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[theweaselking]

Arthur Dent Baggins: So your master plan was to make a big dwarf out of gold and then pour it on him.

Thorin: That was the gist of it, yes.

Arthur Dent Baggins: Your plan. Was to make a big dwarf. Out of gold. And then pour it on him.

Thorin: Look, in my defence, and contrary to every single rational expectation, we actually got it made, we got the dragon to come to it, and we even managed to pour it on him.

Arthur Dent Baggins: A big dwarf. Made out of gold.

Thorin: Jeez, what do you want me to say? I'm sorry, alright?

This makes that movie sound way better than it actually was.

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[harvey-rrit.livejournal.com]

This is the first LOL I've had since the car accident. Thanks.

[rimrunner.livejournal.com]

Gandalf: I want to cast... Magic Missile!

Gandalf attacks the DARKNESS.

Wine. Monitor. Spittake.

[lafinjack.livejournal.com]

BILBO chants "Where are the cheetos?"

[arielstarshadow.livejournal.com]

I honestly liked the second film, for the most part. But yeah, I kinda wondered what the heck that whole scene was about. To be honest, my first actual thought was that it was some sort of golem that was going to be powered by molten gold and was going to attack the dragon. But... yeah, I don't know what the heck the gold statue was supposed to do. I guess they were hoping the molten liquid would be hot enough to penetrate drake hide - Smaug did seem to find it unpleasantly painful for a few moments, but why Thorin would have thought it would kill the dragon is beyond me.

I suppose it cold be chalked up to the fact that Thorin is already falling prey to the dragon sickness that we know is really going to come into play in the third movie - we know he's going to become increasingly irrational.

[torrain.livejournal.com]

I... liked it in a weird sort of way.

A way that mostly had to do with "this movie is the air filling up the cuddly inflatable teddybear that I remember from childhood, so it doesn't matter how good it's not as long as it's hitting enough of the right notes for me to remember how awesome the book was when I was a kid", you know?

[arielstarshadow.livejournal.com]

What I'm finding most interesting is the way it's making me think again about Tolkien's writing in the books. Don't get me wrong, I love his writing. But it does have its weak points - sometimes because he was using something/someone to make a particular [often moral] point.

I confess there are some things I absolutely love Jackson for doing, as I think they delve deeper into the world and the soul of the characters. It ends up making me wonder how the books might have been different were Tolkien writing them today instead of when he did.

I'm loving what he's doing with the dwarves, especially Thorin. Reading the Hobbit, I didn't much care for dwarves - they really were portrayed as very shallow and greedy. Jackson has made me do a complete turnaround on that, to the point where I know I'm going to spend most of the third film bawling my eyes out.

[drcuriosity]

Had me at the Star Control jokes, too.