[Diamond18]

But why would you put spoofs on other movies/genres in TTT? It wasn't meant to be a comedy. Even if the Horse Rearing scene was a little cheesy (I kind of liked it, but I like cheese...yum...) it would be worse if it was an intentional joke. The humor in the movies should, I think, be limited within the world of Middle-earth, for the most part. Hobbits in the Big People's world, for example. You can get many chuckles out of that, and Tolkien himself inserted humorous passages about it here and there. (e.g. "This is not a Hobbit walking party!")<P><I>*Soapbox teeters precariously, forcing me to jump off*</I><P>Anyway, for other tongue-in-cheek moments, there's the ever obvious "No one tosses a Dwarf" to "It's too far, you'll have to toss me", which I believe is a reference to the bar game of literally throwing Dwarfs around. But that could just be a way of pointing out that in Middle-earth, things are different, and <I>no one</I> ('sides Aragorn) throws Dwarves around.<P>Edit: As Bethberry points out, there's the Shield Surfing scene. (Is Bethberry serious about the Woody Allen thing, Diamond wonders?). I thought that was just a way to reach out to the Extreme Sports afficiandos in the audience. Improving Legolas' image with the guys, you know.<p>[ January 06, 2003: Message edited by: Diamond18 ]