The Lord of the Rings: ROTK

[chicken]

-- No shire battle at the end? Why not? Hobbits died, for pity's sake.

Queerish subtexty and texty bits in the books that were left out of the film, who knows why --

-- Sam says to Frodo "I love you." Why cut one little line just because it might sound gay? Come on.

-- Gimli loves Legolas so much that he boards the ship with him at the end. Tolkien used the word love, yes.

Sure, in both cases he probably didn't mean homoerotic love, but leaving these bits out of the film still makes Jackson look a bit homophobic. Esp. as he was the one who made "Heavenly Creatures" which I found to be homophobic.

But, redeemably, Merry and Pippin came off as totally in love in ROTK, which was very cute.

On the whole, however, a great film, worth the having-to-pee feeling after sitting in the theatre for four hours (counting the interminable coming attactions and product huckstering).

In fact, we liked it enough to want to go see it again next week.

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[jwgh]

No shire battle at the end? Why not? Hobbits died, for pity's sake.

I was also disappointed about this, but in order to do it right he probably would have had to add another half hour or hour to the movie ...

I will probably see it again sometime in the next couple of weeks. I may try to see the first two in the interem.