Inapropriate behavior from Bombadill - Page 2

emplynx · 06-09-2002, 04:18 PM

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Originally posted by Tar-Elendil
im just glad they didnt show that in the movie:P

Why? They probably would have added Arwen to the scene!

Garina · 06-10-2002, 02:35 PM

lol! I think adding her to that scene would seriously disturb me for life!!!

Radagast The Brown · 06-10-2002, 03:29 PM

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im just glad they didnt show that in the movie:P

Maybe they didn't do this scene because of this reason... no, probably not.

Christiana · 06-10-2002, 11:10 PM

Well,yah,then it would be rated X.

Ërendil · 06-11-2002, 05:09 PM

Or an 18 here in England!

***azalea*** · 06-11-2002, 10:18 PM

Why, just 'cause of a few naked hobbits?

Christiana · 06-11-2002, 11:30 PM

Agburanar · 06-12-2002, 04:05 AM

Ooh, too much information.

Gildor · 06-12-2002, 02:15 PM

I think it is yet another picture of the innocence of the hobbits when they first set out. They are child-like. Also, the light of the sun would be a good thing to warm and purify their bodies after
their having worn those tattered grave clothes. Where had they come from, after all?

Christiana · 06-12-2002, 06:45 PM

The graves origional inhabitants.

Eruviel Greenleaf · 06-14-2002, 12:16 AM

Well, I agree, it's just the idea of getting rid of the horridness of the Barrow Downs, nothing...wrong...the Hobbits obviously didn't mind. We're just wierd nowadays.

sun-star · 06-14-2002, 06:59 AM

Yes, we are weird. Why read a fantasy book about a completely different world and then impose your own values on it?

Eruviel Greenleaf · 06-14-2002, 07:02 AM

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Originally posted by sun-star
Yes, we are weird. Why read a fantasy book about a completely different world and then impose your own values on it?

Precisely

Eldanuumea · 06-15-2002, 07:57 AM

It's rather a shame that the mere thought of folks dancing around in the nude can inspire us to all this commotion......Treebeard is always in the nude and noone ever thinks twice about that.

Anyway, minus the airbrush and a good cinematographer, most folks look better with a little covering here and then.

BeardofPants · 06-15-2002, 04:48 PM

I don't have a problem with nudity. It's the people outside my appartment that do...

FrodoFriend · 06-16-2002, 01:32 AM

What? Who cares? It's not like we were born with clothes or anything. Being nude is comfortable. Especially after escaping from a nasty barrow-wight's hole, I'm sure. Do you really think there's something wrong with that?

Ërendil · 06-16-2002, 05:01 PM

I don't think that there is anything wrong with it, but some people do.
Some people get embarrassed at the thought of other people (or hobbits) running around naked, even if it is meant to symbolise purity.
Some people think that it is funny (my brother for example) and some people think that it is indecent. People have been brought up to be embarrassed about being naked in front of others, and don't see the fact that it is comfortable and refreshing especially after being somewhere unpleasant (ie the barrow-wight's hole).

Aragorn_iz_cool · 06-17-2002, 09:03 PM

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Originally posted by Eldanuumea
[B]Treebeard is always in the nude and noone ever thinks twice about that.B]

So is Bambi

samwise of the shire · 06-18-2002, 09:48 PM

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Also, I thought that the hobbits had SOME kind of division between the bathtubs! Frodo DID saythere were three baths, didn't he?

Yes there were divisions, but it wasn't Frodo that said there were three...that was Merry.

BOP there is alot of nudity in legends and in all or most of them they signify purity and cleanliness. Ever heard of The Ballad of Tam Lin? That is a REALLY long story and I would love to repeat it, but at the end the heroine Janet(who has to save Tam from the faeries)throws him as a bar of iron into a well and he comes out naked, clean and pure from the unclean magic of the faeries. And there are SEVERAL stories where the heroes and heroines are cleaned form their enchantments and are naked when they get through with it, because they had to be cleansed. And purity is very much a Christian theme. So even if Tolkien just put the nudity in there for sake of the stories there is still Christian themes in there.
Sam who has put her four cents worth in and who wishes not to be chewed to tiny bits by sarcastic comments.

samwise of the shire · 06-18-2002, 09:50 PM

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Also, I thought that the hobbits had SOME kind of division between the bathtubs! Frodo DID saythere were three baths, didn't he?

