I loved it, too. I could of course list dozens of little things I disagree with (as Ylva and Ermingard might confirm, I'm a dreadful nitpicker when it comes to movies), but most of them really didn't matter much.
(By the way, since this whole thread is marked "Spoilers", I'm not gonna put in any of those annoying Spoiler tags...
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I loved a lot of the little details, including my absolute favorite: the Grond Chant. It takes a particular kind of brilliance to transform an aside spoken by the omniscient narrator into a completely cinematic moment. (What am I talking about? In the book, Tolkien mentions that the huge battering ram brought up against the gates of Minas Tirith is named Grond - it's after the mace wielded by Morgoth in the First Age, but I don't recall if that's explicitly stated there. In the movie, they roll up the huge ram - and the trolls start chanting "Grond... Grond... Grond..." It's a priceless moment - and even if you haven't read that in the book, it's still a cool-sounding evil war chant.
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Of course, the Dead were a little cheesy in the way they single-handedly won the battle, and I thought it was a bit of a shame that we never really got to know anyone in Minas Tirith (actually, TTT, though an inferior film in general, created a much stronger pathos for Rohan to me than I felt for Gondor in this), and I
really missed both Gandalf's confrontation with Saruman and the Mouth of Sauron (I'm looking forward a lot to the Extended Edition). By losing both these, the evil side was deprived of much of its human face and character. (I dug the Orc-general, though, even though he looked a bit like the Toxic Avenger.)
Also, as has been noted, Jackson has a dangerous weakness for visual Hollywoodic clichés (like the one Ylva pointed out with Frodo hanging over the abyss in Mount Doom). With this in mind I was very surprised that we
didn't get a huge panoramic shot of the black-sailed Corsair fleet coming up the river.
On the other hand... the whole Frodo/Sam/Gollum strain was great (and I generally found this boring in the books), the doomed second charge of the Rohirrim was breathtaking, Minas Tirith looked great... almost everything looked great, actually. And best of all, the movie was never boring. Except when there's nothing but Elves on the screen, but we all know that Elves are boring.
And it was nice that they took the time to wind down and finish it properly, even without the Scouring.
I´ll try to see it again.