Gratuitous squeeing lust post

[prillalar]

Gacked from greenet: a still of Pippin from RotK at TheOneRing.net.

He's so beautiful. Pippin was my FotR lustbunny. In TTT, I switched over to Eowyn (of course) and Gimli. This pic puts him back as front runner for RotK, for sure.

His uniform makes me all melty -- the white tree and the gloves. But it's the expression on his face that I love the most. A little grim and it suits him.

And next weekend I get to see both FotR and TTT up at the uni theatre!

Comments

[finchsongs.livejournal.com]

Oh, my... they got the livery of the White Tower right!

But then again, they seem to have gotten most *everything* right. Despite the wrongness of Faramir and the fiddling of certain details, Jackson's LotR looks like the Middle-Earth inside my head most of the time. And that's why I love it.

[prillalar]

That's one thing I remember from PJ's commentary and all the special features I watched. He knew they'd have to take liberties with the story to adapt it, but wanted to make sure that all the details of the setting were exactly right -- so it would look like it was being filmed on location in Middle Earth.

And it really, really does.

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[finchsongs.livejournal.com]

*nods* He's a smart man. God is in the details (who said that?).

[laurashapiro.livejournal.com]

Oh, purrrrrrrrty...

[semielliptical]

He's so beautiful.

Oh my, yes he is! Thanks for the link. I am so looking forward to seeing Pippin in RotK. Perhaps we'll get lucky and we'll get to see him putting the armor on. Wait - first he needs to undress - take off the scarf, slowly unbutton his shirt...

Ahem. Perhaps I have taken too much cold medicine today.

But it is sad that even though Pippin has always been my favorite character he didn't do much for me in TTT. During what was presumably meant to be his shining moment (turning Treebeard) he made me think of Baldrick from Blackadder, I could just hear him saying "I have a cunning plan!"

[prillalar]

If this is what the cold medicine makes you think about, take more!

I'd have thought you'd want him to leave the scarf on, just take off everything else. *g*

I was disappointed by Merry & Pippin in TTT as well, though I didn't really think it was their fault. There wasn't a lot to work with.

I have to say -- I *never* thought of Baldrick in that scene, but now I probably will. *g*

[semielliptical]

I'd have thought you'd want him to leave the scarf on, just take off everything else.

Hee! No, I don't really want to see naked hobbits on the screen. I would like to see some kind of Poignant Scarf Moment, though. Maybe Pippin taking it off and carefully putting it away, or giving it to Merry for safekeeping before he goes off to battle. Or even better! Merry in Minas Tirith clutching the scarf while he's thinking about Pippin, off facing almost certain death ...*sniff*

If we don't get at least one good Merry/Pippin parting or reunion scence I will be bitterly disappointed.

There wasn't a lot to work with.

Yes, I blame the writers, so that's who I plan to track down and hurt if they don't do better in RotK.

[prillalar]

Oh, I love your Poignant Scarf Moments! They're really lovely. If there aren't any in the movie, I'll write one for sure. Now I'm sniffing too. :)

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Pippin was always my favourite Hobbit: the screw-up kid who makes good, the youth who finds courage. I always found the idea of him in his warrior-of-Gondor livery incredibly sexy.

Looks as if the movie has captured that feel. They've done the almost-impossible and I am delighted.