Elijah Wood as Bacchus in New Orleans on Sunday.
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.
Bacchus? I dunno; it doesn't seem right, somehow. The god of wine and revelry should be older, and joyfully, seriously debauched.
Now, Ian McKellen as Bacchus -- that, I could get behind.
Bacchus? I dunno; it doesn't seem right, somehow. The god of wine and revelry should be older, and joyfully, seriously debauched.
Well, Bacchus did sometimes get conflated with Dionysus, who was young, dark, pretty and androgynous.
Pfeh. Dionysus was a fratboy amongst gods.
Pfeh. Dionysus was a fratboy amongst gods.
Nay, not! He's sneaky and slithered in from Persia and bumped some boring Greek goddess off Olympus (Hestia - now that's Pfeh.) See, he's syncretic, and that's always cooler.
Some of the better RotK SAG pics:
Everyone sneeks a peek up Billy's kilt.
Liv's lipstick matches her dress.
God, I love that wee hobbit man.
Doesn't it look like John Noble has his hand on Billy's ass in that first pic?
According to MTV news, the LOTR box set is going to include audition tapes of actors who failed to make it into the cast, among them Vin Diesel and Kylie Minogue. Couldn't they cast Vin as a cave troll?
Or Treebeard. Cue wooden acting gags.