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.
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LOVE the movies. Love them. Read the books aged nine, and I'm afraid that after the weepfest and trauma that was the end of TTT, starting off RotK and having to wait and wait and wait and WAIT to find out what the hell happened to Sam and Frodo just killed me. And eventually I skipped ahead. And as a result, the first two books are pretty much inscribed on my consciousness, but I realised that I had actually
never
read a chunk of RotK. So I got to have this extraordinary mixture of rereading something known by heart AND being mindboggled by all the Rohirim & Gondor stuff (especially Eowyn) when rereading the books last year. Fabulous.
Sam is still my favourite. Love love love love Sam.
The Trials of Master Samwise -
OMG, the snivelling wreckage that is me when reading. And Sam's attack on Shelob - BLESS his brave wee heart!
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I bought FotR:EE on DVD at a time when I didn't own a DVD player, and my expectations of DVDs are now very much formed by Jackson's LotR trilogy.
A friend of mine who lives in Toronto just auditioned for the LotR musical. They said that she didn't sound "folky" enough based on her height (5'6"). (That phrasing makes me laugh. "I'm sorry, but your folkiness per inch just isn't up to our standards."
She isn't sure if they meant she would have been a human or a hobbit if she'd gotten in.
Anyway, it was an experience! She was number 400-something in line, and that was after the professionals had had a separate set of auditions. She was interviewed by Bravo and some comedy show, so I'll have to keep an eye out for that.
Seattle-istas (Nabbed from WX):
Seattle Has Rescheduled the LOTR Trilogy Benefit for April 30:
WHERE: The Seattle Cinerama Theatre - 2100 4th Avenue, Seattle
WHEN: April 30, 2005 - Doors open at 10 am, first film begins at noon
WHY: It’s a fund raiser for Seattle Mental Health
COST: Tickets are $35 in advance and available...
- at www.movietickets.com
- by phone at 206-441-3080, or
- at the Cinerama Box Office (on Lenora Street between 4th & 5th)
SEE ALL THREE IN ORIGINAL THEATRICAL VERSION
For more information please call Deeanne at Seattle Mental Health: 206-302-2251.
Yarg!
Yay, not yarg! I shall still be in town.
More Cinerama LotR-ness.
This Slate article is really about the financing of the Tomb Raider movies, but the last paragraph is about LotR:
Of course, it's not only Paramount that employs these devices—every studio uses them to minimize risk. Remember all those stories about how New Line was betting its entire future on the Lord of the Rings trilogy? Not quite. New Line covered almost the entire cost by using German tax shelters, New Zealand subsidies, and pre-sales. If studio executives don't crow in public about such coups, it's probably out of fear that such publicity will induce governments to stiffen their rules—as, for example, Germany periodically does with its tax code. When you've got a golden goose, you don't want to kill it while it's still laying eggs. --http://slate.msn.com/id/2117309/
"Midget safeguards evil bling." is my favorite of the bunch.
I like the double meaning in "Child smuggling ring discovered," and attempted humor like "Tyler plays arrowsmith's daughter."
