TTT, an anniversary of sorts
Mar. 11th, 2003 10:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mollyringleI was flipping thru my journal (the old-fashioned pen-and-paper one, not this one), and noticed that one year ago tonight I finished reading The Two Towers for the first time. That's something of a milestone, given the traumatic experience that the end of that book provides.
Here's what I said about it - and, be warned, there are very serious spoilers ahead, even if you've seen the movie, because as you may have heard, the movie ends earlier than the book:
I finished The Two Towers, and WOW, what an ending. Tolkien can lull you into thinking that he'll never step up the pace, but you'd be in for a surprise. The last few chapters are impossible to put down, not to mention heartrending. Even though we just KNOW Frodo isn't really dead - I mean, come on, they are not going to kill Frodo before Book 3 even begins - it was still just awfully sad and agonizing to read that "death" scene. Sam weeping over him, "Don't go where I can't follow" - oh, dearie, when I see that scene in the movie come December, I shall be a sniffling mess. [Note: clearly this is before I found out that they weren't including this until the third movie. It was a dark day for everyone when I learned that bit of news.] Argh - this stuff is just SO GOOD. I know I cannot do a single thing in tribute to make it better; all I can do is fawn/drool/worship, and that sounds pretty good, but - DAMN.
I feel like the adoring, frustrated councilman in 'Waiting for Guffman' - "It's just so good; I mean - did you SEE - aagh! DAMN, I wish I was in this production!" I seethe with envy of those who got to work on the filming and writing for the trilogy, though at the same time I realize that if it hadn't been for their vision, I might never have gotten interested in these books. To my own stupid loss.
Indeed. Hard to imagine a time before knowing about the Shelob scene, but there it was. How much fuller a person I am now.
:)
So, anyway, goodnight.
Here's what I said about it - and, be warned, there are very serious spoilers ahead, even if you've seen the movie, because as you may have heard, the movie ends earlier than the book:
I finished The Two Towers, and WOW, what an ending. Tolkien can lull you into thinking that he'll never step up the pace, but you'd be in for a surprise. The last few chapters are impossible to put down, not to mention heartrending. Even though we just KNOW Frodo isn't really dead - I mean, come on, they are not going to kill Frodo before Book 3 even begins - it was still just awfully sad and agonizing to read that "death" scene. Sam weeping over him, "Don't go where I can't follow" - oh, dearie, when I see that scene in the movie come December, I shall be a sniffling mess. [Note: clearly this is before I found out that they weren't including this until the third movie. It was a dark day for everyone when I learned that bit of news.] Argh - this stuff is just SO GOOD. I know I cannot do a single thing in tribute to make it better; all I can do is fawn/drool/worship, and that sounds pretty good, but - DAMN.
I feel like the adoring, frustrated councilman in 'Waiting for Guffman' - "It's just so good; I mean - did you SEE - aagh! DAMN, I wish I was in this production!" I seethe with envy of those who got to work on the filming and writing for the trilogy, though at the same time I realize that if it hadn't been for their vision, I might never have gotten interested in these books. To my own stupid loss.
Indeed. Hard to imagine a time before knowing about the Shelob scene, but there it was. How much fuller a person I am now.
:)
So, anyway, goodnight.
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Date: 2003-03-11 10:32 pm (UTC)Indeed. Hard to imagine a time before knowing about the Shelob scene, but there it was. How much fuller a person I am now.
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It's interesting that you say this.
See, I read the Hobbit when I was five and my daddy read me the Lord of the rings when I was six. I've read them over and over. I can recite the Hobbit practically verbatim.
It's so neat to me to watch people experienceing the stories for the first time or near to first time.
My roommate for example hasn't read the books. When she came home from Two Towers she turned to me and said "Thank you for not telling me Gandalf wasn't dead - I screamed SO LOUDLY with Joy in the theatre."
It's neat to watch her reading the book now and finding out all this stuf that I've loved for so long. She ran into the kitchen the other night and yelled "Frodo's a whiney BITCH!!!!!" and stomped out.
Anyway, I'm babbling.
You, as Always, Rock.
~Squee