viewing #3

[cimorene]

i spent viewing #3 mostly trying to knit the screen time together with book canon, to make one cohesive canon in my head--the one my fanfic takes place in, of course. i have a nice legolas/gimli bunny gestating which got some further development in this viewing. last time i was all pissed off by the undercurrents between aragorn and legolas, but i think i'm being too nervous. there's clearly something there, but it doesn't have to mean legolas is in love with aragorn. when i stop looking at it defensively, it works for me.

i'm liking the movie more each time. and i like it better than fotr. not that i don't like fotr, but my tolerance for it is lower. can stand to watch it fewer times and such.

'm not getting tired of this yet--and i think that in all cases except faramir, movie characterization grows out of book characterization, simply elaboration on a level tolkien didn't touch, not actual disagreement.

as for faramir, well, my mental canon is starting to try to make sense of him, but it's tough going. maybe beating up ferretmir a little will make me feel a bit better.

Comments

[cara-chapel.livejournal.com]

I think that beating up ferretmir would be an EXCELLENT idea.

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[cimness.livejournal.com]

::dangles cheese on string::

::stamps on faramir's little paws when he reaches for it::

[jrivka.livejournal.com]

see, the way i figure it, book!legolas and gimli are all mfeo. so why not have movie!legolas and aragorn have their little thing? we all know the movie's hardly the book, eh?

[cimness.livejournal.com]

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no, i don't think so.

[http://users.livejournal.com/hugsnkisses_/]

*giggles* I'm sticking to my Leggy/Aragorn and you can't stop me! Then again, I am possibly the only person who liked Faramir the first I saw it so, freak, yes.

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[cimness.livejournal.com]

liked faramir?!

o.0

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