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]

Any piccies?

Our back garden turned into forest - I'm sure I saw a couple of Huorns lurking around.

[kalypso-v.livejournal.com]

One particularly dark-looking one could well have been a Huorn. Sadly, Steve didn't bring a camera. They were mostly what the Forest Centre called stag-head oaks (presumably because sometimes the branches look like antlers) and I call blasted oaks (but apparently it's nothing to do with lightning, they just go like that as the heart rots and starves the upper branches).

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Hoom hom!

[kalypso-v.livejournal.com]

Or hoom (http://www.boldoutlaw.com/images/stagoak2.jpg). Or hom (http://www.boldoutlaw.com/images/03sher4.jpg).

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Haroom!

[archbishopm.livejournal.com]

AAAAAAGGGHHHHH STOP IT.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Don't be hasty.

[kalypso-v.livejournal.com]

Calm down. They're Ents. Not Ewoks.

[archbishopm.livejournal.com]

I do not have a mortal fear of Ewoks. I just feel they bring down the tone of the otherwise subtle and sophisticated Star Wars franchise.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

That made me laugh so much it unnerved the cat on my lap.