New Year's Day 2006... in Middle-Earth

[fajrdrako]

At ten this morning I took my freshly-bake platter of oatmeal cookies to maaseru's place and we settled down to watch The Lord of the Rings, extended edition, all three movies, beginning to end. We were joined by Richard, Yolande, maaboroshi, lmondegreen and, for a while, josanpq.

Wow. What a delightful immersion.

We all cried (or at least sniffed) at our favourite bits (still). We all (I think)fell asleep at some bits. There was an enforced intermission when, halfway through The Fellowship of the Ring, we all started freezing and it turned out that maaseru's patio door had been opened and had quickly frozen into the open position, so we couldn't close it. And it was only about a zillion degrees below zero outside. In the end it took boiling water, a hammer and a chisel, and a towel, to get the door to shut. Not to mention considerable time and muscle-power.

I'd been playing the Lord of the Rings trivia game last night. It was fun to see the questions we'd got in the game being answered on screen - taking special note of the questions we'd already flubbed. I forgot the name of Aragorn's son and compulsively had to look it up. Actually I got lmondegreen to look it up for me because she had her glasses on and I didn't. It's Eldarion. Maybe I'll remember that next time.

Aragorn is still the best of the best, but I love them all. Sure, the movie still has minor annoyances, but I still love it.

Comments

[sollersuk.livejournal.com]

Aragorn is still the best of the best

Oddly enough, a friend and I were watching "Fellowship of the Ring" last night and agreed that the problem with the casting is that Viggo Mortensen doesn't "look foul" enough; not enough edginess, insufficient feeling of threat. It made him perfect in "History of Violence" but we agreed that that was the part Sean Bean should have had.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Interesting thought! I thought Aragorn was edgy enough - at least to the innocent eyes of a hobbit - and he's now sort of ingrained in my head as movie-Aragorn, though I still have my own mental image of book-Aragorn, who isn't quite the same.

But Sean Bean is wonderful and can do anything, so no doubt if he had been Aragorn I'd have loved that just as much. So would Mortensen then have played Boromir?

[sollersuk.livejournal.com]

No, Faramir was what we thought.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

And would you have given David Wenham a role?