"...because, apparently, Rivendell is a smoke-free area."

[eowyn1]

Boy, am I glad they decided to let Gandlaf smoke during Lord of the Rings.

And is anyone else incredibly amused by the fact that Jonathan Rhys-Davies is 3 inches taller than Orlando Bloom?

Anyway, the 20-hour Star Wars marathon has only impressed upon me that, as much as I love them, they are not very good films. And it has instilled in me the desire

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[dsrotj]

nah... biggest dork is such an... absolute term.

I have to tell you that this post has inspired a marathon of my own - I'm halfway through the LotR as I write this, taking a small break. I'm not sure anyone who knows you well enough doubts your connection with the warrior princess. :) It fits you.

So I'll be back for a few weeks in December and January; hopefully I'll get to Bloomington at some point in there.

[eowyn1]

This is extremely funny because I gave up resisting last night and kept watching the commentaries - I'm halfway through Two Towers. I think at some point before I went to bed we were watching LotR at the same time.

Also funny... how long have I had this journal? - and this is the first entry that I've said anything about LotR. I'm not really part of the fandom at all - I think I just keep using "Eowyn" and other LotR terminology for screenames and drive names because those books and computers were linked very early in my childhood - the servers at my mother's university were named Gimli, Rohan, etc. What an odd matchup - that and two extended trips there (the first about a month) and New Zealand is a part of my youth too. Weird. Watching them again I only grow more convinced that these are my favorite movies and, I truly believe, possibly the best films ever made.

[dsrotj]

I definitely think they're up there - and as a series or trilogy or whatever they are completely unmatched in the history of film... and probably in the history of literature (Shakespeare's histories don't count as they're not necessarily sequential, there are significant time gaps between each play). I was thinking about this before as I was watching - I don't think they were wrong when they said it was the greatest story ever told. I still have some minor quibbles with the film(s) - Liv Tyler can't act, Frodo and Sam have about three death scenes each at various points. Hugo Weaving wasn't the most inspired bit of casting. But all in all, exceptionally good.

I started watching at around 12.30 pm, so if you were still awake at 10.30, then yes, we were watching at the same time.

I use names from LotR all the time too - my computer's hard drive is named Mithrandir (always has been actually), and I've had various characters in games I play called Eomer or Faramir or Imrahil.