Marvin Long, Jr. wrote:
>
>>> Which reminds me: since you don't appear to be in jail,
>>> Alberto,
>>
>> Just because I�m posting? You know *nothing* about br jail
>> system...
>
> Well, that's true. Being a USA'un, I just naturally
> assumed that the prison inmates of a Fine Western
> Democracy like Brazil must spend all
> their time bound, gagged, manacled, and catheterized. ;-)
>
Only if you are poor :-)
>
> I didn't have a problem with the lake-beastie.
>
Uh? The pseudo-Kraken *captures* Frodo, raised him over
his mouth, and then releases him!
> I thought the troll-fight
> was ok, except for the animation of the troll itself,
> which seemed a little off. On the other hand, it struck
> me as sort of a high-end "Harryhausen moment" so I let
> it pass.
>
But the Troll does a lot of things, except cause *any* harm
to any character! Not even a broken rib :-/
>
> The one part of the movie that I didn't much like was
> Galadriel's line, "Even the smallest person can change
> the future." WTF? That's not a line that belongs in
> LotR...it belongs in a made-for-children's-TV time
> travel movie. Totally off. But I can forgive it for the
> sake of her "Queen of the Dawn" speech, which rocked.
>
But this sentence, with a different wording, is IIRC said
somehow in LotR. The Queen of the Dawn is one my favourite
LotR parts:
'You are wise and fearless and fair, Lady Galadriel,'
said Frodo. 'I will give you the One Ring, if you ask for it.
It is too great a matter for me.'
Galadriel laughed with a sudden clear laugh. 'Wise
the Lady Galadriel may be,' she said, 'yet here she has
met her match in courtesy. Gently are,you revenged for my
testing of your heart at our first meeting. You begin to
see with a keen eye. I do not deny that my heart has
greatly desired to ask what you offer. For many long
years I had pondered what I might do, should the Great
Ring come into my hands, and behold! it was brought
within my grasp. The evil that was devised long ago
works on in many ways, whether Sauron himself stands or
falls. Would not that have been a noble deed to set to
the credit of his Ring, if I had taken it by force or
fear from my guest?
'And now at last it comes. You will give me the Ring
freely! In place of the Dark Lord you will set up a
Queen. And I shall not be dark, but beautiful and terrible
as the Morning and the Night! Fair as the Sea and the Sun
and the Snow upon the Mountain! Dreadful as the Storm
and the Lightning! Stronger than the foundations of
the earth. All shall love me and despair!'
She lifted up her hand and from the ring that she
wore there issued a great light that illumined her alone
and left all else dark. She stood before Frodo seeming
now tall beyond measurement, and beautiful beyond
enduring, terrible and worshipful. Then she let her
hand fall, and the light faded, and suddenly she
laughed again, and lo! she was shrunken: a slender
elf-woman, clad in simple white, whose gentle voice was
soft and sad.
'I pass the test,' she said. 'I will diminish, and
go into the West, and remain Galadriel.'
Alberto Monteiro, risking summary expulsion from
the Legions of Terror...
