I think it was a photo-manip rather than a story.
The count of three isn't a plan. It's Sesame Street.
Buffy ,'First Date'
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.
sumi - Jul 14, 2004 7:38:18 am PDT #2815 of 3902
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Dana - Jul 14, 2004 11:18:42 am PDT #2816 of 3902
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
That's really worse, I think. And a sort of disturbing trend, like those idiots who showed one to Dom and Billy.
"Here, read this 20,000 word slash story!" doesn't have the same sort of immediacy.
sumi - Jul 21, 2004 4:35:29 am PDT #2817 of 3902
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True -- it's like they wanted the reaction.
In not completely unrelated news: Sir Ian McKellan interviewed for a documentary about LOTR Fans.
sumi - Jul 21, 2004 4:42:32 am PDT #2818 of 3902
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Ooh, look possibly good Hobbit movie news.
sumi - Jul 21, 2004 6:18:19 pm PDT #2819 of 3902
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Encore is still playing the heck out of FotR -- I caught the end the other day and the beginning up through the Council of Elrond and the very end (from when Merry and Pippin lure the orcs away from Frodo) tonight.
You know what still bugs me? That scene where Legolas wants to cross the river right away and Strider wants to wait 'til dark to avoid orc patrols. I mean -- Hello!! Orcs are much more likely to be patrolling at night -- and they haven't come across the Uruk-Hai yet.
Steph L. - Jul 22, 2004 5:34:46 pm PDT #2820 of 3902
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I'm just now watching RotK for the 2nd time, and I have one observation and a related question:
The lighting of the beacons REALLY belongs on the big screen, because on my TV, it looked like lightning bugs.
Question: are the beacons in a sort of circle, with Minas Tirith in the middle, so that each beacon that was lit was a response TO Gondor? Or was it a more linear series of beacons, more or less, where they were relaying a message from Gondor to Rohan?
(Legolas? Still the prettiest.)
(Aragorn? As of where I paused the DVD, still not king.)
(Elrond is unhappy about Arwen choosing Aragorn, so he's overseeing the re-forging of the Mighty Sword of Whoop-Ass, because he DAMN well isn't giving them a *new* sword for a wedding gift. It's re-gifting or naught.)
Frankenbuddha - Jul 22, 2004 5:59:47 pm PDT #2821 of 3902
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Question: are the beacons in a sort of circle, with Minas Tirith in the middle, so that each beacon that was lit was a response TO Gondor? Or was it a more linear series of beacons, more or less, where they were relaying a message from Gondor to Rohan?
I'm almost positive it's the latter.
sumi - Jul 22, 2004 6:10:37 pm PDT #2822 of 3902
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I think in the books there were beacons to the north of Minas Tirith to Rohan and to the south towards (I think) Belfalas.
sumi - Jul 22, 2004 6:44:49 pm PDT #2823 of 3902
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Nutty - Jul 23, 2004 4:12:57 am PDT #2824 of 3902
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
When you look at a map of Middle-earth, you can see that Minas Tirith is on the eastern edge of a mountain range, and Rohan is way westward, on the north side of that range. (Helm's Deep is nestled into that range.) So the beacons are one-to-the-next, from east to west, in a relay from Minas Tirith to the borders of Rohan.
(The same thing happens in the Agammemnon, when the Trojan War is over. Clytaemnestra sets up a fire-sign relay so that she will have advance warning when her husband is coming back to port. I mean, because she is planning to kill him rather than come to his aid or anything, but same technique for long-distance signallign when there is no AT&T.)