weather	:		cloudy
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music	:	Joan Sutherland - Norma, Sediziose Voci

I found this one more gripping than Fellowship. I was in tears and near tears most of the time. There were a few hardy-har moments. I could tell that in some places, the extended version will have to fill it in a little more.

I think Andy Serkis was just fabulous.

Anyone else notice that Aragorn seems to attract/be attracted to women whose names sound like "a/e-[]-win"? There's Arwen and Éowyn*. >K}

I find Aragorn's Elvish accent ever fascinating. For Arwen's name, he puts a svarabhakti** vowel in between and makes it 2½ syllables: almost "Arowen". He also says "lay-goh-LAHS" instead of "le-GOH-less". And he says "OO-roo-kye" whereas everyone else seems to say "yer-ick-eye".

I wondered if Peter Jackson told him to pronounce Anglicized Elvish differently to set him apart because he was raised by Elves... But it occurs to me that his pronunciation stands out. I don't notice Legolas, Haldir, Elrond, Arwen, Galadriel or Celeborn with the same accent though. I think I would have noticed if he sounded the same as the Elves. So, then I wondered if it had anything to do with Viggo Mortensen's Danish background...

* - yes, I know she runs off with someone else later...

** - svarabhakti = epenthetic

BTW, David Wenham is the newest addition to the RichardGere-HarrisonFord-DustinHoffman-AlecBaldwin-DavidDuchovny Chocolate Mold. *sigh* There's another face I won't be able to distinguish.

Speaking of David Wenham: before I found out how to pronounce "Faramir", I was joking to Husband Guy that Denethor might have had several other sons. It degenerated into this retarded Sesame Street Grover Monster skit:

Dis is Faramir *runrunrun*
And dis is Nearamir *runrunrun*
Dis is Faramir *runrunrun*
Dis is Nearamir *runrunrun*
Faramir *runrunrun*
Nearamir *runrunrun*
Faramir *runrunrun*
Nearamir *runrunTRIP* AAAA!!! *crash* ...
And dis is Flooramir... *sigh*

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