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What should I do, then? Send her a gift? Sacrifice? … Unholy fruit basket?
Angel ,'Just Rewards (2)'
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.
§ ita § - Feb 10, 2004 4:23:26 am PST #1839 of 3902
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
billytea - Feb 10, 2004 4:23:38 am PST #1840 of 3902
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
SAMLLKLLHMFHETRIZNETHNG.
sumi - Feb 10, 2004 4:25:23 am PST #1841 of 3902
Art Crawl!!!
Yes!
Now how to get that down to 7 letters, eh?
§ ita § - Feb 10, 2004 4:26:03 am PST #1842 of 3902
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Also PRVYHBTFNCR
sumi - Feb 10, 2004 4:26:37 am PST #1843 of 3902
Art Crawl!!!
Good one.
Nutty - Feb 10, 2004 4:30:11 am PST #1844 of 3902
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
I think you all are desperately neglecting dwarf-names, which after all are the perfect length! What, nobody wants a vanity plate that says BIFUR?? Yeah, maybe not. BEORN, maybe, if you're a hairy person. SMAUG, yes, but only if you drive a really bitchin car that flunks every emissions test there is.
So, um, there really is an "Atlantis" in the LotR books?
Yeah, not really. There is an island in the west (Numenor), where all the cool people live (Strider's kin), which due to the moral lapses of the kings is destroyed and sunk beneath the sea. Strider's kin are the surviving refugees, who were right guys all along, who came back to Middle-earth to establish a kingdom and hang out with the elves. This being a convenient way to mark off the Strider-kin as special -- island inbreeding makes you kingly! -- and different from the plain old regular people; also, this is 3000 year backstory to the events in the book itself.
When Strider sings at his crowning, he is speaking a phrase said by his ancestor when he arrived back to Middle-earth: "Out of the sea I am come, and here I will remain, with all my heirs, until the ending of the world." (Paraphrase.) Which, yes, they sailed to Middle-earth, but "out of the sea" is also, You know, we were almost drowned just now!
(Actually, this is an aspect of the movies I like a lot. If you don't know the backstory, it's kind of cool, pretty song, no loss to the story but not much gain. But if you do know the backstory, it's got all this extra significance.)
(Same again with all the visual puns on the fact that Strider was called Hope as a child. 3-4 times, somebody is talking about having no hope, and right then he walks into the room, or sits down into frame.)
Steph L. - Feb 10, 2004 4:48:17 am PST #1845 of 3902
I look more rad than Lutheranism
FLYUFLZ
Ummm....I don't get it. "Fly, you fleas"? "Fly oofles"? "Floofles"?
sumi - Feb 10, 2004 4:50:34 am PST #1846 of 3902
Art Crawl!!!
Fly you fools!
Steph L. - Feb 10, 2004 4:52:55 am PST #1847 of 3902
I look more rad than Lutheranism
And....that's from one of the movies?
Calli - Feb 10, 2004 4:53:56 am PST #1848 of 3902
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Yes. "Fly you fools!" is what Gandalf says in the Mines of Moria just before the balrog drags him down to the highest mountaintop.