The Hall of Fire

The problem is that its a narrative error introduced in the books. I mean, why release the all-powerful army of undead right before the biggest battle? Gimli's joke wasn't too far off the mark in this case. ;) Uh-huh, there's *no* narrative error in the book. In the book it is established that the ...

I remember being extremely annoyed by knife-to-the-throat and ASTF (was there such an abbreviation? Arwen Stealing Frodo's Thunder?), but ended up mostly liking Arwen in the movies. The scene of Aragorn's death alone was worth Arwen's expanded role. I recently rewatched LoTR, for the first time in 5...

Primula Baggins - yay, another Joss fan! :) I hope you'll get into Buffy some day: it's a mammoth, I agree, especially compared with 14 series of Firefly. But it's more rewarding in the end. There you can see what Joss can do when allowed to finish what he starts. Also, have you heard he'll be doing...

Unless my memory is really gone, I do believe I was scheduled to meet Mrs Underhill at the Museum of Science for the LOTR exhibition some years ago. We went to the Exhibition with Tata Bolger, couple of years ago. But my memory is now hazy. I don't recall if anyone else went with us, or was going t...

Some interesting links on Del Toro: 1) Del Toro CHAD's interview. He talks Hellboy-2 and general filmmaker shop, and he doesn't mention Hobbit at all. But what made me go all warm and gooey was his mention of Firefly and Buffy as examples of TV shows which build great relationships between character...

Weighing in on this debate: I think the most important mortal characters in ME were Beren, Eärendil and Frodo. They brought about huge, epochal changes, and all served to redress the sins and wrongs of their immortal and godlike counterparts, and start new eras. I suspect that Frodo destroying the o...

Thank you! :) I meant to go over and post here too. It's been a while since I visited Tolkien fandom, and then one rewatch of the movies after 5 years, and voila - I'm now rereading the books again, and the passion is back, and I'm so happy to see the familiar faces from TORC and learn that life did...