General Chat

I got the whole thing for £25 on Amazon,
great price!

Rosexx

Good idea Amanda. You'll love them if DC of film three was anything to go by. I'm going to have all three. Take pride of place on my CD shelf along with the wonderful Sopranos.

Lol Sue

Arwen was OK but she could have kept her lips a bit smaller.......lol

Galadriel was spot on.

I think I'll ask for the directors cut when it's my birthday.......I had the films on vidio but no longer have a machine to play them on..........progress....huh.

totally agree Amanda

Elrond wasn't at all right. Now, Galadriel, she was right. and Arwen Evenstar - wonderfully caste.

Lol Sue

Well we all want Aragorn don't we......lol
I thought Elrond wasn't quite right I always imagined him being a bit stronger.

Faramir done down = agree, but again watch the director's cut.

Sister-daughter..........

Lol Sue

My mum was a headmistress, (as I may have told you before, Amanda) and I remember her being in charge of dinners -

"I don't like sprouts Mrs Hunter"


"In this school we all like sprouts, Johnny"

4 year old eats sprouts with relish.

Faery Queen, no, but book basher - certainly.

don't like the idea of Wormtongue as some kind of Uriah Heap. He wouldn't have got himself into that kind of position without some ability to fascinate - hence my vote for a Johnny Depp kind of actor.

He's not my personal fantasy - I'm more an Aragorn son of Arathorn person.. Strong, silent and powerful. A la Master and Commander.

Lol Sue

I wish I had speakers Ann......it sounds like its worth listening to.I do love the sound of a Welsh choir.My daughter bought me a CD for xmas but I haven't had a chance to listen properly to it yet.
Amanda

Sunset Poem by Dylan Thomas from Under Milk Wood - "Every morning when I wake...." and sung by Pendyrus Male Choir and can be heard if you log on to Pendyrus Male Choir website - it's the first track on their new CD which is about to be released. [my lovely OH was a member of the choir for about thirty years and he sings on that particular track] It's a beautiful poem and beautifully sung

What did you make of Faramir ? I thought they did his character down personally.

he could certainly tempt me Sue lol

Lol Sue..........I wish.......lol
Thanks for finding that.......it bought a tear to my eye........my beloved Mum did her "book bashing" with aplomb.....(?)
If I hadn't have been able to find her in official records I would have believed she was a "Faery"child indeed.........lol

I think he could have done Wormtongue - remember, he must have been "attractive" to be in the position he was. There has to be some fascination there - the odd flashing eyes to tempt?

Isn't that Wormtongue - the tempter?

Lol Sue

Ok Amanda, this should be in Ray's bar, but have you a bottle of home brew with " roots of relish sweet, And honey wild, and manna dew,"

Sounds tasty!

Lol Sue

For thee, Amanda....

All that maternal book bashing paid dividends!

Jane Horrocks - I'll think on that one!

The master story teller allows us all to read into the characters as we will........

O WHAT can ail thee, knight-at-arms,
Alone and palely loitering?
The sedge has wither’d from the lake,
And no birds sing.

O what can ail thee, knight-at-arms!
So haggard and so woe-begone?
The squirrel’s granary is full,
And the harvest’s done.

I see a lily on thy brow
With anguish moist and fever dew,
And on thy cheeks a fading rose
Fast withereth too.

I met a lady in the meads,
Full beautiful—a faery’s child,
Her hair was long, her foot was light,
And her eyes were wild.

I made a garland for her head,
And bracelets too, and fragrant zone;
She look’d at me as she did love,
And made sweet moan.

I set her on my pacing steed,
And nothing else saw all day long,
For sidelong would she bend, and sing
A faery’s song.

She found me roots of relish sweet,
And honey wild, and manna dew,
And sure in language strange she said—
“I love thee true.”

She took me to her elfin grot,
And there she wept, and sigh’d fill sore,
And there I shut her wild wild eyes
With kisses four.

And there she lulled me asleep,
And there I dream’d—Ah! woe betide!
The latest dream I ever dream’d
On the cold hill’s side.

I saw pale kings and princes too,
Pale warriors, death-pale were they all;
They cried—“La Belle Dame sans Merci
Hath thee in thrall!”

I saw their starved lips in the gloam,
With horrid warning gaped wide,
And I awoke and found me here,
On the cold hill’s side.

And this is why I sojourn here,
Alone and palely loitering,
Though the sedge is wither’d from the lake,
And no birds sing

Amanda...I always saw Goldberry as a blonde certainly and slightly built...can't think of an actress at the moment but will let you know if I spot her!

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Sue

"Now, where would you put Johnny Depp?"

lol am NOT going to answer that!

he could have done Wormtongue...but way too attractive! lol

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Sue and Rose.....what about Jane Horrocks as Goldberry ? I always feel that Goldberry is rather "impish"....what do you think ?

I have found the Lordly ones poem....you were very close with the words you'de found Ann of Glos.It is "the Immortal Hour"by Fiona Macloud........and I've remembered another favorite poem "La Belle Dame Sans Merci"by Keats
Amanda