I think J.R.R. Tolkien was a misogynist.
Mar. 27th, 2002 05:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
osarabaSPOILER!
Oh, so I went to CBGB's last night. It was alright. The first band was okay, I liked their vocal, but the music was a bit boring - not bad, just a little uninspired. The second band - which is the one that I was hoping would sound like Metallica - was horrible! Definitely not my taste at all! They were like a cross between Linkin' Park and P.O.D. I have to admit, though, that their music was good. It's just that their vocals were horrible. I wish I could have combined the first band's vocals and the second band's lively, intense music to create a band I'd actually like to listen to.
But I did like the atmosphere of the place… I can appreciate good atmosphere. Too bad all the smoke bothered Angelica. Otherwise, I wouldn't have minded staying for the next band or two. But it was fun anyway.
After we got back to my house we spent about 2 hours trying to put these damn itty-bitty hoops (the ones that have a gap in which you're supposed to squeeze a ball that pinches shut) into my ears (and Angelica's too). The reason it took so long was that those balls were so small and it was such a pain in the ass to get the hoops tight enough to pinch onto the balls! (That sounds hentai, doesn't it?) But I was just changing my 2nd and 3rd holes of my lobes, so at least it didn't hurt. Then again, my top and bottom cartilage piercings are being bad and the bottom one seems to be getting infected… we'll see.
In the end of the second book, The Two Towers, there is a big fight where Frodo and Sam are escaping from this female spiderish monster that's been living in the mountain that Gollum takes them through… they escape her traps, but outside she goes to attack Frodo. Sam runs to help, but is attacked by Gollum. Sam finally beats Gollum away, but Frodo was already stung by the spider/monster's paralyzing poison. Sam picks up Frodo's elf-dagger and proceeds to attack her underbelly with it. She's wounded, but not really badly, but then… there's this whole explanation of how she's so old and powerful that even the elf-dagger wouldn't have really hurt her, except that in her rage she tried to crush Sam with her underbelly by, in effect, sitting on him, but Sam still had the elf-dagger pointed up and so she impaled herself - causing her own downfall.
Sounds all nice and typical fantasy underestimated-hero-impossibly-defeats-evil-monster/villain, right? Am I the only one who was quite disturbed by the imagery Tolkien uses? I mean, all I could picture was a nasty-looking, hairy, evil vagina! And I'm really not one of those readers that find hidden meanings and symbolism in everything they read! I was the one in English class who stared in bafflement when others would whip up seemingly farfetched analogies and symbolic meanings!
Well, aside from that - which wasn't necessarily bad, mind you, it just left me a little skeptical about Tolkien's outlook and rationality - the book was very well done, especially in comparison to the droning of The Fellowship of the Ring. Oh, and not to mention I could clearly see the SamXFrodo slash in this one… Sam obviously worships the ground that Frodo walks on; sometimes I find it cute, sometimes it makes me sick. You know what else I discovered? That I like it better when Sam is narrating and Frodo's actions are described through him; it gives Frodo an appearance of quiet sagacity that I just don't feel when Frodo's narrating.
Oh, so I went to CBGB's last night. It was alright. The first band was okay, I liked their vocal, but the music was a bit boring - not bad, just a little uninspired. The second band - which is the one that I was hoping would sound like Metallica - was horrible! Definitely not my taste at all! They were like a cross between Linkin' Park and P.O.D. I have to admit, though, that their music was good. It's just that their vocals were horrible. I wish I could have combined the first band's vocals and the second band's lively, intense music to create a band I'd actually like to listen to.
But I did like the atmosphere of the place… I can appreciate good atmosphere. Too bad all the smoke bothered Angelica. Otherwise, I wouldn't have minded staying for the next band or two. But it was fun anyway.
After we got back to my house we spent about 2 hours trying to put these damn itty-bitty hoops (the ones that have a gap in which you're supposed to squeeze a ball that pinches shut) into my ears (and Angelica's too). The reason it took so long was that those balls were so small and it was such a pain in the ass to get the hoops tight enough to pinch onto the balls! (That sounds hentai, doesn't it?) But I was just changing my 2nd and 3rd holes of my lobes, so at least it didn't hurt. Then again, my top and bottom cartilage piercings are being bad and the bottom one seems to be getting infected… we'll see.
