#604629 - 10/14/1302:02 PMRe: The Hobbit
[Re: lanovami]
yoyo52 Nothing comes of nothing.
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She wasn't in the first of the films. So many elves, so little time!
Tolkein was not very big on females. If you leave aside Eowyn, who really wants to be a man, there are no human females in the four books, from The Hobbit to Return of the King. That says something about the sexual universe of mid-20th century Oxford, I guess.
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#604639 - 10/14/1302:39 PMRe: The Hobbit
[Re: yoyo52]
lanovami This space for rent
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I read the books ages ago. My friends who read them more recently complain about the discrepancies more. As long as they are decent and don't depart overly much from the books I am happy.
Tolkien wasn't very big on darker "races" being anything but incontrovertibly evil either. I never really thought about that until the movies came out.
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No, I wasn't a "HitchHiker" Fan no more than A "Dr. WHO" Fan (I know them rather incidentally as Paulette IS (...a fan of both...) Paulette (who I'm always "on" about and indeed tried to introduce to the MacMinute Forum ..by proxy.. since she still doesn't own a home computer is a fascinating character in her own right...
One facet of which is her unsurpassed ability To Relate A Story...
She'd watched "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman" and even though I never saw a single episode, I was able to "get" (fully appreciate) the "Waxy-Yellow-Build-up" schtick as if I'd seen the entire program start to finish.
ANYWHO: Paulette was a Douglas Adams fan since "HitchHiker" as a Radio Play, & the TV version. I didn't come onto it until years later watching the Film version on PBS.
From that It was easy to recognize the Arthur Dent character from the moment he got the Demolition Notice (just as they were about to Bulldoze His House.. and Ford Prefect showed up, & convinced Arthur to grab his towel & nip-off for a pint, before the Earth was ...well...you know...
What struck me was the remarkabe similarity and the initial reaction between the two situations.
Also says something about our American obsession with inserting in "A Love Interest" into every movie ...whether the author intended to or not...
You also need to consider that it was initially A) written as a bed-time-story for his kids B) that grew into an ANTI-WAR Epic once his sons got old enough to serve in combat during The War.
AFAIC: It's no big flip that they introduced a female from the order of Lesser (Sylvan) Elves to bring more of Legolas's background to bear.
After all, Elves don't self-generate, no more than do Dust-Bunnies develop into living Mice.