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And so, on to what should have made the theatrical cut, instead of all that "Go home, Sam" nonsense and the overdone dwarf-tossing lines. Just goes to show, always, ALWAYS stick to Tolkien. From AICN: (My comments in bold; keep in mind a lot of these are still rumors as to what will be in, but several come straight from the top. No matter, these are the things I so desperately wanted to see realized on screen.) - This one isn’t going to come as a surprise, but for the record: we’ll be seeing Gandalf and his Power Rangers confronting Saruman after the Helm’s Deep battle, followed by the multi-coloured one falling to his death. Granted, it was the Palantir that fell to it's, um, death, but at least having this dialogue with Saruman will be better than just locking him up for eternity. - Merry will pledge his allegiance to Theoden in a scene similar to the Pippin/Denethor bit. Toss points out that shots from this scene have appeared in an early ROTK teaser, as well as a *very* early LOTR teaser from way back in the beginning. - Following his acceptance of Anduril from Elrond, Aragorn uses the Palantir to reveal himself to Sauron. Sauron shows him a vision of Arwen’s sickness. This stuff was used instead during the dream sequence just before Elrond arrives at Dunharrow in the theatrical cut. - From the horse’s mouth: ‘Remember the scene in which the Witch King is asked what he’s going to do with Gandalf, and he says I will break him? This pays off big time in a battle between the Witch King and Gandalf as Gandalf and Pippin ride to save Faramir from the pyre. At the end of the battle, the Witch King breaks Gandalf’s staff and then the Rohirrim turn up and the Witch King gets distracted. The beginning of this confrontation is one of the $$$ shots in the ROTK trailer: the Witch King’s fell beast landing on the ramparts in front of Gandalf and Pippin on Shadowfax.’ - ‘In the Houses of Healing, Aragorn heals Faramir, who then meets Eowyn and they fall in love. Aww.’ I wonder if he heals Merry too, so his miraculous appearance in the battle at the Black Gate isn't so strange. But then, hobbits do show extrordinary resillience to evil... - ‘A disguised Frodo and Sam join a column of marching orcs on the way to Mt Doom. Their master is a ferocious orc captain with a whip. Remember the line heard over the sweeping shot of the orcs marching down through Mordor right after the Cirith Ungol sequence? That’s him, yelling Come on you slugs!.’ - ‘The Mouth of Sauron scene changes the emphasis of the entire final battle between men and orcs at the Black Gates. In the theatrical cut, Aragorn and Co. ride up to the gates, they open, and orcs come out to fight. In the extended version, they are greeted by the Mouth of Sauron (played by the Matrix’s Train Man, Bruce Spence), who has pointy teeth and a pointy helmet that covers his eyes (he doesn't need them, see? He's just a mouth). He rides out to show the heroes Frodos mithril vest, recently stolen by the orcs at Cirith Ungol, and to let them know that Frodo is dead and the ring is on its way to Sauron. Aragorn believes him, and the heroes despair. Going into battle at the Black Gates, the heroes have no hope at all it’s their last stand for sure, and Aragorn’s line for Frodo refers to his sacrifice, not to buying time.’ YAY! Now doesn't that sound more like it? Aragorn's "For Frodo" has so much more emotional impact after being told he's dead and captured; Merry has an equal part to Pippin's pledge to the Steward, as he should; The Houses of Healing *sigh* because... well, you know; Frodo and Sam marching with the Orcs, because their walk across Mordor was FAR too short; Aragorn's revelation of himself to Sauron, which seemed the natural thing to happen in his journey to becoming king; and all of the other things depending on the Palantir, because that was left unexplained and loose-ended. Now that's what I'm Tolkien about. :-D ~Colleen |
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| 11:04pm 18/12/2003 | ||||
I remember best the moments which graced us last, for the three hours previous is simply more than I can process. Even the images and stories of my longest, deepest dreams are less grand in scale and easier to sort. But yes, those moments. Pippin's face when telling Gandalf, "I saw him!" Frodo's progressive sideways smile that spoke of peace, and wholeness, and rest for his weary and tormented soul. I always believed he never really belonged in the Shire. Despite sadness in saying goodbye to his Dear Sam, Frodo knew he was going home, and it was a place to which Sam could, in time, follow. It was not death; it was new life. Yes, that slow, beautiful smile. Elijah will only ever be Frodo. "Don't you let go!" All of Samwise: his loyalty, the indescribable