My Axe in His Nervous System

[shanmonster]

f00 was going to go to the gym with me today, but realized it's pointless. He's too sick with his flu, and my asthma has been so horrid that even sitting here typing is almost too much exertion for my lungs. Instead, we may go for a walk. It's not too cold, and I think I can manage side-stepping the burgeoning slush puddles.

Yesterday, my sister gave f00 and I an early Christmas present. She took us to see Return of the King.

Oh. My. God.

The tension of the movie made it hard for me to breathe. Yes, it kicked my asthma in! I did have a couple of very minor problems with the film, but I'm sure they'll be addressed in the inevitable extended DVD. If I die before seeing the movie again, I will become a restless ghost haunting the theatre until the end of time. I must see it again. And again! I'll be going again on Monday.

My name is Shan and I am a LotR addict.

Comments

[fourcorners.livejournal.com]

So much better than the first 2?

[shanmonster.livejournal.com]

I don't know about much better, considering I adore the first two. But yes, it's the strongest of the three.

[zaki.livejournal.com]

Agreed. Even knowing what's going to happen, even thinking it couldn't possibly compare to the first two, even knowing there was no way they could maintain THAT level of emotion for another 3 hours....

Wow. Exceeds Expectations.

[balthcat.livejournal.com]

I am protected from such budgetary punishment by my 'inability' to see a movie twice within a certain timeframe.

I liked it, but I think my appreciation was less for the movie itself, than for the completion of an epic and a masterpiece.

Maybe I'm just doing what I did with the first one, and dulling the impact.

There are a few things I really liked... for example how the eye looked around desperately before the spikes cracked and it lost cohesion. I thought where Eowyn and the hobbit killed the Witch King was very good. But at the same time, Legolas on the Oliphant trunk irritated me, and the saccharine tendancies of the hobbits sometimes turned me off.

I don't know...

I think I might have to see it again to know for sure. But I don't DO that. I am torn!

[balthcat.livejournal.com]

ps: I was there. As was Norville Getty.

[shanmonster.livejournal.com]

I saw Norv, and I thought I glimpsed you, but then I didn't see you again, so I thought I was mistaken.

[balthcat.livejournal.com]

I went out to put on a pre-recorded show and get food. I came back just before the movie started.

Where to go for info

[geezergeek.livejournal.com]

There have been a few trilogies as of late but what do you call other groupings of works. Through trial and error I found tetralogy but no words for 1, 2, 5, 6, 7 8, ..., sets of works. Do you have any idea what they are called if indeed there are words for them?

Re: Where to go for info

[f00dave.livejournal.com]

I'll trust the Master himself, Douglas Adams, who decided that his 5-part Hitchhiker series would be a Trilogy in Five Parts.

Then again, you could deconstruct trilogy as the prefix tri-, meaning three, and -logy from logos, meaning book. Hence, generalize the prefix and you get:

Monology ("Monograph" is actually the 'accepted' word for a single-volume book)
Bilogy
Trilogy
Tetralogy
Pentalogy
Hexalogy
Septalogy
Octology
Nonology
Decology
...

Where to go for info

[geezergeek.livejournal.com]

I tried the greek prefixes because -logy is from the greek then I tried the the latin prefixes thinking that the English language is messed up.

Greek Latin
Monology Unilogy
Bilogy Bilogy
Trilogy Trilogy
Tetralogy Quadlogy
Pentalogy Quintlogy
Hexalogy Sexlogy
Heptalogy Septlogy
Octology Octlogy
Ennealogy Novemlogy
Decalogy Declogy

My Webster's only has Monology, Trilogy, and Tetralogy. Monology means to talk to yourself. Trilogy we all know thanks to producers of Star Wars. Tetralogy means a group of three tragedies and one satyr or a trilogy plus one. Perhaps the master was right.

Is this is why Hollywood only produces single movies, sequels, and trilogies?

Re: Where to go for info

[shanmonster.livejournal.com]

What do satyrs have to do with tragedies? I'm confused....

Where to go for info

[geezergeek.livejournal.com]

What do satyrs have to do with tragedies? That is a good question for a historian or a linguist. I am just a lowly engineer who learned how to read a dictionary in grade school. The information was in my Webster's New Universal Dictionary.

Re: Where to go for info

[shanmonster.livejournal.com]

I think you may have meant satires rather than satyrs. Satyrs are basically half men and half goats, whereas a satire is a tongue-in-cheek social commentary. Of course, there could quite possibly be a satyr in a satire. There's nothing stopping them from going hand-in-hoof.

Where to go for info

[geezergeek.livejournal.com]

The dictionary used satyr as an adjective "a satyr play." I used it as a noun. Sorry.