There was a great battle. It ranged all over!"
Hee.
I'm taking my soundtrack CD out of the car player. I'm scared of that last track.
Gavin, ask yourself this question. What are you more afraid of, a giant murderous demon or me?
Lilah ,'Destiny'
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 § - Dec 18, 2003 11:57:25 am PST #247 of 3902
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
smonster - Dec 18, 2003 12:01:50 pm PST #248 of 3902
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
There was a great battle. It ranged all over!
*snorfle*
Maytree - Dec 18, 2003 12:01:55 pm PST #249 of 3902
I try to love my neighbor as myself. Unfortunately, I have a lot of self-loathing.
Kathy, thanks for the haiku pointer! Many of them were great but I agree the winner was best. (For those who haven't checked out this link, you should.)
The only thing that bothered me was that there was no scouring of the shire and no Saruman at the end. But I'm sure that will be on the DVD.
No to the first one; it wasn't even filmed. Yes to the second one.
JohnSweden - Dec 18, 2003 12:02:36 pm PST #250 of 3902
I can't even.
eta quotation marks to historical, b/c while the books FEEL like they happened...
Funny you should say that. A friend of mine who is anything but a sentimentalist (and is in fact a history professor in his fifties who was a founder of the Tolkien Society at Michigan State) refused to go with me to the exhibition of props and sets from the movies that we had here in Toronto in '01 and '02. His reason: he didn't want to see things that would make him feel like the events of the War of the Ring didn't actually take place and he felt the exhibit might do that.
I understood his feeling instantly. I still went -- I can separate the movie version from the actual events in my mind, no problem. :)
sumi - Dec 18, 2003 12:05:48 pm PST #251 of 3902
Art Crawl!!!
I know that they filmed the stuff from the "Houses of Healing" and "The Voice of Saruman" and I remember seeing Eomer's grief on finding what he thinks is Eowyn's body and also seeing Merry being sworn to Theoden's service in the trailer -- but not in the films - - so likely to be in the EE. I think that if PJ had meant to film the he would have had Galadriel give Sam the same gift he got in the books.
Nutty - Dec 18, 2003 12:20:21 pm PST #252 of 3902
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Ahh! Whitefont disease!
Eomer's shoulders are twice as broad as everyone else's
This is quite true, and through TTT as well (though less obvious). I blame the Rohirrim armor, which has built-in shoulder pads. He's like Joan Collins in 1986, with a little bit less lipstick and probably a lot more hairspray.
Not that I would jump Joan Collins in a dark alley and tie her up for my personal delectation, but, you know.
Jessica - Dec 18, 2003 12:21:26 pm PST #253 of 3902
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
You know what else wasn't in the movie? The "We shall see the Shire again" line from the trailer. I think it was supposed to be in the scene where Merry says goodbye to Pippin before he rides off to Minas Tirith with Gandalf.
sumi - Dec 18, 2003 12:22:28 pm PST #254 of 3902
Art Crawl!!!
Yes! I want that too.
And sorry for the white-fonted insanity.
§ ita § - Dec 18, 2003 12:23:30 pm PST #255 of 3902
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Eomer and Vaughn from Alias need to have a frownoff. Even at the coronation he looked highly suspicious of the goings on.
JohnSweden - Dec 18, 2003 12:26:59 pm PST #256 of 3902
I can't even.
He's like Joan Collins in 1986, with a little bit less lipstick and probably a lot more hairspray. Not that I would jump Joan Collins in a dark alley and tie her up for my personal delectation, but, you know.
I first read that as you _would_ jump Joan Collins, and I was going, y'know in '86, she was probably still pretty jumpable, not like '66 or anything, but still. And I'm thinking you would want to make sure the knots were secure. Very.