love and service to his master that was never asked for and never sought to be repaid. Dear Sam. There at the end of all things... "Well, I'm back." And Sean's perfect little daughter. Pippin's song. Still words do not come, and perhaps that is why it is easier to say things in music than in speech. So I will not tarry in words, but will instead let sweet Pippin weep and remember while I can merely listen. Silence. "For Frodo." The charge of the Rohirrim on Sauron's army. Absolutely breathtaking after Theoden's speech, his sword on the spears, and the sense of sacrifice beheld when mighty and proud horses were trampled underfoot by the Mumakil. "If I should return, think better of me, Father." The lighting of the Beacons of Minas Tirith. My heart simply soars while listening to this song, and I have yet to fail getting chills from the majesty of the instruments that created it. Two days ago, I could only imagine next to what images such a song could be played, and now, looking back, lighting the Beacons is the only sequence that it could ever complement. It makes me feel Boromir's love for the White Towers and high banners of Ecthelion caught in the breeze. All six of the blasted endings. And no matter how many times I tell myself that Sam being sent home wasn't in the books, I still adore Sean Astin's performance during this scene. The tears he cried and the desperation Sam must have felt while his master went on ahead, being lead by Gollum, trusting Gollum, all the while knowing his treachery... and knowing at the same time that following would do no good because he wasn't wanted, and no persuading of his own could tear Frodo's mind from the ring. I feel his broken helplessness, even if Tolkien never intended it here. Someone give this man an Oscar. So I have seen it twice, and I walked away tonight not being able to imagine what the Extended Edition would hold, simply because I doubt my ability to comprehend it. And now Into The West brings me to tears just listening to it. I had so hoped it would be in the movie; particularly as Sam and Frodo sat in wait for something, presumably their deaths, on the side of Mount Doom. Or perhaps as Frodo departed from the Grey Havens, where it would have been more appropriate. But it is perfect. I cannot bring myself to say farewell. ~Colleen |
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| 11:08pm 09/12/2003 | ||||
Spoilers, ovbiously. :-D |
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The whole thing is great, and I can imagine certain parts corresponding with the movie perfectly. I absolutely LOVE Billy Boyd's voice; Viggo should sing more often... he's got the kind of voice you can drift into dreemless sleeps by. And Into The West. *breathless sobs* I'm literally crying! I can picture Frodo standing on the deck of a ship sailing to the Grey Havens, knowing he can never return to Middle Earth but still needing to find rest in the land of the elves. Oh please, PLEASE, let that be in the ending. *Tear* I think I may finally be able to finish my painting now. |
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 You are naturally born with a gift, whether it be poetry, writing or song. You love beauty and creativity, and usually are highly intelligent. Others view you as mysterious and dreamy, yet also bold since you hold firm in your beliefs. What Type of Soul Do You Have ? brought to you by Quizilla |
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We had so much time, and now I'm beginning to feel frantic as the days pass, and we have less and less spare time to prepare, and free time is virtually non-existent. I suppose there isn't much more that we can do to ready ourselves, besides shop for things we'll need. It's not the technical things that need preparation: we have tickets and went through physicals and blood type tests, we've been accepted and confirmed and have reservations for the hotel we're staying at for the first two days. It's the severing of ties, however temporarily, that I feel I need so much more time for. So much feels left undone. But no matter what I do, I can't place what exactly that is. I'm not nervous, which I have counted as a blessing, but I wonder if when I leave, I'll cry at all. Or if I don't, will people think I'm all too happy to be going away? If I cry when a friend hugs me, and not when my parents do, will they regret letting me go? I want to go. I want to see what's beyond the shores five minutes from where I stand. Please don't blame me for wanting to leave. It's because I am so comfortable here that I am able to go at all. In that case, don't blame yourselves either. But I'll come home, and I'll be different, and still the same in some ways, and then you'll know if this has all been worth it; if what your lives have encompassed in the last 