LotR Marathon Notes, Part Two

[bubosquared]

Again dedicated to riikarocks, my notes on The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers.

... For some reason, I felt it necessary to note that I took off my bra between the two movies. The exact note reads: Have removed bra. FREEDOM! Um, yeah.

People applauded for the opening credits on this one, too. That made me feel all warm and fluffy inside.

Aaand it's the first shotof Aragorn and I'm already snarking on him: This isn't the time to nap, Still-Not-King!

The raid on the Westfold always makes me cry. Tonight was not an exception.

When Éowyn runs up the stairs to Methuseld, she flashes some serious leg. Woo! Also, I still want Gríma, badly, and Billy has the curest smile ever. Apparently.

Legolas and his Random Elf Wisdom got on my nerves sometimes, to the point where I muttered under my breath, "Cram it, Confucius." This apparently greatly amused the people sitting next to me. I aim to please, I suppose.

Legolas/Gimli 4EVAH&EVAH! I still love that scene where they're surrounded by the Rohirrim. And speaking of that, that casual whistle thing Éomer does to call for the horses is really fucking sexy.

"A swamp?" ("My home, this is.") I really wish the voices in my head would stop butting in on each other's fandoms. Dammit.

Legolas walking Gandalf into the Hall of Methuseld still makes my brain hum There Goes the Bride. I need serious help. but I adore all the little horsey details in the Hall.

Aaand Robin Hood to the rescue! Which is in reference to Faramir this time, and I need to stop with the random other fandom references, I think.

Aragorn headbutts one of the orcs on the wargs! (Only ruby_fruit will understand this.)

Tsk, Legolas, elves should shave properly. I actually noticed stubble on quite a few close-ups, and it was kind of annoying when it happened with elves. Elves do not have stubble!

The scene where Elrond stares at the tapistry of Isildur and Sauron (and, we learn later, decides to send Haldir and co off to Helm's Deep) was such an Elrond/Isildur moment for me. Siiiigh.

Pippin manipulating Treebeard in order to get him to see the destruction Saruman has caused (and thus get him into the war) was insufferably cute, Frodo and Sam are OMGSOINLOVE, but I still dislike most of Sam's big speech at the end.

More applause during closing credits, and then I went and had a smoke in a corner somewhere while waiting for RotK to start. Before that, though, the people of Elanor, the Belgian Tolkien Association, put up a sort of mini-LARP for us, with an Uruk-Hai looking for Sam and Frodo and sniffing the audience (including me! I got sniffed by an Uruk-Hai! Yay!), really fucking cool Nazgûl, an Aragorn who looked vaguely like Bernard Hill (Théoden), and a Sam who attacked a Nazgûl with two pots. And then Sam and Frodo hugged and the entire audience "Awwww"ed and I LOVE FAN AUDIENCES!

Comments

[ruby-fruit.livejournal.com]

*licks Eowyn* *and what the hell, licks Eomer too*

"Aragorn headbutts one of the orcs on the wargs!"

An expression of the lurve that can never be!!!one!

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

Ahahaha! Poor Aragorn and his IMPOSSIBLE LOVE!

Mm, Rohan royalty ... Want Théoden to make the set complete?

[ruby-fruit.livejournal.com]

TRAGICAL!

Whee! *gropeslicks Theoden* Bernard Hill, you are a sexy, sexy man.

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

God, he is so sexy. Someone needs to write Viggo/Bernard. Like, now.

[ruby-fruit.livejournal.com]

Dude, totally. Especially after the all the extras. (the scolding!)

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

I KNOW! SOCUTE!