Dog frodo costume1/3/2024 I’d grown up watching Disney princesses, and hadn’t been able to make the switch to Shah Rukh-led Bollywood blockbusters that so many of my peers had. I lived in Hyderabad, India, where I didn’t know anyone else who was seriously into the kind of books or movies I liked. But LOTR, right from the get go, from that first map and that intro to Hobbits, I knew this was a serious look into another world.Īnd the movie basically told me it was cool to like something like this. It was only in Book 4 or 5 that Rowling dramatically upped the stakes and it became a Hero’s Journey/Epic Quest/Fantasy novel. I had read Harry Potter, of course, and was up to speed with the books, but Harry Potter was still, for me, a school story, with the added bonus of magic. I couldn’t believe that someone took this book seriously enough to do that, and it gave me so much hope.īecause The Lord of the Rings was the book that made me fall in love with fantasy, irrevocably. The settings, the costumes, the fights-everything screamed labour and detailing, and had evidently been put together by people very much invested in making as great a Middle Earth as they could. Sure, some of the characters were not how I had pictured them, and there was no Old Forest or beauteous Glorfindel, and Gollum was way creepier than I had anticipated, but I was awestruck by the fact that someone had taken this world, so lovingly build by Tolkien, and converted it to such beautiful film. Well, I was 12 years old and he was the only vaguely childish character in the book. Plus, I was really sad they’d cut out Tom Bombadil, since I genuinely enjoyed the chapters about him. I was still reading the books, and had just about trudged into The Two Towers, so some of the characters who popped up perplexed me. I watched the Fellowship of the Ring (henceforth referred to as FOTR) on my lonesome on a sunny evening in Hyderabad, a pirated VCD (three of them, to be precise) spooling out its secrets and inviting a 12 year old me to Middle Earth (I actually watched the movie in 2002, you see, missing the hype in December). It will be a chapter all on its own, titled with the appropriate Unworthy headline: ‘Girl watches a movie. I’d like to believe that it will always be an important point, one that biographers will research painstakingly, hunting down the man (or his descendants) who ran the ‘VCD/DVD’ rental place from which I borrowed it, my school friends who were treated to my first squealing impressions of it, possibly paging through my middle school diaries to find out what exactly I had written after watching it (I should find those before they fall into the wrong hands). I can safely say that watching the first Lord of the Rings movie was one of the hallmark moments of my life thus far. All those Elves and Men toppling off cliffs for no apparent reason at the beginning-good stuff. This had two effects: one, it made me feel incredibly old (didn’t help that one of my friends looked at a picture of Arwen and said ‘Oh, her! That movie came out when we were kids, man’) and two, I just had to go rematch it and marvel at the fact that despite its age, the movie’s effects and such are still top notch. Lord of The Rings Dog Names for Girl PupsĪdopting a girl? Here are some of the best LOTR names for your precious new pup.A couple of weeks ago, I realised it had been nearly 15 years since The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring came out. Well, you’re in the right place! We scoured middle earth for the best Lord of the Rings dog names for your furry fren. And naturally, now you’re looking for a name with a nice *ring* to it.
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