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"Take the heart of me?" You can just say, "my heart."

Busoni — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 17:00:32 -0800

In Return of the King, Aragorn says: "I see in your eyes the same fear that would take the heart of me." What precisely does he mean by this? My confusion is with the phrase "take the heart of me." Is this a standard idiom?

Is it safe? Good...how about now?

cps — Sun, 03 Dec 2006 22:54:06 -0800

Dramatically intoned, repeated uses of the phrase Is it safe? in movies...more inside. So I was watching Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring last night, and early on Gandalf (after his investigatory trip) asks Bilbo "Is it safe?". Then I remembered being struck by that phrase's repetition in The Way of The Gun.

As a movie quote, it is of course best known from Marathon Man. Now I'm wondering whether it shows up in other movies in a similar way -- heavy, dramatic, enigmatic and/or repeated. (Bonus question: is its use in any particular movie a tribute, or is it just such a dramatically cool question?)

[Obviously this is Not an Urgent Question, it is to satisfy my curiosity and possibly, fates/time/inclination willing, for a pet project idea. Any leads appreciated.]

Any Anglo-Saxon influences in Lord of the Rings?

mattbucher — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 11:20:43 -0800

Help me find a well-written article explaining the Anglo-Saxon roots/influences found in The Lord of the Rings. I figured there would be some article in a smart source/magazine published around the time the first movie came out (something linking it to Beowulf or Tolkien's study of the Middle Ages), but I'm coming up with nothing. Can any LOTR-hardcores point me in the right direction?

Help me find books that are made as nicely as they're written.

ikkyu2 — Sun, 23 Jan 2005 16:05:16 -0800

BookBindingFilter: I greatly enjoyed reading this edition of Tolkien's Lord of the Rings. Some of the enjoyment was doubtless due to Tolkien's deathless prose, but I was surprised to find myself also enjoying handling, looking at, poring over a really beautifully crafted edition, with careful binding, stuck-together pages, a little built-in bookmark, etc.

Can anyone suggest other books I might like for these same reasons? Genre's not important; I'm a cheerful omnilege.

How precious is a first edition Lord of the Rings?

Pretty_Generic — Tue, 04 Jan 2005 11:39:46 -0800

I just came into possession of a first edition Lord of the Rings, I want to sell, and I have no idea what I'm doing. Advice appreciated. They're all obviously well used. The dust jackets are worse for wear, and Fellowship's is held together with sellotape (!). Fellowship's binding is coming away. The impression numbers are 2nd, 2nd, 1st. The maps for the last two are pretty much mint, and Fellowship's is in fairly good condition.

Best (dinner) food for a LOTR Marathon?

dirtynumbangelboy — Tue, 14 Dec 2004 00:25:11 -0800

LOTR Marathon and Dinner. Suggestions for food? [MI] A good friend of mine knows for a fact that he's getting the extended ROTK for Christmas. This is what we Martha fans call A Good Thing. He also owns FOTR and TTT extended editions. Accordingly, when he's back from his holidays, we're going to throw away a day of our lives (seriously, we're talking about 12+ hours of movies here!) watching all three movies, back-to-back-to-back.

What I need is food suggestions. It'll just be the two of us, but he's a really close friend, so I really don't mind going a little crazy in the kitchen. The only suggestion for LOTR-themed food he could come up with was mutton and ale, which I suspect I'll translate into a dinner of lamb (of some description; a whole leg would be a bit much) braised in some sort of delicious beer over a nice long slow heat, quite possibly served on some sort of trencher-like bread product. My usual kitchen-fu has failed me. Suggestions, anyone?

The first person who says 'onion rings' gets a day playing with an angry Oliphaunt.

What was the issue that Sean Austin was highlighting when LotR won at The Screen Actor's Guild?

feelinglistless — Mon, 23 Feb 2004 16:07:05 -0800

Can anyone explain the issue that Sean Austin was highlighting when LotR won at The Screen Actor's Guild? I only caught the last half hour and missed what Tim Robbins said before.

Gay Hobbits

konolia — Mon, 29 Dec 2003 19:06:14 -0800

Yes, this is a dumb question, but here goes:

Is there anything I can do to convince my son that the hobbits in LOTR are not gay? (Not meant to slam gay mefites, but I doubt gay hobbits would be true to the books. Besides, he's sure he's right and I like to prove him wrong occasionally.)