Did you never see the Jack-Black-as-Frodo parody?!?
I did. I just blanked it out.
BLANKED OUT
All right, no one's killing folk today, on account of our very tight schedule.
Mal ,'Trash'
Spike's Bitches 44: It's about the rules having changed.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
StuntHusband - Jul 13, 2009 9:32:50 am PDT #16442 of 30000
Electromagnetic candy! - Stark
Ginger - Jul 13, 2009 9:35:17 am PDT #16443 of 30000
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Just posted on the local Freecycle list:
Xena Halloween Costume size Large fits approximately a size 14. Its a polyester dress type thing made to look like her metal suit of "armor." Cute.
I'm of the opinion that the written Tolkien is losing cultural context to remain *interesting* to younger readers.
I found Tolkien much harder to take as I got older.
Gudanov - Jul 13, 2009 9:42:32 am PDT #16444 of 30000
Coding and Sleeping
FOUR WOMEN influence the plot
I'm probably just forgetting someone but I can only come up with three and Arwen barely counts in the books.
Aims - Jul 13, 2009 9:46:39 am PDT #16445 of 30000
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Arwen, Eowyn, Galadriel, Legolas.
Four.
*w*
Jessica - Jul 13, 2009 9:47:18 am PDT #16446 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Galadriel, Arwen, Eowyn, and...Farmer whatsisname's wife with the mushrooms? Goldberry?
Connie Neil - Jul 13, 2009 9:52:41 am PDT #16447 of 30000
brillig
I adore Tolkien. I keep meaning to memorize the Dwarven poem re: Moria, because the flow of the language is so gorgeous in that.
I'm not a fan of elves, but that may be Liv Tyler's fault.
StuntHusband - Jul 13, 2009 9:55:37 am PDT #16448 of 30000
Electromagnetic candy! - Stark
I consider Rose Gamgee nee Cotton to be significant, if only (like Arwen) because she's an inspiration; she inspires Sam (and by extension, the other 3 Hobbits) to persevere.
Eowyn is the only female character to *act* - even Galadriel is just window-dressing. Her little display with the Mirror was entirely selfish: by rejecting the temptation of the Ring, she bought her way back into Uttermost West (she had been banished for disobedience and not stopping the Kinslaughter). The help she gives the Fellowship could have been done by Celeborn - it wasn't *particular* to her. Eowyn was *particular*.
Arwen was the prize Aragorn won for destroying Sauron; Elrond said, "Nope - not letting a rootless vagabond marry MY immortal gorgeous daughter. Become King, you tramp!"
So he did. And then she spat in dad's eye and sacrificed her immortality (and gave it to Frodo).
There are other minor named female characters - Lobelia Sackville-Baggins, Goldberry, Mistress Ioreth of the Houses of Healing - but really, LotR is a Boy's Best Adventure tale.
Jessica - Jul 13, 2009 9:56:53 am PDT #16449 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I consider Rose Gamgee nee Cotton to be significant
Oh, DUH. Yes, she's important, even if she's only in about 5 pages out of several thousand.
-t - Jul 13, 2009 9:57:08 am PDT #16450 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Lobelia Sackville-Baggins?
Shelob?
(this was x-posty, I was trying to think of a 4th)
sumi - Jul 13, 2009 9:57:20 am PDT #16451 of 30000
Art Crawl!!!
What about Luthian? Or Aragorn's mom?