Yes there were divisions, but it wasn't Frodo that said there were three...that was Merry.

BOP there is alot of nudity in legends and in all or most of them they signify purity and cleanliness. Ever heard of The Ballad of Tam Lin? That is a REALLY long story and I would love to repeat it, but at the end the heroine Janet(who has to save Tam from the faeries)throws him as a bar of iron into a well and he comes out naked, clean and pure from the unclean magic of the faeries. And there are SEVERAL stories where the heroes and heroines are cleaned form their enchantments and are naked when they get through with it, because they had to be cleansed. And purity is very much a Christian theme. So even if Tolkien just put the nudity in there for sake of the stories there is still Christian themes in there.
Sam who has put her four cents worth in and who wishes not to be chewed to tiny bits by sarcastic comments.
ps. Bambie has fur. I dont think naked can count if you're an animal. I mean they ARE covered. I think what WE'RE talking of is no covering clothes or fur.

06-10-2002, 02:35 PM	#22
Garina Elf Lord Join Date: May 2002 Location: Tring, Herts, England Posts: 582	lol! I think adding her to that scene would seriously disturb me for life!!! __________________ Entmoot Resident Bard #2 Wielder of the shiny fire extinguisher Worshipper of the divine cheesecake Hamsters and Rangers everywhere, rejoice!!! Minsc, Baldur's Gate 2 Children, don't take drugs. Become a pop star, then people give them to you for free!!! - Billy Mack, Love Actually. While I'm sure the nice people from the local archery club meant well, a moment's consideration would have made them realise that giving my friend and I lethal weapons was probably not a good idea! Dammit, eyeliner and dreadlocks should not be that sexy!

06-10-2002, 11:10 PM	#24
Christiana Elf Lord Join Date: May 2002 Location: Searching desperately for a swan boat to take to Valinor Posts: 1,231	Well,yah,then it would be rated X. __________________ I take full responsibility for my actions, except for those that are somebody else's fault Having someone to blame is nearly as good as having a solution to the problem Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you are a mile away from them, and you habe their shoes. ~Frieda Norris

06-11-2002, 05:09 PM	#25
Ërendil Elven Warrior Join Date: Mar 2002 Posts: 389	Or an 18 here in England! __________________ "You're one of the Abaharaki, oh I had forgotten. Look at me, I am completly drenched! I do hate the rain, it makes me so depressed..." "Hehehehe, moeru moeru!" "That's it, set it all on fire; we're gonna smoke out Escaflowne!" "Oh, I hit the wrong target... never mind that creature was useless to us anyway. Our orders were to get the girl? So he isn't our concern, we don't need him!" ^_^ Isn't Dilandau just fantastic? You just have to love the insane, murderous pyro :-D

06-11-2002, 11:30 PM	#27
Christiana Elf Lord Join Date: May 2002 Location: Searching desperately for a swan boat to take to Valinor Posts: 1,231	__________________ I take full responsibility for my actions, except for those that are somebody else's fault Having someone to blame is nearly as good as having a solution to the problem Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you are a mile away from them, and you habe their shoes. ~Frieda Norris

06-12-2002, 04:05 AM	#28
Agburanar Elf Lord Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Dorset Posts: 608	Ooh, too much information. __________________ I would wish, were it to any avail, that the LORD OF THE RINGS FILMS had never been wrought. ROLLING STOCK, WE'RE ROLLING STOCK!!

06-11-2002, 10:18 PM	#26
*azalea* Long lost mooter Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Florida Posts: 3,342	Why, just 'cause of a few naked hobbits?

