[LMB] OT: Fantasy crushes

[Elizabeth Holden]

--- PAT MATHEWS <mathews55 at msn.com> wrote:

> Faramir was excellent in the movies, but I rather wish they'd made just a 
> hair more of the growing attraction between him and Eowyn -

Well, yes.  Have you seen the Extended Edition? It had a bit more.

> Elrond I'm not so fond of. A snob (you're not good enough for my daughter), 
> a defeatist, and all too ready to bug out when the going gets tough. 

I don't much like the whole theme of the Elves leaving Middle-Earth.  But in the midst of it all,
I liked Elrond himself.  He had good clothes and an interesting frown.

> In fact, the parents of the heroes didn't come through too well in either book 
> or movie: Denethor, barking mad. Theoden, "playing sub to some [bearded] [in 
> the movie he was clean-shaven] top in a dress" as one of Steve Stirling's 
> characters put it. Elrond, as given above.

Arathorn, dead - and wasn't Aragorn's mother sort of suicidal until she died?  Arwen's mother
faded/wafted away to Valinor.  Frodo's parents, drowned.  Boromir and Faramir's mother, dead by
suicide. Elrond's mum was a bird, wasn't she?  

It didn't pay to be a parent in Middle-Earth.

namaste,
Elizabeth