# Equal Opportunity tone lowering. . . or LOTR made me HOT! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 9, 2002, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/equal-opportunity-tone-lowering-or-lotr-made-me-hot/123174 "2002-08-09T18:00:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2002, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/equal-opportunity-tone-lowering-or-lotr-made-me-hot/123174/61 "2002-08-21T07:18:33Z")
> [@](#): > > _I had said_ > **I can’t wait for The Two Towers. I already have a healthy lust thing for Eomer, even though all I’ve seen of him is what’s shown in the previews. Boromir’s brother Faramir should get some hearts beating fast too, once we see him without that helmet.** I just saw some new photos and realized I had the characters of Faramir and Eomer (rather, the actors who played them) switched. I was actually lusting after Faramir. In trying to keep this straight in my feeble little head… Eomer (Karl Urban), the badass-looking long-haired blond guy with the kickass helmet, is Eowyn’s (Miranda Otto) brother, and nephew of King Theoden of Rohan (Bernard Hill). He’s heir to the throne of Rohan. Rohan is close, WAY too close, to Isengard (where Saruman’s lair, Isengard, is). Faramir (David Wenham) is the sensitive-looking shorter-haired brunett, and is the late, great, Boramir’s brother. Their father, Denethor, is the Steward of Gondor (the guy who takes care of the place in lieu of a king, who will be Aragorn). Gondor is close, WAY too close, to Mordor, where Sauron hangs out. (Sound of Tolkien fans cringing in disgust) I have read the books, but I don’t plan to read TTT again until after I’ve seen the movie, since I want the movie to be fresh and surprising. I don’t want to be sitting there worrying or even thinking about the changes made. However, I do want to make sure I know who all the characters are and where they’re from. I think it will enhance that first viewing. Anyway, **Faramir** …such a babe! ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2002, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/equal-opportunity-tone-lowering-or-lotr-made-me-hot/123174/62 "2002-08-21T19:54:13Z")
**Equipoise** said: > [@](#): > > Faramir . . . such a babe! Amen to that, **Equipoise**! You were probably looking at the same set of new pix that I was. Okay, ladies, check out our guys here, and add to the list Faramir and Eomer. Look for and click on the small word “next” to view all the pictures. WARNING, maybe some spoilers here, as well as a godawful clutter of popups: [New TTT Pix](http://www.empiremovies.com/gallery/twotowers_01.shtml) ---
**Author:** ![Iteki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/eada6e/32.png) [@Iteki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iteki)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2002, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/equal-opportunity-tone-lowering-or-lotr-made-me-hot/123174/63 "2002-08-21T20:29:07Z")
Arwen, drool. Galadrial, DROOL. So far so good. Legolas, drool. Huh? Legolas, drool? Ok, he looks like a girl, and elves don’t count anyhow, dyke cred still intact. Aragorn, drool. _MEEP_ Wtf? Hee hee… I haven’t really managed to rationalise that to myself in any way, but what the hell, if you gonna drool over a man, then what better man than SwordStud… I mean Aragorn [sub]doh[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2002, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/equal-opportunity-tone-lowering-or-lotr-made-me-hot/123174/64 "2002-08-21T23:28:22Z")
pugluvr, yep, those are the pics I was looking at! They’re nice, but they might be the last I look at. I’m conflicted. As the time gets closer to December 18, I want to see more more more more MORE, but on the other hand, I want to have surprises and not have so many images burned into my brain. What to do, what to do. > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Equipoise \* > \*\* > Eomer (Karl Urban), the badass-looking long-haired blond guy with the kickass helmet, is Eowyn’s (Miranda Otto) brother, and nephew of King Theoden of Rohan (Bernard Hill). He’s heir to the throne of Rohan. Rohan is close, WAY too close, to Isengard (where Saruman’s lair, Isengard, is). \*\* Ooops, I meant to change the second Isengard, the lair, to “Orthanc,” which is the name of the **tower** Saruman lives in. Preview is my friend, preview is my friend… ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2002, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/equal-opportunity-tone-lowering-or-lotr-made-me-hot/123174/65 "2002-08-21T23:44:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Biggirl \* > \*\*One last thing. Where are all the Frodo lovers? \*\* _points to signature_ Something about a man carrying a Ring of Doom just does it for me. How about Elrond for you elf-lovers out there? Personally, I think he has scary eyebrows but the rest of him is niiiiiiiiiice. ---
