The Lord of the Rings...

[fajrdrako]

Spent the day watching The Lord of the Rings (extended edition) with maaseru, maaboroshi and lmondegreen. Because of all the snow, josanpq couldn't make it - drat! - but she phoned.

It's a wonderful New Year's Day tradition.

Sauron has fallen and all's right with the world.

Comments

[mmegaera.livejournal.com]

Where's Parry Sound?

And, see, I loved The Hobbit. I read it any number of times when I was a kid. Which is one reason I think I was so disappointed in LotR when I tried to read it as a teenager.

As for Aragorn's turtleneck, it was the only article of clothing in the entire trilogy of movies that hit me as anachronistic. It looked like it came out of a Lands End catalog [g]. The rest of the costuming was so perfect...

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Where's Parry Sound?

Somewhere between Sudbury and Algonquin Park. On Georgian Bay, which is on Lake Huron. Or, to use Mal Reynold's term, at the corner of No and Where. Beautiful country, but remote.

I never read The Hobbit as a kid. I read it immediately after I read The Return of the King, with mind and heart all full of majestic heroism and epic grandeur. I didn't want cute Hobbits, I wanted Grand Heroes and Bilbo just didn't fit the bill.

I like Land's End catalogues... come to think of it, I like Aragorn's outfits, too....

I must watch it again just to see that turtleneck.

[mmegaera.livejournal.com]

So evidently it all depends on which you read first, The Hobbit or LotR. Since The Hobbit was meant to be read first, I win [g].

I like Lands End catalogs, too. Just not having their contents be worn by an ostensibly medieval style hero.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Yeah, you win. But I have a longer book to love, so I win too. But I truly don't rally love all of it, so maybe it comes out as a tie.