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Fair and Cold
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The way they presented him the movies - there was just no context. He was a monster. And a scary one at that.
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Ghost Prince of Cardolan
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: midway upon... in a forest dark
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Playful Ghoul
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Ontario, Canada
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Orlando Bloom may have done more (both good and bad) for the popularity of The Lord of the Rings movie, book, and franchise, than anyone else.
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Orlando is my boy. I wasn't a book fan when I went to see the first film, I hadn't gotten around to reading Tolkien at that point, so I was going "whoooo's that?" along with the rest of them. Although, the guy who was explaining everything to me wasn't as traumatized as you with your classmates - I bet. We were in our last year of high school, and he and i did end up seeing each other for a while... Hmmm. Maybe that's where it all began, actually, at that fateful FotR viewing!
![]() Of course, poor Bloom had the worst lines ("a diversion" - I'm still giggling over that years later), which, in a way, is just as bad as the way they set up the Mouth of Sauron. Or maybe not. The Mouth of Sauron did not provide any visual gratification. ![]()
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Animated Skeleton
Join Date: Jan 2009
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where getting of the subject this thread is on merry
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Doubting Dwimmerlaik
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Heaven's basement
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Slightly! Think that your thread, thewichtking, has been hijacked. Welcome to the Downs, by the way.
Anyway, in the Extended version of RotK, we get a brief moment in the Houses of Healing - far too little for me. Merry is no where to be seen, and so why he's not in the vanguard would be a mystery. For example, who would he speak with regarding 'those that have gone east to meet their Doom?' The healers? The Herbmaster? Ioreth? Eowyn gets a moment with Faramir, and Merry would be a third wheel in that scene. And so Merry is sent east.
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Curmudgeonly Wordwraith
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Ensconced in curmudgeonly pursuits
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This is one of the hallmarks of discussion threads on the 'Downs. A very standard occurrence, actually. When the original discussion has run its course (and what more can be said of Merry being plopped indecorously down at the Black Gates on the whim of an egoistic director?), the discussion digresses into tangents.
Don't worry, it'll come around again. It sometimes takes four or five years, but someone will post on the original topic again. ![]()
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Auspicious Wraith
Join Date: May 2002
Location: The Netherlands
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![]() I think it would be funny if, in an ode to Merry's pointless appearance at the battle of the Black Gate, they got him to show up at the Battle of Five Armies. It would be quirky, you know? Fans would love it.
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