Posted on 04/30/2008 1:56:53 PM PDT by JenB
I forgot the symbols in the movie besides the obvious nod to paganism was a peculiar crescent moon and star on the girl as a mark of her status.
Oh, he made a comment a year or so ago that he thought Gandalf was a homo, and that he was a former lover of the bad wizard (whatever the heck his name is) and that was the reason for the bad 'blood' between them.
LOL
I always thought of it as more of a cough--specifically, that he was choking on the word "alone." After he'd been driven from the community of riverfolk, he was by himself for what...500 years? Unless he kept up a constant babble of conversation with himself (which he did, later on, didn't he?) his voice would have become bone-dry and ragged from neglect. And the word "alone" just fits him. My 2c, naturally.
That's exactly the same as the whole Dumbledore/Grindelwald extra-literary shenanigans, except their bad blood stemmed from something else.
That’s very clever and fitting; but I do remember that Tolkien explained it as a swallowing sound.
If you Google this:
“the name gollum” swallowing
...you’ll see a lot of citations. Check this:
http://greenbooks.theonering.net/questions/files/090100.html
Obviously the man never bothered to read LOTR, or do the least research on what TOLKIEN said about Gandalf : Gandalf is not an elderly man who studied magic for a few decades (as wizards usually are in fantasy literature); he’s an immortal Maiar-and quite literally an angel. Tolkien baldly stated in one of his letters, “Gandalf is an angel”. The maiar (and the even more powerful valar) are to angels what Iluvater (father of light) is to Jehovah. If gays want to project their fantasies onto both historical (Lincoln, too many others to list) and literary figures, I wish they’d at least do so in a way that doesn’t reveal their utter ignorance .
Looks like he was born to play that part too. < /s >
I think Shia Leboeuf would be a great young Bilbo.
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