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.
When I read it the first time I would keep stopping to wonder if Tolkien was doing it deliberately to try and make reading about it as mind numbingly horrible as doing something about it.
I'm pretty sure that's exactly the feeling he was trying to capture. Think WWI battlefield, not necessarily in a combat situation, but in a watch and travel situation. I think it works really well first time out, especially if you don't know the end as a foregone conclusion, but it's mighty hard going subsequent to that.
Now, I'm just. 'Yeah, suck it up and march, Shire Boy. Let's get to the good stuff.'
Suh-nerk!
Crazy, the lot of you. Frodo & Sam walking is the good stuff. Not like those skimmable skimmable battle scenes.
I don't suppose anyone grabbed any screen shots of Fran at the GGs?
I've got the oddest picture in my head of Gollum wearing one of Sam's pots on his head, now...
I don't know how you make clear that it's a (really dry) Bataan Death March unless you make it sort of a death march for the reader, too.
True enough. Unfortunately for Mr. Tolkien and his literary intent, I know a short cut.
Katie M, I wholeheartedly accept the premise that I'm getting more immature as I age, at least until I find evidence to the contrary.
Heh. Well, in most cases I have less patience as a reader now than I did then. I dunno why RotK is different.
re: crying hobbits
I noticed Dom tearing up when PJ was accepting the Best Director award. Wanted to hug him. John R-D was there, too. And I was happy Cate Blanchett came on stage with them when they accepted the Best Picture award.
re: sam and frodo's death march
Count me among the skimmers of this. I skim lots of Frodo and Sam walking and I skim Tom Bombadil and various Rivendell stuff everytime I read LotR.
For anyone who missed the Golden Globes, they are on Bravo next weekend, I'm pretty sure.
I hope this works: Howard Shore and Fran Walsh.
(Switched to the IMDB link.)
Fran and PJ need to stop dedicating their awards to dead people. You don't want to pull the moment down.
I'm worried for Dom not getting enough work in Hollywood.
Fran and PJ need to stop dedicating their awards to dead people. You don't want to pull the moment down.
Seems kind of pointless, doesn't it? As is mentioning the fact that they've passed on.
I'm worried for Dom not getting enough work in Hollywood.
I don't think any of them, except perhaps Billy Boyd, will get substantial work after this. A sort of Mark Hamill syndrome. But I would take that life, living well off the returns and investing it in other things, not trying to best that one experience of a lifetime, waiting for the "where are they now" cameras.
