Xander ,'Dirty Girls'
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 think we are too close to it now, but 100 years from now it will no longer be the sole province of geeks. It's getting away from that already, with the movies.
And already, Tolkien was chosen "Author of the 20th Century," so we're a good deal down that path even without the movies, but I love the idea of the Suite becoming a new Nutcracker.
It's funny, with the Nutcracker comparison, that my family has already taken on the movies as a holiday tradition (the whole trilogy on Boxing Day. Partly to avoid the crowds, partly as a detox from the rushing around, partly because we're all geeks). I could also blame the movie release dates, though.
This past Christmas Hubby and I said, "What are we going to do on Christmas afternoon? There's no Ring movie!" Hubby added, "He'll have to do the Hobbit and the Silmarrilion, then."
Oh, are you sure "philistines" didn't pop up in the back of your mind somewhere?
I have to admit it skipped through mine...although more at the times the audience applauded in inappropriate places, but whatev. They applauded, which was nice. Standing ovation, even, which was another thing I'd forgotten about Americans; they seem to give standing o's for everything.
The young boy soloist was pretty good, and the mezzo-soprano was awesome.
OK, the few photos I was able to sneakily take of the concert start here: [link]
Those pictures gave me chills, Raq. The weight of the history in that place is just incredible.
Does this mean we can have the Hobbit?
I think the Hobbit rights are separate from the LotR rights. So nothing has changed on that front, unfortunately.
I saw this press release on my Wizard News email and was at first very excited, but reading more carefully, I realized that they are releasing the COMPLETE soundtrack of FoTR only -- 4 disks of just FoTR. I guess next year: TTT and in 07: RotK.
Sigh.