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.
I like the one-volume paperback edition, since I can go from reading FotR to checking out something in the timeline or elsewhere in the appendices without trying to find my RotK book.
The separate volumes are smaller and easier to carry, though. The one volume feels like a brick when carrying or reading for extended periods of time.
I just have the cheap $7 3-volume set. I got them before the movies came out so they don't have movie pictures in them. But I also have the
Complete Guide to Middle-Earth
which is great. It's like a dictionary/encyclopedia for all the LOTR books and the Silmarillion. (It'll even tell you what page of what edition to look at for the actual text and gives definitions - i.e. "Galad" as in Galadriel = light)
Well, I'm saving up my pennies for the RotKEE gift set, for the Minas Tirith statue (with a hidey-hole in the base!) and bonus disc on the symphony. It's only one more month until the release date!
I forwarded the Amazon notice about the EE to my clueless husband. Now I have to wait until Christmas to see if he will follow through on my blatant hint or not.
Oh, I am not running out and buying the hardcovers anytime soon. Usually, I go to a bookstore and look at them and feel overwhelmed.
Waiting for Xmas? You have more fortitude than I do! I'm taking the day off work so I can pick up the gift set at Best Buy and spend the next four hours and ten minutes (!) watching it, followed by a probable viewing of at least a few of the documentaries and maybe even listening to the director's commentary track before going to bed. Yes, I will geek out on LotR Day!!
Well, I'm saving up my pennies for the RotKEE gift set, for the Minas Tirith statue (with a hidey-hole in the base!) and bonus disc on the symphony.
I just pre-ordered mine yesterday. That's why I'm paying down the credit cards, so they'll have room for important purchases like this one. Right?
Unfortunately, with finances as they are, it will have to be a Christmas goodie. I'm even holding off on Buffy 7 though it is killing me.
-t - exactly. It's like a
cultural
emergency, right?
Even more, it's a cultural imperative!!
Right, sumi.
I need Minas Tirith to . . . store . . . important papers in. So I know where they are. And they can be defended from the Dark Lord. That's the ticket.
