Lord of the Rings redux.
Last weekend I made Jimmy watch the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy. Extended editions, even. I guess I shouldn't say I "made" him because he willingly entered into this endeavor, but nevertheless it feels like a huge imposition to ask someone to watch an 11-hour movie. Especially when you've constantly raved about how it's the greatest movie ever
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You just added more heat to my burning desire to watch them all in rapid succession, extended version and everything.
That scene totally sends me bawling too! That and Sam's speech at the end of...Two Towers, I think?
By rights we shouldn't even be here. But we are. It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo; the ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn’t want to know the end... because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was, when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it’s only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines, it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you, that meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn’t. They kept going... ( ... )
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