[LMB] OT: Fantasy crushes

[Elizabeth Holden]

I said:

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

Pat said: 
> No, I haven't. Hmmm...

Don't get your hopes up too much, it isn't a lot more. But it's something.

> 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. 

Well, he couldn't be my choice.  I thought it was strange that Faramir said he loved Eowyn because
of her great sadness, until I realized that "great sadness" was probably his strongest memory of
his mother.

> 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. 

Yes.

> And how would the elves have dealt with that?

Sadly.

> 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. 

LOL. Good point.  They must have been even worse gossips than those Shire folk.

namaste,
Elizabeth