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A swan can fall in love with a pig, but where would they make a home together? ;~D

Matalin and Carville?

You're too kind, Miss Hair, but you'll have to wait another year for my TTT impressions, since as I mentioned I'll be waiting for the movie channel to show it. I'm sure you can wait! :^)

See you later.

Have you seen it more than once Argh? I think it is important... and I would imagine you have not seen the extended. The extended is a different feeling film... that I am now using as my reference. So we may be talking apples to.... um... better apples.

I ask because I felt the same way you did about the prologue when I had only seen it once. It stole a bit of the innocence of the beginning, and it was hard for me to settle back in again in the Shire. After seeing it again now, and talking to non-readers, it was vital for them.

I also know that the first time I saw it, I did not see all the nuance that is there if you see it again with more attention available for the details. There may be things inferred or alluded to with a glance, perhaps really the actor's intention, a nod to the reader that acknowledges something more that is not fully explained, and perhaps it is me reading something into their performances that is not meant to be there, but either way, the film allows me to see it. There are many times where I know what the characters are thinking in moments where there was more to the story than made it into the script. Readers of the book know what is behind the nod, those that haven't read the story don't need to know, and the story works for us both. Does that make sense? - Anyway, I just wondered if you had seen it more than once. It was better for me when the shock value of the changes and ommissions had passed, and I was able to judge it on its own merits.

I love the whole work despite nitpicks here and there that I still hold. (I hate Galadriel-turned Halloween, for instance)... but I hate to criticize it too much because on the whole I think it is a fair and respectful retelling.