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mayhapToday I went to my old high school and visited three of my former teachers, two of whom now have my little brother (second verse, same as the first, but with more math/science/video game interest and a whole lot worse) in Latin I and Gifted Communication Arts. They're as fabulous as ever, all the more so, of course, as they haven't got to give me grades anymore.
Of course they and half the school were having geeky conversations about Return of the King, which made me feel right at home. I'm grateful to all the Tolkien geeks out there, the ones who made the movie but also the ones the movie was made for, because The Fellowship of the Ring was one of the very few books I ever put down, and one of the even fewer that I picked up again. Now I happily Tolkien-geek with such lovely people. :)
I shall go again tomorrow or Saturday with my little brother, and that will be nice because I feel like my head's become a sieve and all the thoughts I had during my first viewing, save a few, have fallen right out of my head again.
I loved Merry's facial expressions when he was riding with Éowyn. They said to me, "Hee! I am between the legs of a beautiful woman!"
Speaking of women, I thought the handling of Arwen in this film was weak again, but she managed to turn up to Aragorn's coronation at the end and he managed to kiss her and look pleased, so I was happy enough in the end. I didn't much appreciate how they handled the fading thing they introduced--it was like she was trying to steal Frodo's thunder and she wasn't even doing anything, like he was, just, you know, pissing me off.
Elrond joins Gandalf in royally flunking Lore of Middle Earth, which doesn't seem as though it would be that hard to remember and you would think it was sufficiently important that they would try harder. Gandalf's near-inexplicable ignorance of the ring that every damn Man in Gondor knows about is, I think, an artifact of Tolkien's plotting; after all, when he wrote those early ring-bits of FOTR he hadn't a clue where he was going with it, and they are powerful but somewhat lacking in overall logistics. However, Elrond needing his daughter to tell him what he's supposed to do with that damn Sword That Was Broken that he's been saving all these years ... tsk, tsk. Although saving the reforging for this film was very sound in theory even if the execution boggled me a bit.
I finally figured out during the coronation scene that all this time we were meant to take Legolas as a symbolic link to Arwen ... um ... because they're both elves, I guess? So, in addition to the extensive flashbacks of Aragorn and Arwen meant to establish their interactions together, we need to have Aragorn and Legolas's smoldering glances and the like to continue their interaction in Arwen's absence somehow?
Oh, I give up. I can't rationalize it. The filmmakers were Aragorn/Legolas shippers, and it was pretteh, so I cannot complain.
I adore Pippin with all of my heart and soul. The funny thing is, the name Peregrine was already on my shortlist of names for sons (all girls have those, right? because I was determined to be childless from a young age, but I still had this list ...) and if you happen to know Ngaio Marsh and her book Killer Dolphin in particular, that would be the reason why.1 Oh, how my utterly hypothetical son will hate me for saddling him with such a poncy name. :D
Anyway, I love him and his fuck-up with the palantir and his pledging himself to Denethor and every single bit of that entire plotline which I was so anxious to see. And OMG SQUEE it was good.
Also, Gandalf/Pippin is my insane OTP o' DOOM.
*watches disconsolately as entire friendslist backs away slowly*
Didn't you see it?
I did get one person to agree with me once, and he wasn't even fandom at all, but we were talking about the homoeroticism after I got my FOTR:EE DVDs and pairing everyone off and he didn't think Gandalf was pairable but I, um, like a good pairing challenge. And even I'm not sure how I would write it exactly, and certainly no one else seems to have written it, but I ship it nonetheless, if that makes any sense to anyone else.
And since this entry I've just battled a brand-new computer with Windows XP that did not want to admit that I had drivers for the USB wireless card even though I had painstakingly downloaded them and burned them on a CD and unzipped them to a folder so there was no internet and wah, so I believe I have become incoherent, but, um.
Someone tell me I'm not insane?
