Lord of the Rings - Virtues and names and tears

So, tonight, I'm finally going to tackle my comments and then... my flist. It's been a while, so it's kinda scary.

But before that, I've had yet more thoughts on Lord of the Rings, which I'm more and more thinking of as one long-ass movie. All cut-tags will contain spoilers for Return of the King (and as a general note: I don't consider it necessesary to cut-tag something from a book that's been out forever - however, I do think that it's polite to help those who want to see the film vision pure, and therefore, I cut out of respect and caring.)
( The Virtues of Middle-Earth )

( Sam's Frodo - the name of the thing )

( Frodo's tears and reversals )

Slashy moments in Return of the King

Because, hey, why not?
( contains spoilers for RotK )

Anyway, I'm sure that I missed some - these are just the moments that called out to me - so I'd love to hear about what y'all think the slashy moments were.

Lord of the Rings

It's been hard to me to go indepth on LotR - I feel like Pippin, realizing just how big the world is. I want to go meta, wax lyrical on the glorious connections and truth that resonate throughout the story, but when I go to write, I find myself at a loss for how to put something this wonderful into plain, simple words.

I want to speak of how amazing the soundtrack is ( spoiler for Return of the King )

I want to talk about the women of the movie and why I like all four of them. Liv says in the TT commentary that she likes that they didn't keep Arwen at Helm's Deep because not all strength is about using a sword, that Arwen can be strong without being a fighter, which is something I very much agree with. I love how Rosie, Eowyn, Galadriel, and Arwen are all so different from each other, and each so strong in their way.

I want to talk about how much I loved ( spoilers for Return of the King )

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I love this film - Lord of the Rings. This long, three-part movie. I love that there are no 'previouslies'. I love the extended editions. I love the friendship and the love.

I love that, apart from Sauron himself (and I have doubts about him), nothing starts out 'evil'. Gollum was once Smeagol. Orcs were once Elves. The wraiths were once men. Saruman was once wise. ( spoilers for Return of the King )

They turned because of their assocation with Sauron, who is our Big Evil, and yet, I do not think he was always thus. He's a symbol of power and corruption, which says to me that there was once a Sauron who hadn't yet been corrupted. A Lucifer stand-in, perhaps? No one could claim that Sauron lacked in pride.

Edit: And I'd just like everyone to know that I had to go back to skip=860. See? I was right to be terrified at the thought.