Attention all Lord of the Rings fans!!!

Well, I know that the Academy Awards are only due until tomorrow, so we will finally know how many Oscars the movie will win, but I forgot to write a message about something that happened to me last Monday the 23rd.

I went with my best friend at a concert. A concert of the symphonic version of the music of the LOTR trilogy, in six movements. But that wasn't the best... the best was that it was directed by Mr. Howard Shore HIMSELF!!! (For any of you who don't know yet, it's the guy who composed the whole thing.) Well, needless to say it was AWESOME!!! Too bad you weren't there... Our seats were in the middle of the second row.... it was awesome because we could see almost every musician's face, and see the passion in M. Shore when he directed. It really impressed me to realise I wasn't hearing it from a recording, but LIVE, and that everyone in the orchestra was contributing to the wonderful music we heard, and that the guy that had thought of every single note that every single instrument played was right there in front of me, standing a mere 5 meters away from where I was sitting. Needless to say, I LOVED it.

Now, don't you whish you were there with me? Too bad you don't live in Montreal, sooooo saaaaadddd........ Well, too bad you couldn't leap into someone that was watching the concert just for time it lasted so you could be here. Well, anyways, I just wanted to share this incredible experience with you, since I know some of you here are fans of the movies, and I know you will be able to understand what I could have felt. And most of all, you can be assured that I will go buy the soundtrack as soon as I get enough money to...

Well, gotta calm myself down, or I will not be able to stop myself blabbering every single detail of the concert here, so I will breathe deeply and wait for your answers.

Clara

Well, I thought there were people who liked Lord of the Rings in here... Guess not, since only ONE person answered.

Well, I was just writing to express my profound happiness at the triumph of LOTR: The Return of the King at the Academy Awadrs on leap day. On eleven nominations, they made a clean sweep, winning eleven Oscars, which tied with the record previously owned by Titanic and Ben-Hur. You can understand very well how happy I am of that, since I am a bit of a LOTR fan. I believe they did deserve every single Oscar they won.

On another tone, I am also very happy that the Canadian movie: Les Invasions Barbares (the Barbaric Invasions) won the Oscar for Best Movie in Foreign Language, a the first canadian movie to win this Award in 76 years of Oscar ceremonies. I also like the joke the woman who spoke to thank people (/%$? can't remember her name...) about LOTR, it was so true... :rollin And last about that movie, I am glad that at least one of the three spoke french, at the very end.

Overall, for me, it was a very pleasant evening that I spent in company of my brother and sister, and I enjoyed every single minute of it (except the commercials, of course). I just whished Johnny Depp would have won for best actor, but thank god, nobody else than Sean Penn won, or I would have been very disappointed, because at least Sean is indeed a very good actor (look at his character in I am Sam).

Tell me what you think about it, and be sure I am overjoyed at the final recognition of the biggest achievement in movie history since a long time, the Lord of the Rings trilogy.

Anyways, gotta run now, see ya!!!

Clara