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Lyta_Underhill · 11-08-2003, 11:11 AM

I always took exception to the fact that PJ portrayed Gimli as tiring out on the run in TTT! Gimli does tire, but only when he loses hope. Otherwise, there is none of this "breathe...got to remember to breathe" stuff going on. Gimli could go on until Doomsday! The part I wished to have seen was Gimli's challenge to Eomer concerning Galadriel. This could have been parleyed into a great end of ROTK joke with Eomer confronting Gimli and telling him he still didn't think Galadriel was the fairest. "Then I must go for my axe," Gimli's wonderful (and funny to me!) response, but then that could intro the Arwen/Aragorn scenes...probably not enough time, but I missed that Gimli/Eomer interaction. And I don't know whether they will include Gimli's "look of a hobbit's foot," line in ROTK, but I can barely bear to think of that yet! Nothing in a movie could do justice to Tolkien's description of Pippin's experience at the Gate of Morannon...Oh, and Finwe, I'm no Nazgirl, but have very eclectic tastes, which DO include said Frodo that makes you shudder (not sure why he has THAT effect)! But I must include in the taste arena Fëanor, and Maedhros and Finrod, et. al., my favorite elves side by side with my favorite hobbits! Strangely enough, Legolas doesn't make that list, probably because I can't tell that much about him beyond the background in the books and the hotdogging in the movies. (I'm not actually sure what the requirements are for "Nazgirl," really! Somehow I don't think I want to know! )Cheers, Lyta

11-08-2003, 11:11 AM	#11
Lyta_Underhill Haunted Halfling Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: an uncounted length of steps--floating between air molecules Posts: 841	I always took exception to the fact that PJ portrayed Gimli as tiring out on the run in TTT! Gimli does tire, but only when he loses hope. Otherwise, there is none of this "breathe...got to remember to breathe" stuff going on. Gimli could go on until Doomsday! The part I wished to have seen was Gimli's challenge to Eomer concerning Galadriel. This could have been parleyed into a great end of ROTK joke with Eomer confronting Gimli and telling him he still didn't think Galadriel was the fairest. "Then I must go for my axe," Gimli's wonderful (and funny to me!) response, but then that could intro the Arwen/Aragorn scenes...probably not enough time, but I missed that Gimli/Eomer interaction. And I don't know whether they will include Gimli's "look of a hobbit's foot," line in ROTK, but I can barely bear to think of that yet! Nothing in a movie could do justice to Tolkien's description of Pippin's experience at the Gate of Morannon...<P>Oh, and <B>Finwe</B>, I'm no Nazgirl, but have very eclectic tastes, which DO include said Frodo that makes you shudder (not sure why he has THAT effect)! But I must include in the taste arena Fëanor, and Maedhros and Finrod, et. al., my favorite elves side by side with my favorite hobbits! Strangely enough, Legolas doesn't make that list, probably because I can't tell that much about him beyond the background in the books and the hotdogging in the movies. (I'm not actually sure what the requirements are for "Nazgirl," really! Somehow I don't think I want to know! )<P>Cheers,<BR>Lyta __________________ “…she laid herself to rest upon Cerin Amroth; and there is her green grave, until the world is changed, and all the days of her life are utterly forgotten by men that come after, and elanor and niphredil bloom no more east of the Sea.”