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The One Ring Forums:
Tolkien Topics: TV Discussion: The Rings of Power:
Aw, shucks, :
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Lissuin
Valinor
Mar 13 2020, 9:46pm
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I posted a pretty picture and video of stunningly beautiful, "magestical", unearthly landscapes; went to bed with the queens and kings of Narnia galloping through that same landscape in my head, and not a few rainbows and elves, thinking what wonderful backdrops it would provide someone making a tv series about Numenor; woke up - and before opening my daily Washington Post news feeds about life's gritty realities - checked into TORN and my thread with the pretty pictures. Mayhap I should have included a smiley or winky emoji, or maybe it's just a truism that you send your threads out your door and there's no knowing where they'll be swept off to. 
So, let us be serious about this, by all means. Perhaps Peter Jackson and a few other movie-types or just very wealthy friends should buy this and preserve it for future film makers before some developer gets it, builds a handful of multi-million dollar vacation homes, closes it off forever to the general public, dams the river to make a lake and gives jet skies free rein, bombarding the vale with the whining sound of engines instead of tui and fantails. That could work, eh. Think of the magestical echoes! Cool! 
After all, Arcadia Station (nice name: "unspoiled wilderness", "An image or idea of life in the countryside that is believed to be perfect" Cambridge Dictionary, home of Pan in Greek mythology) might become overused, predictable or even - Heaven forbid! - a meme, like Monument Valley for Western films in the '50's and '60's. (Look, there's MV! Western!") Or Cinderella's castle (Disney! Kidz flick!). And Arcadia Station! (New Zealand! Fantasy!). Yeah, nah, maybe for its own good we should just move on.
So I will. Time to check into the Caption Contests. Arena hasn't had anything goofy for a while. Or maybe I'll save them until I've checked out how the new virus is doing today and whatever dire thoughts are currently darkening the Middle-earth TV Series Discussion board. Then I might need those pretty pictures, silly captions and goofy competitions just to get through the day. I also think we need some new emojis - nosegays and fairy dust, please. Until then, I'll leave you with these.
 
Have a nice day, everybody. Really. I mean it.
(This post was edited by Lissuin on Mar 13 2020, 9:53pm)
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Post edited by Lissuin
(Valinor) on Mar 13 2020, 9:53pm
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