LOTR polls on TheOneRing.net
Sep. 25th, 2002 09:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mollyringleLooking back over these polls is oddly fascinating. They go waaaay back to 1999, when the movies were still being made, and the fans were living off little rumor-crumbs. Makes our current existence look positively luxurious. Sure, I want to see TTT right freakin now, but at least I have a FOTR DVD.
Also, it sends me into convulsive snickers every time I think of the fact that fully 20% of fans voted for Tom Bombadil as the "biggest raving lunatic" in Middle-Earth (beating out Saruman, Sauron, and Wormtongue; but not quite as loony as Denethor and Gollum). I'm glad I'm not the only one who found Mr. Bombadil to be a serious wacko.
And almost one year ago, the poll-takers accurately predicted that, of all the actors, Orlando Bloom would be the biggest "teen heart-throb" once the movies came out. "Duh," one might say. I always knew Tolkien readers were smart. Guess we now know they're not blind, either.
(Though, actually, I might have imagined that Elijah Wood's fame [not to mention big blue eyes] would give Orlando a run for his money...)
Also, it sends me into convulsive snickers every time I think of the fact that fully 20% of fans voted for Tom Bombadil as the "biggest raving lunatic" in Middle-Earth (beating out Saruman, Sauron, and Wormtongue; but not quite as loony as Denethor and Gollum). I'm glad I'm not the only one who found Mr. Bombadil to be a serious wacko.
And almost one year ago, the poll-takers accurately predicted that, of all the actors, Orlando Bloom would be the biggest "teen heart-throb" once the movies came out. "Duh," one might say. I always knew Tolkien readers were smart. Guess we now know they're not blind, either.
(Though, actually, I might have imagined that Elijah Wood's fame [not to mention big blue eyes] would give Orlando a run for his money...)
