I can't believe how much I had forgotten. There are SO many liberties taken in the movies, but I love the movies, too, so I'm not going to complain. Mostly I just love, love how the book provides closure for every loose end, and I'm always a sucker for happy endings. I get sad thinking about the Grey Havens, but it's a poignant and nostalgic kind of sadness.
The last third of the book was actually made up of the appendices, which I did remember as being worthwhile reading. I admit I barely skimmed Appendices C, D, E, and parts of F, but for the rest, I really enjoyed being filled in on the back story and on what happens to each character in the future just as much as I enjoyed the main story itself.
