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Posted on 03/14/2002 5:07:26 AM PST by HairOfTheDog
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To: 2Jedismom; ecurbh; HairOfTheDog
WOWWWW!!!!
Sorry, I'd have been here half an hour ago but with the trailer to get - thanks, ecurbh, I got it from you after I couldn't get it anywhere else - and I had to install Quicktime, watch the trailer, call my sister, watch the trailer again, utter a couple of absolutely victorian screamlets (good thing there weren't any shots of Faramir, Aragorn was too much as it was!) and then get back here after I accidentally shut off my browser. Whoa...
I'm gonna read through all the posts, but did anyone catch Arwen's line about "There is still hope"? Everyone remembers that Aragorn was known as Estel - or Hope - when he was a child, right?
I love the Oliphaunt, I love the Eye, the Balrog-battle shot I saw was awesome. Gollum looked a bit doofy but I think it was the quality of the trailer.
28,521
posted on
09/30/2002 4:18:48 PM PDT
by
JenB
To: JenB
Did you hear Theoden tell Eowyn to lead the people to Helm's Deep? Wonder about that.
To: JenB
52 minutes to go........
28,523
posted on
09/30/2002 4:27:30 PM PDT
by
ksen
To: DonnerT
It makes sense. Sounds like they're abandoning Edoras. In the book Eowyn was left in charge at home, this giver her an equivalent role, and more screen time, yay! I love Eowyn, she's so much what I'd like to be.
28,524
posted on
09/30/2002 4:30:01 PM PDT
by
JenB
To: rightwingreligiousfanatic
Chalk one up for the Right Wing Spam Sneak....Now THAT was SLICK steal!! My congrats!
To: ksen
Until you get home? I sympathize. Today was the usual Monday - finding all the stuff you left from Friday, plus the stuff other people left from Friday, plus the stuff they broke on Friday, plus the stuff that came in over the weekend.... I solved equations, typed legal documents, did marketing work, fixed bugs, killed my own new code, re-fixed the bugs, and got a paycheck. I only have to work 12 hours out of every period to pay the government. /sarcasm I actually calculated it....
28,526
posted on
09/30/2002 4:32:22 PM PDT
by
JenB
To: JenB
Welcome home! - Trailer looks OK huh?
The fun part about the trailer is that it has more questions than answers! - Nothing is given away, instead, I need to see it in order to figure it all out!
To: HairOfTheDog
Yeah, I'd say it looks ok. ;-)
Talking to a friend who seems to have seen a different trailer.... hmm
28,528
posted on
09/30/2002 4:45:12 PM PDT
by
JenB
To: JenB
Did she see the excerpts that were posted yesterday of the ET segment perhaps?
To: HairOfTheDog
No, I think she saw the old trailer. Her reaction, on getting the right thing - "wow wow wow".
28,530
posted on
09/30/2002 4:54:30 PM PDT
by
JenB
To: JenB
Aragorn smiles once... other than that, there is no smiling in TTT that I have seen! - It is gonna break my heart!
To: HairOfTheDog
It's not a happy story. Be prepared - I am. I love those heartbreaking pieces of stern beauty...
28,532
posted on
09/30/2002 5:05:43 PM PDT
by
JenB
To: HairOfTheDog; JenB; 2Jedismom
Okay. Here goes...
To: JenB
I know it is not a happy story... that is why I always read through TTT quickly. Everything gets worse, except the fall of Saruman! There will be fun, with Treebeard. Perhaps that will be the only real fun part, although there is some comfort in the aid and rest Frodo and Sam receive from Faramir, and the reunion of Merry and Pippin with the others!
To: Overtaxed
You got it!?
To: HairOfTheDog
Yes. Makes me want to slap Elrond's sour puss all over again!
To: HairOfTheDog
Actually on my last few rereads I've been amazed at TT. The least of the trilogy, it's almost "quiet". But at the same time, there are some shining bits... the waterfall, the coneys, the Ents marching to war, Helm's Deep, the contest, the Sam-Gollum interplay, Aragorn shouldering more of his burden, Gandalf's miraculous return and Theoden's equally miraculous healing... and then the betrayal and horror at the end, and the tiny, faint hope that is all we are left with.
That's why hope was mentioned twice in the trailer, I think. Because in Two Towers, hope is all we have - but hope remains. And, as Sam said, "Where there's life, there's hope."
28,537
posted on
09/30/2002 5:17:34 PM PDT
by
JenB
To: JenB
I wish I were so articulate! Your post made my throat constrict!
The trailer only confirms what I've been pretty sure of since Gandalf rode into the Shire...this is going to be a hard journey for us all.
To: 2Jedismom
this is going to be a hard journey for us all. TTT is the Dark Night of the trilogy.
To: 2Jedismom
Yeah, if this was a hard year, let's not ponder waiting for the King!
Thanks for the compliment... I, like Bilbo, am "not so prosy as I like to think".
28,540
posted on
09/30/2002 5:26:36 PM PDT
by
JenB
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