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Name: Lizzie

Favourite film: Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (of course!!!)

No. times I have seen LOTR: 

          Fellowship: Cinema - 11
                         DVD - 4
                         Extended DVD - 2

          Two Towers: Cinema - 5

Favourite books: The Lord of the Rings, His Dark Materials Trilogy

Favourite singers: Sarah McLachlan, Jewel

Favourite TV programme: ER

Favourite actor: Orlando Bloom (surprise surprise!!)

Favourite chapter in the Lord of the Rings: The Tower of Cirith Ungol (it's SOOO sad)

Hobbies: Playing the piano and guitar, singing, karate, going to the cinema

My history with Lord of the Rings:

Ah well, it all began a long time ago... 

I was given the book The Hobbit quite a few years ago, and I read it with my Dad, and then several times on my own. A few years later, when I must have been around ten, I was given The Lord of the Rings books, and being fascinated by the sheer volume of them, as I have always been a big reader, I started reading them. However, they proved to be just too heavy-going and lengthy, so I put them back on the shelf. At one stage my Dad read them to my sister and I, but again, we failed in our quest to reach the end. I got given The Lord of the Rings on cassette tape, which I have avidly listened to so many times, I have lost count; it must be at least ten times. 

Around October in 2001, I heard that there was a film of The Lord of the Rings soon o be released, and I was thrilled, and in November, I started to read the books again in preparation, and was thoroughly enjoying them. Eventually, December 19th finally came, but I could not find time to go and see it, with all of the Christmas excitement. On the evening of December 24th, I was sitting, leafing through the Radio Times, when I came across the poster of The Lord of the Rings. I had seen it before, but now, I decided to work out who each of the characters were. The little guy in the middle - that must be Frodo. The elderly chap, big grey beard, pointy hat - gotta be Gandalf. Guy with a bow and arrow - Legolas - BOY, HE'S CUTE!!! I asked my sister to look him up on the internet (back then I was terrified of computers), and from then on, I was in love. 

Finally, I managed to get my Dad to take me to the cinema, December 26th, 5:00 performance, but I had been out during the day, and was late back. We rushed to the cinema, and I was SO excited, but we got there and they said there were no seats. WHAT? They said they'd check the cinema for any spare seats when everyone had gone in, and we waited for 15 whole minutes, and I was petrified that they'd start without me. They came back in the end, with two seats in the SECOND ROW!. My Dad wasn't too sure, but I couldn't wait until tomorrow. We sat there, for three hours in complete awe. Although it was scary being in the second row, so every time the baddies came on I hid. But WOW.  And  I was completely enchanted, wonderstruck, enthralled, could it get any better, and then Legolas came on...heaven.

That must have been the best cinema experience of my life, and as I must have spent the last hour thinking don't let it finish, don't let it finish, I couldn't wait to see it again. And I didn't have long to wait. Three days later I took my Mum to see it, who was scared that it would be scary, and then another three days later, I took three of my friends to see it, who all loved it. One of them, Becky, became my LOTR/Orlando buddy, and has also seen it 11 times. We bring a whole new meaning to the word obssessed.

Eventually, I finished reading The Lord of the Rings books several months later (the end of March - I'm a slow reader - I read it every evening). I was so upset, and was sobbing uncontrollably, one because it was over, and two because it has such a SAD ENDING!. It's sad all the way through, actually. Sad, but brilliant.