Word: frodo
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...make war against Sauron's legions. In the Mountains of Moria, Gandalf battles the enormous Balrog (an Erector-set confection with steaming orange eyes) as the sound effects roar and a strong wind gusts from the stage, spraying the audience with a blizzard of black confetti. As for Frodo, he not only lives, he also sings in the new version of The Lord of the Rings, opening this week at the Princess of Wales Theatre in Toronto...
...just mean that listening to the soft, faux-baton crooning of the song, and then seeing this same Joanna Newsom-esque popadry set before a backdrop of shape-shifting, color-altering starscapes and dream sequences, feels sort of like seeing Agent Smith muttering Elvish in a fever-dream to Frodo Baggins. Only sort of, but weird is weird...
...believe in worshipping and fighting for what Samwise Gamgee (another spiritual figure in my life) tells Frodo is “the good in this world.” I love my favorite holidays—Passover and Yom Kippur, and still feel moved when I celebrate them. I believe in holding our finer instincts in reverence. But these days, I’m happy to leave religion to the religious right...
...does Constantine do it? After all, in the past few years, outrage abounded over the substantially less impressive magical doings of Harry Potter and Frodo Baggins, even as their “playing God” and messianic message lacked both the showy violence and overt Christian references of Constantine...
...King (which is buttressed by six-plus hours of nifty documentary footage), you will see a hail of flying skulls assaulting Aragorn and his colleagues when they meet the Army of the Dead. The Mouth of Sauron, a creature with really scary teeth, rides out to tell Aragorn that Frodo has been killed. Jackson (who can be glimpsed playing a pirate) also solves the riddle of the "wizard kebab"--a photo, snapped on the set, of a white-robed man impaled on a huge spike. It's Saruman, fallen to his death...