LoTR is comforting to me. I know all of the characters through-and-through. I went through a LoTR geek-out period several years ago and studied the books. (I mean actually studied them like I was going to take a test. And a test there would be because the first movie was going to come out and it would be Geekfest 2001.) And I'm pretty sure I've seen them on cable about 150 times.
This particular edition is super cool because there's quite a bit in it that I've never seen before. I just watched Gollum choke on lambas bread and throw a little pity party. Then I heard Legolas tell of how the Elves woke the trees and set them talking. Oh and what's this -- did Aragorn just tickle Gandalf?? This is awesome.
A few minutes ago we watched the scene with the Ents. It reminded me of a costume I made one year out of chicken wire and paper mache. I wanted so bad to be an Ent. My intention was to make barrel-like pieces to go around my torso, upper and lower arms, and upper and lower legs, and wear black clothes underneath. I ended up looking more like a boxer-in-training (like rocky with his grey sweatpants) who just had a garbage can broken over his head.... with little droplets of blood seeping through the places where the chicken wire poked me.
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