17 years hasn't been in vain. I feel not unlike Sam, when he notices that if he takes one more step, it'll be the farthest away from home he's even been. He knew that taking another step meant he wouldn't be able to take it back. He'd have changed; grown; learned something. So will I. I know that going away can never be reversed, and I think that coming home in June will leave me feeling a bit like Frodo upon his return. No one knew or really could know what a feat he had accomplished, and because of his adventures he didn't belong in the Shire any longer. He never really belonged there to begin with. And so, when I come home, I think I will feel out of place, and restless again, and aching to travel and stretch and see things and do things that mean something. And once again, I will hope my family doesn't regret letting me go, because I will come home and be different, and seem out of reach because of what I have experienced, and no matter how much I explain, they still won't know. Yet things will be the same, because I have always felt this way. Except now, I will have a reason to. ~Colleen |
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| 07:30pm 07/12/2003 | ||||
And if anyone is interested in some (very good and totally worth it) spoilers, here's a montage of ten minutes' worth of clips from ROTK! *dies* |
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NJ, Cherry Hill Loews Cineplex Cherry Hill 24 NJ, New Bruswick Loews Cineplex New Brunswick 18 With both extended edition movies and an 11pm showing of ROTK on Dec. 16th. Tickets on sale October 8th. $$$. Oy veigh. |
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"The Lord of the Rings Trilogy to be shown in theaters this December Date: August 22nd, 2003 Leading up to the December 17 release of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, the final film in Peter Jackson's epic dramatic trilogy, New Line Cinema will release a limited number of 35mm prints of the Special Extended Editions of The Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers in theaters across North America. The special screening series will culminate in an unprecedented marathon of back-to-back presentations of the Extended Editions followed by a special screening of The Return of the King. The announcement was made today by Rolf Mittweg, the studio's president and chief operating officer, worldwide distribution and marketing. From December 5 - 11, the studio will release 100-150 35mm prints of the Special Extended Edition of The Fellowship of the Ring in cities across the country. On December 12 - 15, these prints will be replaced with Special Extended Edition prints of The Two Towers. On Monday, December 8, and Monday, December 15, both films will be presented back-to-back. Then, on Tuesday, December 16, participating theaters will show a one-time-only marathon of both Extended Edition prints followed by an 11pm screening of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. The official opening of the film will commence at 12:01 AM on Wednesday, December 17, 2003. Advance ticketing for the screening series is expected to commence this fall." Oh my gooodness, I wonder how much those tickets would cost. Probably half our Europe money I'd bet, Kaytlyn. :-D AHHHHHHH!!! I cannot wait for December! It doesn't help much that at JCPenny (where I work) we're already setting up Christmas trees, so I'm always reminded. Ugh. ~Colleen |
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Ugh, December cannot come soon enough! Pardon me while I pass out *thud* *gets up to watch it again* |
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Obsession. ~Colleen P.S. Does anyone else reeeaaally want to see Peter Pan when it comes out? Gah! I'm obsessed with pirates! |
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10. At the beginning of the movie, a receding script would outline the history of the war of the ring. 9. You never heard of Shadowfax? Fastest horse in Middle Earth! He ran from Lothlorien to Fangorn in under eight parsecs! 8. Eowyn would discover that Aragorn is her brother, and would wear a Ringwraith pleasing slave girl outfit. 7. Gandalf would appear to Frodo after he fell into the pit in Moria, but he would be smaller, and transparent, and kind of blue. 6. Weesa Gollum. Weesa your humble servant! 5. Minas Tirith would be floating in the clouds. 4. Boromir would be frozen in carbonite. 3. Frodo would find out that Saruman is his father. (that whole Drogo falling out of the boat thing was a clever ruse) 2. Gimli would always speak in sarcastic beeps and whistles. 1. It would all happen a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. |
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cheerful| Well, my elf name isn't half bad... | |||
