I didn't really mind "Let's hunt some Orc" - Aragorn may be Isildur's heir, but he's been in the wild for a good space, and let's face it, he's not going to talk like a king all the time.<P>Dwarf tossing - now that I think about it a little more (scary thought in itself) it does seem possible that the line was done straight, in a misguided attempt to lighten the situation a bit, with no sly jokes about British or American tossing intended. My only reason for thinking that might be so is that neither Jackson nor Rhys-Davies are terribly young (Good lord, I remember watching my "I, Claudius" DVD and being astonished to see that Rhys-Davies was actually Macro! So he's been around a while). If the British meaning of "toss" is one of those fairly recent slang things they really might not have been aware of it. I'm basing this guess on a nice but getting-up-there comp sci professor I once had, who decided one day to show us how to write a Scheme program to add up a string of numbers. He read off the board "OK, we start the program off with `Define procedure get-sum.'" He spent the rest of the hour wondering why nobody could stop laughing. <P>Of course, "toss" may be one of those expressions that's been around for decades, which would knock that theory on the head. Does anyone know?
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Father, dear Father, if you see fit, We'll send my love to college for one year yet
Tie blue ribbons all about his head, To let the ladies know that he's married.
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