Posted on 03/14/2002 5:07:26 AM PST by HairOfTheDog
I thought that too, but aren't the Sackville Bagginses just FROM Sackville? I thought their last name was Baggins and they were from the village of Sackville?
If not, then I am from the renegade branch of the Sackville family that is actually quite nice. ;^)
-Kevin
LOL!
Oh, and one other note about my Sackville name, I just can't picture anyone named Samwise who would be anything other than pleasant. ;^)
-Kevin
But we wants it, Precious.
Then there was Lobelia. Poor thing, she looked very old and thin when they rescued her from a dark and narrow cell. She insisted on hobbling out on her own feet; and she had such a welcome, and there was such clapping and cheering when she appeared, leaning on Frodo’s arm but still clutching her umbrella, that she was quite touched, and drove away in tears. She had never in her life been popular before. But she was crushed by the news of Lotho’s murder, and she would not return to Bag End. She gave it back to Frodo, and went to her own people, the Bracegirdles of Hardbottle.
Man, I love how PJ tucked all these tidbits into the movie!
Wonder if Elves like Buffalo Wings.
Now after Gandalf had ridden for some time the light of day grew in the sky, and Pippin roused himself and looked up...Even as Pippin gazed in wonder the walls passed from looming grey to white, blushing faintly in the dawn; and suddenly the sun climbed over the eastern shadow and sent forth a shaft that smote the face of the City. Then Pippin cried aloud, for the Tower of Ecthelion, standing high within the topmost walls’ shone out against the sky, glimmering like a spike of pearl and silver, tall and fair and shapely, and its pinnacle glittered as if it were wrought of crystals; and white banners broke and fluttered from the battlements in the morning breeze’ and high and far he heard a clear ringing as of silver trumpets.
Paragraph two above is pretty-near the same lines that Boromir speaks when he is talking with Aragorn in Lothlorien. It at least looks like the inspiration for that sequence.
Well, as everyone knows, the BEST Miruvor has had ample time to ferment and by the time it is REALLY worth drinking is about two or three thousand years after bottling. By that time the alcohol created by the fermenting process has had time to breakdown which results in quite a refreshing beverage. My favorite flavor is Lip-Smacking Lime™.
Why we even let our youngsters have some before they reach the age of majority which is 1,500, although the elves in Lothlorien want to up the age to 2,100 and are threatening to withhold their Forest Renewal Matching Funds if us Mirkwood elves don’t get with the program. You wouldn’t know it to look at him, but Celeborn has quite the Louis XIV complex going on, wanting to centralize as much authority in Lothlorien as possible.
Anyways, I digress. To answer your question, no, we don’t get drunk. ;^)
-Kevin
Boromir:
I will find no rest here. I heard her voice inside my head. She spoke of my father and the fall of Gondor. She said to me, even now there is hope left. But I cannot see it. It is long since we had any hope. My father is a noble man, but his rule is failing. And then our... our people lose faith. He looks to me to make things right, and I, I would do it. I would see the glory of Gondor restored. Have you ever seen it, Aragorn? The white tower of Ecthelion. Glimmering like a spike of pearl and silver. Its banners caught high in the morning breeze. Have you ever been called home by the clear ringing of silver trumpets?
Gandalf gets a lot of very authentic lines, and Saruman - well, he sounds right. Everyone else has sort of a mixture of book-lines and movie inventions.
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