Anniversaries

[qos]

Today, June 15, is my parents' 49th wedding anniversary.
They have loved and respected and supported and laughed with each other in a way that some people think exists only in stories, and I love and admire them deeply.

Today also marks the 29th anniversary of my first viewing of Star WarsBecause on June 15, 1977, when I was 12 years old, they

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[blessed_harlot]

Awwww, thanks for sharing this. That's cool!

[qos]

Thanks.
And you have yet another beautiful and cool icon.

I think that quotation captures one of my favorite things about the LOTR trilogy: that again and again the primary characters do terrifyingly heroic things not because they want to save the world, but because they will be there for their friends. Sure Aragorn knows that if the attack on the Black Gate succeeds, the world will be free of Sauron, but what he says -- and what is in his heart -- is, "For Frodo."

Same with Eowyn. She speaks of valor and honor elsewhere, but when it comes right down to the crises, both at Helms Deep and at Peleannor, she invokes love and friendship.

[rhonan]

I remember that same experience, although it was not quite as life-changing, as Gene Rodenberry and Robert Heinlein had already shown me the light. But damn, that does make me feel old. Fortunately, Joss Weedon is my master now.

[qos]

*sigh*

Yes, George betrayed my first love and broke my heart.

[rhonan]

For me, it was a one-two punch. First, I found this marvelous new TV show that my parents called trash, and couldn't understand why I'd rather watch it instead of Rowen and Martin's Laugh-in. Then, I think it was the next year, I discovered Heinlein's Have Space-suit, Will Travel in the children's section of the library. My mother always blamed, "...that damn Star-Trek," for making me an odd-ball.

[kateri_thinks]

*sigh* Yes . . . I remember . . .

(Can you believe that after we'd seen the movie three times over a one week period and then driving to Chicago my parents tried to convince my brothers and I to see Pete's Dragon instead of going a fourth time???!) (What? Were they smoking crack?)

[kateri_thinks]

"brothers and me! brothers and me!!!"

*sigh*

no caffeine in my system yet

is my lousy excuse...

[southernselkie]

*smile*

Stating the obvious

[toesontheground]

29 years. Wow, time flies!

Huh...I just remembered there was a guy in my class who was obssessed with Star Wars and wanted to make movies like that. I wonder what became of him? I guess for every Peter Jackson there are hundreds (thousands?) who never make their movie, for whatever reason.