Mom!!! 0c8=
Well, even I will admit that the first shot of Aragorn's eyes lit with the glow of his pipe is pretty darned cool.
Dan
Seriously though, among the things I discussed with my husband last night was how nothing in all these years has ever come close to matching my imagination when it came to these books. No artwork or anything. I told him that, when I was younger, I used to try to sketch pictures of the characters and how they looked in my mind. I think I still have the sketches up in the attic. Anyway, this movie was the first time anything came close to how I've always imagined it, and could prove it if I could find those sketches.
The movie not only came close to how I imagined, it pretty well nailed it.
Astounding.