Did you cry during ROTK?

[LightPhoenix]

Yeah, I definitely cried, but not as much as the part that always brings tears to my eyes - Boromir's death in FotR. Everytime that scene gets me, especially seeing it acted out, though the visualization makes me cry too.

 

[Altalazar]

Although I got misty-eyed many times in FoTR, I didn't shed a tear for RoTK. I have read the book too many times for the dialogue between Frodo and Sam to choke me up. However, I did feel a tug on my heart when everyone bowed to the little guys.

Yeah - that was a scene that resonated with everything that happened throughout the film.

 

[NiTessine]

Yah, during the Grey Havens scene. Also wept when Boromir died in FotR. And during the final battle in Last Samurai. I don't usually do that.

 

[OnCider]

The charge of the Rohirrim got me. I've always absolutely loved that scene in the book, and I didn't think the movie could pull it off for me. It did. In spades.

Aye that goes for me exactly. No-one else understood why that scene made me cry.

 

[mmu1]

Aye that goes for me exactly. No-one else understood why that scene made me cry.

That one came the closest for me. Just a sucker for hopeless fights, I guess.

The segment with Faramir and his hopeless charge was also pretty powerful, if a little spoiled by the absurdity of charging a city on horseback (there's a difference between a suicide mission and a flat-out suicide) and the scene being shot in a way that suggested Osgiliath and Minas Tirith were only within a couple minutes' ride of each other.

The scenes between Frodo and Sam always (since the first movie) came across to me as kind of stilted (Why the hell didn't someone tell Elijah Wood that there exist other, equally valid ways of expressing affection besides looking at someone over his shoulder with misted eyes and a little half-smile? There's 15 minutes of him doing that if you add the movies together.), so most of the scenes at the slopes of Mount Doom were wasted on me by that point...

 

[takyris]

Puddled up like a schoolgirl while Sam and Frodo lay there on the rock with lava swirling around them.

My mom was snuffling from "I can't carry it, Mister Frodo, but I can carry you!" all through the rest of the movie. My wife, as well, albeit with a dry-eyed moment of irritation for Arwen's arrival. (My wife thought that Arwen was tacked-on, and was more of an Eowyn fan -- and yeah, she had read the novels, so she knew how it was going to end, but, to quote her: "What, Eowyn kills one of those dragon-things all by herself and just gets to stand in the crowd, but Arwen the Glamour Model does nothing but show up and we're all enthralled?")

 

[John Crichton]

Bah, Arwen (in the films) did her part. She got Frodo to Rivendell. That doesn't happen and the whole thing is humped.

I loved her ride from the Ringwraiths and her line at the river of "come claim him." That gets me every time. Not weepy, of course, there were other scenes much better for that. I thought both female parts were good.

 

[takyris]

Yo JC: Definitely. I was referring to what Arwen did specifically in RotK. Or rather, my wife was.

 

[John Crichton]

Ah, my bad. Play on...