**Author:** ![partly\_warmer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bc8723/32.png) [@partly\_warmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/partly_warmer)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2002, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/equal-opportunity-tone-lowering-or-lotr-made-me-hot/123174/66 "2002-08-22T00:24:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by TelcontarStorm \* > \*\*\*\* side steps pool of drool \*\* > > I’ll contridute to this growing lake, pass the hankie. > I was always the Aragorn woman. He was funny and sexy in the books, and John Hurts’ voice in RB’s production, just turned me on! But Viggo? He plays him as a dour faced _young_ hardass. > Sean Bean actually made me like Boramir. > But Yaaaaa… Dominiqe Maugham has 'em all beat! gives me a whole new reason to watch those Hetty Wainthrop Investigates reruns on PBS. > The character of Legolas was so undeveloped that he just screams for a bit of rounding out so to speak…\*\* Ah, ha, all you LoTR DVD blind lovers (from [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=129514) thread. You see? _Rational_ people do think Aragorn read his lines with constipation mode full on! And Boromir… wow … they should have been so lucky for all their casting. The movie would have been been one of the 10 all time greats. Legolas??? Girls… what? I’m blond, blue-eyed and tall, and I think he looks like a rag mop. No lines, barely to stand upright, always seems to be looking for a cue card… the gene pool is in danger… ---
**Author:** ![leechbabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7cd45c/32.png) [@leechbabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leechbabe)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2002, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/equal-opportunity-tone-lowering-or-lotr-made-me-hot/123174/67 "2002-08-22T00:45:28Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by partly\_warmer \* > \*\*Legolas??? Girls… what? I’m blond, blue-eyed and tall, and I think he looks like a rag mop. No lines, barely to stand upright, always seems to be looking for a cue card… the gene pool is in danger… \*\* Methinks I see the green eyed monster rearing its ugly head 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Arden\_Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b487fb/32.png) [@Arden\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arden_Ranger)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2002, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/equal-opportunity-tone-lowering-or-lotr-made-me-hot/123174/68 "2002-08-22T02:38:30Z")
Lines? LINES? Who the hell needs Legolas to talk anyway? Not, me, baby, and he doesn’t need a script for the only sounds I want him to make. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Deadly\_Nightlight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Deadly\_Nightlight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Deadly_Nightlight)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2002, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/equal-opportunity-tone-lowering-or-lotr-made-me-hot/123174/69 "2002-08-22T04:38:37Z")
Pervy hobbit fanciers! ---
**Author:** ![KarlGrenze](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dbc845/32.png) [@KarlGrenze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGrenze)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2002, 10:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/equal-opportunity-tone-lowering-or-lotr-made-me-hot/123174/70 "2002-08-22T10:21:59Z")
Deadly, any problem with that? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Deadly\_Nightlight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Deadly\_Nightlight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Deadly_Nightlight)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2002, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/equal-opportunity-tone-lowering-or-lotr-made-me-hot/123174/71 "2002-08-27T05:56:09Z")
Nah Karl, after watching the movie a million times I am getting attached to Merry and Pippn 😉 ---
**Author:** ![dorkusmalorkusmafia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dorkusmalorkusmafia/32/7266_2.png) [@dorkusmalorkusmafia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dorkusmalorkusmafia)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2002, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/equal-opportunity-tone-lowering-or-lotr-made-me-hot/123174/72 "2002-08-27T18:27:54Z")
[http://diaries.diagon.org/](http://diaries.diagon.org/) My personal favourite is Samwise aka Sean Astin. Dang he is hot! ---
**Author:** ![Deadly\_Nightlight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Deadly\_Nightlight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Deadly_Nightlight)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2002, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/equal-opportunity-tone-lowering-or-lotr-made-me-hot/123174/73 "2002-08-27T19:02:46Z")
legolas is starting to get hot too, whats happening to me LOL ---
