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| Hosted by a moth face |
Just hanging out.
For the longest time, it was so still that I wasn’t sure if it was dead or alive, but with a little nudging I could get it to crawl onto my finger. It waited there with me until the storm ended and its wings dried off, apparently considering my body to be a safe place to chill, and then it flapped off again into the night.
Have you had any weird or uncanny interactions with your local wildlife? Do insects make you uncomfortable, or are there any you’re ok with? Does anyone else here LARP, or have other unusual hobbies?
~Kristycat
BONUS: Hey you guys do you know where else I saw a moth recently? IN THE HOBBIT MOVIE THAT IS WHERE. And it was AWESOME (the movie I mean, not the moth, though the moth was pretty cool too.) So uh, even though we've talked about it before, we should totally talk about it again.
...see, I DO read the comments on these! :D
2 comments:
I liked the movie, except for the much-too-long battle in the Goblins' hall. That went on so long that I stopped believing it entirely. What, all those goblins, all that fighting, all that falling, and not one of our heroic Dwarves had even a tiny wound, or twisted ankle, or something?
And there were other times when I was mentally muttering, "It'sPeterJackson'sHobbit, it'sPeterJackson'sHobbit, it'sNotTolkien'sHobbit, it'sPeterJackson's!"
Most of the time that mantra worked well enough, I did enjoy the movie. But I very much disliked the scene with Thorin and the orcs and the wolves. I thought it was stupid, not heroic, for Thorin to go striding off to confront the White Orc, what'shisname, like that. And it was TOTALLY out of character for Bilbo to charge to Thorin's defense.
I've read Beowulf, and other such heroic single stands-- for that matter, I've read LotR and the Battle of Pelennor Fields. But Bilbo just isn't Beowulf.
Tolkien's Bilbo isn't a fighter. As I recall, he manages to miss the entire Battle of Five Armies-- the only battle that Tolkien includes in the book, the scuffle with the goblins being a mere scuffle. Jackson's movie says the words about valuing other kinds of courage than battle bravery, but it's the sword fights that get all the screen time. Way too much screen time. Bilbo's Hobbit-courage, putting one foot in front of the other while longing for his nice Hobbit-hole all the time, isn't given much credit.
Nor is Bilbo's Hobbit-cleverness, at least not yet. We'll see what Jackson does with Bilbo and the Wood-elves, or Bilbo and Thorin and the Arkenstone.
Nor is Bilbo's character evolution-- from being swept along by events, to acting to influence events... but, it's Peter Jackson's Hobbit!
I liked the movie, except for the much-too-long battle in the Goblins' hall. That went on so long that I stopped believing it entirely. What, all those goblins, all that fighting, all that falling, and not one of our heroic Dwarves had even a tiny wound, or twisted ankle, or something?
And there were other times when I was mentally muttering, "It'sPeterJackson'sHobbit, it'sPeterJackson'sHobbit, it'sNotTolkien'sHobbit, it'sPeterJackson's!"
Most of the time that mantra worked well enough, I did enjoy the movie. But I very much disliked the scene with Thorin and the orcs and the wolves. I thought it was stupid, not heroic, for Thorin to go striding off to confront the White Orc, what'shisname, like that. And it was TOTALLY out of character for Bilbo to charge to Thorin's defense.
I've read Beowulf, and other such heroic single stands-- for that matter, I've read LotR and the Battle of Pelennor Fields. But Bilbo just isn't Beowulf.
Tolkien's Bilbo isn't a fighter. As I recall, he manages to miss the entire Battle of Five Armies-- the only battle that Tolkien includes in the book, the scuffle with the goblins being a mere scuffle. Jackson's movie says the words about valuing other kinds of courage than battle bravery, but it's the sword fights that get all the screen time. Way too much screen time. Bilbo's Hobbit-courage, putting one foot in front of the other while longing for his nice Hobbit-hole all the time, isn't given much credit.
Nor is Bilbo's Hobbit-cleverness, at least not yet. We'll see what Jackson does with Bilbo and the Wood-elves, or Bilbo and Thorin and the Arkenstone.
Nor is Bilbo's character evolution-- from being swept along by events, to acting to influence events... but, it's Peter Jackson's Hobbit!
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