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.
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."
Loved all these:
Weaving wouldn't, Wood would.
Little guys, big feats.
Frodo fingers slippery ring.
The Ring and I.
Magneto versus Dracula. Awesome!
You know, I found fwfr.com browsing my brother's old college message board archives from 2001, and then two days after I post this rare, obscure find, the site wins a Webby award. Now I look like I get all my links off Boing Boing.
Hee! The latest collection from Foxtrot is titled, "Orlando Bloom Has Ruined Everything." The cover is of Jason and two other LotR-costumed fanboys surrounded by a theater full of drooling teenaged girls.
I can sympathize, as someone who went to a weekend matinee showing of Back to the Future III unaware that Michael J. Fox's ass would be featured in close-up early in the film. I think the combined squeals knocked birds flying overhead out of the air.
Yeah, the second time I saw ROTK the crowd was me, 6 cow-orkers, and about 40 teenage girls. Who SQUEEED when Legolas appears in Frodo's doorway at the end. (Which covered our snickering and rude comments).
Just watched ROTK EE again. It made even less sense this time. But I realize that these movies aren't movies for me - I appreciate them not as I would a normal movie, but as a group effort of a bunch of artists. As movies, they are flawed. As authentic re-creations of a world that never existed, they are peerless.
What Dom Monaghan has on his rear bumper. (This came from a series of some paparazzi shots of him parking his car.)
