poor frodo...
okay, so in celebration of frodo's b-day, a few friends and i decided to watch the extended versions of the entire lord of the rings trilogy. that's right. all twelve hours of it. anyways. we started at two on saturday afternoon and actually finished about 1:30 in the morning. kinda surprising like that.
well, i feel dorky for many reasons. first of all, i made myself elf ears. i didn't have a costume (two of my friends were in full elvin regalia and one guy was a hobbit) so i decided to do the next best thing and spend half an hour on elf ears made out of the wax for my braces. and stage makeup. they looked real enough for two of my friends to ask me to do ears on them. and then one drafted me to do makeup and elf ears for the play i'm in this semester. it'll be friggin sweet.
anyways, then we got dorkier. apparently, if you sit around watching lotr for too long with people who have played too much d&d and read too much fanfics you start joking about the film in d&d terms. and making slash comments. we started with both around moria and continued throughout the trilogy. it was awesome. and way too easy during the battle of helm's deep.
and then one of my male friends wanted to test whether or not elves have really sensative ears on my ears. for the record, they are.
-sir robin
p.s. legolas and gimli rock. even if legolas has the bad habit of stating the obvious...probably for the benefit of those who haven't read the books...or don't have obsessive friends that walk them through the movies. we started giving awesome dice to the characters, usually one or two at a time to ensure victory in battle and during return of the king, you know, the part with the elephant, we were like "okay...legolas gets ten for climbing up the elephant...and ten more for shooting that guy. and fifty for cutting the rope, ending up on top, and killing all aboard the elephant. one hundred for the elephant itself. and fifty for that landing. and gimli gets just as much for his comment afterwards." and in case you're wondering, aragorn had a run away lead and was supplied with awesome dice to last him his incredibly long life no matter how badly he rolls in battle.
well, i feel dorky for many reasons. first of all, i made myself elf ears. i didn't have a costume (two of my friends were in full elvin regalia and one guy was a hobbit) so i decided to do the next best thing and spend half an hour on elf ears made out of the wax for my braces. and stage makeup. they looked real enough for two of my friends to ask me to do ears on them. and then one drafted me to do makeup and elf ears for the play i'm in this semester. it'll be friggin sweet.
anyways, then we got dorkier. apparently, if you sit around watching lotr for too long with people who have played too much d&d and read too much fanfics you start joking about the film in d&d terms. and making slash comments. we started with both around moria and continued throughout the trilogy. it was awesome. and way too easy during the battle of helm's deep.
and then one of my male friends wanted to test whether or not elves have really sensative ears on my ears. for the record, they are.
-sir robin
p.s. legolas and gimli rock. even if legolas has the bad habit of stating the obvious...probably for the benefit of those who haven't read the books...or don't have obsessive friends that walk them through the movies. we started giving awesome dice to the characters, usually one or two at a time to ensure victory in battle and during return of the king, you know, the part with the elephant, we were like "okay...legolas gets ten for climbing up the elephant...and ten more for shooting that guy. and fifty for cutting the rope, ending up on top, and killing all aboard the elephant. one hundred for the elephant itself. and fifty for that landing. and gimli gets just as much for his comment afterwards." and in case you're wondering, aragorn had a run away lead and was supplied with awesome dice to last him his incredibly long life no matter how badly he rolls in battle.