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Corwyn Celesil · 01-10-2004, 12:27 AM

The more I watch LotR, the more certain things strike me with a pain because of their beauty. There are things in the movies that are both painful and beautiful, and the two feelings are combined into what I call exquisite pain. Sometimes it is something that is full of pain and beauty at the same time, and sometimes it is something that is so beautiful it hurts. For instance, I just finished watching FotR for the thousanth time, and I realized anew what a wonderful actor Elijah Wood is, able to convey worlds of emotion in his face. The scene just after Gandalf has fallen with the Balrog, where Aragorn and Boromir are gathering the Fellowship together to head to Lothlorien, Frodo turns and looks at Aragorn, and the look on his face is exquisitely painful. Another such scene is Pippin's song in RotK, haunting over the shots of Faramir riding to his doom. <BR>I will share more later, but do any of you have any such memories from the movies? Please share them and your concept of what it means. (And no, I'm not psychotic; I'm a writer. That explains it all.)<BR>(I am soon going to open a similar topic in the Books forum, so if you have book thoughts on the same subject, look there.)

01-10-2004, 12:27 AM	#1
Corwyn Celesil Haunting Spirit Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: The House of the Fountain, Gondolin Posts: 57	Painful beauty The more I watch LotR, the more certain things strike me with a pain because of their beauty. There are things in the movies that are both painful and beautiful, and the two feelings are combined into what I call exquisite pain. Sometimes it is something that is full of pain and beauty at the same time, and sometimes it is something that is so beautiful it hurts. For instance, I just finished watching FotR for the thousanth time, and I realized anew what a wonderful actor Elijah Wood is, able to convey worlds of emotion in his face. The scene just after Gandalf has fallen with the Balrog, where Aragorn and Boromir are gathering the Fellowship together to head to Lothlorien, Frodo turns and looks at Aragorn, and the look on his face is exquisitely painful. Another such scene is Pippin's song in RotK, haunting over the shots of Faramir riding to his doom. <BR>I will share more later, but do any of you have any such memories from the movies? Please share them and your concept of what it means. (And no, I'm not psychotic; I'm a writer. That explains it all.)<BR>(I am soon going to open a similar topic in the Books forum, so if you have book thoughts on the same subject, look there.) __________________ Then came there from the south of the city the people of the Fountain, and Ecthelion was their lord, and silver and diamonds were their delight; and swords very long and bright and pale did they wield . . .