I like this Viggo Billy story.
Simon: The decision saved your life. Zoe: Won't happen again, sir. Mal: Good. And thanks. I'm grateful. Zoe: It was my pleasure, sir.
'Out Of Gas'
LotR - The Return of the King: "We named the *dog* 'Strider'".
Frodo: Please, what does it always mean, this... this "Aragorn"? Elrond: That's his name. Aragorn, son of Arathorn. Aragorn: I like "Strider." Elrond: We named the *dog* "Strider".
A discussion of Lord of the Rings - The Return of the King. If you're a pervy hobbit fancier, this is the place for you.
sumi - Jan 07, 2004 12:20:54 pm PST #1197 of 3902
Art Crawl!!!
Beverly - Jan 07, 2004 12:22:37 pm PST #1198 of 3902
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Dear heaven, the cloak fabric scarf is $99!
sumi, sorry. Yes, the big pale orc in RotK with the deformed face. He may have been one of the orc riders in TTT, and actually he did ride a warg in RotK, through the ranks while they waited to attack. But he wasn't played by the same actor who played the warg rider in TTT whose mount took Aragorn over the cliff. He was played by LM, who played Lurtz and the Witch King in FotR. LM didn't work much (if at all) in TTT because he was off being in a Bond movie.
sumi - Jan 07, 2004 12:24:11 pm PST #1199 of 3902
Art Crawl!!!
Well, I figure that if he rides an warg, he's a warg-rider. But perhaps his deformities were a continuation of the deterioration that they wanted the orcs and uruks to display from one film to the next.
Beverly - Jan 07, 2004 12:29:45 pm PST #1200 of 3902
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
He was pretty disgusting, it's true. Oooh, nice post number, sumi!
§ ita § - Jan 07, 2004 12:30:35 pm PST #1201 of 3902
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Viggo continues to weird me out. I'm sure he's great, and it's just a me issue, but still.
sumi - Jan 07, 2004 12:32:44 pm PST #1202 of 3902
Art Crawl!!!
I like the eccentricity -- keeps him from being too Viggo-Sue.
(And yay me with the nice number earlier!)
Sean K - Jan 07, 2004 12:37:09 pm PST #1203 of 3902
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Viggo continues to weird me out. I'm sure he's great, and it's just a me issue, but still.
On the other hand, Billy comes across as incredibly warm and gracious.
§ ita § - Jan 07, 2004 12:44:06 pm PST #1204 of 3902
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
keeps him from being too Viggo-Sue.
See, it makes him precisely Viggo Sue to me.
Billy Boyd and Dominic Monaghan on LA morning TV. (recompiled from an LJ post)
SuziQ - Jan 07, 2004 2:32:53 pm PST #1205 of 3902
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
As mentioned a while back, I gave my daughter the books for Christmas and then stole them back to read. I tore through the first two, but I find myself reading RotK at a snails pace. Even though I know what happens (at least the movie version), I don't want the story to end. I want to read the Scouring of the Shire and know what y'all are talking about, but yet....I don't want to be hasty.
amyparker - Jan 07, 2004 2:32:58 pm PST #1206 of 3902
You've got friends to have good times with. When you need to share the trauma of a badly-written book with someone, that's when you go to family.
Andy Serkis will be in Salt Lake on the 14th, doing a reading from the Gollum book and signing things.
I'm going.
I'm just going to sit here quietly and squee.