[Wordsmith]

Sorry, but I can't help myself from posting one inspired bit of elf bashing from the article I've been quoting!

"As the company enters the elven kingdom of Lothlorien, they are challenged by a small band of warrior Elves. The sex of these Elves is ambiguous. Some of them might be male or female, while the only one with a speaking part is, although male, strikingly effeminate. The only explanation I can think of for this strange production choice is that Jackson was attempting to make his Elves beautiful. It is a sad commentary on our cultural understanding of beauty that the only way he could devise to accomplish this was to make them androgynous."

OUCH!

[Corin Stormhands]

It is a sad commentary on our cultural understanding of beauty that the only way he could devise to accomplish this was to make them androgynous.

I just needed to read that again...

[rightwingreligiousfanatic]

"As the company enters the elven kingdom of Lothlorien, they are challenged by a small band of warrior Elves. The sex of these Elves is ambiguous. Some of them might be male or female, while the only one with a speaking part is, although male, strikingly effeminate. The only explanation I can think of for this strange production choice is that Jackson was attempting to make his Elves beautiful. It is a sad commentary on our cultural understanding of beauty that the only way he could devise to accomplish this was to make them androgynous."

This guy gets it! He really gets it!

Haldir of Lorien,
Was a very androgynous elf,
He was ruthlessly snooty,
And awfully haughty,
And he loved to preen himself...
(more to come)

Copyright 2002 RWRF; to be sung to the tune of Frosty the Snowman

[Bear_in_RoseBear]

"Don't hate me because I'm beautiful..."