Ah, nothing better than holiday

Ah, nothing better than holiday work shifts when your boss is on vacation. Come in 20 minutes late? No problem! Now that I’ve got a laser printer, I’ve rededicated myself to a more organized life, starting out with the massive printed To Do list I’ve got sitting at my right side.
Belated Lord of the Rings thought: Was I the only one who found it a tad unconvincing that this merry band of nine warriors kept running into armies of 10,000 orcs — and I mean nasty, ill-tempered orcs, not the kind of orc you’d invite over for Christmas dinner — but always seemed to emerge unscathed? That the body count was always 10,000 dead orcs in one corner vs. a couple of scratches, boo-boos, and owies in the other? Even the shrimpy little hobbits, whose asses I could no doubt have soundly kicked, managed to fend off constant waves of orcishness?

7 thoughts on “Ah, nothing better than holiday”

  2. I just found it unconvincing. I mean, the elves in the movie were tall and skinny and had weird hair! We all KNOW that elves are short, wear fur-trimmed clothes, make presents, and hang around Santa! It was NOWHERE NEAR REALITY!

  3. You are underestimating the ring and the powers it gives the bearer. Also Gandalf is very powerful and may have been working his magic behind the scenes. This is just from book knowledge as I haven’t seen the movie yet.

  4. Regarding Elves, the variety that hang around with Santa belong to a different race. The movie/book depicts several races of elf like High Elf, Wood Elf, and so forth. The type of elves that work with Santa are completely different. Also the LOTR elves are much *much* older so time could have bred a lot of physical differences into Santa’s modern day elves.

  5. Well, I obviously don’t know nearly enough about elves. And you had nothing to say about the wizard dude flying on a giant owl but you critique the battle scenes? I think it was just shoddy swords on the part of the orcs.

  6. The wizard dude on the giant owl I can believe. I’ve seen stuff like that before — in Toledo you see guys flying on birds all the time. But everytime I’ve seen orcs fighting in the street, they’ve managed to score some casualties.

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