But I just kept waiting for their parting kiss at the end. Didn't they look they were gonna?
By the way, the wind-down in the movie is still much less prolonged than the book. In the book, there is a whole section where they find the Shire occupied by a strange new boss who has started factories and pollution, a human who calls himself "Sharky". They the hobbits have to retake the Shire. Then everyone says goodbye. RotK is the shortest book of the trilogy, but it feels longer....
JRRT would have been disappointed at the loss of the cleansing of the Shire, but I think all but the total JRRT nuts should be glad it went away.
Sam and Frodo seem just as gay in the book... maybe more so.
By the way, the wind-down in the movie is still much less prolonged than the book. In the book, there is a whole section where they find the Shire occupied by a strange new boss who has started factories and pollution, a human who calls himself "Sharky". They the hobbits have to retake the Shire. Then everyone says goodbye. RotK is the shortest book of the trilogy, but it feels longer....
JRRT would have been disappointed at the loss of the cleansing of the Shire, but I think all but the total JRRT nuts should be glad it went away.