"ROTK mini review thread" thread
Have you read it or will you read it before seeing the film?
I voted no because I refuse to read or partcipate until I've seen the film next Monday. This thread has no other point btw so please feel free to spam to your hearts content. |
LOTR is three of the best movies ever made!!!!
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*MAYOR SPOILER*
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"Mayor spoiler?"
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Tolkien was a pansy. When I first read the book I was mortified by the lack of women in the books... Perhaps I misread something, or have a faulty memory since the movie seems to have plenty of them...
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I think the only women really mentioned are some peoples' wives, and the obvious ones: Galadriel and Arwen.
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I post a pointless thread with a dumb poll and still people vote and comment. Where's all the spam? You guys are waaaay too serious. :rolleyes: :P
Kode - Eowyn????? ;) |
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But nothing beats Star Wars Episode II in terms of worthless love stories. I didn't know if I were to laugh or cry (but since the movie was incredibly bad all around I decided to cry). :D |
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Watch Lawrence of Arabia, The Bridge on the river Kwai, Where Eagles Dare or any other war based film (or book) and see how many female characters there are in those. On this basis it's fair to assume that Tolkien was actually rather generous in having THREE key female roles in what was essentially a war book. |
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Ummmmm.....errrrrr........ Eowen of Rohan was, if anything a MORE significant character in the books than in the movies. MUCH more significant than Arwen, who had her role expanded in the movies. (I guess to offer a romance for female viewers?)
And, as much as I enjoyed RotK, I still think (to continue the Star Wars analogy) that TTT was the best of the three films. Of course, I'll have to wait until I see the "extended version" of RotK before I make a final decision about that. |
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Seriously though (sorry Curt), I don't know what all the fuss here is about. I never missed the presence of women in the story/film at all (maybe because I'm a woman myself :P). ONE woman in the company of nine *shudders* would probably have been as bad as a woman on a pirate's ship (actually not the woman would have been bad there, but the men). It's a mens' world that Tolkien describes, a simple world and a world in pre-medieval times. And at that time where the race of humans is concerned, women have their place within the family cooking and tending and the "female arts" like making tapestries, singing and making the home look beautiful rather than learning how to fight. Plus, Tolkien wrote LOTR in Oxford in the 1930's AND he was catholic at that. I'm pretty amazed he gave Eowyn an in the battle important part (and then it had to be amazone like) part in the book. That's how I see it *shrugs* |
I was recently watching a friend's copy of the Fellowship of the Ring extended version and there's this scene when the fellowship are leaving Lorien (?) Legolas says, "Mmmm...Lembass bread. One small bite is enough to fill the stomach of a full grown man," and he takes a tiny bite out of the piece.
Then Pippin and Merry look guiltily at each other and Merry asks Pippin, "How many did you eat?" Pippin puts on this awesome expression and says, "Four." HAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHH *D I wish they hadn't cut that out. :D |
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Of course, without Tolkien, there would have been no Jordan, so... |
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The lack of women in LOTR bothered me a lot the first time I read it, and I was rather young, so no obsession there, just wonderment. Now it just annoys me. |
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