Naked Frodo in front of chanting Elves?!
Jun. 22nd, 2005 08:52 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
misscamEast of the Sun, West of the Moon has ch. 32 up here (CSI Forensics) and here (ff.net)
I'll probably give blood today and I've thus decided to spoil myself with a good meal first. Something meaty, mmmm.
In other news, this cracked me up this morning - The Lord of the Rings movies that might have been.
It looks on a few suggested scripts before Peter Jackson and... Oh man.
Boorman was simply too full of his own creative spark to limit himself to what was in Tolkien’s book. For example, consider this strange sequence of events. After the destruction of
the Ringwraiths at the Fords of Bruinen, Frodo is carried into the sparkling palace of Rivendell, where in a vast amphitheatre full of chanting elves he is laid naked on a crystal table and covered with green leaves. A thirteen-year-old Arwen surgically removes the Morgul-blade fragment from his shoulder with a red-hot knife under the threatening axe of Gimli, while Gandalf dares Boromir to try to take the Ring (...)
Gandalf leads Gimli through a primitive rebirthing ritual, making him dig a hole and crawl into it, covering him with a cloak and violently beating and verbally abusing him, until he springs forth with recovered memories of his forgotten ancestral language and speaks the Dwarvish words needed to open the doors
So, so wrong.
In other news:
KKK leader is convicted for recruiting killers 41 years ago
Gay student pastor is hired despite Oslo bishop's opposition (Fitting, in that it's gay pride week in Oslo.)
A taste of Norwegian summer (pictures)
I'll probably give blood today and I've thus decided to spoil myself with a good meal first. Something meaty, mmmm.
In other news, this cracked me up this morning - The Lord of the Rings movies that might have been.
It looks on a few suggested scripts before Peter Jackson and... Oh man.
Boorman was simply too full of his own creative spark to limit himself to what was in Tolkien’s book. For example, consider this strange sequence of events. After the destruction of
the Ringwraiths at the Fords of Bruinen, Frodo is carried into the sparkling palace of Rivendell, where in a vast amphitheatre full of chanting elves he is laid naked on a crystal table and covered with green leaves. A thirteen-year-old Arwen surgically removes the Morgul-blade fragment from his shoulder with a red-hot knife under the threatening axe of Gimli, while Gandalf dares Boromir to try to take the Ring (...)
Gandalf leads Gimli through a primitive rebirthing ritual, making him dig a hole and crawl into it, covering him with a cloak and violently beating and verbally abusing him, until he springs forth with recovered memories of his forgotten ancestral language and speaks the Dwarvish words needed to open the doors
So, so wrong.
In other news:
KKK leader is convicted for recruiting killers 41 years ago
Gay student pastor is hired despite Oslo bishop's opposition (Fitting, in that it's gay pride week in Oslo.)
A taste of Norwegian summer (pictures)
