Holy Mother of Half-Elves!

I can't begin to tell you all how good Return of the King is. If you, too, went to an early screening, you know. If you haven't seen it yet, all I can tell you is, GO SEE IT.

Even if you weren't planning to.

Even if you haven't seen the first two -- there's a reason the only previous attempt at a film adaptation of Lord of the Rings only tackled RotK. Jackson's version is orders of magnitude better, of course, but my point is: while of course you'll be missing some of the backstory, it is actually possible to see Return of the King on its own and enjoy it.

Even if -- especially if -- you were planning to wait for it to come out on DVD. Yes, I know, the "extended edition" blah blah cutscenecakes. But. There are things you will miss watching this film on the "small screen." Even if you have a plasma screen bigger than the one in Bill Gates's bedroom. I can't remember the last time I saw a film that really, truly made use of the scale a theatre screen provides the way RotK does.

I'll be posting some commentary on the actual content of the film... probably hopefully sometime later today. Certainly no later than right after I get home from seeing Return of the King a second time, myself.

It really is just that good.

Fare Thee Well (Frodo Baggins/Samwise Gamgee, PG)

I hadn't been planning to write Lord of the Rings fanfiction, for a whole great lot of reasons. (My contribution to If LotR Had Been Written By... aside.)

But.

After seeing Return of the King in the wee hours of this morning, I just had to write this.

You really do need to have seen the film to appreciate what's going on here; it's fanfiction in the sense of being wholly dependent on the reader knowing the source material. And while the same things happen in Tolkien's and Jackson's versions of the referenced scene, the way each of them presented the events was nonetheless different.

And the notes for this story are now longer than the story itself (it's a drouble -- 200 words). So:

( Fare Thee Well )

want something longer?

If you haven't seen Return of the King yet, you need to anyway, so just go.

Edited to Add: Thanks to Amy for providing just the help I needed to find a title.