RotK stuff, a poll, and a HP rec

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So. I *finally* watched the RotK trailer.

I'm terrified of spoilers, can you tell??

But yeah. Wow. Wow lovely soundtrack, perfect cuts, and just as stomach-clenching as the movie. Wow.

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Some links to noteworthy reviews of RotK:

This and this are beautiful anthems to the movie.

And a song to Theoden too...

Some wonderful thoughts on boromir, faramir, and duty.

Some neat points about color use.

Some great comments in this thread about LotR as a collective attachment to a childhoot vision of utopia...

What's said here about anti-hobbitlove and love unsullied by fear is completely worth reading...

And lastly, ajhalluk has some very good points on the 'missing' Eowyn/Faramir scene.

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There's some GREAT comments (near the end of the post) about platonic love, I think it perfectly sums up why even though I see the F/S and the A/L, I'm not inclined to search for fic for them. They're perfect, as they are, since the story outlines them to be this intensely close and marvelous and perfect friendship and it's gorgeous that people could be brought together like that out of a common sense of what is right and what is needed and the battlefield sentiment that:
I will die for you, because I have fought with you and have seen that you are human too. Or hobbit. Or---anyhoo, you know of what I speak...

I've always felt that it's the common decency and kindness between strangers that makes the world go 'round, and to induce a love-bond into certain stories and make the strange into familiar makes me want to smack my head and go "But that's not the POINT."

It's really kinda strange because I get the same particular type of squick as I used to get from Incest!fic, which is really, *really* strange because while Aragorn/Legolas and Frodo/Sam feels incest-y, I don't mind Boromir/Faramir...

::boggles at own brain::

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[Poll #231533]

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oh, and am back in Berkeley. so MUCH to clean ::runs around franticallly::

and I'm getting increasingly aggravated and peeved by this wallpaper. ::headdesk:: I *this* close to just posting the thing so I don't have to deal with it anymore.

Then again, I tend to tweak stuff *more* after other's have seen any of my stuff so it's probably a moot point. argh.

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...and a rec before I go...

Invisible to See by Pandarus

(HP with various pairings; to go through the chapters, use the green arrow buttons.

Marvelous lengthy novel with superb characterizations all around.

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Afterwards, when he finally reached the blessed isolation of his room, Draco Malfoy carefully closed the door, checked that no cringing retainer was loitering inside, and then was elaborately sick all over the three hundred year old Berber rug. A house elf apparated at once, its face contorted into an expression of stupid concern, but it vanished promptly when he barked out a sharp threat of clothing.
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okay, off to sleep now...

::collaspe::

Comments

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The only major quibble I had in the battle scenes -- with both TTT and ROTK -- is that no sane commander of horse would have his men charge pikes. That's a great way to have the *other* side eating horse for dinner. It's the traditional (and effective) defense of infantry against cavalry, and PJ should have known better, no matter how cool it looks.