"Shall I always be chose?" she said bitterly. "Shall I always be left behind when the Riders depart, to mind the house while they win renown, and find food and beds when they return?"

"A time may come soon," said he, "when none will return. Then there will be need of valour without renown, for none will remember the deeds that are done in the last ( Read more... )

Today, RL has got in the way and all I can manage is a brief post on why Eowyn is one of my favourite characters in LotR, despite the precious little screentime she gets.

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I've been attempting to read Brian Bates' The Real Middle Earth since maybe March, and the library have decided I can't renew it any more times, so it's time for me to buckle down and actually finish the damn thing.

Only trouble being that I haven't been this annoyed by a book in a long time. I'm on page 16 and there have been at least 3 points ( Read more... )

I have been adventuring! (And am now spectacularly sunburnt for my trouble.) I didn't actually go see the Roman villa because it was a good ten miles from the car park I know how to find, but I climbed to the high point of the downs and had my lunch there in the sun and then read for an hour or so. I'm still in a LOTR-y mood, so I've just started ( Read more... )

I'd forgotten how much Return of the King makes me cry (and seriously, I hardly ever cry at films). It's not even the bits where people die that get me - though I will admit to tearing up at 'Don't go where I can't follow', because just gah - it's the theoretically happy bits, like Aragorn's coronation and the return to the Shire, every time. And ( Read more... )