I'm Samwise Gamgee and his insomnia.
Try anything on Mr. Frodo, and I'll have you, longshanks!!!!!!
It's called a blaster, Will, a word that tends to discourage experimentation. Now, if it were called the Orgasmater, I'd be the first to try your basic button press approach.
Xander ,'Get It Done'
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.
Astarte - Dec 29, 2003 12:03:59 pm PST #952 of 3902
Not having has never been the thing I've regretted most in my life. Not trying is.
MechaKrelboyne - Dec 29, 2003 12:06:24 pm PST #953 of 3902
... and that's a Pantera's box you don't want to open. - Mister Furious
Hmm. My weapons book (regrettably, just for plain old normal earth), says that the claymore was only 4.5 to 5 feet long, and that the bigger ones found were probably ceremonial. I've read both versions though, from different sources, so the book could easily be wrong.
One thing about a lot of the longer swords was they had a Ricasso. That's where you leave the blade blunt for the first six or so inches above the hilt, or even cover it with leather, so that the weilder can grab on in front of the quillions for greater control. I remember being very happy that Wallace had one in Braveheart. It would have been a nice nod to Aragorn not being As big and strong as Elendil.
On a completely unrelated note, I feel a bizzare need to mention that everyone else's reliance on longswords and broadswords at the time was one of the things that made the Roman Legions so effective. They all carried the Gladius, which might be a sword, but might be a really pretentious dagger. The advantage in war is that all the 'barbarians' had to dress their lines very wide, leaving themselves room to swing without fouling the guy next to them, while the Romans stood shoulder to shoulder and stabbed at them. You could outnumber a Legion two to one or more, but when you came at them, they had more blades covering any given part of the line.
Now I get. I was possessed by Dark Powers who wanted the conversation nudged one more step towards 'Does size matter' jokes. Curses!
Micole - Dec 29, 2003 12:31:43 pm PST #954 of 3902
I've been working on a song about the difference between analogy and metaphor.
The quiz doesn't offer the option of being the One Ring and Its Unfortunate Tendency towards Armageddon. I feel cheated.
Micole - Dec 29, 2003 12:31:46 pm PST #955 of 3902
I've been working on a song about the difference between analogy and metaphor.
Beverly - Dec 29, 2003 12:35:10 pm PST #956 of 3902
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
I am the very model of a (memfault) Numenorean. (Thanks to Nutty, I'm almost 100% sure.)
Matt the Bruins fan - Dec 29, 2003 1:01:58 pm PST #957 of 3902
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I got Haldir and his egocentrism. Legolas may be the prettiest, but I'm the snootiest!
amych - Dec 29, 2003 1:15:02 pm PST #958 of 3902
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Legolas may be the prettiest, but I'm the snootiest!
Dude, I hate to say it, but you're the Tori Spelling-est.
Volans - Dec 29, 2003 3:01:43 pm PST #959 of 3902
move out and draw fire
sheath for Anduril was on Brego at that point
It has a sword in it as it goes galloping away, so I assumed that was the sword Aragorn had been carrying with him up until he got Narsil.
I believe the Weapons and Warfare book discusses the harness for Narsil that enabled Aragorn (Viggo) to actually draw it while wearing it at his hip.
Eowyn's sword hung almost horizontally for a fast draw - there's a really cool photo of Eowyn ready to smite evil.
Kate P. - Dec 29, 2003 5:53:23 pm PST #960 of 3902
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
I am Elrond and his PMS! Fear me! Although my favorite quiz result is Faramir and his alien infestation.
I am the very model of a (memfault) Numenorean. (Thanks to Nutty, I'm almost 100% sure.)
"Third-Age," and wasn't it Jessimoon?
When I saw ROTK this Sunday with a friend, I leaned over to her when Brego goes galloping off and whispered, "Oh shit, my toothbrush!"
Katie M - Dec 29, 2003 5:56:39 pm PST #961 of 3902
I was charmed (albeit somewhat perplexed) by the fannish sensibility of many of the music choices -- it's like the director was trying to vid Canada. --loligo on the Olympic Opening Ceremonies
*goes to the Appendices*
Faramir is thirty-four when we meet him, and was born three years after Aragorn left Gondor.
Having seen RotK twice now, I feel I can say confidently that I would've been just as happy without about twenty minutes of battle scene. I was thinking about the Scouring, and how while I realize why it was left out I miss the insight it gave us into post-Mordor Frodo, and then I thought "but then I would've had to watch another battle scene" and absolutely quailed.
I also gained some sympathy for whoever it was - Nutty? - who said they were rooting for the much-more-sensible orcs. I definitely noticed more this time that the defenders of Minas Tirith were, er, not so bright. (And Denethor's guards are the worst guards ever. "Hey, it's a guy on a horse with a random short dude with him! That's cool.")