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Sunday, February 29, 2004

One ring to bind them all, etc.

I was intermittently watching the Oscars tonight, and only now-- after two full years of Lord of the Rings effusions and effluvia-- did I realize how weird it is that one of the stars of a movie whose prominent characters include Bilbo and Frodo is named Viggo.  All right, go ahead, laugh at me for not catching this earlier in the sunspot cycle.  It’s happened before-- honest to God, it wasn’t until 1986 that I realized that Adam Ant was adamant, and if you’ve ever gotten a joke nine or ten years after it was told, you’ll know how I felt back then.

Still, I might as well admit that Viggo Mortensen made for a fine, world-weary Aragorn, and that it’s a good day whenever an Ex of Exene Cervenka hits the big time.  On the other hand, in the course of composing this post I’ve learned that you can order the One Ring online, and call me old-fashioned and insufficiently geeky, but I just think that’s wrong.

Posted by Michael on 02/29 at 06:31 PM
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