Requested by sallymnThis was so hard! Because at first I was racking my brain to think of any comic relief characters. I mean, what defines a comic relief character as opposed to one who is just funny? Can you have a comic relief character in a comedy, since technically all the characters are comedic? Wikipedia tells me comic relief characters bring ( Read more... )

I really hatelove the way I only have to hear certain melodies from the Lord of the Rings and I automatically have a lump in my throat and prickling in my eyes and a pain in my chest. And it's not sadness and it's not happiness - it's...it's like nostalgia. It's like homesickness.

It's hiraeth. It's saudade. For a place that I've never been, a ( Read more... )

Will there ever come a day, I wonder, when I'll hear the 'Fellowship' theme from Lord of the Rings and not get an immediate lump in my throat and the pricking of tears in my eyes?

A day may come, after all, when the courage of men fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship...

But it is not this day.

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I almost like his version of 'The Last Goodbye' better than Billy Boyd's. Almost.

This vid. *sighs* Ugh, it's making me so nostalgic for the Lord of the Rings days. I don't know what it is about this cast, maybe it's the fact that they all so clearly love one another, that the shoot was a real life-changing experience for them - but there's just something about the filming of these movies that I love as much as the movies ( Read more... )

seraphina_snape asked: 'what fandom(s) do you think you'll always love, even ten/twenty/thirty years down the road?'

This is actually a difficult one for me to answer. I know what I'd like to say, the fandoms I'd like to think I'll still love years down the road. But I also know that I'm a bit of a fandom magpie and it's very rare for me to stay exceptionally ( Read more... )

Which movie has the most Knights/Dames in it? Yes, these are the things that occur to me when I'm on lates at work and it's quiet.

It has to be Lord of the Rings, right? Sir Ian McKellen, Sir Christopher Lee and Sir Ian Holm. The X-Men movies have two, with Sir Ian McKellen and Sir Patrick Stewart...

Although, Harry Potter, how many do you have? ( Read more... )

What is it about Howard Shore's score for Lord of the Rings? I have never yet come across any music that has such a power to bring me to tears. There's such a sense of melancholy in listening to the Lord of the Rings scores - such a wistful nostalgia. It's like...it's like feeling homesick for Middle Earth.

Whatever else I can say about Lord of ( Read more... )

I am not doing anything for New Year's Eve tonight, so I plan to spend the evening ensconced on the sofa with my kitties, a cupcake or two and some alcohol.

But what to watch, what to watch? Do I rewatch seasons one and two of Sherlock in advance of season three tomorrow night, or do I immerse myself in Middle Earth and watch the three Lord of the ( Read more... )

And it's official. I'm in love with a dwarf ( Read more... )