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Celebriän Súrion Even though it does sound rather like a male elf's name. |
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| 08:50am 17/09/2003 | |||
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| Crap crap crap. From stupid annoying people who think up internet spam. | ||||
| 10:57pm 15/09/2003 | ||||
Do yo want to know what the trick was? It showed a separate window with those stars that look like you're flying through space, and in the center said "now click to go back to what you were doing." It took me back to LJ, but everything was gone. How perfectly enfuriating. And I don't know how to make it stop. It's like someone's watching me or something. Uggghhh. ~Colleen |
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| 11:27pm 10/09/2003 | ||||
I have others that are on my Yahoo group here. That is all. |
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| 06:33pm 25/08/2003 | ||||
It seems to me, at present, the Constitution was drafted under Biblical principles and therefore places people under the rule and moral guidelines that they might not necessarilly believe in. Things become increasingly relative; there will come a time when moral absolutes are no longer wanted. Abortion right-to-lifers assert that this medical act is murder, but what authority states that murder is wrong? We inherently know it, but why then can some people numb themselves to this fact and commit the act knowingly? Is it a fluke that the Bible also states that murder is wrong, and that we will know such things (even without having heard from another outside source) are sin because the law is written on our hearts? Is your conscience ever wrong? (And on that note, is it just a mistake that CON, or opposite of, and SCIENCE, the proven study of things observed, are put together here?) Homosexuality is another example of this. Many people are pushing for the right to gay marriages, but what they do not realize is that marrieage is a picture of the body of Christ and God, as all things in his Creation reflect his plan. I do not know if this means they will be unsucessful in passing the law, but mankind has a tendency to do what he pleases to God's intended plans for us. He gave us a chance to dwell in a perfect land simply for obeying his word because he knows all, but boy, have we screwed that up royally. I am reminded that Jesus was not a tolerant man; he in fact had a very narrow viewpoint about right and wrong. However, he always made it clear that ANYONE could believe, ANYONE could take part in this following, it was not restricted to any certain group of people because of how they looked or acted. Naturally, certain people are offended, as is the case in everything that excludes certain ideas. But if you look at the world, nothing can hold all ideas to be true at once, and still function. Nothing exists this way, because nothing can. We are no exception. So I fear that in the continuing search for peace and tolerance in the world, people will eventually realize that the constitution was not made under Jewish law, or Muslim practices, but under the belief that all men were created by God Almighty to serve and worship him. The sooner the nation realizes it - the sooner one person in power with a voice realizes it - the sooner our nation will follow the patterns it has been since the fifties: All is relative. Do what is right for you. There are no absolutes. Let me leave you with this: if there are no absolutes, then how can you be absolutely sure of that statement? Truth will prevail, but it will unfortunately not bee seen by all, nor believed in time to save a naive nation. That is my greatest fear. ~Colleen ************** In God I Trust Why I'm standing up for the Ten Commandments in Alabama. BY ROY S. MOORE Monday, August 25, 2003 12:01 a.m. EDT MONTGOMERY, Ala.-The battle over the Ten Commandments monument I brought into Alabama's Supreme Court is not about a monument and not about politics. (The battle is not even about religion, a term defined by our Founders as "the duty we owe to our creator and the manner for discharging it.") Federal Judge Myron Thompson, who ordered the monument's removal, and I are in perfect agreement on the fact that the issue in this case is: "Can the state acknowledge God?" Those were the precise words used by Judge Thompson in his closing remarks in open court. Today, I argue for the rule of law, and against any unilateral declaration of a judge to ban the acknowledgment of God in the public sector. We must acknowledge God in the public sector because the state constitution explicitly requires us to do so. The Alabama Constitution specifically invokes "the favor and guidance of Almighty God" as the basis for our laws and justice system. As the chief justice of the state's supreme court I am