Comments | cloakeddeity: *Sniff*

cloakeddeity

Sniff

Feb 28, 2003 11:40

Darn this Soar throat. *cough*
Achoo!!!! Bless me or gesundheit.

1. What is your favorite type of literature to read (magazine, newspaper, novels, nonfiction, poetry, etc.)? I hardly ever read any of these - i prefer movie rentals. But i would rather read Fiction-Sci-Fi and a little poetry here and there-mainly done by the crew themselves.

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joan_the_slayer February 28 2003, 08:58:41 UTC

*Keeps her distance from Yvette--Doesn't want to catch it*

Want me to make you some tea, hun? I couldn't get through LOTR either, mainly because it had no interesting female characters. What, girls can't go on adventures and be kickass heroes?

cloakeddeity February 28 2003, 09:04:50 UTC

Tea? sounds great.

Yea LOTR lacked female empowerment. But i loved the Elf guy Legolas- he was favorite. So i had to give the movie props for him- Even though the elf remained clean and untouched throughout the whole movie when a war was right in his face. How's that possible? he didn't even have a messing hair-do.

joan_the_slayer February 28 2003, 09:06:50 UTC

Maybe elvin magic? Isn't it just in their nature to be tidy?

fair_witness February 28 2003, 09:09:54 UTC

It's an elf thing. :)

More seriously about elf things, have you read Terry Prachett's Lords and Ladies? It's more dark-elf, practically Unseelie Court stuff, but there's a quote in there I was thinking of earlier today:

"Elves could make themselves at home on a wire. And there there was more lace and velvet and fewer feathers, although it was hard to know if it meant that these were aristocrats--elves seemed to wear whatever they felt like wearing, confident of looking absolutely stunning."

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jscheme February 28 2003, 09:05:54 UTC

LOTR but the damn thing is too long. (3 books) i rather wait 3 years to see the whole Saga in film

No! The films are book-rapage. They completely miss all the important points, and what important points they manage to not miss, they cheapen. Strongly suggest taking a deep breath and getting into it...

cloakeddeity February 28 2003, 09:10:44 UTC

I still rather see the Film with all the special effects and hotties working in it. I opened the book and it is too much narrative for me-i get easily distracted with other on-goings.

jscheme February 28 2003, 09:13:56 UTC

Oh, I'm enjoying the films too.
The story sucks, but they do an amazing job at providing audio-visual aanimated pictures for the scenes from the book. I just ignore the story :)

fair_witness February 28 2003, 09:24:23 UTC

We had a movie night last year with the extended edition, and one of the guests was a man who in addition to having a Master's in history (and has a commanding familiarity with the folklore sources Tolkein used), re-reads the whole trilogy at least once a year. At any rate, at various points during the movie, he'd ask for us to pause, or someone else would ask for an explanation, and he'd launch into this absolutely fascinating discussion as to why this plot point or another was so important and how it related to Middle-Earth history. If he were not such an accomplished storyteller, or if we were all not already familiar with the film, it would've been annoying, but believe me, it wasn't. He held us spellbound for a good 15-20 minutes at a stretch sometimes. It really added a lot to the evening.

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Re: I'm ashamed to say... cloakeddeity February 28 2003, 11:29:40 UTC

Ashamed? I barely opened the book. Nothing to be ashamed of. I would rather see the movies.

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Re: I'm ashamed to say... fair_witness February 28 2003, 11:52:30 UTC

I'm not nearly as familiar with the books as some of my friends are, but I think the changes made in the film adaptation basically fall into these categories ( ... )

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Annoying Thread Alert! jscheme February 28 2003, 11:50:29 UTC

We're gonna give Yvette an annoying thread. Woohoo, yay us. Feel better, hon :)

Re: Annoying Thread Alert! cloakeddeity February 28 2003, 11:53:25 UTC

I love when i get one of those-thank you guys. Woo *coughs*. Ahem, Woohoo!! Recovering slowly but surely.

prue_p3 February 28 2003, 13:28:18 UTC

Ooh, sounds like you've got the same thing as my sister. I'll tell you what I told her: take it easy, plenty of fluids, plenty of Kleenex :)

thanks for the tip cloakeddeity February 28 2003, 13:33:32 UTC

been doing that the whole day. Gone through 3 kleenex boxes already. Glad Nurse Joan is around and all the soup everyone had provided has done some good. Glad everyone has been so nice to me today it has helped me get through the day. Achoo!!! *sniff*

Re: thanks for the tip singindemonhq February 28 2003, 14:14:57 UTC

I think you've been (ACHOO!!) cursed too. *Sniff* Who have we both annoyed - I mean in the lastchooo!!! two days... (When did this dimension get so cold?)

Re: thanks for the tip singindemonhq February 28 2003, 14:26:09 UTC

Just wanted to ask
don't think that you would,
but we both have this curse
Did you tease the First Good?

ACHOOOOOOO!!!