Re: Smeagle rocks (spoilers? Spoil-ED.)

[GidgetTMsMan at aol_com]

> Agreed.  Still, I'm apalled at the lengths to which Hollywood will go 
> when appealing to the lowest common denominator sometimes.  I seem to 
> remember the elven language being somewhat different.  Oh, the PROFANITIES!


Well, it is based on Danish or Finnish, I believe, and we all know that once they get some elven wine in them that they can swear like drunken sailors.

> Also, the softcore with Aragorn and Arwen wasn't horribly out-of-place, 


Well, after "Inventing the Abbots," who hasn't seen Liv Tyler's breasts.  So what is a liitle more.  I mean won't someone please think of the children?  That fabric is so sheer, why bother? 

> but the gay scene with Merry and Pippin really crossed the line. 
> There's no WAY that was the best way to escape from their predicament.


We all knew it was just a matter of time.  Now the question remains how long it will take Jerry Falwell to declare that Tolkein was nothing less than a proto-gay rights activist who is trying to subvert American families.


Steve