Don't let it ruin your thought, paint a new picture! The Very Last Ship, you could call it. :)
I'd love to see that scene in a film, too. My great wish is that it be made into a BBC miniseries, so that they could tell more of the story, the scenes that are so well suited to television: the scenes between fewer speakers. I would love to see all the scenes from the book with Frodo, of course, but I'd especially love to see those moments when Frodo is awed by one of Tolkien's near-iconic female characters. The trilogy gave us some very memborable moments between Frodo and Galadriel, but I'd love to see him in the presence of Goldberry, first seeing her, hearing her in various rooms around him, unseen, hearing the enchanted/enchanting rain-singing that entered his imagination and was heard again in his dream of the Far Green Country. I'd love to see the book moment when he first sees Arwen in Rivendell, asking, in a hushed voice who she is, awed and intrigued. I don't mean to suggest I'd like a swoony Frodo, but someone who, in the presence of these goddess-like women, feels wonder akin to reverence, with a wish to put himself at their service. The courtly, knightly side of Frodo is enhanced in these little moments. That side shows strongly in the Amon Hen [DOH! - meant Henneth Annun, not Amon Hen - DOH!] scenes with Faramir, too -- the book scenes, not the film's (!).
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Date: 2012-03-25 08:27 pm (UTC)I'd love to see that scene in a film, too. My great wish is that it be made into a BBC miniseries, so that they could tell more of the story, the scenes that are so well suited to television: the scenes between fewer speakers. I would love to see all the scenes from the book with Frodo, of course, but I'd especially love to see those moments when Frodo is awed by one of Tolkien's near-iconic female characters. The trilogy gave us some very memborable moments between Frodo and Galadriel, but I'd love to see him in the presence of Goldberry, first seeing her, hearing her in various rooms around him, unseen, hearing the enchanted/enchanting rain-singing that entered his imagination and was heard again in his dream of the Far Green Country. I'd love to see the book moment when he first sees Arwen in Rivendell, asking, in a hushed voice who she is, awed and intrigued. I don't mean to suggest I'd like a swoony Frodo, but someone who, in the presence of these goddess-like women, feels wonder akin to reverence, with a wish to put himself at their service. The courtly, knightly side of Frodo is enhanced in these little moments. That side shows strongly in the Amon Hen [DOH! - meant Henneth Annun, not Amon Hen - DOH!] scenes with Faramir, too -- the book scenes, not the film's (!).