Did I just see 'Gandalf' throw 'Denethor' into the pyre? - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

**lindil** · 12-18-2003, 02:18 PM

Maybe it was me but it just seemed as if last night I witnessed 'Gandalf' pitching 'Denthor' into the flames and then saying [as Denethor runs out on fire, with no one bothering to stop or help him] "So passes 'Denethor'", as if he werre some minor inconvienence standing in the way of 'Aragorn'. Talking to Thorondil on the phone confirmed that he saw the same, and was equally annoyed/distraught/amazed/confounded/bemused/annoyed/pi$$ed [continue inserting your own paradoxical adjectives ad nauseum...]<P>PJ if you happen to read this, for every great scene, and of course quite a few were, you trash and distort another. <P>Thank God I do not care 1 fig for King Kong!<P>Siince the distortions of the characterizations are now more or less complete, I will make it my policy [and encourage any others who feel pained by the false charaterizations to do likewise] to always put all the movie characters in quotation marks [aka doubt quotes] such as 'Arwen' and 'haldir' to distinguish them from their pure archetypes.<p>[ 3:21 PM December 18, 2003: Message edited by: lindil ]

12-18-2003, 02:18 PM	#1
lindil Seeker of the Straight Path Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: a hidden fastness in Big Valley nor cal Posts: 1,680	Did I just see 'Gandalf' throw 'Denethor' into the pyre? Maybe it was me but it just seemed as if last night I witnessed 'Gandalf' pitching 'Denthor' into the flames and then saying [as Denethor runs out on fire, with no one bothering to stop or help him] "So passes 'Denethor'", as if he werre some minor inconvienence standing in the way of 'Aragorn'. Talking to Thorondil on the phone confirmed that he saw the same, and was equally annoyed/distraught/amazed/confounded/bemused/annoyed/pi$$ed [continue inserting your own paradoxical adjectives ad nauseum...]<P>PJ if you happen to read this, for every great scene, and of course quite a few were, you trash and distort another. <P>Thank God I do not care 1 fig for King Kong!<P>Siince the distortions of the characterizations are now more or less complete, I will make it my policy [and encourage any others who feel pained by the false charaterizations to do likewise] to always put all the movie characters in quotation marks [aka doubt quotes] such as 'Arwen' and 'haldir' to distinguish them from their pure archetypes.<p>[ 3:21 PM December 18, 2003: Message edited by: lindil ] __________________ The dwindling Men of the West would often sit up late into the night exchanging lore & wisdom such as they still possessed that they should not fall back into the mean estate of those who never knew or indeed rebelled against the Light.