It took me about fifteen months to get through the whole Aubrey/Maturin series by Patrick O'Brian. I read about 60% of the 7,000 pages and listened to the rest on tape.

Master and Commander was the first triple play that I have ever seen. I paid to see it three times in its first run. ROTK was the second triple for me.

M&C will probably win either sound or costume. The competition is pretty good in the other nominated catagories.

ROTK was a disappointment to me as an indivdual film. The last part of the movie dragged on way too long. I can't ever forgive Jackson for not giving the Hobbits their reward to go back and Scour the Shire. By not doing that, they are portrayed as cute little creatures. If they would have been able to finish the last part of the war that had found its way to their homes they would have been the truly epic race that Tolkien wrote about.

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