"I'm, like, totally here to take you to Valhalla, okay?"

[ealgylden]

Okay, hockey game is over (we lost, boo!), Little Sister and her boyfriend have gone home, and I'm avoiding anything that looks like work. Fie upon thee, work, for it is Saturday night and I am home watching tapes of Kim Possible! Once, long years ago, I thought, "Someday I'll be a grown-up, and I'll go out on Saturday nights and have a social life," for I was very young then, and not very wise. Oops, and now I'm out of ice cream. That won't do a'tall.


I'm sure that lots of people know this already, but castalianspring is most exceedingly cool. People who like ships tend to be cool to begin with, but people who give pretty little sparkly ships to their friends? That's a whole new level of coolness. Thanks muchly, Castalia! I love it!

(You may wonder why I'm using "cool" so often rather than my normal mix of "keen," "shiny," "snazzy," etc. It could have something to do with the fact that my house is about fifty degrees, even with both the furnace and the woodstove going. All of my other adjectives are frozen.)


Also very cool is my mother, who got me a Viking Barbie. She's pretty fabulous (the Barbie, I mean, though my mom is as well). She's rather more Wagnerian (or "What's Opera, Doc?") than historical, but her little winged helmet, breastplate and chainmail overskirt are so cute that I don't care a whit. Also very cute are the pink-sailed Viking ships on the packaging. She is Barbiehilda, after all. First Barbie I've ever seen with a sword. Pretty nifty, if you ask me.


I'm crossing my fingers and toes (and hair, since I always wear it braided) that I can swing seeing RotK again on Monday or Tuesday. I was watching the "Concerning Hobbits" bit on the FotR EE this afternoon, and you know, for all that that version of the beginning is closer to the books and is a thoroughly charming piece of filmmaking, I think I have a slight preference for the theatrical version, where it jumps from the prologue right to Frodo under the tree, without meandering through Shire life first. It's a very slight preference, but even so. Many, many people (myself included) are already eagerly waiting for the EE of RotK, nearly a year away, in hopes of seeing all the lovely scenes that didn't make the theatrical cut. Still, there is one apparent plot-twist peculiar to this version that I'll miss once the other scenes are added back in. According to the theatrical cut, Éowyn ends up as Queen of Rohan. Cool. I mean, there's nothing in the movie that says any different. She and Théoden have their lovely scene where he tells her to be brave, be happy and go home and rule after he and all the rest of her male relatives and friends are slaughtered. Assuming the world doesn't end directly thereafter, that is. And then off to war they go, he's killed, she lives, and that's pretty much it for the royal family of Rohan in the films. They don't vanish, of course. Éomer does some sexy, respectful scowling at the coronation while Éowyn smiles at the cute blond stranger next to her ("What did you say your name was again?"), but with no Houses of Healing, no Éowyn/Faramir plotline, and no mention of "Éomer King", there isn’t really anything onscreen to dispute Théoden's choice of heirs. Which is cool. Little Sister's Boyfriend, who's a big fan of the movies but knows nothing about Tolkien, Anglo-Saxon history, aeþelings, or the odds of Rohan ending up with a reigning queen, just assumed that the warrior princess went home to become a warrior queen and was disappointed to find out that her brother got the throne instead. I think I'm going to miss that interpretation once all the missing scenes are added back in, erroneous though it may be.


I was going to blather about the RotK score and the Oscars a wee bit, but my attention wandered so much while I was typing this that it's taken me ages, and instead I'm going to bed. Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow...

Comments

Queen of Rohan

[ide-cyan.livejournal.com]

That's a neat observation. Queen Éowyn, yay! I could get behind that.

Of course, I've been spurning the theatrical versions in order to get the EEs for the holidays one after the other, but that might be a reason to go back and get them afterwards.

[alethialia.livejournal.com]

See, now I was wondering about that. Because the movie seemed to imply that she was Queen, but logic kept annoyingly cutting in, saying she did have a brother and those pesky rules of succession do have to be followed--which would be why they're called rules.

Hmph! They should be more like guidelines, methinks. I'm all for a queen for Rohan. Hell, she killed a Nazgul almost all by her lonesome. That alone should make her eligible.

[castalianspring.livejournal.com]

*reads the title of this post and dies*

Okay, hockey game is over (we lost, boo!), Little Sister and her boyfriend have gone home, and I'm avoiding anything that looks like work. Fie upon thee, work, for it is Saturday night and I am home watching tapes of Kim Possible! Once, long years ago, I thought, "Someday I'll be a grown-up, and I'll go out on Saturday nights and have a social life," for I was very young then, and not very wise. Oops, and now I'm out of ice cream. That won't do a'tall.

*snickers madly* Ah, the folly of youth. But really, relaxing by staying home with tapes of Kim Possible and ice cream, how could a social life compare with that?

I'm sure that lots of people know this already, but castalianspring is most exceedingly cool. People who like ships tend to be cool to begin with, but people who give pretty little sparkly ships to their friends? That's a whole new level of coolness. Thanks muchly, Castalia! I love it!

Oh yay, it arrived! I'm so glad you like it :) I immediately thought of you when I saw it. Merry Christmas! *glom*

(You may wonder why I'm using "cool" so often rather than my normal mix of "keen," "shiny," "snazzy," etc. It could have something to do with the fact that my house is about fifty degrees, even with both the furnace and the woodstove going. All of my other adjectives are frozen.)

*dies again* You're very witty tonight, m'dear. Frozen adjectives...hee!

There's a Viking Barbie? With a sword? Wow. That's really *insert frozen adjective here*.

Huh, I hadn't thought about Eowyn and the throne situation. I suppose it *does* let one assume that she'll be queen when she goes home. She'd certainly be good at it.

[carmarthen.livejournal.com]

I like Éowyn Queen. *clings to delusions* I think she'd be better at it than movie!Éomer, who just...scowls sexily. And slays things.

Also, I want a Viking Barbie!