I am about to rewatch The Lord of the Rings trilogy, a.k.a. my favorite movies ever. (As a side note, I think Aragorn is my favorite movie character ( Read more... )

Mr. Mousie and I ended our already lovely evening by watching Fellowship of the Rings (in all likelihood, Two Towers will follow tomorrow ( Read more... )

OMG. I am now reading По Ту Сторону Рассвета ("On the other side of the dawn," the Beren/Luthien fic I mentioned earlier) and it just might be the best fic I ever read ( Read more... )

Yesterday, I restarted my Lord of the Rings rewatch, and before I passed out, Mr. Mousie and I got as far as the Nazgul attack on the hobbits at Weathertop (where Frodo gets stabbed with the Nazgul blade ( Read more... )

When I come home this evening, the Great Lord of the Rings Rewatch of 2007 is going to start.

So here is the Aragon MV as Aragorn is my favorite movie character ever. Because he is incredibly heroic but incredibly human: he gets exhausted, he bleeds, he doubts and is afraid. His decisions cost him. But he still proceeds.

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OK, I posted this a long long time ago (it was one of my very first entries) but seeing some clips of this abomination again made me modify and repost it ( Read more... )

Courtesy of thelana's links, I have found the penultimate badfic summary:

One night Legolas begins thinking, 'What would happen if I die? Would she know that I loved her?'. He loves Hermione with all his heart. Will he tell her how he feels? Based on the song "If Tomorrow Never Comes" by Ronan Keating.OK ( Read more... )

I accidentally clicked "post" with a public setting before I was done doing all Orlando photos I wanted. So here is Part II. Part I (I think it turned out backdated and thus may show up on your flist in odd places time-wise) is located here


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More thoughts on BSG 2.18 Downloaded:

( Largely Boomer(s) and Baltar centric )

Compiling my Star Wars post made me think about the recent rusurgence of “Messiahs” in pop culture and how they are an interesting and dark and twisted take on the story: they all have motifs of being chosen or profesied, they have power or skills that is outside their control (and that they themselves did not ask for), there is temptation and ( Read more... )