LOTR - Return of the King

[seamonkee]

But he made the movie too gay and he knew it. That's why he had to add Sam's marriage in to try to right things. Now we know that Frodo is homosexual and Sam is bi. Tolkien got it right but the director didn't do a good enough job of expressing the brotherly love.

Easy to do so in text... but once in visual, I think it's challenging to portray the same intentions...'

IMO, it was Frodo that makes it so gayish... Why choose Elijah Wood when he has such a pretty boy face and such dreamy big eyes...

[seamonkee]

You're wrong... in the animal kingdom, the males are usually much more beautiful than females... peacocks, lions, even marine fishes!

Hmmm... regarding homo sapiens... well... women look better only when young.

To add, most female birds are drappy brown in colour...

As for homo sapiens, the female are not visually appealing. it's the make-up that fools you...

As for men, we dun even need the makeup to look good!

[Achilles Tang]

Come on... what's odd about showing a little brotherly love by gazing for a long time into each other's tear-filled eyes especially after a frag exchange?

[Tanzy]

I'll sooner stab the frag into your eye then look into it.

[Achilles Tang]

Come on.... I can show you my precious and you can show me yours...

[roidan]

wah..all showing your precious ah..hehe

how come bwilly so quiet today ah..i am sure he will wanna show us his *precious* also..hehe

[Achilles Tang]

You're wrong... if you wear a skirt... he would in a flash. Oh wait. The men in the Middle Earth... some kinda wore skirts too right?

[darren]

if i remember correctly, frodo in the book was in his 50s when he set out from the shire onto this adventure.

[Achilles Tang]

The hobbits can live for many years... if I am not wrong. So when they look old, they should be more than a hundred years old? Or was that from Star Wars... regarding Yoda... LOL!!!

[seamonkee]

if i remember correctly, frodo in the book was in his 50s when he set out from the shire onto this adventure.

Maybe hobbits in 50s are teenagers.. and real horny ones too...

[Yellow Tang]

According to the fantasy world, (AD&D) halfings another name for hobbits live slightly more than or the same as humans. Dwarfs live longer and elfs the longest, thats why they are so call immortals (but can still be killed). "going to the undying land" their immortal land.

[Tanzy]

Aragorn was 80 at the Battle of the Rings he lived to a ripe old age of 190 I think. Elves have no life span to talk about. They can't die! Even when they are slained they just end up in Valinor. Only human have the 'gift of death'.

[Yellow Tang]

Maybe hobbits in 50s are teenagers.. and real horny ones too...

50 should be their teenage or mature years, remember his uncle bilbo bagains celebrates his birthday in part one, he said he is already 115 years old. If not because of the rings that curses him, he would have grown old and die of old age. once after he left his ring to frodo, he started to age.

[Yellow Tang]

Aragorn was 80 at the Battle of the Rings he lived to a ripe old age of 190 I think. Elves have no life span to talk about. They can't die! Even when they are slained they just end up in Valinor. Only human have the 'gift of death'.

I have not read the book, from what I understand from the movie is that he is not of pure human race (maybe I played too many of those fantasy games), he is a mix race of human and elf, maybe its half-elf and half-elven race has an average life span of 190years (according to AD&D again).

[Octopuffy]

according the books, Gandalf and the wizards are so old, nobody knows their age.

it would seem humans in the olden days can live longer. (hmmm, must be something they ate)

[Octopuffy]

or some things they did not eat. last time no fast food mah... and no fast transports. otherwise, LOTR is gonna b a v short book.

Frodo can take plane to mordor and drop the ring down in hours. still got time to take pix and buy souvenirs

[Tanzy]

Aragorn should be pure human and he lived to the age of 210, from year 2931 of the Third Age to year 120 of the Fourth Age.

Gandalf, Sauron and Saruman are not human but Maiar which are one step down from the Valar which makes them probably immortal too.

[Achilles Tang]

Some of the elvish longevity must have rubbed off his Arwen.

[Yellow Tang]

If Aragon is of pure human race, why is elowyn (don't know correct a not) shocked to find out that aragon is 80 years old? If humans can live 200 years old, why bother about age difference? Think again.

That is my perception about the movie I watch and understood and no where else.

Anyway Tanzy you win, you can take over peter jackson position liao....

PS: Half-elf race in fantasy world are consider as out cast, not of pure breed. Always being look down.

[Tanzy]

Humans in Tolkien's world live for very long. Maybe they have different idea of a year. Elendil was 322 years old when he was killed by Sauron and his son, Isildur died at 234 after being ambushed by Orcs. They can live even longer than that if they lived out their natural lives. Aragorn seems pretty short lived compared to his ancestors.

[Yellow Tang]

Humans in Tolkien's world live for very long. Maybe they have different idea of a year.

Hey you can read tolkien's mind, maybe........their idea of a year is only 4 months instead of 12? and that reduce to 1/3 of their age? hmm..........well, every new moon and full moon looks the same.

[Yellow Tang]

Well, what the h..., its the first fantasy novel right? let your imagination run wild lah. All thanks to tolkien, if not we would not have so much fantasy novels, games and movies.

[Tanzy]

If you reduce the age by 1/3 then Eowyn will only be 26/3 = 8.7 years old when she met Aragorn and married Faramir only a few years later. I am letting my imagination run wild...

[Achilles Tang]

SHE MARRIED FARAMIR?????!!!!!!!

[Tanzy]

SHE MARRIED FARAMIR?????!!!!!!!

Ja. Faramir, brother of Boromir, son of Steward Denethor II of Gondor. Why are you so surprised?