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Old 08-16-2004, 11:49 AM   #1
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the orc head on the stake when the three hunters go to the orc pile
I think that was because PJ always has to have *something* being impaled in his movies. It's like his trademark.

I would have to watch all the movies again to point out things I was uneasy about, as I can't think of anything at the moment. Some people, though, *coughmydadcough* could post a list a mile long with what bothered them about the films.

Eomer, I would love to know what you did picture the Phial being like. I always pictured a bottle shaped like a lightbulb, but... *sheepish grin*

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Old 08-16-2004, 06:50 PM   #2
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The white orcs...not sure why I assume orcs could be purple for all i know but for the first two movies throughout the books I pictured dark sinister creatures the orcs in ROTK threw me off I was like woag white orcs
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Old 08-16-2004, 06:52 PM   #3
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... that's the ornament that's sitting in my living room right now!
Yes, but haven't you sometimes wondered why your living room is so blissfully free of elephant-sized spiders?
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Old 08-16-2004, 08:28 PM   #4
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The sailboat, eh, Eomer? I thought that felt a bit odd... always did think there should have been a nice modern-day sailboat floating down the Anduin. And I HAD always wondered why my house lacked oversized arachnids... The small ones we have aplenty (they abound in old houses), but Shelob sized? God bless my various vials.

Honestly though, I don't much like Galadriel's phial either. I have no idea why, as I didn't really have much of a mental image to contrast it with. It's not wrong exactly... just not right.

Another thing that didn't feel quite right to me was the staircase up to Celeborn and Galadriel's in Lothlorien. I'd always seen it as more of an elaborately carved ladder, with many wellplaced rest stops, not a big spiral staircase. It just tweaks a nerve every time I see it, as pretty and logical as it is.

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Old 08-16-2004, 08:58 PM   #5
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Another thing that didn't feel quite right to me was the staircase up to Celeborn and Galadriel's in Lothlorien. I'd always seen it as more of an elaborately carved ladder, with many wellplaced rest stops, not a big spiral staircase. It just tweaks a nerve every time I see it, as pretty and logical as it is.
It reminds me to much of the Ewok's many spiral staircases in Star Wars...

I've got one foot on each side of the line on the phial issue. While I thought it was a little wierd/iffy feeling at first, I quickly warmed up to it & now it's pretty close to just fine for me. Or at least until the elephant-sized spiders come back .
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Old 08-17-2004, 07:52 AM   #6
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Sapphire_Flame, that is my problem! I have no idea what I think the Phial should look like. All I know is that the Phial in the film makes me uneasy, and I can't understand why.

Saucepan, your suggestion certainly seems to make sense. We did have one elephant-sized spider on our staircase once, but it made a point of never venturing into the living room.

Fea, (and everyone else interested), there are bonus points for whoever guesses the film from which the title of this thread was taken.
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Ill wager its something from Monty Python...

perhaps MP and the Meaning of Life?
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Ooh, bonus points. All right, Eomer. You strike me as the type of guy who would steal an idea from... [que the music: duhn duhn duhn]... Mallrats. How's my accuracy? Right? Wrong? Do I belong in an asylum with a big strong guard named Biff?

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