Subject: Whoa!
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Posted on: 2011-01-09 17:04:00 UTC
But... but that's nothing like the movies! No mention of Arwen at the Ford, or Legolas and the oliphants elephants, OR the Dead taking over the pirate ships!
No wonder people get so much wrong about this series.
I ran across this link when browsing TV Tropes: http://flyingmoose.org/tolksarc/homework.htm . It's a "synopsis" of the Lord of the Rings practically guaranteed to get any student who uses it to write his book report an F. I'd barely started reading the page when I encountered two things that I've also seen in LOTR PPC reports -- Sam and Frodo as brothers, and "the city of Rivendell".
The first sentence...it says...Frodo's twentieth birthday party? *really, really hoping this is a spoof*
*then right eye twiches. Sees it's a sacastic site and says 'ok'. Keeps reading and finds the article in London Sunday Times. Lips twitch, grabs a axe and walks slowly away saying 'come here squirrel, squirrel! I don't wanna hurt ya!'
Really did they use it in the paper?
But... but that's nothing like the movies! No mention of Arwen at the Ford, or Legolas and the oliphants elephants, OR the Dead taking over the pirate ships!
No wonder people get so much wrong about this series.
And I can't believe there was a newspaper article that actually used that synopsis.
The description of Galadrel's role was taken and altered by the makers of the site for parody.
The newspaper itself would have described the role accurately. The Sunday Times is a pretty respectable publication; it wouldn't have used a source like that.
I'm not as hopeful, though. Theonering.net archives, at any rate, talked about this as a genuine article.
It's 100% parody/sarcasm - the Flying Moose used to be one of my favourite sites way back in around 2002. It's all utter crack, but entertaining utter crack.
The synopsis, as such, is most definitely intended as humour. However, I guess it is possible some Suethors may have taken it at face value.
Check out the Tolkien Sarcasm pages. Balrogs have fluffy bedroom slippers, didn't you know? And Tom Bombadil is the Witch King.
Elcalion, running off to re-read all the quality Flying Moose stuff after many years.
Does anybody know if this "O. Sharp" at http://www.flyingmoose.org is still running the site? I'd like to get in touch with him to ask him about the He-Man scripts he wrote; I might want to expand them into a full feature screenplay but would rather contact him first...
It excellently blends truth with complete fiction, and spirals downward into ridiculosity without a noticeable thump.
""Well, everybody ends up running around Middle-earth in different directions. Aragorn and that Dwarf and Elf whose names I can't remember go to this place with lots of horses, but inexplicably they have no racetrack. ""
Don't worry, there's enough truth in it to safely say this is probably a joke.
Oh, I'm certain it's a joke. But I can also see someone realizing that 1) all the kewl Suethors are putting themselves in LOTR and 2) that's a very long story. With all the other shortcuts a Suethor can take, going for the Cliff's Notes instead of actually reading the trilogy would be consistent.
(Or, whoever wrote that synopsis has also read LOTR badfic and was including "tributes".)
So, perhaps we'll be seeing a certain pattern of similar plot breaks in the near future...
Given the fact that they claim parts of the story take place in Japan ...
I would not, however, put it past some Suethors to take it seriously. I've seen weirder things taken seriously.
rather amusingly horrid.