Fellowship was incredible. Awe inspiring and phenomenally beautiful. In a way, I am very glad that I did not re-read the books just before watching the movie because I had forgotten so much of the story itself that it was like experiencing it for the first time. There were a few things that I did remember though… but only with the clarity that a memory of a dream might have a year later. I had a premonition of Gandalf’s death… because I unconsciously remembered it. I loved how they used a replica of the map which is published in the original “The Hobbit: There and Back Again”
God… to see such life and emotion breathed into that world… it is no longer words on a page, or images in your mind… It’s alive, and real. It calls to me personally, in many ways… and for many reasons.
I couldn’t stop crying.
Leaving the theater, I was in this sort of mental state of shock… But it passed much more quickly than it would have if I had just allowed myself to go home and write poetry about the experience. I got lost in Tigard a little bit… Traffic was heavy, and I couldn’t find Washington Square so I could finish my Christmas shopping. The traffic anxiety snapped me out of my state of self-pity and forced me to worry about exits, turn lanes, ass hole drivers behind and in front of me and pretty much mortal life in general. Nothing like a traffic jam to bring you back down to earth.
[not to be continued here.]
anonymous | 20-Dec-01 at 6:18 pm | Permalink
Aiya selerinc?
Not sure that you got my email since you never responded. Maybe you have reasons I dont know about. Maybe you think that I am just another ex-psycho from your past now.
Anyway Im glad you enjoyed the Fellowship. It far surpassed anything I had imagined, due in part to such excellence in acting by the actors. Viggo Mortensen as Aragorn, a man governed by the knowledge of his own inherit weakness, and the fraility to succumb to power that was so observable in Sean Bean as Boromir who, in the end, shows Aragorn that there is still a great strength in men. I was even very impressed with Liv Tyler as Arwen, especially when she spoke Sindarin. Seeing all those beings and places come alive to the silver screen was almost as good as reliving the esxperience of the first time I read those books so many years ago. My only sorrow was that I was not able to lend a hand to the films in bringing those books to life…though perhaps I might get my chance in the Silmarrillion or The Hobbit.
My only regret through the whole movie was that Tom Bombadil had to be left out. But perhaps they will see fit to add him when the DVD comes out.
Take care selerinc?.
Namarie
-Eldar
P.S. Dont worry about giving me Vals email address. Ill ask Seran or Godee.
fezwashu | 21-Dec-01 at 9:23 am | Permalink
Hmm, apparently I’m the only one left who’s not a film writer and yet still has a vivid imagination when I read. Time to act holier-than-thou.
starladear6 | 23-Dec-01 at 3:07 pm | Permalink
It brings me to tears to imagine you thinking that you are nothing more than “another ex-psycho” from my past. That isn’t how I feel at all.
And no, I don’t think I ever got an email from you recently. If I did, and I didn’t respond, it was not for any reason, nothing against you or anything like that. It would have been a mistake, an accident. Something.
I apologize. And I wish you were still in my life.
starladear6 | 23-Dec-01 at 3:08 pm | Permalink
What? I don’t think I understood your comment. you saying that I do not have a vivid imagination when I read?
fezwashu | 23-Dec-01 at 7:05 pm | Permalink
87.3% of the crap that comes out of my mouth (or, in this case, from my keyboard I guess) is worthless crap that is incomprehensible to everyone including myself. I obviously wanted to act holier-than-thou at the time, and therefore it seems like an appropriate thing to say.
You wanna fight?
starladear6 | 24-Dec-01 at 3:43 am | Permalink
eh? um… no. But if attacked I will defend myself. *ducks*
^^;
durandal1707 | 28-Dec-01 at 6:10 am | Permalink
So you think your kung fu is pretty good, eh? I want to fight your brother! Him, against me! LET’S KUNG FU!!!
miscfiles | 30-Dec-01 at 2:56 pm | Permalink
Found a web site that you can look up your hobbit names on. Looks up yours… turned out to be Berylla Bunce of Brockenborings.
You can look it up yourself at at www.chriswetherell.com/hobbit