Nothin'. I just wanted you to face me so she could get behind ya.

Mal ,'The Train Job'


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.


Una - Jan 19, 2005 12:57:25 pm PST #3596 of 3902
when i die, please bake my ashes into a brick and use me to hit fascists.

Be prepared to show them to everyone who hears you giggling....oh dear, tears of laughter.


Beverly - Jan 19, 2005 1:00:31 pm PST #3597 of 3902
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.

Very sad. They won't load for me. I get a photo and part of a caption. Sniff.


Una - Jan 19, 2005 1:01:10 pm PST #3598 of 3902
when i die, please bake my ashes into a brick and use me to hit fascists.

Also, I've been dying for a screengrab of one of those photos--the bit of TTT:EE where Boromir's looking up at the flag just before leaving Osgiliath? Anyone have a copy of it without snarky text over it? *g*


WildDemon Cornelius - Jan 19, 2005 9:33:57 pm PST #3599 of 3902
Take your fingers off it, don't you dare touch it, you know it don't belong to you, to you...

A-heehee, A-heehee!!!

Man...those were great...almost in a league w/ Gollum's curse-laden acceptance speech at the MTV Movie Awards.


Beverly - Jan 19, 2005 10:44:22 pm PST #3600 of 3902
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.

Wah. Wanna see!


Volans - Jan 20, 2005 1:03:08 am PST #3601 of 3902
move out and draw fire

Those were too funny! I hope the guys at Weta are watching them....wait. Where's the .cx URL from?


Nilly - Jan 20, 2005 1:31:39 am PST #3602 of 3902
Swouncing

Poking my head (after I haven't been to this thread in forever and never really got to catchup on it, though I want to), to share some roommates-reactions to RotK. As some of you may or may not know, the wonderful Lee has decided that the EE of RotK is exactly the present I need, for no reason at all, and last week the package landed in my greedy little hands. As some others of you may or may not know, it's the end of the semester here, which pretty much means crazy-busy-time. However, I had to play with the shining new CDs, for just a little, maybe a few new scenes, a few favorite scenes, you know? Two of my roommates were in the livingroom while I did. The conversation sounded something like:

Roommate1: Why is he crying?
Me: He thinks his sister is dead.
Roommate2: That's the blond?
Me: Yes. but she's not dead. Her uncle and her cousin are dead, though.
Roommate1: No, she's dead. Look.
Me: No, she's not.
Roommate1: How do you know? She looks dead.
Me: I've read the book. Oh, look, now she's breathing, see?
Roommate2: Is he in love with her?
Me: No, but she's in love with him. He's in love with another woman.
Roommate1: Is *she* dead?
Me: No, just not there.
Roommate1: Is *he* in love with her?
Me: Not yet. They'll marry int he end, though.
Roommate2: Why is he so sad?
Me: His brother died, and his father died and nearly killed him in the process.
Roommate2: Lots of dying in this movie.
Me: (Not mentioning the Fandalf-is-dead-now-he's-not part) Actually, less than you may think. All the other main characters are still alive
Roommate1: They don't look in love.
Me: (Holding myself from starting a whole long speech about the emotions of the characters) Not yet. They're still busy being sad. But they will.
Roommate1: Is the woman he sees in the ball the one he loves?
Me: Yes.
Roommate2: She looks much younger than him.
Me: Actually, she's thousands of years old.
Roommate1: Oh, beating and monsters, yuck!
Roommate2: Oh, beating and monsters, yuck!
Me: (Jumping ahead over any scene with fighting, monsters, beating or messy, so pretty much to the end)
Roommate2: He looks different.
Me: That's because he washed his hair.
Roommate2: No, really different.
Me: Yeah, really, that's because he washed his hair.
Roommate1: He still doesn't look very happy.
Me: (Stopping myself from starting a whole speech about the emotions of the characters).
Roommate2: Maybe it's because that woman he's in-love with is not there.
Me: No, she's going to be there in a minute.
Roommate1: Wow, he was really happy to see her!
Roommate2: Who's the guy standing behind her?
Me: Her father. He's also thousands of years old.
Roommate1: He has little silly tied things in his hair. He doesn't look that old.
Me: They're immortal. She's giving up her immortality in order to marry him.
Roommate2: Why should she give it up for marriage? Can't she just stay alive and still be married to him?
Me: Don't know. This is how it works.
Roommate1: They're smiling. That's it. Are you sure they'll be together in the end?
Me: Yeah, I've read the book.
Roommate2: Oh, this looks like such a lovely place.
Roommate1: He looks really fat when compared to the others, that's how I can tell them apart. Otherwise, they look all the same to me, all 4 of them.
Me: Oh, I probably like him the most.
Roommate2: The fat guy that looks confused?
Me: (Not holding myself anymore. Starting a whole speech about friendship and choices and trying to do the right thing despite everything and attempting to better and being there for a friend and how compassion may change everything and loyalty and trying and the internal fights and the taking of a burden you don't know if you can carry and - well, look at the "Firefly" thread for how I can forget myself when I start babbling about something I love andmeans a lot to me).
Roommates: Are you sure that's what it's about? All I saw was a bunch of monsters hitting each other and being ugly. Are you sure we're talking about the same thing?


Nilly - Jan 20, 2005 1:31:45 am PST #3603 of 3902
Swouncing

[Edited to put the couple of words that ended up here back in the former post. The "continues" feature is great, but those few words looked lonely in a post of their own, so I put them back with all their other friends.

One roommate fell in love with "Firefly", the other two really aren't into anything that has anything unrealistic (in the lack of a better word) in it. A friend is introducing me to "Gilmore Girls" and whenever I watch it's like "Look! Something with no monsters or beating people up! I can watch these things too! The News are worse than lots of the stuff I watch!"]


Kathy A - Jan 20, 2005 2:07:41 am PST #3604 of 3902
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

Roommate1: He has little silly tied things in his hair.

Nilly (Hi, Nilly!!), show her the footage from I think it's disc four, with the original version of the coronation that they shot during the principal photography in 2000. Elrond looks even goofier, with his hair done up in a ridiculously elaborate geisha-like style.


esse - Jan 20, 2005 2:15:48 am PST #3605 of 3902
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!

V. funny, John. My roommate loved it.