TORC is still going? That's excellent. I had heard it had closed. Ah, Pearl, I wish they had heeded Di's plea. Watching the Hobbit films, seeing Bilbo portrayed (so far) as someone who, however an "everyman", is possessed of pluck, clear perception and fortitude, I go, "if only...." All the more, I should think, will new viewers, people only coming into Tolkien's world via the Hobbit films, wonder when watching the LOTR, "why didn't they give the ring to Frodo? why couldn't they find someone with the courage, moral resources and inventiveness of Bilbo?"
*sobbing faces* (even though I shouldn't care any more; can't help it, I've been listening to the LOTR EE soundtracks this week, such gorgeous stuff)
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Date: 2014-01-22 12:13 am (UTC)Ah, Pearl, I wish they had heeded Di's plea. Watching the Hobbit films, seeing Bilbo portrayed (so far) as someone who, however an "everyman", is possessed of pluck, clear perception and fortitude, I go, "if only...." All the more, I should think, will new viewers, people only coming into Tolkien's world via the Hobbit films, wonder when watching the LOTR, "why didn't they give the ring to Frodo? why couldn't they find someone with the courage, moral resources and inventiveness of Bilbo?"
*sobbing faces* (even though I shouldn't care any more; can't help it, I've been listening to the LOTR EE soundtracks this week, such gorgeous stuff)