We finally found a spare 4.5 hours or so to watch the final DVD in the Lord of the Rings trilogy last night.
They've done a spectacular job again. Still a bit peeved that they dispensed with "The Raising of the Shire", which I've always thought was a great twist at the end of the book. When you've watched something for 4.5 hours, what's an extra half hour? They could have cut some of the long slow boring elf scenes.
At least they did do the pipeweed scene at Isengard (although because of the dropped section of the book nobody mentioned where the pipeweed had come from, which should be the second hint that Saruman is up to something in the Shire).
Watch it again? we certainly will, but probably not as much as "The Fellowship of the Ring".
2 comments:
I missed The Raising of the Shire too. I always thought it showed how the four hobbits had become heroes in their own right capable of taking on and overcoming a challenge without the help of any of the characters who are already fully fledged warriors when the fellowship is formed. Otherwise a really good film.
I always found the scouring of the Shire a bit dull. The stories done & then there's this epilogue tacked on. A bit like the mechanicals at the end of 'A midsummer nights dream'.
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