Yes, it truly is!
I wonder if we'll all be able to make it through all 3 extended versions in one day!
I'll bet we break up THE MOVIES into manageable sessions, interspersed with the launching of various projectiles toward yonder targets, plus as I understand consumption of vast quantities of (insert).
Hmmm. makes me wonder now what G'nad was hauling those logs for. Obstacle course? Log cutting contests? Caber toss?
There are pre-game speeches, and then there are pre-game speeches.
Patton's address to the troops at (shucks... was it Bastogne? I think it was...) was magnificent.
Ike's note to the troops about to hit the beaches on D-Day.
But damn... the couple of places the LOTR that are guaranteed to make me tear up are the part where Theoden runs down the line of horsemen slapping his sword on the line of pikes. "Ride! Ride now! Ride for ruin! And a red dawn!!!" I'm pretty much gone at that point.
But nothing makes me wanna grab a sword and swing as much as Aragorn's "I have seen in you a fear that would take the very heart of me. There may come a day when the strength of men fails, but IT IS NOT THIS DAY." [snif] but by the time he gets to the "I bid you stand! Men of the West!" by then i'm already long gone.... :-)