That film is amazing

If "Return of the King" doesn't get every Oscar going then there is no justice in this world.

Finally got to see it this afternoon!

I've just spent half this evening oohing and aahing with owl over our favourite bits. Too much to reproduce here, suffice it to say that Billy was fantastic (*just dies of the cuteness, my hobbit fetish is pretty much firmly established now thank you*) , Sean A was brilliant and deserves an Oscar (and if he doesn't get one I will only be mollified if Andy Serkis won it instead), Peter Jackson - well what can I say (*bows down in awe*). I didn't see a dud performance in the whole cast.

Just a pity that there was so little Merry in the final version (nineteen scenes of his cut - poor Dom) but we just have to hope that they'll all be in the DVD. 5 hours, or so owl heard - yay!

My hobbit habit is getting as bad as owl's ...

I got the 'Fellowship of the Ring' Extended version DVD for Christmas from my sister (*glomps big sis madly*) so I'll be able to drool over them whenever I wish. Or at least when the kids let me anywhere near the PC, since the eldest got a virtual catz game and the Sims for Xmas. Anyhow, I can't get a good drool going until they're off to bed and I get some peace and quiet.

Right, out with the DVDs!

As women get older, they turn into their mother ...

... at least I seem to have inherited some teacherly gene from my mum (retired primary school headmistress). Not the actual relating to children bit - she has an innate authority that has any and all children actually doing what she tells them *marvels*. I can't even get my two to eat their breakfast in the morning. They've gone straight from toddlerhood to stroppy teenagerdom despite only being 8 and 5 yrs old. Well that's what it feels like, altho I'm sure they must have been obedient and helpful at some stage. I think I blinked at that bit , lol (j/k, they're not that bad - quite.)

Nope, the teacherly bit that I inherited was the nit-picking over spelling and grammar. It was brought home to me today when I took the girls to the Metro Centre to spend the Christmas money and we had a look round the big 'Gingerbread castle' Christmas tableau thingy, you know the sort of thing, animatronic gnomes and fake snow. Well I spent the whole time tut-tutting over the punctuation in the storyboards.

A rogue apostrophe in a plural!

"Had ran out" instead of "had run out"!

Worst of all - the possessive form of "children" was written as "childrens'". Since when has the plural of child been childrens??

I was wandering around muttering stuff like 'this is appalling'. I have to admit it, I am such a punctuation nazi.

(And I know there are probably loads of errors in my posts but then I am not writing stuff that will be printed onto fake storybooks for kiddies to read in public.)

My name is Ali and I am a sad nit-picking git *g*.