You walk in worlds the others can't begin to imagine.

Drusilla ,'Conversations with Dead People'


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.


DavidS - Oct 20, 2005 9:55:27 am PDT #3883 of 3902
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Heh. JZ and I played that game last night, Kathy.

"Look, it's Not!Aragorn."


Beverly - Oct 20, 2005 10:30:04 am PDT #3884 of 3902
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.

Yup, Not!Aragorn, here, too.


Volans - Oct 20, 2005 10:35:54 am PDT #3885 of 3902
move out and draw fire

Although even with Viggo, it's clear that PJ's image of Aragorn was thin and a little...feminine? Emotional?

Oh lordy - think of the love scenes if they'd been Townsend and Tyler. People would have lost IQ watching the movies.


§ ita § - Oct 20, 2005 10:36:55 am PDT #3886 of 3902
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

People would have lost IQ watching the movies.

I would have lost more IQ points. Had I been the sort to take pee breaks, those would have been the moments, even with Viggo.

Blech.


Matt the Bruins fan - Oct 20, 2005 10:38:31 am PDT #3887 of 3902
"You should never say bad things about the dead, only good… Joan Crawford is dead. Good.” —Bette Davis

I don't think it's Townsend at the root of that effect. I used to know how to do logarhythms, back before I saw the animal crackers scene in Armageddon.


Connie Neil - Oct 20, 2005 12:07:40 pm PDT #3888 of 3902
brillig

Had I been the sort to take pee breaks, those would have been the moments, even with Viggo.

I was always very grateful to PJ for considerately building in pee breaks.


Kalshane - Oct 30, 2005 7:39:19 am PST #3889 of 3902
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why? Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.

I don't play World of Warcraft, but I know enough about on-line gamer culture to find this pretty funny: Fellowship of the Ringcraft


Volans - Nov 02, 2005 10:00:02 pm PST #3890 of 3902
move out and draw fire

I'm not sure what this says about society, but if you google "elf" this is the 6th hit: [link]

It's not so much with the work-safe.


Am-Chau Yarkona - Nov 02, 2005 10:55:55 pm PST #3891 of 3902
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty

Is it me, or is the Legolas in that picture wearing jeans? The rest I don't mind, but those look a lot like jeans, and that seems wrong.


Kathy A - Nov 09, 2005 11:55:14 am PST #3892 of 3902
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

Someone posted this over in Natter earlier today, but in case you're an advocate of the Natter diet and missed it, Stephen Colbert LotR fanfic!

Also, as a followup, the Flick Filosopher says on her blog that:

[Colbert] and I were in attendence of the same press screening of The Return of the King a couple years ago, and he was so full of beans in anticipation of the film that while we were all waiting for the movie to start, he literally ran around the theater trying to get us all to join him in doing the wave.