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Fifteen birds in five fir trees
Dec. 22nd, 2012 09:33 amGentle Readers,
As a special adventure last night, we took Lydia out to a later showing of The Hobbit. She has just finished her third read through of book and has been really looking forward to seeing it, even though She really didn't feel like many of the dwarves (Thorin especially) looked like dwarves in the trailers and promotional shots. ( I guess I'm going to be talking about spoilry things and making ranty complaints, so I better cut it )
Still, it wasn't terrible and there are 3 things that will keep me going.
The first is the hope that someone will do a fan edit and take out all of the parts that are not in the book. Right now I'm thinking you could just cut every scene that doesn't have Bilbo in it.
The second is making this Peter Jackson's Time Bandits remake. Really. It's a bunch of dwarves who scream like small children when they're in trouble running around to treasure troves listed on a magic map. Bilbo is the kid, Elrond is Agamemnon. It all works!
The third is that I've decided that the complete lack of female dwarves both in the movie and in the original source material is because Tolkien dwarves are like Diskworld dwarves. They look the same. The real signifier of gender is the shape of the nose.
As a special adventure last night, we took Lydia out to a later showing of The Hobbit. She has just finished her third read through of book and has been really looking forward to seeing it, even though She really didn't feel like many of the dwarves (Thorin especially) looked like dwarves in the trailers and promotional shots. ( I guess I'm going to be talking about spoilry things and making ranty complaints, so I better cut it )
Still, it wasn't terrible and there are 3 things that will keep me going.
The first is the hope that someone will do a fan edit and take out all of the parts that are not in the book. Right now I'm thinking you could just cut every scene that doesn't have Bilbo in it.
The second is making this Peter Jackson's Time Bandits remake. Really. It's a bunch of dwarves who scream like small children when they're in trouble running around to treasure troves listed on a magic map. Bilbo is the kid, Elrond is Agamemnon. It all works!
The third is that I've decided that the complete lack of female dwarves both in the movie and in the original source material is because Tolkien dwarves are like Diskworld dwarves. They look the same. The real signifier of gender is the shape of the nose.
