#thorinforever

SMAUG:  Remember this day, and let your followers know. BOU:  I’ll post at lunchtime.  I gotta go to work. THORIN:  What is this day? SMAUG:  Appreciate a Dragon Day.  Take it to heart, Dwarf.   THORIN (flipping through calendar pages and Bou’s scribbles):  When is Appreciate a Dwarf Day? SMAUG:  Durin’s Day.   I’m sure you must have heard of it.   It comes around once a year.  THORIN (scrolling through Bou’s tumblrs):   Wrong.  It is every Monday.   “Majestic Monday,” if we must be accurate.   And according to Bou,  every day is Majestic Monday.   Therefore... BOU:   Um...guys...every day is also Appreciate a Dragon Day in my heart.   Just saying.

After a conversation with a friend elsewhere on the web about our disparate interests, I had a Hobbit dream.   I won’t go into details, because it fueled a plot bunny that I am guarding jealously.   Suffice it to say that Thorin made an actual appearance this time, instead of leaving a whisper of a thought as he did the last time my nerdiness got its way during the visions of the night.  The dream has been on my mind all day, and as soon as I have some homework for my job finished, I will be jotting some vivid details down before they fade into distant memory.  

THANK YOU!!!

And now I’m behind on #6wkMMM, and will be again, so I will have to do a double feature of The Hobbit trilogy when I return from my trip this next weekend, before I get started on LOTR.    

Well, I can definitely see now how it garnered an “R” rating.   And I am incredibly disappointed in the fact that the battle scenes got so much attention (and were way gorier than necessary) than the funeral of Thorin, Fili, and Kili, which was little more than a footnote.   I think it’s wrong that Thranduil’s homage to Thorin from the novel, that of laying Orcrist on Thorin’s tomb, was left out of the film altogether.   I was, however, happy that we got to see more of the Company during the battle, and watch them kick some Orc butt with style and relish.   And was I alone in feeling it was just...wrong to see Dain wearing the crown that should have been Thorin’s?  I know that it’s canon, and that Dain was a good king, but it still didn’t seem right.   I think I will always be ambivalent towards Tolkien about that  aspect of the story.     

The birds of Middle Earth, not the rock band.  And of course, they couldn’t grab Azog and toss his pale orc ass over the cliff.  That would be too easy and not helpful to the plot device PJ and Co. were brewing.