Wednesday December 19th

The LOTR day!!

Finally, finally – the 19th of December!!! Well, the day didn’t start so well… our bodies rebelled our sleeping to 3pm yesterday and woke us up at 4am this morning! Unable to fall back asleep, Finnur finally got dressed around 7am, but I stayed in bed and managed to nap a little. Then Steinunn (Finnur’s littlest sister) and I went Christmas shopping for a few hours and I got most of the shopping done! At 6pm, Finnur and I went to Óli and Holla’s place, where we met Halli and Adda, ate pizza and then walked to the cinema. We were there at 7:20pm and were almost the first to arrive. At 7:45 they opened the doors and we got good seats, or as good as they get in that particular cinema, which isn’t all that good – but the good cinemas had already sold out (but I’m taking my brothers to see it in a good cinema on the 26th).

The trailers were a complete fan-boys/girls wet-dream… Star Wars II (hmm… actually doesn’t look all that interesting) and Spiderman (could be ok). Then the Fellowship of the Ring began and some three hours later we were thrown (quite against our wills) out of Middle Earth and back onto the streets of Reykjavík. The film is absolutely AWESOME!! Even though I knew pretty much all that was about to happen, I still sat stiff as a board in my seat with tension… How the hell did they manage to hire Gandalf to do the movie?!?! Anyway… the film is scary as hell and more beautiful than I could have imagined. Go see it! Go see it NOW!!