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Sep. 10th, 2002 09:16 pmHrm. Tolkien. The really major points, the really eloquent speeches have already been made.
I'll admit that I've never been his biggest fan. Of course, this may stem from childhood trauma. For my eleventh birthday, my uncle gave me 'The Hobbit' and the 'Lord of the Rings' trilogy.
In one volume. Of course, being the fool that I am, I tried to read it. You could have killed a horse with the thing.
At this point, you're probably looking at my icon and blinking. As I was saying... I gave up on it after a while. I just couldn't get into it. It was just too dry. My cousin and her husband took myself and my brother to see it when they were in town, and I loved the movie. It was just brilliant. The scenery, the costuming, everything just clicked together. It didn't feel like three hours at all.
After that, I picked up LotR again. I made it through FotR and part of... Uh... The next one. I still have my one copy edition, so I'll beg that as a reason for why the name escapes me. I'm still working on it. I feel like I should be able to finish them, because I loved the movie so much, but I still couldn't really get into it. Tolkien's prose kind of trips me up. I have the attention span of a cricket, and I kind of started to lose interest after Boromir bit it.
I still love the movie, but the fandom is kind of offsetting. I came out of each viewing with new plot bunnies, but something put me off, and I've kind of gradually lost interest in the fandom itself. I mean... There are only so many times you can see 'A new, female elf joinz the fellowship! what is her secret past and will it destroy them all and can Leglas lover her thu it all or...' Or 'Does Legolas heart Aragorn enough to give up everything and will Arwen get in the way. CONTAINS SLASH!!!'
Note to a certain person: This doesn't mean I'm going to stop bugging you to write a certain something, eventually... Hey, there are few good Boromir fics out there, and I really don't think that I could do a good enough job of capturing him to write one myself.
Legolas could an interesting character to work with. He really has no back story to worry about conflicting with, so you can do anything. His motivation is never that clear, so you also have a lot of leeway there, and he's been around a long, long time. However, he's just so overused that it's near impossible to do something new, and I've just never liked using characters that are just so omnipresent in fanfiction.
Boromir is just fascinating to me, because all he wants, all he's ever wanted, is to protect his people, because they are really his people. They're in his blood and he would give everything for them. He's from the line of stewards, and he sees Aragorn waltz back in, and he can take away everything that Boromir is, because he is the descendant of the man who betrayed them all. He can have everything Boromir's ever been, and he doesn't even want it.
Poor Boromir. He's the most sympathetic of them all to me, and the dynamic between he and Aragorn is fascinating, especially in the movie. So very, very sympathetic. So very, very doomed.
I'll admit that I've never been his biggest fan. Of course, this may stem from childhood trauma. For my eleventh birthday, my uncle gave me 'The Hobbit' and the 'Lord of the Rings' trilogy.
In one volume. Of course, being the fool that I am, I tried to read it. You could have killed a horse with the thing.
At this point, you're probably looking at my icon and blinking. As I was saying... I gave up on it after a while. I just couldn't get into it. It was just too dry. My cousin and her husband took myself and my brother to see it when they were in town, and I loved the movie. It was just brilliant. The scenery, the costuming, everything just clicked together. It didn't feel like three hours at all.
After that, I picked up LotR again. I made it through FotR and part of... Uh... The next one. I still have my one copy edition, so I'll beg that as a reason for why the name escapes me. I'm still working on it. I feel like I should be able to finish them, because I loved the movie so much, but I still couldn't really get into it. Tolkien's prose kind of trips me up. I have the attention span of a cricket, and I kind of started to lose interest after Boromir bit it.
I still love the movie, but the fandom is kind of offsetting. I came out of each viewing with new plot bunnies, but something put me off, and I've kind of gradually lost interest in the fandom itself. I mean... There are only so many times you can see 'A new, female elf joinz the fellowship! what is her secret past and will it destroy them all and can Leglas lover her thu it all or...' Or 'Does Legolas heart Aragorn enough to give up everything and will Arwen get in the way. CONTAINS SLASH!!!'
Note to a certain person: This doesn't mean I'm going to stop bugging you to write a certain something, eventually... Hey, there are few good Boromir fics out there, and I really don't think that I could do a good enough job of capturing him to write one myself.
Legolas could an interesting character to work with. He really has no back story to worry about conflicting with, so you can do anything. His motivation is never that clear, so you also have a lot of leeway there, and he's been around a long, long time. However, he's just so overused that it's near impossible to do something new, and I've just never liked using characters that are just so omnipresent in fanfiction.
Boromir is just fascinating to me, because all he wants, all he's ever wanted, is to protect his people, because they are really his people. They're in his blood and he would give everything for them. He's from the line of stewards, and he sees Aragorn waltz back in, and he can take away everything that Boromir is, because he is the descendant of the man who betrayed them all. He can have everything Boromir's ever been, and he doesn't even want it.
Poor Boromir. He's the most sympathetic of them all to me, and the dynamic between he and Aragorn is fascinating, especially in the movie. So very, very sympathetic. So very, very doomed.