Up the hill and down the dale
Where the wind it blowest

To the fair garden where my dear lady weeps
Neath the fair willow which she tenderly keeps

...

my toes are twitching in anticipation!

How? Its a short-ass fucking book.

where's there's a whip...
...there's a way.
where's there's a whip...
...there's a way.

it helps to have two people when singing it.

these LOTR movies weren't that great. despite being overly-long, the movies ended up feeling rushed, disjointed, and slim on character development. when the focus turned to the characters, it felt as sincere as the too obvious cgi. and there was way too much time spent on helicopter shots of the forest used to imply "a long journey".

i think when you have to make choices, you try not to cram too much in. you cut fill out. if done right, you tell the story the way it needs to be told. you might fail, but a three-hour failure is better than a six-hour failure.

1. The growing of the four hobbits into adulthood. They were sneaky shits in the beginning, self-actualized at the end.
2. The inability of desire to lead to happiness, in the form of the ring.
3. Coming to terms with the fact that the world will never be as good as it used to be (a direct result of Tolkein's catholicism.)

The three movies totally nailed all three of these themes. Suck it, haters.

I heard they're doing the same thing with the 7th Harry Potter movie, which might actually make it worth watching unlike any of the other ones.