Keisha Castle Hughes would have made such a great 'young Frodo'...

[mechtild]

The weekend before last, I took our daughter to go visit an old friend of mine. What would we do, we wondered, after my daughter had vanquished us at Crazy Eights and Monopoly

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[mechtild]

Thanks for the tip, Ann!

I looked Hughes up as 'Amadalia' and got this:



She doesn't look very Frodo-ish, though, does she?

Well, maybe some really AU fanfic Frodo. You know, something like...

"Frodo, taken captive by a cruel Harad warlord, is forced to be his concubine. Made to dress as a Harad maiden, Frodo must perform acts unspeakable upon this exotically beautiful yet strapping, suitably waxed and oil-slicked, heavily muscled tormentor. Still, the plucky little hobbit manages to keep his inward purity by fixing all his thoughts on memories of home, even as he is summoned yet again ...

'Come here, my pretty little catamite. Down! Down on your knees to do my bidding'..."

That sort of thing. *winky face*

I am joking, but I am just betting it's already been written.

~ Mechtild

[mechtild]

Poor thing! Look at her eyes! I guess that's how you look when the world has just gone to hell in a handbasket.

'Come here, my pretty little catamite. Down! Down on your knees to do my bidding'..."
I'm sure our intrepid, courageous Frodo can get through it by closing his eyes and thinking of the Shire....

[just_ann_now]

It's not anonymous! It's me! *stamping foot angrily at LJ*

Whaaah? There really is such a story...?

[mechtild]

Ah ha! My guess was not too wide of the mark after all. (And yes, he is "pretty enough already." Mwah ha ha ha ha!)

Well, at least Frodo's captor was Man and not an Orc. That really would require a suspension of disbelief.

Do Orcs even have sexuality? No women or child Orcs are even hinted at. I had guessed that Tolkien, who would have thought a great deal of sexuality (as a gift from God), might have decided Orcs were too debased, too sub-human (even too sub-mammalian!), to have sexuality. PJ's Orc-birthing-out-of-slime-pits solution wasn't as ridiculous to me as it was to some others. I thought the highlighted "birth" of the Uruk (Lurtz?) was just great, in fact, with his face rolling sideways under the stretched membrane. Both creepy and real-looking, I thought.

On that scene in "Whale Rider" -- wasn't Ms. Hughes fantastic in that? I bibbled terribly watching it (is "bibbled" correct?) But, shucks, Pearl, I liked her grandfather, even if he was a git. He came round in the end, which was a tremendous effort for him (considering his long-held views).

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[just_ann_now]

Apparenty there's more than one! I found Jah and the Pharaoh in my wanderings today - I've not yet had a chance to read it, though the associated fanart is lovely.

Female Orcs: mooncross has written quite a fascinating tale, about a female orc, Enmities,, but that's the only one that I'm aware of. (Click on her "Lord of the Rings" tab.)

Wibble? is that what you mean? though bibble is quite endearing. maybe wibbling while one is tippling could be described as bibbling?

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[mechtild]

I clicked "Jah and the Pharoah," Ann. It's not a Frodo fic. But the author sure has given it an impressive presentation! It looks to me like a form of RPF that someone was telling us about ... was it Aisling in the previous journal entry? Anyway, she was telliing about a sort of RPF that wasn't quite RPF -- a fic in which the real people play out a fantasy scenario, as if they were actors in some other drama. I see the author even gives a "cast list."

But I feel so clueless and ancient! I looked at the "cast list" and saw that Billy Zane had been cast as the Pharoah.

I thought, "Who's Billy Zane?" Yeah, I never have heard of him.

So I Googled him up and saw why she had cast him -- mean, hard face; lean, hard body.

EW will have to put some time in at the Shire gym to look anything like that for their inevitable hot scenes together! I did look up his list of film credits and felt even more clueless. I had seen only one film he had been in ("Back to the Future", his first?) and had heard of only a few of the others. D'OH!

P.S. Thanks for the note -- 'bibble' s/b 'wibble', LOL

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[just_ann_now]

wibbling while imbibing - I think that's what I meant - could equal bibbling. I like that.

[mechtild]

Yes, she was brave. If she had not been brave, there would have been no story and hence no film!

Seriously, though, I thought they treated the theme with unusual grace and understanding -- how the granddaughter (and her era) could be at such odds with the grandfather (and his era); fully feeling the tension and conflict between them and their worlds; and yet how the love under it all could yet hold them together, only surfacing at the end.

From the very first frame, the little girl's reactions to her grandfather's rebuffs were unwavering, always indicating that she did not believe in his anger and rough treatment of her as his last word. She was everything strong but, but with a strength that is patient, that perseveres, that has faith. (Another good reason for her to play Frodo). The audience could see him treating her in rejecting ways, but the sheer fact that she never gave up on him and kept coming back -- never giving up her quest but never giving up on showing her love and respect for him -- seemed to show that she knew, even if we didn't, that his love and respect for her as a person was greater than the outrage he felt at what she insisted on doing, which flew in the face of what he believed should be her proper role.