Reply #25: I am so JEALOUS

[chookie]

I am glowing green with envy -- but so happy for you!

I have a feeling it is going to be a stunning achievement. Although I find it hard to imagine something better than Fellowship...but I'll be glad when I see it.

I found it incomprehensible that it did not win Best Picture, etc, for Fellowship -- although it quite deservedly got it for Best Musical Score and other honors. I may riot next April if Return of the King does not win then!!

There were some pretty impressive acting performances in those films, but after watching the first two more times than I care to admit, the ones I find really outstanding are those by Sean Bean -- who brought great gravity and humanity to Boromir, and Andy Serkin, the actor behind Gollum.

I'm looking forward to seeing Return even more after your discreetly informative little post.

Thanks for the "hankie" warning. I'll go to the theatre prepared this time. *Every* time I watch Fellowship, I dissolve into a blubbering heap in the scene after the Fellowship escape following Gandalf's fall to the Balrog. Actually -- I had not been prepared in the least for how emotionally powerful Fellowship was. I found myself crying time and time again. It was a powerful catharsis after the horror of Sept 11 and Dec 2000.