>>Despite the Lord of the Rings movie officially starts today (in Canada at least) me and my family had a chance to see it yesterday night.
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>>Great movie!!!
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>>As a long time fan of this book, I paid attention to all details and can say that it exactly matches my vision of the book. So far I can't say that there were any obvious goofs, just a little changes to fit some 400 pages book into 3 hours.
>>Well, Galadriel could be a little better.
>>IMHO, the movie should get a lot of Oscars.
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>Lucky you!!!! Our theatres started showing this at midnight last night. I am also glad they have already filmed all 3 movies. I can't wait to see it. Do you think my 7 year old daughter can handle the intense parts like the black riders [ringwraiths], etc.

Don't know, it's pretty scary... :) Maybe you watch it first. They made even me to jump sometimes... :)

You probably don't know that the Russian author Nik Perumov published in 1993 a sequel "The Ring of Darkness" about MiddleEarth 300 years later, which is twice the size of "Lord of the Rings" and (IMHO) does not yield to the original.