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Posted on 11/03/2004 6:16:42 PM PST by HairOfTheDog
Eleventh Thread: Wedding Edition: The Hobbit Hole XI - No One Admitted Except on Wedding Business!
New verse:
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Upon the hearth the fire is red, |
Still round the corner there may wait |
Home is behind, the world ahead, |
indeed!
I recited that one in particukar because I was cold :-) My toes never really did warm up.
Particular
Good morning!
Faux Friday for me, too! Woo-hoo!
I'm still not sure how Thanksgiving is gonna pan out. We're going to have the meal that day...but Dad doesn't get off work until seven in the evening, so it'll be interesting. And Bilbo and I will pretty much be doing all the preparation.
Please don't take this personally, but just for the record...
I hate you.
LOL! Good morning everyone!
Maybe I will decorate the Christmas plant today ;~D
((((( CORIN )))))
Sigh...I love the Christmas season. And I love all the stuff that goes along with it.
But there are days I miss being on the campaign trail (or usually the job hunt trail by December) when the only decorations I had to worry about was a cardboard Snoopy Christmas tree stuck to the dash of my Honda Civic...
But don't mind me. I'm just feeling the effects of bad ordering decisions last night.
At least I know now why they call that Margarita a "Category 5." And I'm just not sure why we ever thought alcohol and desserts were a good combination...
Heh...actually, I'm better organized than most years. Plus, our usual problem is not having the hous ready to decorate by the time the show starts.
This year we're having company for Thanksgiving, so we're forced to have the house ready (we're almost there).
And Friday, Jr. is on schedule to help me get out the Christmas stuff. There may be limited purchasing required (new bulbs for the plastic holy family, etc.) But I'm in pretty good shape otherwise.
You mean, which POINTS?
The charge of the Rohirrim at sunrise?
Or the coronation of Aragorn, and his reunion with Arwen?
Or the breaking of the Fellowship at The Havens?
Or seeing The King bow in honor to the Halflings?
The whole epic was full of such moments, for me!
Whoops - see Post 3329 for my reply...
Yep, when Aragorn said "My friends, you bow to no one," that was a definite kleenex moment...
I understand (intellectually) that Saruman and "The Scouring of the Shire" had to be removed for time - but what a thing to carve out....
Yeah, we've talked about that. I think we may see more of Saruman in the EE. But there's no scouring.
I would have saved the threes for you 'til the end...
I know The Professor hated allegories in his works, but there's a big one, there.
It's what every soldier dreads: that they come home victorious from the war, to find their home in ruins.
That's what The Left's seems to be trying so hard to do...
Frodo the Deliverer
Gandalf the Resurrected
Aragorn the Triumphant King
Gots me an "A" I did...
I don't miss the scouring... but Saruman could have been handled better instead of that long Smeagol/Deagol thing at the beginning of ROTK...If that needed to be shown, (and I am not sure it did) it could have been somewhere else as exposition about Gollum. Or Saruman could have been done instead of Gollum's teaser scene about leading Frodo to Shelob at the end of TTT. That was anticlimactic and would have been better as an opener to RoTK.
I hardly ever criticize PJ, I love the stuff, but I can't stand the Smeagol/Deagol thing with the fight and the strange portrayal of Smeagol becoming Gollum as if it was some kind of werewolf-like metamorphosis instead of just the slow decay of years.
< /PJ Bash >
I can recall what The Professor himself said:
"If I wrote the epic as real life, then the Ring would have been seized and used against Sauron; the Dark Tower would not have been destroyed, but occupied; a new Dark Lord would have arisen; Saruman would have found the missing elements of Ring-lore in the confusion; and hobbits would have been enslaved by both sides, not being trusted by either."
Not a direct quote, but gistful...
Now me, I personally liked the schizoid conversation between Smeagol and Gollum in TTT. I thought it was a wonderful device!
I agree that we could have done without the Deagol/Smeagol scene. Time better used on another chapter.
Pippin and the palantir was okay! It was the proper unseen dread that the book had.
Agreed! I loved that too.
If I could chop the movie up the way I'd like, it seems like during the conversation in TTT between Frodo and Gollum, where Frodo says the name "Smeagol" and causes Gollum to remember his name.... That would have been a much better place to stick in the flashback to the Deagol fight.
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