Real-Life Radagast Bird Poo!

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Werde Spinner

Rohan
It turns out Radagast is not so much terrible in regards to hygiene as he is merely ahead of his time!! [laugh]

A short article (presumably from the Associated Press) appeared in my paper this morning, and I could not help but think about the facet of WETA's design for the Brown Wizard that has garnered more hate than anything else:

"NEW YORK - Bird poop for beauty?
"That's what goes into facials at a luxury spa where the traditional Japanese treatment using imported Asian nightingale excrement mixed with rice bran goes for $180 a pop.
"About 100 women and men go into the Shizuka New York skin care salon, just off Manhattan's Fifth Avenue, each month to get the treatment, which is promoted as a way to keep the face soft and smooth using an enzyme in the poop to gently exfoliate the skin.
"Spa owner Shizuka Bernstein, a Tokyo native married to an American, has been offering what she calls the Geisha Facial for about five years."

Now, I cannot imagine for the life of my why people would do this in real life (much less pay for it), but it makes Radagast seem a bit more believable now, doesn't he? [shocked] [:P]
 
So who's volunteering to have a facial at Radagast's Rhosgobel Beauty Parlor? Who needs Asian nightengales when you have...umm... Rhosgobel Brown-streaked LBJs? And just wait til you hear how hedgehogs figure in to the beauty treatments!
 
Well, Radagast does look a bit younger than the other Wizards. Maybe there's something to it? Then again, the poop's only on one side of his face so sooner or later we'll see if it actually makes a difference. [;)]
 
I read a post on here somewhere that compared to Radagast to Merlin The Wizard from King Arthur Legend, they had the same qualities: poo on face, birds in hair stuff like that and I never noticed it before I thought it was genius cause everyone is comparing him to Jar Jat Binks when he's really Merlin!
 
So that's why he's only got it on one side - it's a controlled experiment to see whether it does make a difference...
 
It's just wearing dung is gross. [laugh] But what he does is nothing compared to this salon. There are other, less gross ways to keep the skin soft and smooth. [cool] These people have to be desperate to pay $180 for a dung facial. [crazy]
 
At least, I think this will take you to the posts you're thinking of: http://newboards.theonering.net/forum/gforum/perl/gforum.cgi?post=630574#630574

(If not, it's on page 2 right now in a thread about Radagast's visions of the future.)

I think all this rather prissy outrage about Radagast and the bird poo is hilarious. Radagast has a nest under his hat, and anyone who has ever seen a bird's nest or roost will know what you find around them. It's natural - the earth is covered with poo of various kinds, and what this represents in Radagast, and in T H White's Merlyn, who is very close to the concept of Radagast in the film, is his closeness to nature. He doesn't fuss over externals - his priorities are different. You find similar - even grosser - symbolism in the character of the Walker in Michelle Paver's 'Chronicles of Ancient Darkness'. It's not an idea Peter Jackson invented.

Wouldn't suit all of us. I wouldn't want a bird nesting in my hair but then, I'm not a wizard

http://newboards.theonering.net/forum/gforum/perl/gforum.cgi?post=630574#630574
 
It doesn't worry me either, perhaps because it reminded me of years ago when I read a legend of St Kevin and the Blackbird. St K sat down to pray with his hands lifted...came back to earthly things and discovered a blackbird had laid its eggs in the palm of his hand. Being a saint, of course he sat there until the eggs had hatched and fledged [:)]

The troll-snot does gross me out rather (yuck!) but the belching at the Unexpected Party made absolute sense once I'd figured out the family dynamics - it's all about the Ri's. I bet Dori is an absolute stickler for table-manners and things like belching are a long-standing source of friction. He's pretty much given up on Nori (who does a little belch just to annoy Dori and assert his independence), but Ori probably behaves most of the time, especially when Nori isn't around to egg him on - see him wiping the dust off the dishes, and asking Bilbo so politely what he should do with his plate. But tonight Nori is there, Ori is full of ale and over-excited at going on a Quest, so he lets rip. And the person who laughs is of course Kili, who is still young and giddy enough to think that sort of thing is cool (and I wouldn't mind betting he gets sat on at home about table-manners too - can't imagine Thorin putting up with any belching from the Heirs of Durin, can you?).
 
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Bomby
 
I love your analysis of the Dwarves' dynamics here. Even though their family relationships are never stated in the movie, if you dig deeper you pick up on nice little details like this. I really appreciate the care the filmmakers put into this, and it makes the movie more rewatchable too as you notice something different every time. [:)]
 
Indian Aztec clay sounds like it's better for the face, and if it's in health food stores, I'm guessing it's at a reasonable price. Sounds, natural, healthy, and not gross like dung! [laugh] Goldberry sounds like she was just like her namesake. Did she make this product?
 
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