My (Very) brief thoughts concerned the Two Towers and the Return of the King.

Everyone major secondary character was either a huge jerk or showed ridiculous amounts of weakness at inaccurate points of time.

Theoden - I won't help Gondor unless they really, really need it because they didn't help Rohan...
Faramir - Sam and Frodo - we're gonna take you as captives to Gondor instead of letting you go.
Eomer - ...just kind of a tool and I wanted to hit him whenever he talked.
Denethor - Look at me! I'm a 2-dimensional, unrepentant jagovv from the moment I get introduced, whether I'm blatantly scarring one of my children, or completely dismissing the council of people who are concerned with my well-being and the well-being of my city and nation. Unlike in the book, where I'm cautious and someone resistant to advice because of the nature of the times, and where I dote upon one of my kids and am someone fair to the other. All of which changes when I fear my second son to be dying and have thousands of Orcs at my door. Fear and sadness overtake me in the novels - while arrogance and idiocy doom me from the get-go in the movie!

Huzzah!

Shelob... I wish you'd been more demon-like and less spider-like. Not to the point of not looking like a spider... but you just looked like a big, pissed off spider.

When Frodo and Sam were desperately crawling up Mount Doom and a little trumpet part cut through the chaos and insanity of the soundtrack - I teared up a little. It was awesome.

The Mouth of Sauron - you weren't in the original cut of the film... I am glad you were included in the extended edition - even if you were more terrifying and creepy than I'd ever pictured you in the text.

Saruman - I'm glad you still got killed by Wormtongue - but sad that it couldn't be in the Shire... because I'm sad they never filmed that part of the story. But still... watching you fall from Orthanc many many stories onto a mill wheel below with a deliciously final thud was worth it.

Pippin - you're an idiot. I like you, but you need to stop touching things.


And finally, it was very striking to me having Frodo sitting upon the same chair in the same room at the same desk where first we see Bilbo in the Fellowship. It was a nice full-circle moment.


Anyhoo.

There's more, but I can't remember all of it, since I watched those two films yesterday. I didn't have internet yesterday and most of today. It was nice and weird.


Also, tonight I hung out with a priest. It was the first time I'd ever done that in some non-church capacity. It was pretty cool. He's a smart guy, and the company we kept is good people, too. Yes, is! Grammar, I forsake thee. Even though I just said "forsake thee."


Right.