Your lotr dream

[Pitchwife]

^This is so many kinds of hilarious, Legate! Also kind of creepy in parts.

Originally Posted by Legate of Amon Lanc

First thing, it actually was not anime, it was live-action, even though somewhat strange. Somebody explained that the anime was scheduled to come in a year, but this was a sort of first-stage version of it, that they first did it with live actors and then they will just "draw over" them and make the anime.

You probably know that this is exactly how Ralph Bakshi's LotR was made. (Got to admit, when I first read about an animated Tolkien movie being made I got my hopes up that somebody had at last given Bakshi the money to make the second part after 40+ years.)

Originally Posted by Legate of Amon Lanc

Dream logic insert: the Hobbit in question was at the same time sort of Frodo/Merry, and he was played by Daniel Radcliffe. The princess was sort of Éowyn and was played by Miranda Otto, but clearly a younger version of herself (she looked like she was about 16).

So, er, you actually dreamed about Daniel Radcliffe spying on 16 year old naked Miranda Otto?

Originally Posted by Legate of Amon Lanc

This is to also explain what happened next: Éomer appeared and tried to both placate his sister and also to explain to the Hobbit that this was just how their law worked and told him to simply cooperate.

This is where Thain Picard starts wracking his head about how to save Wesley Radcliffe-Took without breaking the Prime Directive.

Originally Posted by Legate of Amon Lanc

The Hobbit read, in what I understood was to be some old Anglo-Saxon language, something that sounded like: "...arfhaed matté wytha."

"Does it mean you are going to boil me alive in hot tea-water?" the Hobbit asked, clearly not having understood a single word.
"Why would you think that?" Éomer asked, confused.
"Well, here it says 'maté'."

I really cracked up here. Have you told that to Aganzir?

Originally Posted by Legate of Amon Lanc

Then there were several shots of Hobbits as adventurers. Very non-canon. One shot included a Hobbit with tiny fairy-wings, wielding two daggers, twirling them epically in mid-flight and then stabbing them into the back of some tiny fairy dragon that flew ahead of him. We understood that the wings was one of the ways the Hobbit was going to "level up", a special power he was going to acquire.

This is the creepy part. *shudders*

Originally Posted by Legate of Amon Lanc

The overall feeling I got from the dream was quite unsettling.

I dare say!

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Originally Posted by Galadriel55

Legate, I get the sense that your dream self just really wants to see Daniel Radcliffe cosplay a hobbit.

To be honest, I think he was doing really well. Especially the ploughing part. A natural talent.

Originally Posted by Pitchwife

You probably know that this is exactly how Ralph Bakshi's LotR was made. (Got to admit, when I first read about an animated Tolkien movie being made I got my hopes up that somebody had at last given Bakshi the money to make the second part after 40+ years.)

I actually didn't remember that, but good point! It is either my subconscious remembering it while my conscious mind didn't, or else it is pure coincidence, as we say in the Shire.

Originally Posted by Pitchwife

So, er, you actually dreamed about Daniel Radcliffe spying on 16 year old naked Miranda Otto?

Well, that is also one way to put it...

Originally Posted by Pitchwife

This is where Thain Picard starts wracking his head about how to save Wesley Radcliffe-Took without breaking the Prime Directive.

This is actually an interesting remark, because I have recently been rewatching just that. But it absolutely did not occur to me that these might have been linked.

Originally Posted by Pitchwife

I really cracked up here. Have you told that to Aganzir?

I didn't, but I hope she's going to read this.

Originally Posted by Pitchwife

This is the creepy part. *shudders*

It's creepy because it's something that could happen somewhere!