Most people looked at him with terror and with fear, but to Gondor chicks he was such a lovely dear

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I can't get over how different the Lord of the Rings books are from the Lord of the Rings movies, and how much I - in general - prefer the movies.  I'm pretty sure this makes me a bad person (writer? fantasy fan?) in some way.  Mostly I am just so tired of Gandalf and all the non-entities that surround him.  I know, I know.  But The Return of the King really should be called The Return of the Gandalf, because he's all Ra-Ra-Rasputin right now.  Uh oh, Boney M segue!

Wow, re-imagining that song with LOTR just made my morning substantially better.  Must resist temptation to revise entire lyrics to fit LOTR.

I also can't get over how my mother refuses to accept that Lord of the Rings was written in the 1940s and not the 1600s.  I keep telling her, and she keeps going, "really??!"

ETA: Crap, I'm becoming convinced that I need to totally re-structure the current short story WIP from the perspective of a new protagonist.  FUCKING HELL AFTER ALL THIS WORK

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[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

ALSO THIS SONG IS AWESOME.

[intertribal.livejournal.com]

LOL I know. I discovered it in college, and then one time back at home I was talking to a Russian student who actually brought it up in conversation - he got sheepish about it when I said I knew it. Apparently it's popular in Russia even though the USSR banned the band from playing the song when they performed there.

[barry-king.livejournal.com]

I can't believe it used to be part of the soundtrack of our awful middle-school parties.

But Gandalf as Rasputin? First I said OMG, No, no, you have it all wrong!


And then I thought... yannow. She has a point....

Twisty little mind there... Awesome.

[intertribal.livejournal.com]

Hey, our soundtrack was like, Smashmouth ("Hey now! You're an all-star!"), so I'd say you've got one up on me there.

Thank you for the compliment! :) Twisting up good vs. evil narratives is a beloved hobby.