April 20, 2004

V: Valinor
Elendur

I don't know if the rest of you felt this way, but something about the way the sailing over the sea was filmed didn't seem right to me. I think the problem was not knowing(from the movie) where in the world they were going. There doesn't need to be a lot of information about Valinor. That would actually hurt the movie. There does need to be a small glimpse of it. I don't mean an actual shot of Valinor; I mean a line about the Elves leaving Middle-Earth to go to the Undying Lands in the West.

Most of you have probably watched the FotR extended edition. If you have, you may remember the scene "The Passing of the Elves" where Frodo and Sam see a group of Elves leaving for the havens, singing softly, there clothes giving off that Elvish light. That was, to me, a far better passing of the Elves than the one in RotK.

-Elendur