[LMB] OT: Fantasy crushes

[PAT MATHEWS]

>From: Elizabeth Holden <azurite at rogers.com>
>
>--- 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.

No, I haven't. Hmmm...
>
> > 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.

Especially when I have a fair idea precisely where they're going. Let me see 
- blessed isles, immortality, you go through a white light to get to the 
green shores,no mortal may approach, the decrepit and failing Bilbo Baggins 
in a prime candidate for it and so is the war-traumatized Frodo whose old 
wound has never healed - and Gandalf, who was old when the whole thing began 
and had been there once and had been kicked back with "You stlil have work 
to do"....

"Gonna meet my mother .... on the other side...."
>
>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.

Yes. Of course, she had been living with Denethor how long? He doesn't seem 
to have ben very easy to live with. I noticed how the mothers tended to fade 
away or whatever of course, we have one elf woman, wasn't that Arwen's 
mother?  kidnapped by, what was it, orcs? And coming back in bad shape. PTSD 
would be the least of it. I can imagine what else all too vividly. And how 
would the elves have dealt with that?

Not to mention that Rivendell and Lothlorien were both, apparently, rather 
small towns. Small towns out in the middle of nowhere. Small towns in the 
middle of nowhere and you saw the same people day in day out for hundreds 
and hundreds of years. You can't tell ME the most minute details of 
everyone's lives weren't hashed over and rehashed until you wanted to 
scream. "And do you think there's anything between Elrond and Gilraen? Well, 
hey, they're both widowed, aren't they? Oooh, did you hear? Elrond got his 
little girl out of Rivendell the minute Gilraen showed up with her little 
boy. I wonder what's on HIS mind. Well, it won't work. The best way to 
prevent THAT is to actually HAVE them raised like brother and sister. And 
did you see that gown she was wearing?....and Elron'd king of the grey 
elves, isn't he? Then why hasn't he done anything about the potholes in the 
courtyard?"



Elrond's mum was a bird, wasn't she?
>
>It didn't pay to be a parent in Middle-Earth.
>
>namaste,
>Elizabeth
>
>
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