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well....
So. Saw Two Towers tonight. Shiny. Pretty. It always rains during battle, apparently.
Not as good as FotR. And Return of the King should hopefully be better.
Had... many nitpicks, sadly. I didn't leave the theatre totally awestruck and unable to talk. FotR left me that way. (I said "Hee. Wow." a lot on the drive home that night.)
I'm gonna get the big one bugging me off fast. Arwen. What the fuck is up with her? The whole point of the Aragorn/Arwen thing is that she GIVES UP HER IMMORTALITY TO STAY WITH HIM. There is no "You'll live long years after his death" shit.
Elrond apparently has been taking lessons from the Mayor of Sunnydale. Both succeeded, too.
So. Arwen has left Middle Earth. Gee. Guess that means Strider can boink the blonde now.
Unless I missed something, that's the gist of it. Which basically means it won't be King Elessar and Queen Arwen. Sad.
(and, to me, that was the one romantic thing Tolkien had gotten right. They pined for each other, they were true, etc... GAH!)
I like Eowyn.
Helm's Deep.
Oh, lordy, who gave Theoden the Stupid Pills? Has he forgotten all about Dunharrow, or is the geography of Middle Earth so vast, no one noticed it was there?
See, the whole point of Helm's Deep was that they were on the run from that big army thing--along with some of Eikenbrand's troops. And there was already a fairly large group at the Deep, too. And, and. Arrr. It just makes no sense to have changed that--unless it was so there could be MORE people being scared and crap.
*mutter*
Helm's Deep itself was VERY well done. The rain was over the top, but I'll live with it.
Faramir. In some ways, I don't mind the changes. In others, it's highly annoying, because there were better ways to spend the time. Osgiliath was pretty, though (and totally screws over the whole fortress thing *snicker* I don't think I'll change those passages in Random Orcs, though).
Honestly, I don't think the movie makes me want to change RO a bit. Unlike FotR, which inspired it, I like what I've written. And don't like the changes made.
Oh! One of the things that was cool was the Haldir bit. *that* made sense. And I'm blanking on whether it's in the book or not.
Hrm. Anyway. I liked it, on the whole. I could wish they hadn't mucked about so much, but... Who's gonna marry Faramir now, if Aragorn gets Eowyn?
Not as good as FotR. And Return of the King should hopefully be better.
Had... many nitpicks, sadly. I didn't leave the theatre totally awestruck and unable to talk. FotR left me that way. (I said "Hee. Wow." a lot on the drive home that night.)
I'm gonna get the big one bugging me off fast. Arwen. What the fuck is up with her? The whole point of the Aragorn/Arwen thing is that she GIVES UP HER IMMORTALITY TO STAY WITH HIM. There is no "You'll live long years after his death" shit.
Elrond apparently has been taking lessons from the Mayor of Sunnydale. Both succeeded, too.
So. Arwen has left Middle Earth. Gee. Guess that means Strider can boink the blonde now.
Unless I missed something, that's the gist of it. Which basically means it won't be King Elessar and Queen Arwen. Sad.
(and, to me, that was the one romantic thing Tolkien had gotten right. They pined for each other, they were true, etc... GAH!)
I like Eowyn.
Helm's Deep.
Oh, lordy, who gave Theoden the Stupid Pills? Has he forgotten all about Dunharrow, or is the geography of Middle Earth so vast, no one noticed it was there?
See, the whole point of Helm's Deep was that they were on the run from that big army thing--along with some of Eikenbrand's troops. And there was already a fairly large group at the Deep, too. And, and. Arrr. It just makes no sense to have changed that--unless it was so there could be MORE people being scared and crap.
*mutter*
Helm's Deep itself was VERY well done. The rain was over the top, but I'll live with it.
Faramir. In some ways, I don't mind the changes. In others, it's highly annoying, because there were better ways to spend the time. Osgiliath was pretty, though (and totally screws over the whole fortress thing *snicker* I don't think I'll change those passages in Random Orcs, though).
Honestly, I don't think the movie makes me want to change RO a bit. Unlike FotR, which inspired it, I like what I've written. And don't like the changes made.
Oh! One of the things that was cool was the Haldir bit. *that* made sense. And I'm blanking on whether it's in the book or not.
Hrm. Anyway. I liked it, on the whole. I could wish they hadn't mucked about so much, but... Who's gonna marry Faramir now, if Aragorn gets Eowyn?