"A diversion."

[Sapphire_Flame]

I'll give Sam leniency with that one, as Frodo, who was being spoken to, couldn't really see the door. Sam was simply informing him of its existence and letting him know they were almost there.

Legolas is the Captain Obvious through the whole thing, to be perfectly honest. What about the line at Dunharrow: "The horses are uneasy, and the men are restless." *pats Leggie's head* Yes, dear, we all see that. Go back to your corner now, there's a good lad.

Being a girl in her mid-teens who loves Lord of the Rings, people assume I'm Orli- obsessed.

Happily, I have avoided that connotation. I guess the constant Silm and UT references I manage to get into every single conversation has helped me in this respect...

Abedithon le,

~*~Aranel~*~

[The Only Real Estel]

I think what I'm seeing here is a lot of envy from the guys re Orlando.

puleeeze .

(PJ) "Then we thought, why not Orlando, who had all those qualities. We gave him the blonde hair and away we went."

Now if only they could've remembered the blonde eyebrows...

I don't see why one simple line that did not add or remove anything from the story warrants a thread, personally. Especially because it's turning into an Orlando bashing.

Oh come on, you know eveything eventually come back to that Orlando fatacizing or bashing .

p.s. Meela, you have a freaky avatar, I have to check twice every time I see it; the same goes for the top line of your sig too, having my name in it twice & all .

[Elianna]

I was wondering why so many hated the "A diversion" line. My brothers hated that it was poorly edited: Did you notice that with that line AND Gimli's "Let him stay there. Let him rot. Why do we care?", with both those lines, immediately afterwards, both Gimli and Legolas were back in their previous positions? Personally, I was annoyed at the line seemed to only be to give Orli something to say during the conversation.

To me, the more annoying line of Legolas' is "The way is shut. It was made by those who are dead, and the dead keep it. The way is shut." Okay, the ELF is repeating himself in the space of three sentences? The old hobo who actually says it in the book, yeah, he'd repeat himself within three sentences, but not an elf! He's reading the carvings? Aragorn's been to Rohan before and would be more likely to know what it means. Then the King of the Dead says the line again not two minutes later. (By the way, could anyone else not prevent themselves from thinking "I'm disinclined to acquiesce..." when Lego tries to shoot the King of the Dead?)

I'm very much looking forward to Troy. I read The Illiad (as I was supposed to two years ago for school....) and was completely thrilled to imagine Orli as Paris. HA! the wimp!.....

Speaking for myself and my friend Kira, as older teenage girls, we hate Orli, or at least love to hate him, because usually someone hearing the conversation will love him. To me his looks are disturbing: I can't stand to look at him for very long.

[ArathorofBarahir]

Personally I think that the only reason that Legolas said that in the movie was to give Orlando Bloom more lines.

[The Only Real Estel]

Personally I think that the only reason that Legolas said that in the movie was to give Orlando Bloom more lines.

I'm sure one sentence doesn't make the difference of a weta to Peter Jackson, he put it in an attempt to make it sound deep & elvishy, Legolas understanding what Aragorn was driving at, it just didn't end up any good at all.

[Lord of Angmar]

I don't understand what the big deal is with this quote- it was merely clarification for anyone in the audiences who hadn't been fully tuned in for the previous three minutes or so. It kind of reminded me of how in Star Wars C3PO would always translate what R2D2 said into English in his reply, like:

R2D2: *buzz**whirr*
C3PO: No, R2, we are not going to go on an adventure with Master Luke!

instead of just saying "No" - just so the audience members know what is going on.

[The Only Real Estel]

I don't understand what the big deal is with this quote- it was merely clarification for anyone in the audiences who hadn't been fully tuned in for the previous three minutes or so. It kind of reminded me of how in Star Wars C3PO would always translate what R2D2 said into English in his reply, like:

Oh wow! Do you mean if I pay really close attention I can understand what R2D2 is saying? That way I can laugh at C3P0 for repeating something I already understood? Or will I still have to really on C3P0 to translate, since R2D2 doesn't speak a language I can understand (unlike Gimli, Gandalf, & Aragorn)?