Posted on 05/22/2014 4:27:23 PM PDT by Perdogg
I am elderly too, and believe me, I don’t want to get “hot” with any young whipper snappers. My husband is my life.
But they’re nice eye candy.
Love my husband dearly.
And he doesn’t mind me looking at the eye candy.
Bofur would be the most fun, though.
Well, at least Jackson could have had a character ride through the scene on a unicycle with an umbrella singing
Oh I’m a lucky fella,
I’m a lucky boy,
I’ve got a new umbrella,
And it’s me pride and joy!
And the rain may come
And the sun may go
I’ll be warm ‘n’ dry
From me head to toe
Oh I’m a lucky fella
I’m a lucky boy!
Except of course there’s no particular reason I can see that Bombadil would need to be a character referenced elsewhere in the canon.
What’s wrong with an enigma? Must everything be explained and spelled out for us to understand?
The biggest problem of identifying Bombadil with Tulkas is their personalities. Tulkas is more like Ares/Mars than any of the other Greek gods, whereas Bombadil is more like the Puck of Midsummer Night’s Dream than anything else I can think of offhand.
Those appear, to me at least, to be very different personality types indeed.
The wife of Tulkas was Nessa, a Queen of the Valar and the sister of Orome, who he married long before during the Spring of Ards. But Tom says he found Goldberry in the Withywindle.
Given the immense destruction and remaking of Middle Earth that occurred many times over the tens or hundreds of thousands of years involved, it seems unlikely a Withywindle, as such, existed during the Spring of Arda for Nessa/Goldberry to be found in by Tulkas/Tom.
As a Vala, it also seems unlikely she’d be called “River-Daughter,” since she was one of those who created the river in question.
Personally, I find the enigmatic and unexplained origin and nature of Tom and Goldberry quite charming.
Not from what I've seen. His bastardization of the characters in Lord of The Rings, was intensely disgusting. Enough that I wouldn't waste my time watching ANY "Hobbit" movies.
Peter Jackson is a diseased whore.
However, as I was ruminating about it, I wondered if you would be interested in different roles that Richard Armitage has played. So, if you have Netflix, here are two suggestions:
(1)Robin Hood. This is a BBC production and an actor named Jonas Armstrong plays Robin Hood. Richard Armitage plays Guy of Gisbourne. It can be silly at times; but, not to bad to watch. (I believe Armitage will almost always be cast as a bad guy because of his deep, baritone voice.) However, even with the baritone voice, the next option (also on Netflix) is (2) North and South. I believe there was an American mini-series some time back with the same name and it was placed during the Civil War; however, this one is about the North and South of England. Armitage plays the ower of a textile mill in the North; and, the female part of the equation was from the London area (South); but, had to move North because of her father (a minister) being relocated. It is only 4 episodes. So, there you have it. If you are a Netflix subscriber, you can easily watch these.
I have to admit, the LOTR films are like white noise to me. I never picked up on the reference. I like a good science fiction film(what’s that R2?), but not much on fantasy.
For full disclosure, I am aware of the Sharknado film. If I was involved in the production of that movie in any way, I would never admit that involvement in public. One has to draw the line somewhere I guess...
lol
For what it’s worth, it is unseemly to lust so wantonly...
Don’t project your own lustful sins on me, you twerp. I’m 67 years old, and lust and I parted company a long time ago.
Since when is admiring someone’s acting skills and good looks “lusting?”
Clean up the cesspool in your own mind before pointing at someone else’s that you dredged up from your own imagination.
Good to see your sense of humor is still intact after all of these years...
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