Yay, for LotR virgins! Maybe he'll be as gobsmacked by the Eowyn reveal as I was as a kid, so I won't feel so dumb, because apparently everyone else got it.
Lindsey: Why--why did you... Lorne: One last job. You're not part of the solution, Lindsey. You never will be. Lindsey: You kill me? A flunky?! I'm not just...Angel...kills me. You...Angel... Lorne: Good night, folks.
'Not Fade Away'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Connie Neil - Dec 20, 2011 9:58:03 am PST #17073 of 28288
brillig
sumi - Dec 20, 2011 10:11:30 am PST #17074 of 28288
Art Crawl!!!
Woo hoo!
Connie Neil - Dec 20, 2011 10:17:09 am PST #17075 of 28288
brillig
How glorious that he loves Bilbo as much as I do. Yes, yes, yes, Bilbo has such joy in being eccentric. I can't wait for Mark to get to Rivendell. And, of course, Bree, and that mysterious stranger in the corner.
Damn, it's just like reading it again the first time.
edit: Honestly, though, he's a nerd and he doesn't know this stuff? Amazing.
erikaj - Dec 20, 2011 10:29:01 am PST #17076 of 28288
Always Anti-fascist!
Maybe not the right kind of geek. I mean, I hang out online with people who still debate the Luther Mahoney shooting on Homicide fifteen years out,(admittedly geekish) but I bet that wouldn't mean anything to more than a handful of y'all.
Consuela - Dec 20, 2011 10:32:28 am PST #17077 of 28288
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Honestly, though, he's a nerd and he doesn't know this stuff? Amazing.
Ehhh, I think he cheats a bit. It's more fun to pretend that he is completely ignorant, but I don't actually buy that he knows nothing.
erikaj - Dec 20, 2011 10:34:16 am PST #17078 of 28288
Always Anti-fascist!
This too.
meara - Dec 20, 2011 10:39:26 am PST #17079 of 28288
He may also just have a very bad memory. I saw all three movies, but have never read the books (though I did read The Hobbit long long ago). And while some of it would probably sound familiar as I hit it, mostly all I could tell you is um, there's a ring and some guys including Sam and ...Frodo? and some human guys and an elf. And they have to take the ring to Mordor. Throw it in Mount Doom? Because there's um...an evil flaming vagina in the sky? Right, some evil dude named Sauron.The one ring will rule them all? It's evil and makes the hobbit dude weirdly sweaty. And there's a girl named Eowyn who like, rides horses or fights a war or something, and she mostly wasn't in the movie. And there's elves who like, disappear. And Cate Blanchett. And they crawl around through some caves, and fight a war, and there's talking trees, and the creepy CGI thing who talks funny and wants the ring (will it make him less creppy?)
...seriously, that's about all I remember.
Steph L. - Dec 20, 2011 10:57:36 am PST #17080 of 28288
I look more rad than Lutheranism
And Cate Blanchett.
Sort of random Cate Blanchett, from what I remember. Like, the fellowship stumbled upon her and she gave them brooches.
Sue - Dec 20, 2011 11:01:58 am PST #17081 of 28288
hip deep in pie
Apparently you need it for some Canadian meal called "fish and brewis" which also requires something called "scrunchions."
Newfoundland meal. We always had hard tack. It's amazing that I didn't break a tooth on it.
I thought scrunchions were pretty universal. They're pork rinds, really.
DavidS - Dec 20, 2011 11:08:16 am PST #17082 of 28288
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Honestly, though, he's a nerd and he doesn't know this stuff? Amazing.
He addresses this directly noting that he purposefully avoided getting into High Fantasy because he was already gay and ubergeeky and getting bullied incessantly, and fantasy didn't jibe with his few saving social connections in punk rock and being a teacher's pet. Also it was frowned on with his conservative Christian upbringing. He wasn't really allowed to read much or see much growing up.