06-12-2002, 02:15 PM	#29
Gildor Hobbit Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: rural America Posts: 37	I think it is yet another picture of the innocence of the hobbits when they first set out. They are child-like. Also, the light of the sun would be a good thing to warm and purify their bodies after their having worn those tattered grave clothes. Where had they come from, after all? __________________ Yet such is oft the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: small hands do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere.

06-12-2002, 06:45 PM	#30
Christiana Elf Lord Join Date: May 2002 Location: Searching desperately for a swan boat to take to Valinor Posts: 1,231	The graves origional inhabitants. __________________ I take full responsibility for my actions, except for those that are somebody else's fault Having someone to blame is nearly as good as having a solution to the problem Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you are a mile away from them, and you habe their shoes. ~Frieda Norris

06-14-2002, 12:16 AM	#31
Eruviel Greenleaf Alcoholic Villain-Fancying Elf Pirate Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Lyonesse Posts: 4,547	Well, I agree, it's just the idea of getting rid of the horridness of the Barrow Downs, nothing...wrong...the Hobbits obviously didn't mind. We're just wierd nowadays. __________________ Eruviel Greenleaf in a past life. "Whoever has come to understand the world has found only a corpse, and whoever has found a corpse is superior to the world." -The Gospel of Thomas SQUAWK!

06-14-2002, 06:59 AM	#32
sun-star Lady of Letters Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Either Oxford or Kent, England Posts: 2,476	Yes, we are weird. Why read a fantasy book about a completely different world and then impose your own values on it? __________________ And all the time the waves, the waves, the waves Chase, intersect and flatten on the sand As they have done for centuries, as they will For centuries to come, when not a soul Is left to picnic on the blazing rocks, When England is not England, when mankind Has blown himself to pieces. Still the sea, Consolingly disastrous, will return While the strange starfish, hugely magnified, Waits in the jewelled basin of a pool.

06-15-2002, 07:57 AM	#34
Eldanuumea Elven Warrior Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Mississippi Posts: 123	It's rather a shame that the mere thought of folks dancing around in the nude can inspire us to all this commotion......Treebeard is always in the nude and noone ever thinks twice about that. Anyway, minus the airbrush and a good cinematographer, most folks look better with a little covering here and then. __________________ "Queen of Sweetness and Light!" - Mordomin

06-15-2002, 04:48 PM	#35
BeardofPants the Shrike Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: San Francisco, CA <3 Posts: 10,647	I don't have a problem with nudity. It's the people outside my appartment that do... __________________ "Binary solo! 0000001! 00000011! 0000001! 00000011!" ~ The Humans are Dead, Flight of the Conchords

06-16-2002, 01:32 AM	#36
FrodoFriend Halfwitted Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Eryn Vorn Posts: 1,659	What? Who cares? It's not like we were born with clothes or anything. Being nude is comfortable. Especially after escaping from a nasty barrow-wight's hole, I'm sure. Do you really think there's something wrong with that? __________________ Fingolfin lives! ... in my finger! The Crossroads of Arda - Warning. Halfwit content. Not appropriate for people with IQ of over 18. The Fellowship of the Message Board Nyáréonié - The Tale of Tears

06-16-2002, 05:01 PM	#37
Ërendil Elven Warrior Join Date: Mar 2002 Posts: 389	I don't think that there is anything wrong with it, but some people do. Some people get embarrassed at the thought of other people (or hobbits) running around naked, even if it is meant to symbolise purity. Some people think that it is funny (my brother for example) and some people think that it is indecent. People have been brought up to be embarrassed about being naked in front of others, and don't see the fact that it is comfortable and refreshing especially after being somewhere unpleasant (ie the barrow-wight's hole). __________________ "You're one of the Abaharaki, oh I had forgotten. Look at me, I am completly drenched! I do hate the rain, it makes me so depressed..." "Hehehehe, moeru moeru!" "That's it, set it all on fire; we're gonna smoke out Escaflowne!" "Oh, I hit the wrong target... never mind that creature was useless to us anyway. Our orders were to get the girl? So he isn't our concern, we don't need him!" ^_^ Isn't Dilandau just fantastic? You just have to love the insane, murderous pyro :-D