>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.

I read the 3 books over a 2 year time period. When I would pick them up again, I could remember exactly where I was and what had happened. Very absorbing.

We are going to wait until after Xmas to see it so that the theatre won't be so crowded.