EponymousBosh

I'm not at my place right now. If you come to my friend's place where we're at, you can have a donut and maybe pet the cat.

My current and previous laptops were/are Dell and I can count on one hand the number of hardware issues I've had with Linux (minus the Nvidia GPU but yknow. Nvidia.)

I have anxiety and I'm also into horror. I dunno if it's helped, but I don't think it's made anything worse at least.

The anoles are one of the few things I miss about living in Florida. There are lizards here in Kentucky, but they're more elusive.

E-bike?

Same

I agree with contacting local charities (kitchens, food banks, etc) and see if they can use them.

Username checks out.

Anyway, I think the actual answer is compassion.

My devil's advocate argument for the elves being there is that there were a bunch of battles in the north that didn't make it into the movie and only get mentioned a little in the books, and one of the important themes of LOTR is that all these disparate groups had to band together to fight Sauron. So having elves be at Helm's Deep is a way to show the different people fighting together in a movie series that was already pressed for time. Necessary? Maybe not. But it doesn't bother me as much as some of the other changes, because I can at least see a rationale for it.

Yeah I ain't watching that. They left out like at least a third of what made the books good IMO. Sounds like a waste of time.

OK, here's the thing. Overall, Peter Jackson's LOTR trilogy is extremely good. I think it's the best Tolkien adaptation we're likely to ever get.

HOWEVER.

The random "Arwen is dying!" subplot was incredibly fucking stupid and while it didn't ruin the movies for me, it did dampen my enjoyment of them. There had to be a better way to get more screentime for Liv Tyler, surely.

Honestly? Gotta disagree. It's been a long time since I've read the book but I remember being disappointed by it after seeing the movie. Maybe I'll give it a reread and see if my opinion's changed. ETA: fuck all the movie sequels though, no one needed that shit.