Watching Lord of the Rings
Feb. 13th, 2011 09:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
katikatI bought the trilogy box set for Xmas, as a gift to myself :) Finally got around to watch it.
Fellowship of the Ring
I'm not a big fan of the hobbits - I'm more of an elf girl ;) - so the first half of the movie felt a bit slow to me. I mean, I understand that the movie is set in a fantasy land, so it needs to be introduced first, of course. But I would've preferred a little more action there.
As I said, I'm an elf girl so I love Legolas! Seriously, watching Orlando Bloom wield a sword - or two swords or a bow, for that matter - is a thing of beauty, as I told![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
yami_tai. He's incredibly graceful and nimble, be it in LotR or PotC. When I see him fight, I'm always reminded of Drizzt Do'Urden - only Drizzt's dark-skinned, being the drow hero of R.A. Salvatore's books.
My favorite part of the movie is the friendship between Aragorn and Legolas and then, later on, between Legolas and Gimli. It was so funny to watch Legolas run ON the snow while everybody else had to plow THROUGH it. I bet especially Gimli was annoyed by that!
And the fights! Loved the one with the goblins and with Balrog, that was my favorite fight of the whole movie.
Oh, and let's not forget the music. Wow!
You know, I've never read the LotR books, go figure. I need to borrow them and read them... But watching this movie, it made me want to read a real fantasy book again - not urban fantasy, not sci-fi, but a real fantasy book like those that I usually translate. But translating is not really reading.
Fellowship of the Ring
I'm not a big fan of the hobbits - I'm more of an elf girl ;) - so the first half of the movie felt a bit slow to me. I mean, I understand that the movie is set in a fantasy land, so it needs to be introduced first, of course. But I would've preferred a little more action there.
As I said, I'm an elf girl so I love Legolas! Seriously, watching Orlando Bloom wield a sword - or two swords or a bow, for that matter - is a thing of beauty, as I told
yami_tai. He's incredibly graceful and nimble, be it in LotR or PotC. When I see him fight, I'm always reminded of Drizzt Do'Urden - only Drizzt's dark-skinned, being the drow hero of R.A. Salvatore's books.My favorite part of the movie is the friendship between Aragorn and Legolas and then, later on, between Legolas and Gimli. It was so funny to watch Legolas run ON the snow while everybody else had to plow THROUGH it. I bet especially Gimli was annoyed by that!
And the fights! Loved the one with the goblins and with Balrog, that was my favorite fight of the whole movie.
Oh, and let's not forget the music. Wow!
You know, I've never read the LotR books, go figure. I need to borrow them and read them... But watching this movie, it made me want to read a real fantasy book again - not urban fantasy, not sci-fi, but a real fantasy book like those that I usually translate. But translating is not really reading.
