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Hi all, on my way between work and The Show. I woke up at six this morning to get ready and all I could think was, "Hmm, Hair and the other Pacific hobbits are just getting out now."

Not looking at the thread, don't want to spoil myself. I'm excited!

It appears that the general non-hobbit population has heard that the LOTR movies are good....way good. Hair, it's a good thing I picked up my ticket on Sunday. When I got to the door of the theater there was a notice that both the 4:30 and 8:00 shows were sold out. Not only did I get there early enough to get a good seat, I was also early enough to get a parking space. :)

Okay.....here's the first impression

I liked The Two Towers a lot better on the first viewing than I did FOTR.....I guess I had a year to get over that change-the-canon-thing. The things I disliked the most:

1. I thought the Galadriel narration was not needed for the most part. It just seemed redundant, telling us what we already knew. The highlight of that speech was that challenge to Elrond.

2. Ditto Sam's "Why We Fight" speech. Don't we know that already if we've gone that far with the films?

3. The time for a bathroom break is the kissy-face dream scene with Arwen and Aragorn.

I think Gollum/Smeagol and Gimli stole the show. Faramir was a bit of a stick although I expect he'll get better. If I didn't know better, I'd have thought that he's been spending too much time hanging around the elves. :)

I thought I'd wait for the TTT discussions to get going before I went into more detail. Oh, and another thing: Now I've enjoyed our discussions and companionship here in the HH but did you people really have to get inside my head this afternoon?! :)

Check back in and check in the chat too...I'm going over there after while. You're gonna love it.

Enjoy the show! Don't get inside OT's head though... She's on to us!