More LotR babbling.

[bubosquared]

Wheee! Hobbits! Elves! Dwarves! "Pip"! theirloveissoprecious! Gandalf the Gay! Er, Grey. (Dammit, Anna! :p) Boromir! Aragorn! "I would have followed you, my brother, my captain, my king." Eeee! Rugged warrior sex!

Wait, that last one was just my imagination, wsan't it? Dang it all. ^__^

So, yes, My LotR viewings count is now up to three. Give it time, yo. And I even took notes this time! Let's see if I can read them ...

Hm. We got trailers for Ocean's Eleven, which looks like something I'd like, and Ali, which I'm gonna go see this weekend. Because I like Mohammed Ali, and Will Smith is hot. And seems to do a good job in this movie.

Okay, in the intro, we see the Three being given to the elves. Galadriel is one of them. Who're the other ones? (I should know this, shouldn't I? Was also quite disappointed the rhyme wasn't recited in the movie at all. :( This might explain why every time the voice-over (or, later, Gandalf) says "in the land of Mordor" I whisper under my breath "where the shadows lie." I'm a great big geek girl.

Then there's the battle scene, which is ... holy crap! Breathtaking. And Hugo Weaving ni battle armour makes me want to do nasty things to him. And oh, oh, the Elrond/Isildur vibes! I was vibing out of my seat, yo!

BTW, was I hallucinating or was there at least one woman in the battle scene?

Moving onwards to the Shire. Merry and Pippin stealing the firework. "No, get a big one." Ahahahahahahaha! A big one! Bwahahahaha! Oh, god.

I'm probably the lsat one to notice, but I loved how Gandalf surreptuously insinuated chapter titles from LotR and TH into some of his dialogue? So cool.

When they're hiding from the Nazgûl, right after running into Merry and Pippin, you can see Merry and Pippin and Sam huddled together ovre the mushrooms, and I may or may not have had a threesome moment. Oh, and a bit later, on the ferry, Frodo takes this giant leap right into Sam's arms! Squee! theirloveissoprecious! That goes for the other Hobbit pair as well. I melt every time Merry calls Pippin "Pip". Cause no one else does that! And then! When Frodo gets stabbed by the Morgul sword and Sam rushes to his side and Frodo sighs softly "Oh, Sam" and eeee!

Then we have Rivendel and Elrond and the Council and Elrond being amused/bemused/midly irritatred by all those fecking Hobbits popping out of nowhere an every time I see that scene I squee a little more. Give me a couple of more viewings and i'll just implode from the squee of it all.

Hm, seems I got distracted by that whole movie thing at this point, because the next thing is a note on the glance (or rather, the GLANCE) Aragorn and Boromir exchange on the Pass of Ca-something. Mmmm, smolderingly good. ^_^

Oh, Moira. I love Moira. And the drums in the deep, can I just say they scared the living daylights out of me? Good fucking god. (This is probably to blame on Mr King and his special brand of psychological horror. That one story with the toy monkey? I've read it about a dozen times and I still get freked out about it. Fucker.) Also, Boromir saying "They have a cave troll" in that "Oh joy" kind of voice.You're right, Sae, it's great.

Lothlorien. Does anyone else think that thing Legolsa is wearing looks like a satin dressing gown? o_O Also, the Boromir/Aragorn conversation seems to have spawned a bunny. I quote my notes: "A = B's father? Eeep!" And that's all i have to say about that!

Death scene made me cry. Again. My knuckles have bite marks on them. Fuckers.

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[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

Probably for the best not to comment on the Draco thing, cause tht's just me and my issues and prolly tied to that Thing that happened when I was fourteen and the people involved were, too, and later revelations about them and yeah. :/

[sivan.livejournal.com]

May be you and your issues, but then I guess it's me and my issues as well, because sometimes I really think I need to reconsider my feelings about Draco. How can I feel about him the way I do when he's portrayed in the books like he is? Why am I so oddly fond of him? How did he ever become the focus of my attention anyway? Am I not just going another route and somehow justifying what he does in the end? (I am, in a way.) And so on and so forth.

But I still hold that I don't like Draco for what he is, not even if one tries and looks behind the facade that Harry perceives. It's just this potential, this feeling like something's building up, like he may break any moment ... his possible future, his possible wandering between dark and light.
That's what makes him dear to me, and that's why I keep wanting to jump to his defence. "He's about to break. He's about to grow up. Give him time, damnit ..."

*shrug* That's prolly completely different from what you meant, though. Need bed now. Really. *falls asleep on keyboard*

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[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

That's what makes him dear to me, and that's why I keep wanting to jump to his defence. "He's about to break. He's about to grow up. Give him time, damnit ..."

That is exactly what I mean, actually. And I know at least part of it is because I've known plenty of people who, at fourteen, called people "makak" (cuss word for Arab people, equivalent to "nigger" or "mudblood") and a mere five years later were decent, okay people.

And maybe I am rationalising, but I truly do believe that at fourteen, just about everyone is still heavily influenced by their parents, let alone someone like Draco, who father, whom he idolises, is a really strong personality, and who's more likely than not been homeschooled, with friends picked from the "best" families, etc.

Sleep. Yes. Not a bad idea, that.