Saw it a couple of days ago and it's absolutely riveting. I'm about half way through the book as well but this is slow going as not much time to read it. Orlando Bloom makes a great Legolas the Elf - I find the elves fascinating, shame there are none around in reality (at least I don't know of any!) Not many elves in ROTK but the elf archers in the Battle of Helms Deep were great - they were the WMD of Middle Earth!! Their quivers never seemed to run out of arrows despite them firing at a rate of about 1 arrow per second.....