[HairOfTheDog]

Thank you for joining us Bill! - Good post! - When you run through those scenarios like that, I realize that the way Tolkien did it was best. I look so forward to the movie coming out. The first preview trailer that played along with FoTR choked me up when it opened with the three finding Pippin's leaf clasp on the trail.

'The brooch of an elven-cloak!' cried Legolas and Gimli together.

'Not idly do the leaves of Lórien fall,' said Aragorn. 'This did not drop by chance: it was cast away as a token to any that might follow. I think Pippin ran away from the trail for that purpose.'

'Then he at least was alive,' said Gimli. 'And he had the use of his wits, and of his legs too. That is heartening. We do not pursue in vain.'

'Let us hope that he did not pay too dearly for his boldness,' said Legolas. 'Come! Let us go on! The thought of those merry young folk driven like cattle burns my heart.'

Makes me all twittery waiting!

[WFTR]

I moved in January and had been preparing all through December. After a few months in my new city, I found a house and am still working on it. I haven't had three hours to spend watching the first movie yet. I don't know when/if I'll see the second.