1If you don't know it, it's a lovely murder mystery--all Ngaio Marsh's books are lovely murder mysteries, really--centered around a glove supposed to have belonged to Hamnet Shakespeare and a play based on said glove. And Ngaio Marsh was from New Zealand, and a couple of her other books are set there.
Of course they and half the school were having geeky conversations about Return of the King, which made me feel right at home. I'm grateful to all the Tolkien geeks out there, the ones who made the movie but also the ones the movie was made for, because The Fellowship of the Ring was one of the very few books I ever put down, and one of the even fewer that I picked up again. Now I happily Tolkien-geek with such lovely people. :)
I shall go again tomorrow or Saturday with my little brother, and that will be nice because I feel like my head's become a sieve and all the thoughts I had during my first viewing, save a few, have fallen right out of my head again.
I loved Merry's facial expressions when he was riding with Éowyn. They said to me, "Hee! I am between the legs of a beautiful woman!"
Speaking of women, I thought the handling of Arwen in this film was weak again, but she managed to turn up to Aragorn's coronation at the end and he managed to kiss her and look pleased, so I was happy enough in the end. I didn't much appreciate how they handled the fading thing they introduced--it was like she was trying to steal Frodo's thunder and she wasn't even doing anything, like he was, just, you know, pissing me off.
Elrond joins Gandalf in royally flunking Lore of Middle Earth, which doesn't seem as though it would be that hard to remember and you would think it was sufficiently important that they would try harder. Gandalf's near-inexplicable ignorance of the ring that every damn Man in Gondor knows about is, I think, an artifact of Tolkien's plotting; after all, when he wrote those early ring-bits of FOTR he hadn't a clue where he was going with it, and they are powerful but somewhat lacking in overall logistics. However, Elrond needing his daughter to tell him what he's supposed to do with that damn Sword That Was Broken that he's been saving all these years ... tsk, tsk. Although saving the reforging for this film was very sound in theory even if the execution boggled me a bit.
I finally figured out during the coronation scene that all this time we were meant to take Legolas as a symbolic link to Arwen ... um ... because they're both elves, I guess? So, in addition to the extensive flashbacks of Aragorn and Arwen meant to establish their interactions together, we need to have Aragorn and Legolas's smoldering glances and the like to continue their interaction in Arwen's absence somehow?
Oh, I give up. I can't rationalize it. The filmmakers were Aragorn/Legolas shippers, and it was pretteh, so I cannot complain.
I adore Pippin with all of my heart and soul. The funny thing is, the name Peregrine was already on my shortlist of names for sons (all girls have those, right? because I was determined to be childless from a young age, but I still had this list ...) and if you happen to know Ngaio Marsh and her book Killer Dolphin in particular, that would be the reason why.1 Oh, how my utterly hypothetical son will hate me for saddling him with such a poncy name. :D
Anyway, I love him and his fuck-up with the palantir and his pledging himself to Denethor and every single bit of that entire plotline which I was so anxious to see. And OMG SQUEE it was good.
Also, Gandalf/Pippin is my insane OTP o' DOOM.
*watches disconsolately as entire friendslist backs away slowly*
Didn't you see it?
I did get one person to agree with me once, and he wasn't even fandom at all, but we were talking about the homoeroticism after I got my FOTR:EE DVDs and pairing everyone off and he didn't think Gandalf was pairable but I, um, like a good pairing challenge. And even I'm not sure how I would write it exactly, and certainly no one else seems to have written it, but I ship it nonetheless, if that makes any sense to anyone else.
And since this entry I've just battled a brand-new computer with Windows XP that did not want to admit that I had drivers for the USB wireless card even though I had painstakingly downloaded them and burned them on a CD and unzipped them to a folder so there was no internet and wah, so I believe I have become incoherent, but, um.
Someone tell me I'm not insane?
1If you don't know it, it's a lovely murder mystery--all Ngaio Marsh's books are lovely murder mysteries, really--centered around a glove supposed to have belonged to Hamnet Shakespeare and a play based on said glove. And Ngaio Marsh was from New Zealand, and a couple of her other books are set there.
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