thanks to brian, Hero of The Hour, I just saw "The Return of the King" for the first time. I have a lot to say about it, the most prominent of which is "WOOT!" and the rest can wait till later. I'm going to see it again next Friday. And I bought the soundtrack too, and am listening to it presently.

And I've just realised that my time would be much better spent reading the books over again, and drooling. Yummy, soggy books.

side note--I'm glad in the movie they preserved the feeling that Aragorn deserved that kiss from Arwen, sheesh I remember reading in the books . . . after waiting forty years, I mean . . . and Sam was so much like Samwise (except that he never beat Gollum, to my memory) . . .