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[delga]

Gmail is apparently Very Aware of my Britishness. Thus, the "trash" has become "bin", even though "trash" is a word Shakespeare used to use. Like I'm not going to know that trash equates bin. Sometimes gmail treats me like a moron, which is a sad thing because other than that, it's so wonderful and user-friendly. But seriously.

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Finally saw Return of the King! Typically, the 3 hour film took 7 hours to watch; more typically, I bawled through most of it. Lots of people had warned me that the film never flipping ends, and I didn't believe them until I actually saw it.

Also typical: I LOVED it, even though I think some of the pacing was a off and I also think Jackson made a couple of really odd directorial choices that he'll regret as the film ages (they were Very Odd and threw me out of the narrative sometimes - mostly they were moments when the camera focused on someone's face at a strange distance, or cut to them in a way that was not at all subtle. I don't know; it irked me a little). I have LOTS to say about the characters, but I think I really ought to try the book again some day (I was 14 the first time I tried) before I give a true commentary. I ached for Samwise all the way through this movie, and especially at the very end because that's a very specific sort of loneliness to have to endure. But I'm told that after his wife dies (!!!) he sets off for Valinor to be reunited with Frodo. Also: when Legolas finally goes over, he takes Gimli with him! Fabulous.

Hahaha, something else that distressed me immensely: the slaying of the Oliphaunts. I just... they're basically GIANT ELEPHANTS. I can't deal with that stuff.

Anyway, yayarms!

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I have loads of half-completed series on disc - Mad Men, Burn Notice, L&O: CI season 3-5, Band of Brothers, Murphy's Law, Wonderfalls. Perhaps I should be more systematic? Also, I have 4 episodes of CSI to watch but I think I'm going to have to leave that and marathon it later this year. Casting is depressing, which is a shame, because I didn't really watch that show just for casting.

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I was very good today - woke up, got ready, read the rest of Shelley's Prometheus Unbound. Now I'm going to make some toast and tea, then I'm going to do more work. Productivity, wahey!

Comments

[denorios.livejournal.com]

Oh, Lord of the Rings. I'm decidedly 'meh' about the actual book but I love the movies beyond all reason I'm so glad you enjoyed them!

I wept in the cinema at ROTK and had to be dragged out of there, partly because it's a weepy kind of film but partly because it was all over and I wasn't ready for it to be over!

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

Too many songs and tangents, I think, but yay!films.

Yeah, I was pretty much bawling from the get go. lol.

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

You mean the Mûmak/mûmakil? Also known as oliphaunts. Mûmakil is what they're called by the men of Gondor; in the film they're consistently referred to as oliphaunts, though this is actually the Hobbit word for them. Do I know a lot of random things about the Hobbitverse despite not actually having read the books? Why yes, yes, I do. For example, Boromir's father is Denethor II. Denethor I also named his first son Boromir. And Legolas literally means greenleaf. Yay for trivia!

I BAWLED basically through the WHOLE THING. I was also gooey when Samwise got married to Rosie Cotton, and when Aragorn was reunited with Arwen, yayarms.