Lovely.

[ambitious_wench]

Just got back from the local corporate evil bookstore, Barnes & Noble. Wanted to pick up a copy of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, because I figure I really should give it a second chance. I tried to read it as a teen and found I had little patience for all the bazillion names to keep track of.

Now that I am older and more patient, perhaps I will find out just what all the fuss is about. And *then* I can see the movies (by then at the second-run theaters for a discount), and be able to make an informed decision on how well the movies were done.

While there, I picked up a copy of Joan Baez' 5th album.

"So we'll go no more a-rovin'" is one of my favorite songs from that album. 2.4 Mb.

Also got next year's Frithmas cards--at 50% off! Yes!

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[djfiggy.livejournal.com]

It was probably six or seven years between when I read that trilogy and when I saw the movie, and even I noticed a few big differences. Which I won't give away, since you haven't seen it. There's plenty changed, but the fact that I noticed after all those years pretty much means either I have a good yet selective memory, or the magnitude of the change is significant.

I personally go to a theater to have fun, not necessarily to see a cinematic masterpiece. If the two coincide, well then even better. But if I wanted to spend money and be guaranteed good movies, I'd have gone to the Toronto Film Festival. Good films by Atom Egoyan and David Cronenberg, and the occasional odd music video idea by Neil Young...

[stilkil.livejournal.com]

I have recently bought myself a new copy of LotR as my much loved originals from my now distant youth would probably crumble to dust at the slightest touch.
However, I'm not game to read it.
Some background....I'm now a 34 year old woman living very independantly. I have lived in Australia since a teenager. I first read and loved these books as a slightly odd, and very bright, english girl. I wanted to pinch them off my much older half brother's bookshelf when I was about 10. He made me read The Hobbit first. There was nop stopping me after that. These books were about the only thing I read continuously, back to back for about 4 years.
I loved the grand saga, the drama and the largeness of it.
However, its style is very english, (please remember it was written in the 1930's in male academia), and all the women, (about 3 in total), in it are best described as 'limp'.
The movies, although they have taken some liberties with the plot line of the books, have caputured what I loved about it and still love about it. The grand saga, the detail, the drama, the largeness and the scale.
Skip the theatrical versions, just find a friend with a nice big TV and decent sound and borrow the 'extended versions' and throw away a weekend.
The extended versions are much better movies than the theatrical releases. (I may cause a flame war with some of the above, but not on this last statement).

[turnberryknkn.livejournal.com]

(smile) I *love* that recording. Thank you for sharing. :-)

So We'll Go No More a-Roving / So late into the night...

[ambitious-wench.livejournal.com]

It's a favorite at Final Revels too. *grin* Love the imagery "for the sword outwears the sheath, and the heart wears out the breast, and the soul must pause to breathe, and love itself must rest!"

It's not Rennaisance period, the lyrics are attributed to Lord Byron. But it is a lovely bit musically, isn't it?

And Joan has the voice to make it achingly beautiful.

I think you might like Barbra Streisand's Pavane (http://www.cotse.net/users/awench/pavane.mp3) by Gabriel Faure. 7.54 Mb.