Re: OT: Two Towers movie

--- Christian Thalmann <cinga@...> wrote:

> I like the movie wargs a lot.  The do look a
> lot like hyenas,
> but the Text does seem to suggest that they're
> not just
> plain vanilla wolves.  It gives them a fitting
> air of blood-
> thirst and barely constrained savageness.
Haven't seen em yet - perhaps tonight. I think
hyenas would be the perfect basis for such a
nightmare creature! I think I'd rather face a
bear!


> An armed teenager facing a battle against a ten
> times more
> numerous enemy is either afraid or just
> terribly stupid.
Considering that a teenager is at best terribly
stupid...

Consider the culture they grew up in! There's a
lot of heroism and warrior mentality - not
terribly different from that which produced the
Tain or Beowulf. Look at the teenagers growing up
*here* in bloody Monrovia! They're not at all
"afraid" to point a gun at a man and shoot him
full of holes. Consider how many teenagers aren't
"afraid" to strap a bomb to their bodies and walk
into an Israeli bus or dance hall. I can't
imagine Rohirric teenagers (and old gaffers)
would be one iota less fearful than these.

Padraic.


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mercumes-dom-resmanstaro haccruçen-fon-Mursilbâm!

And now, the corpse lies limp, lo! even the body of strength, lo! even the body
of Mursilbâm that slew the monster!
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