Culture: Book: Play
Waiting For Frodo   (+8, -1)  [vote for, against]
Double the tedium ...

Scene: Exterior, day. Running DSL to DSR, with exits, a ROAD. USC, ONE WHITE TREE.

Two men, FARAMIR and ARAGORN are sitting by the TREE.

FARAMIR: So, can we go now ?

ARAGORN: No, not yet.

FARAMIR: Why not ?

ARAGORN: Because we're waiting for Frodo ...

Continue in like style for 1200 pages of text, three films, a radio series, innumerable spinoffs ...
-- 8th of 7, Oct 08 2012

LOL!
-- Phrontistery, Oct 08 2012


Bored of the rings?
-- MaxwellBuchanan, Oct 08 2012


No! We had to read this crap in Engish Lit.
-- DIYMatt, Oct 08 2012


“Given the existence of Gandalf quaquaquaqua with white beard for reasons unknown but time will tell who from the heights of Mount Doom plunged in torment plunged in fire the One Ring for reasons unknown…”
-- ytk, Oct 08 2012


Maybe Frodo's already there but invisible?
-- RayfordSteele, Oct 08 2012


When I was little The Hobbit was my favourite book ever. I saw a trailer for the film the other day - it looks terrible. A trilogy? they're going to ruin my childhood...
-- mitxela, Oct 08 2012


Your childhood? You wait till you see the trailer for "Middle Earth: The Phantom Menace". Then you'll realise your future's been ruined too …
-- 8th of 7, Oct 08 2012


//I saw a trailer for the film the other day - it looks terrible.// Really? I thought it looked pretty good. But I'm also a film nerd so I get excited about things like making normal sized actors appear like hobbits in moving shots.
-- DIYMatt, Oct 08 2012


Eh, I got bored of that by the end of the rings. Maybe I'm just extra critical when they adapt a book I really like. Don't get me started on I Am Legend.
-- mitxela, Oct 08 2012


//Don't get me started on I Am Legend// Gah! You got ME started on I Am Legend. That was the biggest piece of shit I've seen since the new version of The Day the Earth Stood Still. Well, other than the Transformers series.
-- DIYMatt, Oct 08 2012


Orlando Bloom gambolling whilst slaying the oliphaunt scarred me for life... please, no more.
-- Phrontistery, Oct 09 2012


TREE: Oh! I thought we were waiting for the Entwives. Boom, boom, boorrah, boom, hoom, etc, etc.
-- DrBob, Oct 09 2012


Nice one, Centurion …
-- 8th of 7, Oct 09 2012


I bunned this because I had a dog named Frodo (back when) and I always hope all my dogs will be waiting for me when I get to heaven!!
I'm also a Lord of the Rings reader / movie fan, but I still think some of it is absurdly long, so bun for that, too! +
-- xandram, Oct 09 2012


Only if it's written by Samuel Jackson.

Aragon: (with a long-suffering sigh). Golem light—bough not motherfucking break—Golem motherfucking dead. Aragorn heavy—bough break—Aragorn motherfucking alone. Whereas—

Golem: Golem! Golem! Golem will get an erection, Precious! He can use ring as Co -

Aaand so on
-- nomocrow, Oct 09 2012



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