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10-11-2004, 02:42 PM | #1 |
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Things We Love To Hate About The LotR Trilogy
What things in LotR really make you angry when you see them or really annoy you.
One of mine is: What's with Arwen calling Elrond 'Dada'? I mean she isn't a two year old anymore.
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10-11-2004, 02:49 PM | #2 |
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We've had several threads on this. I'm not sure that we really need another one. However, I guess they could always make it a newbie friendly thread.
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10-11-2004, 03:44 PM | #3 |
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BoP,
Now that your are another year older and in dire need of pants to sustain your ebbing life force, do I detect your enthusiasm for newbie-friendliness to be a mask for the ensnarement of the unwary? If so, you show just the right combination of hesitancy to perhaps suggest a legitimate ruse for entrapment!
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10-11-2004, 04:59 PM | #4 |
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Inked, can I assume that your age is showing in your level of suspicion and cynicism?
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Sad though... love of hatred... there MUST be some psychological term for that...
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I think she's saying "tata", which is some elvish form of father - where are all our Elvish language people?
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Maybe we shouldn't have a thread on this. It will either make me go insane or light something on fire. No, not really. I just don't want to think about all the things that annoy me in the movies at once. Aaaa! *runs screaming from the building* I bet this thread is gonna get padlocked though. It just smells like a padlock.
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The word 'Ada' is the Sindarin equivilent of 'dad', 'daddy'. The more formal usage would have been 'Atar' or 'father'. However, given the nature of the scene in question, I don't really see it as unrealistic or out of character. After all, Arwen is such a teary-weepy-emotional-flower-of-maidenhood type. One of the things that really ticked me off, and continues to do so with every single viewing: When the Hobbits are entering Bree, the camera pans over the gate in a perfect shot of the scene. Yet we don't get a glimpse of Aragorn slipping over the fence. That bugged me for some indefinable reason.
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10-13-2004, 10:46 AM | #11 |
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Maniacal laughter is its own reward.
And what's up with all the elves being japanese samuria with weird weapons? That's just stupid. Elves are not even remotely japanese, and the idea that a katana is somehow a better weapon than a folded-steel Toledo longsword is a myth. And while we're talking about the elves, let's talk about the orcs. The makeup looked good, but the costumes and props were ridiculous. I'm really beginning to hate the 'medieval fantasy' look given to arms and equipment.
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10-13-2004, 01:46 PM | #12 |
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I used to be an elvish person, but I forgot>
The palantir was really messed up. It still gets on my nerves. The palantir had to be facing the other one, and whenn Pippin was break dancing on the floor, they wouldn't really have stayed in contact.
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And secant: those are just sabers (all samari swords are sabers but not the other way around) And third: why not?
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10-23-2004, 06:26 PM | #14 |
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10-24-2004, 01:31 AM | #16 |
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Ahem, Wayfarer. That is -the- Orlando Bloom if you haven't noticed. He is referring to his time spent on making the Lord of the Rings movies.
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Nehheh, I think our Insufferable is refering to the thread's title, basically this is where you say what you hate about the movies. So -the- Orlando Bloom hated to be a part of an amazing experience...
Interesting what you learn on messageboards, isn't it?
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*holds out a hand* Welcome to Entmoot, Orlando Bloom. Nice to meet you. I'm Wayfarer the Insufferable. And here, you might want this. *hands over a bag of salt* Try and take one or two grains with everything I say.
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Ah, my apologies Mr. Wayfarer. And welcome to the Moot also, Mr. Bloom. Delighted to be sure.
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