**Author:** ![Hazel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e56c9b/32.png) [@Hazel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hazel)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2002, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/equal-opportunity-tone-lowering-or-lotr-made-me-hot/123174/74 "2002-09-15T13:56:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by KarlGrenze \* > \*\*Legolas, Boromir, Frodo, all hotties…even Merry and Pippin were cute! > > Arangorn?..Don’t care much about him, mainly because it is a character I dislike in the book. No matter how good looking he is, I dislike his character so much I don’t see the beauty. > > Faramir should be as good looking as Boromir, at least, seeing that they were brothers… \*\* So, what is it that makes you dislike Aragorn in the books? ---
**Author:** ![Hazel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e56c9b/32.png) [@Hazel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hazel)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2002, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/equal-opportunity-tone-lowering-or-lotr-made-me-hot/123174/75 "2002-09-15T14:07:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by leechbabe \* > \*\*Mmmm all those boys were **hot** in one way or another. > > Only issue I had was why if the wizard, dwarf, elf and hobbits can all seem to keep up a reasonable standard of hygene the humans couldn’t? > > Boromir, Aragorn - TAKE A BATH AND WASH YOUR HAIR!!! Please. > > Currently reading _Pilgrim_ by Sara Douglas and aside from constantly expecting FOTR characters to pop up in it (think I watched the DVD once to often), I find it amusing that her characters occasionally long for a hot bath or a shave. \*\* In the book The Fellowship of the Ring, the hobbits are occasionally delighted to get the chance for a good, hot bath. There’s a scene near the beginning of the book where they have hot baths, with a lot of spashing, and the singing of a bath song Bilbo had written years before. ---
**Author:** ![K364](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k364/32/5_2.png) [@K364](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/K364)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2002, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/equal-opportunity-tone-lowering-or-lotr-made-me-hot/123174/76 "2002-09-16T04:02:06Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by TPWombat \* > \*\*Legolas is **a posey git**. > > Check out his [diary](http://www.ealasaid.com/misc/vsd/legolas.html) > > heeheeheeheehee \*\* Here are the complete [diaries](http://diaries.diagon.org/) Hilarious! Some excerpts: **Aragorn** Day Six: Orcs killed: none. Disappointing. Stubble update: I look rugged and manly. Yes! Keep wanting to drop-kick Gimli. Holding myself back. Still not King. Day Eleven: Orcs killed: 7. V. good. Stubble update: Looking mangy. Legolas may be hotter than me. I wonder if he would like me if I was King? **Borimir** Day One: Went to Council of Elrond. Aragorn acting all superior as usual. He thinks he’s so great because he’s shagging that bit of elf crumpet on the side. I mean just because someone has a broad chest, firm, defined muscles, an outdoorsy tan and loads of manly stubble doesn’t mean that…what? Got distracted there for a bit. Seem to have agreed to go on some sort of mission while distracted by Aragorn’s enormous…rudeness. Ooops. Day Three: Stupid Ring, stupid Quest, stupid Fellowship. Day Four: Frodo dropped Ring today. Picked it up, but Aragorn made me give it back. Arrogant bastard. Wonder how he’d feel with Horn of Gondor shoved right up his… Stupid Ring. **Legolas** Day One: Went to Council of Elrond. Was prettiest person there. Agreed to follow some tiny little man to Mordor to throw ring into volcano. Very important mission - gold ring so tacky. Day Four: Boromir so irritating. Why must he wear big shield like dinner plate all the time? Climbed up Caradhras but wimpy humans who cannot walk on snow insisted we climb back down. Am definitely prettiest member of the Fellowship. Go me! Day Six: Far too dark in Mines of Moria to brush hair properly. Am very afraid I am developing a tangle. Orcs so silly. Still the prettiest. ---
**Author:** ![KarlGrenze](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dbc845/32.png) [@KarlGrenze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGrenze)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2002, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/equal-opportunity-tone-lowering-or-lotr-made-me-hot/123174/77 "2002-09-20T11:11:50Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Hazel \* > \*\* > > So, what is it that makes you dislike Aragorn in the books? \*\* Like I said before, I found it a superman know-it-all. ---
**Author:** ![lee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lee/32/7455_2.png) [@lee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lee)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2002, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/equal-opportunity-tone-lowering-or-lotr-made-me-hot/123174/78 "2002-09-20T12:23:35Z")
Elrond it is for me! I thought Hugo was sexy as all get out. mmmm mmmm! I thought Cate was the best choice for Galadriel, but neither she nor Arwen did a thing for me. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/equal-opportunity-tone-lowering-or-lotr-made-me-hot/123174.md?page=3)