All he needs is the love of a good woman

[altariel]

I rang my mother yesterday to let her know I was OK; mother is in her mid-seventies and vaguer even than me. Anyway, she hadn't been in the least bit worried (I suspect she has no idea where I live in relation to London) so we talked about The Fellowship of the Ring, which someone had got for her on DVD. Mother has made various attempts to read Tolkien (which my dad adored) over the years, and not really got much past the bit about the mushrooms.

So did she enjoy it? It was "very violent". Well, yes, it is - I suppose that's because it's about World War 1. "Is it about WW1?" I think you could make a case for that... "Oh. Does Gandalf live?" Sort of... (Didn't much want to get into an involved explanation.) "I did like that young man." Which young man? "Frodo. He has very expressive eyes."

Yes, my friends, my seventy-five-year-old ma appears to have a crush on Elijah Wood. I moved on quickly. A little time was then spent explaining that there are two more films to sit through.

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[altariel.livejournal.com]

my father (who read the whole darn trilogy onto tape for us when we were kids)

Wow, do you still have the tapes? My dad did some recordings of comic verse for us; I don't know where the tapes are now, and I think they were reel-to-reel, I doubt we could play them.

[(Anonymous)]

Likewise -- they were reel-to-reel; even if we could find them, we couldn't play them. Ah, the ephemeralness of data formats! Give me a stack of papyrus any day!

[metamorphosa.livejournal.com]

OH, to have something of INTEREST to put on a reel-to-reel!!! My 8??? grandad who lives a mile away STILL has hit reel-to-reel thingie (what IS the proper name??) that every now and then we have to suffer through. Though I can assure you it CERTAINLY wasn't as fab a topic as LOTR!!!