I am an upstanding member of society in appearance only
January 14, 2003 | 1:57 p.m.

Today's Rings Thing:

Of the new characters introduced in TTT, which is your favorite and why? What do you think of the characterizations and portrayals?

I'm very sorry that I haven't been taking part in the last few weeks. Participating regularly in the Rings Thing is on my ever-growing list of New Year's resolutions ;)

Onto the question - I'm not sure how I feel about the new characters, to be honest. I think Gollum has been portrayed wonderfully as far as appearance and voice goes - he's stunning for a CGI character. However, the comic relief thing annoyed me this time round as well, which I was kind of expecting. Juts because Gollum talks to himself doesn't make him a funny character. Too much funny. Not enough dark. Meh.

Not liking the Faramir ("Go tell my father I've completely changed the plot") personality transplant. He is Boromir's brother, not Boromir himself. I would have thought they could have grasped that what with the Aragorn-Isildur thing.

I liked Eowyn. She seemed accurate to book!Eowyn to me. But what can I say? I don't pay that much attention to the women...

I should be doing my UCAS application now, but I'm terrified of the fucking thing. I can't look at it. Tomorrow is the last duay they can be received before they're classed as 'late' - I don't want to know what that means. I have to get it finished today so my tutor can check it and send it off. I suppose I'm lucky that I'm applying online and not posting it.

I haven't attempted the personal statement yet. It scares the shit out of me that the next three years of my life, and alright, my entire life, will be determined by 53 lines (Courier New, 12pt) of me attempting to explain how much I love english, reading and writing, how much this means to me and how much I want it, while also attempting to make myself seem well-rounded by talking about clubs and out of school activites I take part in.

Clubs.

Clubs.

What the great shiny tapdancing fuck? If I played chess on Tuesday evenings or some other inspid pointless shit, would that make me normal? Would it make me an upstanding member of society, one that universities would be proud to accept into their hallowed halls? If I was a mindless ignorant waste of DNA who never thought beneath the surface of anything except Christina Aguilera's leather hiphuggers, but I did the pissing Duke of Edinburgh's Award (if you're not British, the DoEA is this thing where you go hiking and do first aid, I think. Some shit like that. I'd rather read a book, shoot me) I would immediately be the perfect applicant?

I'm going to create my own planet, and stupid inane shit will not be allowed to exist. There'll be a stringent entrance exam which, with cunning psychological trickery, will determine whether prospective citizens are likely to come up with stuff like this. And if they are, I am so kicking them straight off the edge and laughing insanely while I do it.

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