Notes from the Labyrinth
Unobtainium and Dragons' Bones
 
18th-Nov-2003 09:14 am
books
So heresluck and I were talking last night, as we are wont to do, and came up with what seems to us an appealing personality litmus test. To wit: what is your favorite part of The Lord of the Rings?

Mine is Cirith Ungol. This, say HL and Mirrorthaw, explains much about me.

What's yours? And if you want to talk about why, that's cool, too.
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18th-Nov-2003 06:19 pm (UTC)
A sword rang as it was drawn. 'Do what you will; but I will hinder it, if I may.'

'Hinder me? Thou fool. No living man may hinder me!'

Then Merry heard of all sounds in that hour the strangest. It seemed that Dernhelm laughed, and the clear voice was like the ring of steel. 'But no living man am I! You look upon a woman. Eowyn I am, Eomund's daughter. You stand between me and my lord and kin. Begone, if you be not deathless! For living or dark undead, I will smite you if you touch him.'
19th-Nov-2003 07:11 am (UTC)
This part is one of my grown-up favorites because one of my best girl friends at college did a reading of it. She has a Georgia-peach accent, and my brain retrofitted all the Rohirrim with Southern accents because Jenny's Eowyn was so impassioned.

Also: the death of Boromir, the Entmoot, the chapter called "Flotsam and Jetsam" and the Palontir.

My father did an amazing Sam when I was in kindergarten, solid and practical, so the Sam bits are Daddy-bits, and all other notions of Sam disappoint.
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