Writer's Block: Spoilers Below the Cut

[electricland]

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Yes indeed I have! It wasn't exactly my fault... let me 'splain. This was back in the day when we were all waiting for Fellowship of the Ring with bated breath. In preparation, Jen was reading Tolkien for the first time; she figured she would go through each book before the movie came out. We were discussing it, and Boromir/Sean Bean came up, and I said "I'm so sad that he dies at the end!"

Jen said "WHAT?!"

Oops. It was only then that I remembered this actually takes place at the very beginning of Two Towers. (Of course, they did put it at the end of the movie, which I think was the right choice dramatically.)

So yeah, that's my spoiler story.

Comments

[raithen.livejournal.com]

I sense HIGH motivation here ;).

Also, for old times sake:

*Arwen!! Fords of Bruinen?!??! Head Splodey!!!!!!!!!! Ranting*

[electricland.livejournal.com]

:D

I'm working now, honest!

[electricland.livejournal.com]

oh, speaking of, you might enjoy the discussion over at Tor.com of kate_nepveu's LOTR reread. Here's the latest installment. (http://www.tor.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=blog&id=12360)

[curtana.livejournal.com]

I had a similar incident with Star Wars in about 1997 - he was from Kenya and had never seen the movies, so we took him to the first one when it was re-released in theatres. At the end, he was saying things like "I bet Luke and Leia end up together!" and we all had to bite our tongues very, very hard.

[electricland.livejournal.com]

well done you!

[erbie.livejournal.com]

Um, there's no cut? Were you actually trying to do a cut or was that just meta?

[electricland.livejournal.com]

I will claim it as meta -- when you do a Writer's Block it actually fills in the subject field for you.

But I figure anyone who doesn't know the ending of FOTR by now doesn't really care. ;)