This is the main area in which i found most disappointment with the local midnight premiere.

The costumed nerds were great, especially the big, scary black guy dressed as a dwarf. I know how tall John Rhys-Davies is, but the sizing on film sets the illusion nicely. Somehow, seeing a man over six feet tall, dressed in any fashion at all, does not trigger "dwarf" in my mind.

And it was funny when the theater workers made all the elves and such with weapons deposit them in a corner by the screen for the duration of the film. I mean, Legolas looks great on film, but who wants to sit by him 3 hours with his bow jabbing you in the knee?

But the disappointment i mentioned is this: for Fellowship, half the audience resembled Peter Jackson. There weren't nearly as many slightly overweight, brown-bearded balding bookish types at the premier this year. That was strange and unexpected to me last year, that all these Tolkien freaks showed up unconsciously dressed alike. There's a psychological study in there somewhere.