When any of you ever watch the film with other people who say they love LotR... doesn't it annoy you when they ask the most stupidest questions or if they make the stupidest comments? Like, asking a question to understand what's happening is one thing... but a lot of questions really bug me. Or comments.
When I was watching RotK with my class.
Girl: (points to the fell beasts and trolls with siege towers) What are those?
Girl #2: Oh (casually) those are the dragons. And those are the ogres with the catapults.
Me: No, those are actually Winged Beasts of the Nazgûl, and those are the Olog-hai with siege towers. If you don't know, then just say so.
Later on...
(the Eagles show up)
Girl: Why couldn't the Eagles have flown Frodo over to Mt. Doom in the first place... that would have been so easy and it would have saved so much trouble.
Me: You like LotR, don't you?
Girl: Yes...
Me: If the Eagles could fly Frodo to Mt. Doom so easily, it wouldn't be a very good story.
Girl: I guess.
Me: Just shut up and watch the movie.
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and people who pretend to know what they're talking about...
Haldir wrote:
Ah... I dislike Melkor. Since you've passed the part about the creation of the Orcs, what do you think about it? Some say that the Orcs were made from tortured and mutilated Elves and some say that they were created simply in mockery, but not physically by them. I've had this discussion with nearly everyone I know who has read at the very least up unto that part.
What do you think of Morgoth's race?
Haldir's friend wrote:
I guess its okay...right cuz like he did needed an army for himself, wait in the book dosnt it just say that it was simply for the mockery that the orcs where crated?....or maybe I'm reading it wrong. But I really like some of the parts where you get to hear Morgoth talking, like even if he was part of the Valor I think its just fasanating how he came into an evil mind
So far I think the book is really good and understandable, if only i wasn't a sleepy person =/....then maybe I would actually remember stuff. Oh and yesterday I was reading alot and now I'm at the part where Feanor created the Silmarils and Melkor as turned him agianst the Valors and he just left Fingolin in Araman and went to Middle-Earth. And they started to talk about the Dwarvas.
Haldir wrote:
It's okay??!?! So you think that it is perfectly fine for someone evil to go and enslave the Firstborn, and create foul and corrupted Orcs just because he needed an army? I definitely think otherwise.... our opinions on good and evil definitely oppose each others'. And shut up, you're rambling.
I'm definitely not saying that I know every little detail about Tolkien's books (there is A LOT that I don't know actually), but people who pretend to know more than they do just annoy me!
Anyone else share that feeling?
