in which there is tired bliss.

[chris_warrior]

i'd forgotten how nice it is to sit and relax after a long day; having given three massages, shared cookies and coffee with best friend, run three miles, and taken a long, hot, shower... with peppermint soap!

it's nice to be able to idly read email and livejournal, chat, and watch Lord of the Rings (i caught my mom watching it when i came upstairs from shower).

yay being home. :)

Comments

[lunchboxcomiks.livejournal.com]

elves can be quire alluring but i don't think Liv Tyler looked as good as an elf as she does in Jersey Girl and a regular person

[chris-warrior.livejournal.com]

i thought Cate Blanchett was lovely as Galadriel. yet, still, expected more. maybe that's the problem - just expected so much more from ELVES. ;)

i'm a pretty cut-rate elf myself. i suppose i make a better faery. :D

[lunchboxcomiks.livejournal.com]

oh she was quite beautiful

[brickhousewench.livejournal.com]

You expected more from the elves? For weeks, nay months after the movies came out I was in love with Peter Jackson's elves. All of them. I went to see LOTR like eight times in the theaters, and bought the DVDs the day they came out for the elves.

Elron and Galadriel. Legolas. Arwen. Haldir. Orophin and Rumil. Heck, even Figwit.

They are just as I imagined them. Tall, blonde, impossibly beautiful. Feirce warriors. Makers of beautiful things. I love Elron's house in Rivendell. I want my bedroom to look like the one Frodo wakes up in. Arwen's gowns are so beautiful. Galadriel even has stars in her eyes.

*happy sigh*

I love elves.

Yes, I am a pervy elf fancier. ;-)

[chris-warrior.livejournal.com]

when i get thin, remind me to NEVER wear my elf ears to YOUR house.

;)

seriously, i adored the CGI buildings. just... seeing The Agent as Elrond did not do it for me. and Liv Tyler? not the choice i would have made. Cate was the only one i thought came close... and only because they shot her in such soft focus much of the time.

what can i say... i think i expected something more exotic... maybe even with an Asian cast to the features.

maybe it's a weird racial memory trace? *LMAO*

[brickhousewench.livejournal.com]

I may be the only person on the face of the earth who didn't make the Elrond / Agent Smith connection. It wasn't until months later that I figured that one out. Probably just as well, as it didn't spoil the elven magic for me.

And I think Liv Tyler is a hottie, so again, that casting choice didn't bother me in the least.

And some people grump about Orlando Bloom, but physically, he is an elf. The boy was so graceful throughout the movie. And his archery! There are generally two types of archery in Hollywood movies. The William Tell hero shot (shoot the arrow off the head, shoot and split the arrow in the target, etc.) or the mass of arrows at the beginning of a battle (think Braveheart). The thing I remember most from my first viewing of LOTR was that Legolas has a bit in that final battle where he shoots four arrows in a row (and I think in the extended DVD it is actually SIX in a row!). I remember walking out of the theater and going, wow, finally a movie where someone actually shoots a bow.

OK, I'm just being a complete geek now.

[lunchboxcomiks.livejournal.com]

yeah of coarse they give lego'lass' lot of epic. Axes and Shields still need a coriagrapher that really knows how to wield them. if you seen resident evil apocalypses you'll see the worst misunderstanding of how to use a weapon ever.

i feal i should state that legolas is a great exaple of an and elven archer/dex fighter, actually the casting of the movie was flawless in my mind who else could tell the story of the dwarfs gust my being there side from John Reese Davis. it also helped that he and the hobbits where the the right hight proportionally.

im hoping there will be a hobbit movie cause i hear there are quite a few dwarfs in it

[chris-warrior.livejournal.com]

you really ARE an ubergamer.

[lunchboxcomiks.livejournal.com]

^_^ that one of the nicest things any one has ever said to me

[lunchboxcomiks.livejournal.com]

the elven weapons and armor where also well thought out