Jayne: You wanna go, little man? Wash: Only if it's someplace with candlelight.
'Objects In Space'
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.
askye - Jan 18, 2004 7:38:23 am PST #1448 of 3902
Thrive to spite them
tina f. - Jan 19, 2004 4:21:54 am PST #1449 of 3902
I watched TTT with a not-having-seen-it-before friend last night and she could not understand why I was laughing my head off at "They are taking the hobbits to Isengard!" It was, of course, because in my head the line was "They are taking the pants to Isengard!"
Jars - Jan 19, 2004 10:39:08 am PST #1450 of 3902
Twelve BAFTA noms for RotK. Not bad at all, methinks.
Cold Mountain got thirteen though, so the judges may have been having psychotic breaks when they voted. Oh well.
§ ita § - Jan 19, 2004 10:41:39 am PST #1451 of 3902
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
RotK took "Producer of the Year" at the Producer's Guild awards.
So far in the history of the PGAs, the winners of movie producer of the year have gone on to see their films take Best Picture at the Academy Awards (news - web sites) 10 out of 14 times.
sumi - Jan 20, 2004 8:18:47 am PST #1452 of 3902
Art Crawl!!!
tina f. - Jan 20, 2004 10:26:12 am PST #1453 of 3902
Longish (for CNN.com) interview with Sean Astin.
Also - can this be right? I read that today is the premier of RotK in Japan. Seems a bit...late. Is it because it takes them so long to translate it for sub titles?
sumi - Jan 20, 2004 10:35:02 am PST #1454 of 3902
Art Crawl!!!
Well, I saw somewhere else that the premiere in India was delayed. . . let me see if I can find that story.
sumi - Jan 20, 2004 10:36:40 am PST #1455 of 3902
Art Crawl!!!
In India, they aren't getting RotK until February 6.
Tom Scola - Jan 20, 2004 10:42:51 am PST #1456 of 3902
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
In India, they aren't getting RotK until February 6.
That's understandable, it will take that long to splice in the musical numbers.
Jeff Mejia - Jan 20, 2004 10:44:11 am PST #1457 of 3902
"Don't think of yourself as an organic pain collector racing towards oblivion." Dogbert to Dilbert
Phew! Finally, after taking a two-week vacation right after the premiere of the movie, and catching up with work and life afterewards, I make it to the end of the thread. Yea me!
Saw the movie for the second time last Friday - still showing in a stadium theater, but the small one, and only one screen. Must have been 15 people at the 9:00 PM showing.
The movie's pacing improved on the second viewing for me - maybe because I was looking for details missed the first time round, rather than anticipating the story.
The scene at the Grey Havens still broke me, and the rest of the people in the theater. I think that scene is almost perfect (the scale doubles do jar a little). The score for that section just keeps going through my mind.
I can't wait to have any copy of the DVD, just so I can revel in the lighting of the beacons. As others noted, it was mentioned in the books, but almost as a throwaway. PJ's genious lies in his realizing what an awesome visual that could be. It sure surpassed by own visualization of it.
I try not to get my hopes up for the Oscars, but I know I won't be able to help myself. I still have the feeling that ROTK will get jobbed, though. It's the 1982 race all over again ( E.T. lost to Ghandi that year).
Oh, and way back, someone mentioned that Arwen's sword once belonged to Idril, Elrond's grandmother through Elwing. Grandmother, yes, but through Earendil. Idril (daughter of Turgon) married Tuor, and they had Earendil, Elrond's father (and Aragorn's very distant forefather). Elwing, Earendil's wife, was Beren and Luthien's granddaughter through Dior and Nimloth.
t (had to show my Tolkien geek creds).