What, no love for beaning Pippin on the head with an apple? I'm all for the strategic lobbing of fruits.
Also the part in the EE where he lands on his butt and is set upon by Hobbits.
Tracy: 'When you can't run, you crawl... and when you can't crawl, when you can't do that--' Zoe: 'You find someone to carry you.'
'The Message'
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.
Nutty - Dec 19, 2003 12:58:59 pm PST #415 of 3902
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
§ ita § - Dec 19, 2003 1:02:04 pm PST #416 of 3902
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Or would that not count as a scar
Not like the one we see, no. Which is what I'm wondering about.
no love for beaning Pippin on the head with an apple?
That was hysterical. I'd bean Pippin my damned self. Hey -- didn't Pippin encounter an unexpected apple outside Isengard and look up just like he did when beaned before Weathertop? It's possible my brain put that in for my amusement, however.
Sean K - Dec 19, 2003 1:02:44 pm PST #417 of 3902
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Book stuff doesn't need to be whitefonted, though, right? Just film stuff? Visuals, changes, and the like?
I can never remember what's whitefonted and what's not. I know I personally started whitefonting book stuff out of a desire to not spoil Aimee on the best parts. That issue will be over soon and I (who is probably the last book-whitefonty holdout) will stop. I promise. I know we mostly have no sympathy for non-booky people for obvious reasons.
Anyhoo -- Sean -- I'm not sure -- are you saying the bruise would or wouldn't look like a scar?
Well, it shouldn't look like a scar. Mine didn't. Could have just been inaccurate makeup job.
I should see the movie again to make a more informed thought on what that scar is supposed to be. Are we sure it's not just a wonky shadow?
Kathy A - Dec 19, 2003 1:02:55 pm PST #418 of 3902
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
That beaning of Pippin by the apple (and Pippin's look skyward) is nicely echoed at the end of the TTTEE, when he first discovers the apple floating in the water at Isengard, and looks skyward again.
ETA: hee! X-post with ita.
§ ita § - Dec 19, 2003 1:03:26 pm PST #419 of 3902
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I have such hard time with the end of TTT EE and the start of RotK, as one can tell.
Sean K - Dec 19, 2003 1:04:49 pm PST #420 of 3902
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Hey -- didn't Pippin [whitefont]
Yes, he did. You weren't imagining it. (Although I thought that was in the TTT EE, for the Flotsam and Jetsam sequence, or am I now putting it in the wrong place?)
Nutty - Dec 19, 2003 1:04:54 pm PST #421 of 3902
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Ah! So ita's not just conjuring that. I missed it, myself.
Sean, your memory's just as likely to be any good as mine. Surely by now you know I pull stuff out of my hindparts as often as not.
I'm still whitefonting for the greater glee and screaming. I guess, at least, through the weekend, because it's hard to get around to seeing a movie till you've had a weekend.
§ ita § - Dec 19, 2003 1:08:03 pm PST #422 of 3902
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Nutty, how were you defining sword master above? In the cinema industry, or within a particular martial art?
amych - Dec 19, 2003 1:10:42 pm PST #423 of 3902
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
In the cinema industry, it's more or less true. Bob freakin' Anderson does everything.
Nutty - Dec 19, 2003 1:13:35 pm PST #424 of 3902
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Nutty, how were you defining sword master above? In the cinema industry, or within a particular martial art?
I was basically pulling a definition out of my butt, with exaggeration on top. I'm sure there actually are other swordmasters, but he's the only one I've ever heard of in the movies, and whenever a DVD talks about swords, sooner or later he comes up in the conversation. Usually sooner.
The joke is, he is like 80 years old. And while I'm sure he can still kill me dead, it amuses me to think of an 80 year old guy teaching whippersnappers how to strike with deadly accuracy and speed.