Tuesday, February 28, 2012

No baseball cards, yet

J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy is probably my favorite set of books. I was introduced to Tolkien's writings back in the early 1970s while in junior high school.

It wasn't until high school that I read and began to appreciate the trilogy. I've tried to get my wife to read them and she is hesitant. We did go see all three movies on the day of their release, though. Here are some cards from Peter Jackson's third installment, The Return of the King.

Aragorn is so dreamy.

2002 Topps Lord of the Rings - The Return of the King
Leaving Edoras (card # 36)

One of my favorite scenes from RotK is where Théoden is getting fitted in his armor and says:
Where is the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing? They have passed like rain on the mountain, like wind in the meadow. The days have gone down in the West behind the hills into shadow. How did it come to this?
2002 Topps Lord of the Rings - The Return of the King
King Théoden's Crusade (card # 54)

And who could guess that Bruce Willis's daughter could be so beautiful.  Good thing she didn't marry Ben Affleck.
2002 Topps Lord of the Rings - The Return of the King
A Poet's Approach (card # 83)

Of course, I'm referring to that wonderful Steve Buscemi film, Armageddon.


And if you turn the poster 90 degrees,  you get this...


Which reminds me an awful lot of this...

2002 Topps Lord of the Rings - The Return of the King
Sauron (card # 18)

1 comment:

  1. Any post that creatively ties together LOTR & Armageddon gets an A+ grade from me.

    Quick question? Did you tear up during Armageddon? How about the end of Return of the King?

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