Geek week!
May. 25th, 2008 04:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sebastienneWednesday night was rehearsals for "The Reduced Tolkien", which we're putting on in a few weeks; Thursday night was the inter-geek-society quiz (the only [Unknown site tag] member there, I enlisted the help of DocSoc defectors and we came 2nd); Friday night was a Doctor-Who-based stand-up-comedy show (well, I call it comedy, but I also found it incredibly moving and was in tears in places); and yesterday I sat down with a few friends and a pile of junk food and watched *all three Lord of the Rings extended editions* back-to-back. Even the bits where they spent twenty minutes listing every member of the fan club on the end of the credits. I may never be the same.
Oh my, the Lord of the Rings films really are very good. I spent 13 hours sitting so still that my hands and feet went numb, with no boredom, no clock-watching, no thought that I should be doing anything else with my time. (Fanfic projects / burlesque projects / life planning / productivity? Bah. None of these are as important as Sam & Frodo.) And, most pleasingly of all, this time I've not had my love for the books squashed out of me (before Christmas, if anyone remembers, I'd been avoiding the LotR films and fandom for over two years in hope of being able to re-read the books without going "bah, no skateboarding". I was very glad when, come Christmas, I was able to read and enjoy them like I did when I was 12). In fact, this time, watching the films has only served to reinforce my love for the books. [to those who watched the films with me: Sam does put the ring on, and he does eventually cross the sea, last of the ringbearers. References can be provided on request.]
And now I'm sitting in the kitchen with a 2nd Doctor serial, "The War Games". The Doctor just got lined up in front of a firing squad! I wonder if he'll survive...?
All in all.. the return of positivity to the![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
sebastienne world-view. Normal service may now, perhaps, be resumed.
Oh my, the Lord of the Rings films really are very good. I spent 13 hours sitting so still that my hands and feet went numb, with no boredom, no clock-watching, no thought that I should be doing anything else with my time. (Fanfic projects / burlesque projects / life planning / productivity? Bah. None of these are as important as Sam & Frodo.) And, most pleasingly of all, this time I've not had my love for the books squashed out of me (before Christmas, if anyone remembers, I'd been avoiding the LotR films and fandom for over two years in hope of being able to re-read the books without going "bah, no skateboarding". I was very glad when, come Christmas, I was able to read and enjoy them like I did when I was 12). In fact, this time, watching the films has only served to reinforce my love for the books. [to those who watched the films with me: Sam does put the ring on, and he does eventually cross the sea, last of the ringbearers. References can be provided on request.]
And now I'm sitting in the kitchen with a 2nd Doctor serial, "The War Games". The Doctor just got lined up in front of a firing squad! I wonder if he'll survive...?
All in all.. the return of positivity to the
sebastienne world-view. Normal service may now, perhaps, be resumed.
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Date: 2008-05-25 04:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-05-25 09:39 pm (UTC)*geek solidarity*
IIRC Aragorn, Merry and Pippin are the only members of the fellowship (excluding dead Boromir) who never cross the sea into the West. They all have explicit, geneaological (in the sense of class-based-inheretence) ties to the world.