Book: Yes, I'd forgotten you're moonlighting as a criminal mastermind now. Got your next heist planned? Simon: No. But I'm thinking about growing a big black mustache. I'm a traditionalist.

'War Stories'


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.


ted r - Dec 29, 2003 7:35:39 pm PST #965 of 3902
"You got twelve, and they got twelve. The old ladies are just as good as you are." -Dr. Einstein

I'm Gandalf and his shirking of responsbility-which since I just took over a directing job doesn't seem entirely fair.


Astarte - Dec 29, 2003 7:43:58 pm PST #966 of 3902
Not having has never been the thing I've regretted most in my life. Not trying is.

Ted's a shirking shirker.

Pass it on...


Kathy A - Dec 29, 2003 7:57:14 pm PST #967 of 3902
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

A Lord of the Rings drinking game. (Also check out her review of RotK and also Cold Mountain, which makes continual comparisons to RotK.)


ted r - Dec 29, 2003 8:18:24 pm PST #968 of 3902
"You got twelve, and they got twelve. The old ladies are just as good as you are." -Dr. Einstein

Ted's a shirking shirker. Pass it on...

I was going to, but it was too much responsbility.


Astarte - Dec 29, 2003 8:22:09 pm PST #969 of 3902
Not having has never been the thing I've regretted most in my life. Not trying is.

Bwah!!!


Beverly - Dec 29, 2003 8:42:38 pm PST #970 of 3902
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.

Oh frell, are we still white-fonting?

But mostly, the problem is this: I've seen Samwise Gamgee carrying Frodo Baggins up the slopes of Mount Doom. I've seen Faramir, captain of Gondor, ride to what he believes will be his death merely to earn the love of his father. I've seen Peregrin Took leap onto a burning pyre to save a dying man he doesn't know in repayment for a debt owed that man's dead brother. I've seen an entire world shrink into molecules of fading hope and acts of selfless love. After that, how can the troubles of one Confederate soldier and one Southern belle amount to even a hill of beans in this crazy world? Nothing they can say could upset me.

Now I'm really mixing my movie-geek metaphors. Does it make me a completely irredeemable nerd that The Princess Bride helps me explain why The Lord of the Rings makes me unable to get worked up by Cold Mountain? Does it make me irredeemably "biast"? I know neither of these things is a newsflash. I'm sorry that I cannot be more objective, but I only know how to tell you how a movie makes me feel. And as prejudiced as the reasons may be, I couldn't feel a lot for Cold Mountain.

Well said.


Volans - Dec 30, 2003 4:04:33 am PST #971 of 3902
move out and draw fire

Interesting reactions from a non-reader: he assumed that Gimli was The Last Dwarf in Middle-Earth, due to the Moria scene. Also, he keeps asking me what happened to Solomon [sic] and Grima.


Jessica - Dec 30, 2003 4:15:37 am PST #972 of 3902
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

I ended up feeling like it was one big battle scene with the occasional cutaway to have Pippin make the point that War Sucks or because Oh Right, We Need A Frodo And Sam Update.

Totally my feelings, too, except I thought there were, in general, too many cutaways. TTT played out in big chunks of one story at a time, which I thought worked better than the "nope, not gonna let this scene end either" style he seemed to prefer in RotK.


Steph L. - Dec 30, 2003 4:17:00 am PST #973 of 3902
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

Oh frell, are we still white-fonting?

The movie's been out for well over a week. We don't need to whitefont.


MechaKrelboyne - Dec 30, 2003 7:12:00 am PST #974 of 3902
... and that's a Pantera's box you don't want to open. - Mister Furious

Yeah, non readers I've spoken to seem to assume that Treebeard pulled down Orthanc and killed Saruman. Maybe that's just the non attention payers.