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Also, most ridiculous sentence seen today on lj: "Crossing Harry Potter with LotRiPS is perhaps an obvious temptation, but done well it's one that can be quite worth giving into."

Apparently completely serious.

An... obvious temptation? WTF?

Is it wrong of me to want to find a set of images of Legolas' famous pulled-shot at the end of LotR? The one where he adjusts his release perfectly so's to send his arrow through just the Uruk-hai and not through Aragorn as well? Since his full release can send an arrow through two orcs in armor at once?

And to want it solely so as to make an animated icon of the stance, the release, the arrow, the Uruk-hai getting hit, and Aragorn running away and caption it "Great Yukon double douglas fir telescoping bank shot?"

That's probably wrong, huh?

Random thoughts on the movie:

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I've decided to read LotR again, because I love the book, and I keep thinking about my favorite moments. This is probably a very bad idea; last year I read FotR just before seeing the movie, and was incredibly irked by the lack of grittiness and the dumbed-down characters and the... well, and so on. I mean, I recognize the changes they had to make to turn it into a movie. Hard to fit Tom Bombadil in, and definitely you need to abbreviate the extensive "camped. was cold. and hungry. argued about best way to go. was frightened by animals. still hungry." But that end scene with Aragorn, who in the book is the steadfast and incorruptible, the symbol of all that is good in humanity, just to make his decision easier to explain? Oy.

But I'm gonna do it anyway; I don't remember Fanghorn Forest nearly well enough.

In other news, my mother came up with what I believe to be the best capsule review of LotR:FotR ever. She'd never seen it, because she felt she'd imagined it quite well enough, thanks. Yesterday, we made her watch five minutes to get an idea of what the movie was like. Her reaction: "It's like watching a moving Thomas Kincaid painting. Why would anyone want to watch a moving Thomas Kincaid painting?"

Dead on: LotR:FotR was soft-focus all the way. The CGI was soft-focus. Liv Tyler and all the characters were soft focus versions of their book selves. Soft-focus and incredibly clean. The acting was soft-focus. The music was soft-focus and, I might add, totally unlike the pieces Tolkien wrote. I hope the second movie is more true to the spirit of book.