[RMDupree]

Didn't you love the expression on Frodo's face when he realized that Smeagol was the one who rescued him at the Dead Marshes?

I also liked when Frodo chastised Sam for calling Smeagol names and then demonstrated the effect the Ring was having on him when he became angry. It was really amazing when Frodo fought Sam later at Osgiliath and I teared up when, at Sting's point, Sam said "I'm your Sam."

[carton253]

All of Gollum/Smeagol's scenes moved me. I wasn't disgusted by him at all. I felt terribly sorry for him. The look on his face when Frodo first called him Smeagol broke my heart... as did the look when Gollum called him a murderer. I loved the dance he did when he thought he had banished Gollum.

I've always like Gollum/Smeagol. I don't excuse him; but I am very sympathetic to him.

And I still laugh when I think about him fretting over the cooking of the conies. It was so funny.

[My back yard]

I teared up when in Helm's Deep Aragorn told the young one there was always hope. That scene, along with the women and children listening to the tramping sound of the coming horde, was chilling.

And, Gollum, ugh, I didn't feel as sorry for him as some here. But I was mesmerized by him. He was as mesmerizingly eerie a character as I've ever seen on film.

[SuziQ]

and I teared up when, at Sting's point, Sam said "I'm your Sam."

I didn't just tear up, I was weeping, as I was when Sam made his speech about being written into the stories about the Ring and the Fellowship.