Brett, bless his black heart, put us well up in the line for the theater. One of the first people in line was a kid dressed as Faramir and wearing a UT Longhorns cap. I giggled a lot. I haven't stood in a movie line since they re-released Star Wars when I was in high school.
We waited outside for an hour, then for three more hours in the theater before the films started. It was a joy beyond words to have this experience, the kind of thing that leaves you weeping afterward for both the satisfaction and the loss that come with an end. (And in this way not unlike a wedding I suppose)
When I heard the music from our wedding, the themes for Aragorn and Arwen on the bridge in Rivendell, and the Rohan music when Eowyn sees the companions riding up, I experienced some strange disconnect. Wedding and film all at once, too weird.
I don't even know what to say it seems.
Even knowing the story, knowing how it ends, Return of the King was intense and stressful. I was on the edge of my seat, tears running into my hair, gasping and cheering. Even knowing, it was so hard to watch. It made the story new again.
Eowyn on the field before the Witch King and his wyvren... completely fucking amazing scene. And so often Sam made me weep. If you want the truest of friends and the best man, there is Sam.
The battles in this movie are of such a scale that I found myself swaying and cringing in my seat. It's true. It makes Helm's Deep look like a cakewalk. Minas Tirith was exactly the White City of my childhood dreaming, and I could cry just from having seen it. I've lived a life with these stories in my head, and suddenly having them in front of me... there are no words. There were many times where I think I forgot I was in a theater.
Even if you didn't go to the massive Trilogy screening, watch the first two at home and then go to the theater. It is such an experience.
It was also the best honeymoon ever. I wore my wedding tiara and many people complimented it. There was a man behind me who had just gotten married at the JP in Manhattan last week.
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