Just back in from seeing FOTR again. I told my wife I'd forgotten that our cheap theater is in the bohemian/college crowd section of town. Not that there's anything wrong with that. But a decidedly different crowd than at the Multiplex.
Theater was about 80% full for a 9:30 p.m. show.
And we saw the trailer!!! (What's the count now?)
2JM, I didn't notice the ring changing size to fit Isildur's hand. But I noticed towards the end of the movie that Aragorn is wearing a ring on his index finger. Does he have that all the way thru? My son said he had it when Frodo fell and the ring came off (you see his hand go for the sword). But I didn't notice it until the end, and it looked like one of the Elven rings? Am I just imagining that?
I'm thinking this movie may become a cult classic. Almost like Rocky Horror (but not quite in the same manner). When Aragorn lobbed off the Orc's head (toward the end) the crowd cheered.
Well, we're awfully close to the precious for me to go to bed...
I did, I did! IIRC, as Isildur holds Sauron's finger on his palm, the finger turns to ash and blows away, and then the ring shrinks down to human-sized.
Aragorn is wearing a ring on his index finger.
If I remember the earlier discussion of that ring correctly, it's supposed to be the Ring of Barahir. Barahir was the father of Beren; the ring was given to him by the Elf king Finrod Felagund as a token of friendship (back in the First Age, natch.) The ring was passed down through the descendents of Beren and Luthien to the Kings of Numenor, and was one of the relics brought out of the destruction of Numenor by Elendil and his sons.