[HPFGU-OTChatter] LotR heavy on physical affection?

[Adana Robinson]

>From: "Aberforth's Goat" <Aberforths_Goat at Yahoo.com>
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>I do wish they hadn't made Gandolf run about hugging people, though.

That didn't bother me half as much as Aragorn kissing Boromir at the end.  
Bleeeuck!   I'm a woman, and _I_ wouldn't have kissed Boromir.  Although I 
do understand the whole "nobility" thing; kings do go around kissing people. 
  Rank hath its privileges?

Re Gandalf hugging people, Frodo basically jumped him.  He didn't have much 
choice.  I don't remember whether he hugged Saruman or not, we'll hope not.

Bilbo did run to him when he was frightened, and unable to give the ring 
away but scared to keep it; and this illustrates something I found odd about 
the film but I kind of liked anyway--the way the humans treated the 
hobbits--with respect, but with care and concern as well, almost as if they 
were children to be looked after.  They picked the hobbits up several times, 
at one point even carrying them over the snowy mountain pass.  They all got 
used to yelling to Strider for help very quickly, although there's a lack of 
agreement among what they call him.  And when they come out of the mountain 
after Gandalf falls into the pit, it's the humans who take charge of getting 
the "little ones" moving again.

I wonder if this is supposed to be a natural human reaction because of the 
hobbits' size, or if it is supposed to be an indicator of how humans 
literally and figuratively look down on them?

Adana

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