's speech about the Shire
14. Aragorn's speech at the black gate
15. The end of all things
16. From Aragorn's coronation on to the end of the movie
And the credits I feel sad cause it's over but I want to cheer (and at times I do) like when I see PJ, Fran, Phillipa, Barry, Tolkien, etc etc
is that too many to list? i would have kept going but i felt like i should cut it short
'I'm glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam.'
Walk as the Elves do: lightly upon the snow
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weaver
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Mar 5 2010, 4:15am
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Not in the book, but it's a lot of the spirit of the book in one shot, you know?
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Mar 5 2010, 9:24am
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There are so many I like.
My most favorite quote is "I can't carry it for you, but I can carry you". I really cried the first time.
My most favorite movie shot is The Lightning of the Beacons.
And for a scene I really love the prologue: "The world is changed......"
And there is so much more, the happiness of The Shire, Gandalf and Frodo "all you have to do...", Gandalf and Pippin "death is just a path...". Of course Aragorn "For Frodo". The Grey Havens, at some times still tears. When Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli approach Edoras, I love that music (but that also has to do with visiting the real Mt. Sunday and hearing the music when standing there).
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Mar 5 2010, 4:15pm
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Theoden's speech & the Rohirrim charging into the Battle at Pelennor... goose bumps! 
~*Haudh-en-Ndengin the Elves named it, the Hill of Slain, and Haugh-en-Nirnaeth, the Hill of tears... the earth beneath which the swords of the Eldar and the Edain crumbled into rust*~
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