Clueless in Middle Earth (WAS LOTR movie)

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--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "cindysphynx" <cindysphynx at h...> wrote:
> Megan wrote:
> 
> > Cindy, Cindy...I now join your ranks under the clueless
> > seen-movie-but-not-read-the-books order.  
> 
> Megan, we can't be the only people in our newly founded order.  There 
> must be other people who haven't read the books, but they're just not 
> willing to admit it.  :-)  We just need a nifty name or acronym to 
> entice them to admit to this gap in their educations.  
> Maybe "Fellowship of the Celluloid"?

Nifty!  I have absolutely balked at reading them all my life.  Today
ALMOST swayed me until I figured out I could get a
brief-but-detailed-enough-to-satisfy-me summary on the internet! 
Rejoice!  Now I at least will know the skeleton of the story which
will satisfy me until I can see it fleshed out on screen. (And all
important--the ending--the part no one can can ever wait to discover)

> One more observation:  I think the guy who died at the end (gee, I 
> already forgot his name) was not a particularly compelling character 
> or a good actor.  When the orc hit him with three arrows and he kept 
> fighting, I wanted to go onto the screen and finish him off myself.  
> I thought the tired old device of shooting someone repeatedly and 
> having them rise to fight again went out with the old Monty Python 
> movies.  I really, really wanted the orc to shoot him a fourth time, 
> right between the eyes to get it over with.

My mom and I were just sitting there saying, "Die already!"  I never
liked him (Boromir) in the first place.  I'm truly terrible at telling
people apart and kept mixing him and Aragorn (right?) together.  Glad
he died because he was kind of whiney.  

> Also, was there any relationship between Pretty Boy and the Evil 
> Wizard who threw Gandolf onto the top of the tower?  They both have 
> sleek long blond hair, but maybe it is a coincidence?

Shall I spoil it for you?  His name is Saruman (right?) and he is
(scroll if you want to know).
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He is Gandalf's half-brother.  Don't ask me how or why, I just read it.

*is sure millions of Tolkein fans are chucking rotten tomatoes at her
at this very moment, since she is giving away things from a
sacriligious internet-summary!*

-Megan (ducking, also wondering how people can compare LOTR and HP, as
they are clearly completely and utterly different as far as she can tell)

*also wondering how Sauron can have a name in the credits when it is
just a large, gaping fire-eye making "kkkk whaaaaaaaaaa, SCREEEECH"
noises.*