I've just realized, through someone else's lovely articulate words, that one of my most favorite tropes or theme or what-have-you is meeting your heroes myths.
To Frodo...the matters even of the Second Age
are already matters of legend, receding into a mythic past; through
the figure of Elrond, who has experienced the War of Wrath and the
Last Alliance ( Read more... )

The bounty from Comic-Con is all over the interwebs now. Two Items I found delightful were the footage of Jonathan Ross kissing Neil Gaiman - as Maddy says, he really does turn a very interesting set of colours and our first look at Ben Barnes as Prince Caspian.
WhileI giggled and was embarrassedembarrassed for Neil, when I saw Ben as Caspian I went ( Read more... )