Remember that scene in The Two Towers? Did any of you get the idea that the above phrase was spoken by Saruman (Christopher Lee) and notGandalf (Ian McKellen).
Maybe I’m really late catching on, but I thought it was a device to make us think that was gonna be Saruman they were going to encounter, because that was what Pippin and Merry thought when Treebeard toook them to see “the White Wizard”.
Like I said, I’m a little “slow on the uptake” sometimes, but I really thought it was Saruman until the voice softened.
I noticed that to, Quasimodem. I’m positive that the voice started out as Christopher Lee’s and morphed into Ian McKellen’s, and that this was an intentional device by the director to help us think at first that it might indeed be Saruman - just like the three hunters were thinking.
Reading the title of this thread made me think of a nature show where someone is following animals with a camera and whispering to it so as they don’t notice they are being followed…
I think you’re right puglvr, and I noticed that too.
I think Jackson did this well, because it does mirror the place in the book, where he is identified as “the white wizard” first, and the three (Aragorn, Legolas, Gimli) do begin to attack, thinking it is Saruman. In fact, when they camped by the remains of the orcs (coming to it after the Riders of Rohan had attacked and destroyed the orc group), one of them did spot an old man in white outside their camp – which they presumed was Saruman spying on them. (And I think in the book later it is insinuated that this was indeed Saruman, outside their camp).
[David Attenborough] You’re in the wilds of Fangorn, and you’re tracking the footsteps of two young hobbits . . . through a forest which has never before been traversed by humans, populated by ugly, shaggy trees, blah blah blah . . . [/David Attenborough]
::Attenborough suddenly is squashed flat by a huge ent foot::
Guess not, QtM. I read the books, but I didn’t remember that particular quote. To quote Shel Silverstein " I was stoned and I missed it!" (Ah reckon!)
My college stuff was Günther Grass, Dostoyevski (or however you spell that) and Poe. Also did Shiller and that “N” guy who wrote about the abyss also looking into your ass! I think he may have produced or written a song or two for The Stones!
Sorry if I misread something, but all those F’s coming out of “nowhere” in my thread just made me a little tachycardic!
Also sorry if I overreacted, Y’all! Maybe I need to get my young friend yujin to teach me some modern lit! (Preferably not reallylit, okay?
Good to see ya again, QtM! You too, yujin!
It’s not a quote from the book, it’s just how the seminal computer game of the same name functioned. Quite new and exciting at the time. I remember playing it in 1986…