Voicing my concerns, Goldberry the Golddigger

[Tabouli]

Joanne:
>> Ebony wrote:
>>My first crush, at the tender age of almost two, was on Kermit the 
>>Frog.  (Shut up.)  
>
>Hey, I like Kermit. And can he sing!

Indeed he can.  Ebony and I were reminiscing about how very cute he was when singing The Rainbow Connection. I was very sad when Jim Henson died so young: I'm told that afterwards they couldn't find anyone who could do Kermit's voice perfectly, so they hired Jim's son and started whittling down Kermie's air time.

(Which reminds me... I'm troubled by recent news that they had to dub over Daniel Radcliffe's breaking voice... and at only 12!  For some reason this bothers me: less authentic?)(and yes, yes, I know this should go onto the MOVIE list.  How are things going with the list compartmentalisation, eh Mods?)


David:
> which brings us back to Tom Bombadil and Goldberry, who IIRC was 
> always gathering them... (willow branches)
>
>Dive for cover everyone!

Huh?  says Tabouli, unsure as to whether David suspects Goldberry of using willow branches as lethal weapons or alluding warily to her own propensity for copious verses in defense of the Bombadils... though hang on, were the two of them united in holy wedlock?  What with Tolkien's finicky, romanticised efforts at writing female characters, I can't imagine them not being, but then don't virtuous young women change their surnames in Middle Earth?  Is Goldberry a Bluestocking?  Were Tom and Goldberry Living In Sin??  For shame!  (Sweet young Goldberry is a pretty harlot, bright blue her stockings are, and her past is scarlet?)

>David, who never did get an answer about Goldberry's preference for 
Slytherin colours<

Maybe this is it!  Goldberry is a euphemism for Golddigger!  What sinister ambitions has the river daughter?  She's quietly preying on Tom, inviegling herself into his graces with dew-bright suppers and water-lilies, all the while waiting to seize her moment to strangle him with willow fronds and claim his cottage and the entire Old Forest for herself!  How she must snigger at his refusal to see her true colours...

Tabouli (who is starting to get a bit silly: must be my new Yeti slippers)



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