The Hall of Fire

Well, you know Voronwë, I was intending to read 'The Hobbit' after finishing LotR .... but somehow, I got sidetracked into reading 'Letters' from cover to cover. :D .... and since I'm only up to 131 there's quite a long way to go! I must say that it's very rewarding to read sequentially instead of s...

You've got it, Prim. Thanks

Whereas you, Ax, do not.

It's taken me a few days and there's lots of good posts in between but I did want to reply because, as usual, Ath's words got me thinking once again. :hug: Ath wrote: Tolkien wrote: And for all her wisdom and lineage, she could not forebear to plead with him to stay yet for a while. She was not yet ...

Naturally, we are going to get really nit-picky.

It's what we do...

seems like old times,eh? :) to fulfill that Romance absolutely requires the further mingling of noble Elvish blood with that of one of the last remaining 'true' Numenoreans. So that a stronger strain of elvish blood may continue into the fourth age. Ath wrote: But isn't the child, in essence, just ...

Tolkien, of course, invented just such a term. Ellon refers to a male elf. Elleth refers to a female elf. The race is the Eldar . Any fanfiction worth its salt utilizes these terms. "She-elf" is used by Peter Jackson in his movies as an insult ; only the Nazgûl say it. Of course, Tolkien ...

:D I accept your that interpretation of the scene, Ath is in fact, probably almost precisely what the writers were attempting to achieve ..... seeing the vision of Eldarion was the catylst that caused Arwen change her mind about leaving Aragorn and Middle Earth. I saw no other symbolism. What I don'...

Ah well, I'm indifferent to the kiss. No, really, I am :D although I don't think it necessarily smacks of modern sensibilities. Elves, in the Third Age, even muted Elves still were (I like to believe) capable of passion for all sorts of things .... including romantic love. As for Arwen's pre-cogniti...

Interesting article. There's an entire other subculture going on in the clubhouse. On a somewhat related issue .... I wish G38 would just shut up about Clemens. :x http://38pitches.com/ He thinks that Rocket should be stripped of 4 of his 7 Cy Young awards! An excerpt from a Yankee Blog which pretty...

But, yes, Sassafras, EVERY single time the dialogue was "updated" or whatever they thought they were doing, it was a clunker. One exception, vison: the invented scene at Parth Galen where Aragorn rejects the Ring. " I would have followed you into the very fires of Mordor. " I st...

but one of them is certainly the final confrontation with Saruman. Both versions. But how much was your impression the fault of the script? I disliked most of that scene from start to finish. Except for the parts about 'Gibbets and Crows' taken directly from the book....... Saruman perched on the t...

I'm puzzled, Holby, at what you found lacking in Ian McKellan's acting. I thought it was right on target. :scratch: Me too. I demand an explanation.! (except for that awful forced laughter when Frodo wakes in Minis Tirith :x Have I ever mentioned hating those few moments? Elijah's laughter is worse...

Athrabeth wrote: Maybe it's because he really reminds me of some of the "more human" Elves of the Sil.......especially Thingol. I know, I know - Book Elrond ISN'T like Thingol. Not a bit. But for me, it was kind of neat to see that connection. And I actually thought that it was quite refr...

Actually, even as Gandalf the White he knew doubt, and even apprehension, if not actual fear. Witness the reaction to Faramir's news of seeing Frodo. True, although I draw a distinction between his fear for Frodo and his conviction during the Last Debate that he has sent Frodo to his death whereupo...

Lalaith wrote:Scrubbing bubbles ghosts?! Please explain.

The Dead swarming over Pelannor and into Minis Tirith looked a lot like a TV commercial for the toilet cleaner .... 'scrubbing bubbles'.

Funny though he counselled Gandalf a couple of times in the movies though. I always found that odd. Ah. The diminishing of Gandalf. :x I take particular exception to that arc in Aragorn's character development. It's all wrong and completely unnecessary, my speculation is that in RotK the scriptwrit...

Without Arwen the entire dynamic would have changed. I think her expanded role did actually work quite well for the most part .... although I take strong exception to the silly ALINTTTFOTR subplot (as those who know me well can attest :D ) One has to keep in mind, I think, that PJ was making a comme...

Start a new thread! I've been itching to both complain and praise the films again. Oddly enough, I didn't much like Fellowship this time around ... whereas before I always thought it was the best of the three .... but even Boromir's slo-mo scene death struck me as over-done. And, of course, I still ...