Lord of the Rings and Anne of Green Gables

[erilyn]

I had a lovely afternoon with girl_clone, iibnf and edgehd at the LOTR exhibition at the Powerhouse Museum. The detail on the costumes, props, sword, armour and jewellery was just beautiful and fascinating to see. The care they took, the details they fussed over in making these movies just blows my mind.

Then we just sat around and chatted for ages, especially over Sims, and continued on during the trainride home. There was one woman who was just fascinated by our conversation, and we kept catching her staring. Maybe it was the repeated mentions of "alien ass babies" that caught her attention? *g*

Stumbled across a thread about L.M.Montgomery's books at Fametracker, and discovered some fascinating things. Yay, everyone else considers the third Anne miniseries a travesty too (ok, that's pretty much a gimmee, considering it's totally contradictory to the books - and yes, I've made that judgement without seeing it *g*). But there was a movie made of Jane of Lantern Hill, with a pretty good cast? Must try and track that down. But I never want to see anything to do with this series made of the Emily books. I mean, they kill Aunt Elizabeth! Get Aunt Laura addicted to laudanum! Cousin Jimmy gets struck by lightening and becomes a genius! WTFPOLARBEAR?

On a more positive note, there's seems to be more collections of her short stories from magazines that we don't have yet, and everyone was raving about The Blue Castle, which I haven't read. More things to track down :) I loved the Anne series growing up (I still get teary when I re-read Rilla of Ingleside), and Emily too (though they were more frustrating in many ways), and over the years we've gotten more of the books, like the Pat books (anyone else think she has obsessive-compulsive disorder?) and A Tangled Web, which is wondeful and I just adore it.

I read a Emily/Ilsa story somewhere a year or two back, it was short but good.

Comments

[sangerin.livejournal.com]

Surfing in from friendsfriends to say that the Jane of Lantern Hill movie is really quite good, although they have changed things from the book (and I saw the movie first, so, that's how much my opinion is worth...). And you must read The Blue Castle because it's the most gorgeous of them all, and I wrote A Tangled Web fanfic for the yuletide challenge. If you're interested...

[erilyn.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the movie rec, I shall definitely keep an eye out for it :)

I keep meaning to explore the Yuletide stories properly, I didn't even know that there were Montgomery inspired stories in it! Your story is wonderful, the language is spot on, and I really enjoyed the different view of Virginia. It works so well with the story, but really fleshes her out :)

[luthien.livejournal.com]

This Anne/Diana story written for Yuletide was very good. It really captured the strong affection between them and put a slashy twist on it with ease.

[erilyn.livejournal.com]

Oh, that was very well done, that's for the rec :)

[bossymarmalade.livejournal.com]

The Blue Castle is one of my favourite books in the entire world. Strangely, I couldn't find it anywhere here; I eventually located a copy of it when I was visiting *Iowa*. And people wonder why Canadians don't know too much about their own literature. Feh! *g*

I wrote an Emily/Ilse (http://boudicca.com/unaware/ode.html) story once; maybe you might like it?

[bachelor-girl.livejournal.com]

::points up::

Yes. I supermegaheart 'The Blue Castle'. You should definately try to check it out. :-)

[erilyn.livejournal.com]

I must now, thanks :)

[erilyn.livejournal.com]

That story is just beautiful, and so very Ilse it hurts.

I've found Blue Castle online on Project Guttenberg, but I think I'll see if I can find an actual copy of it :)