Poor Frodo!
Jan. 26th, 2011 06:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dreamflowerNow we know just how the Ring tortured Frodo!
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A Song Stuck in Frodo's Head
Poor, poor Frodo!
The embedding was disabled, so here's a link to the vid:
A Song Stuck in Frodo's Head
Poor, poor Frodo!
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Date: 2011-01-27 12:38 am (UTC)Poor, poor Frodo. That tune probably followed him all the way to Tol Eressea.
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Date: 2011-01-27 01:43 am (UTC)I'm thinking he needs another song to counteract it, maybe "Little Bunny Foo-Foo" or "The Song that Never Ends" might be strong enough...
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Date: 2011-01-27 12:45 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-27 01:44 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-27 03:26 am (UTC)But Leonard Nimoy, is a leeeeeeeeetle bit scary.
I pity Frodo, I really do.
HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA
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Date: 2011-01-27 03:55 am (UTC)It was more than a little scary.
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Date: 2011-01-27 04:02 am (UTC)Yeah, the movie makes it much worse.
I don't think he's a very good singer, but I'm horribly picky about that sort of thing.
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Date: 2011-01-27 04:06 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-27 04:08 am (UTC)But when the sixties was good. IT WAS GOOD!
John Lennon
Paul McCartney
Peter, Paul and Mary
Ok...I'm too tired to think of the rest, but THEY ARE ALL SO GOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Of course, Nimoy would've been seventies, right?...and that was REALLY a mixed bag...
:-D
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Date: 2011-01-27 04:16 am (UTC)You know something even scarier? Nimoy was considered briefly for a role as Aragorn in a proposed LotR movie! Thank goodness it never got off the ground!
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Date: 2011-01-27 04:20 am (UTC)Was that the Beatles' The Lord of the Rings? Because I wish that had happened, just for absurdity entertainment value...though I wish it had been A Hard Day's Night era Beatles. Can you imagine?
To be quite honest, and as much as I hate to say it, Nimoy couldn't have been much worse than John Hurt was in the animated film. Hurt is such a good actor...I have no idea what happened there!
(Also, Viggo Mortensen is awful, in my opinion, but he is better than Nimoy would have been. :-D )
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Date: 2011-01-27 05:44 am (UTC)No, I don't think it was the Beatles' proposal, but a different one. Lots of people were trying to get hold of LotR movie rights at that time.
I don't know that Nimoy would have been dreadful, but I hate to think how a live-action version of LotR in that era would have come out. I shudder to think of it being made "camp", and look how terrible the Bakshi version you allude to was! And it was made only a few years later.
I don't think Viggo is so awful, but then I don't interpret his interpretation of the role the same way a lot of people do.
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Date: 2011-01-27 03:42 am (UTC)WOW.
Poor Frodo being subjected to that!
Was that seriously a song in the 70s????
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Date: 2011-01-27 03:59 am (UTC)Oh dear. Here's what Wkipedia says:
"The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins" is a song composed by Charles Randolph Grean and performed by Leonard Nimoy, telling the story of Bilbo Baggins and his adventures in J. R. R. Tolkien's novel The Hobbit. The recording originally appeared on Two Sides of Leonard Nimoy, the second of Nimoy's albums on Dot Records. It was also released as a single (Dot Records Cat. #45-17028), backed with a "modern thought-image" folk song called "Cotton Candy".
A year before the recording was commercially released, Nimoy lip-synched to the recording during a guest appearance on the July 28, 1967 episode of Malibu U, a short-lived variety television series. This segment survives as a "music video" and shows Nimoy (wearing his Star Trek hairstyle as the series was in the midst of production of its second season at the time) and a group of color-coordinated young women, all wearing plastic elf (or Vulcan) ears, singing and dancing on a beach. Since its rediscovery on the BBC2 documentary Funk Me Up Scotty and propagation over the Internet, it has become a relatively well-known example of 1960s camp. An excerpt from the musical number is also included in the documentary Ringers: Lord of the Fans about The Lord of the Rings fandom. The song was included in the Nimoy album Highly Illogical.
Fans of Nimoy were intrigued by the fact (revealed in interviews) that Nimoy had read Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and been exceedingly impressed by it. From approximately 1968 to 1973, several Nimoy and Star Trek fanzine writers and editors (notably contributors to Regina Marvinny's Nimoyan Federation and members of the Leonard Nimoy Association of Fans) discussed the idea of a live-action The Lord of the Rings film, with Nimoy playing Aragorn, and there was a brief letter-writing campaign.
Leonard Nimoy as ARAGORN?!?!?! Now THAT'S truly terrifying.
I hope the thought doesn't give you nightmares!
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Date: 2011-01-27 04:35 am (UTC)Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep.
(On the other hand, I always appreciated the fact that Nimoy was actually into sf/f. My family has a record of him reading The Martian Chronicles out loud and it's quite good.)
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Date: 2011-01-27 05:48 am (UTC)Whatever else may be said of PJ's version, he was immensely fortunate in his timing.
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Date: 2011-01-27 12:30 pm (UTC)Wow, fascinating! I know I watched part of Ringers while I was in Trinidad (it was on television once there on one of the movie channels), but I don't remember seeing the Bilbo Baggins song (must have blocked it out, lol)
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Date: 2011-01-27 03:37 pm (UTC)*Everything* was camp! (Think of the old Batman show with Adam West.) Now imagine the producers boiling everything down to two hours, neon color-coordinated costumes, JRRT's songs set to bouncy 60s pop tunes, a balrog that was obviously a guy in a monster suit, Galadriel with giant fake eyelashes and black eyeliner and poufy bangs, and hobbits played by "little people" (possibly with Frodo played by Michael Dunn), and really cheesy special effects.
Nimoy's Aragorn would probably have been the only bright spot.
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Date: 2011-01-28 12:28 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-28 01:07 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-02-02 06:49 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-02-02 06:48 am (UTC)I was totally into Spock for at least fifteen years, so the idea of him playing Aragorn doesn't freak me out... but it does seem a little weird. Outside of his Spock persona, I find him unattractive, really.
(But then, I don't find Viggo attractive outside of his Aragorn persona, either).
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Date: 2011-01-27 11:33 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-27 03:20 pm (UTC)Earworms can be SO pernicious.
I found several really funny or lovely vids last night, but that one had me laughing SO hard.
LOL!
Date: 2011-01-27 06:27 pm (UTC)-Nath-
Re: LOL!
Date: 2011-01-27 07:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-02-02 06:51 am (UTC)I was majorly into Spock for many years as a die-hard Star Trek fan, but OMG I hate that video SO MUCH. Actually, Spock had too much dignity to ever be caught DEAD recording that!