entrusted with the sacred duty to uphold the state's constitution. I have taken an oath before God and man to do such, and I will not waver from that commitment. By telling the state of Alabama that it may not acknowledge God, Judge Thompson effectively dismantled the justice system of the state. Judge Thompson never declared the Alabama Constitution unconstitutional, but the essence of his ruling was to prohibit judicial officers from obeying the very constitution they are sworn to uphold. In so doing, Judge Thompson and all who supported his order, violated the rule of law. Alabama Attorney General Bill Pryor and my fellow justices have argued that they must act to remove the monument to preserve the rule of law. But the precise opposite is true: Article VI of the Constitution makes explicitly clear that the Constitution, and the laws made pursuant to it, are "the supreme Law of the Land." Judge Thompson and the judges of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals have all sworn oaths which bind them to support the Constitution as it is written-not as they would personally prefer it to be written. By subjugating the people of Alabama to the unconstitutional edict by Judge Thompson, that public officials may not acknowledge God, the attorney general and my colleagues have made the fiat opinion of a judge supreme over the text of the Constitution. While agreeing with me that the Constitution is supreme, and that the opinion of Judge Thompson was contrary to the Constitution, the attorney general has argued that he must follow an order he himself believes to be in direct violation of the supreme law of the land. (Embedded image moved to file: pic02026.gif) One of the great influences on the Founding Fathers, common law sage William Blackstone, once pointed out that judges do not make laws, they interpret them. No judge has the authority to impose his will on the people of a state, and no judge has the constitutional authority to forbid public officials from acknowledging the same God specifically mentioned in the charter documents of our nation, the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution. My decision to disregard the unlawful order of the federal judge was not civil disobedience, but the lawful response of the highest judicial officer of the state to his oath of office. Had the judge declared the 13th Amendment prohibition on involuntary slavery to be illegal, or ordered the churches of my state burned to the ground, there would be little question in the minds of the people of Alabama and the U.S. that such actions should be ignored as unconstitutional and beyond the legitimate scope of a judge's authority. Judge Thompson's decision to unilaterally void the duties of elected officials under the state constitution and to prohibit judges from acknowledging God is equally unlawful. For half a century the fanciful tailors of revisionist jurisprudence have been working to strip the public sector naked of every vestige of God and morality. They have done so based on fake readings and inconsistent applications of the First Amendment. They have said it is all right for the U.S. Supreme Court to publicly place the Ten Commandments on its walls, for Congress to open in prayer and for state capitols to have chaplains-as long as the words and ideas communicated by such do not really mean what they purport to communicate. They have trotted out before the public using words never mentioned in the U.S. Constitution, like "separation of church and state," to advocate, not the legitimate jurisdictional separation between the church and state, but the illegitimate separation of God and state. (Embedded image moved to file: pic10493.gif) The First Amendment says that "Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof." It does not take a constitutional scholar to recognize that I am not Congress, and no law has been passed. Nevertheless, Judge Thompson's order states that the acknowledgment of God crosses the line between the permissible and the impermissible and that to acknowledge God is to violate the Constitution. Not only does Judge Thompson put himself above the law, but above God, as well. I say enough is enough. We must "dare defend our rights" as Alabama's state motto declares. No judge or man can dictate what we believe or in whom we believe. The Ninth and 10th Amendments are not a part of the Constitution simply to make the Bill of Rights a round number. The Ninth Amendment secured our right as a people. The 10th guaranteed our right as a sovereign state. Those are the rules of law. Mr. Moore is the chief justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama |
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I'm worth exactly $1,942,110.00. Go me. ~Colleen |
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