The Shire!

Violin...Flute...Bass Guitar...little drums...all in harmony....that's the the background score of the epic movie 'The Lord of the Rings'........in particular the background score for 'The Shire' ....the small village of hobbits is awesome!  I simply love this background score...amazing....beautifully composed.....the beautiful green village of Shire comes in front...and that sweet smile of the protagonist 'Frodo'...small huts..narrow clean roads..all the greenery around (Beautifully shot in New Zealand)... these small creatures -'Hobbits' living there a peaceful life...with their share of occasional thrills. It all starts with 'Gandalf the Grey' visiting the Shire...as he's been invited for the birthday celebrations of an old hobbit 'Bilbo Baggins'...an adventurist traveler....and the story goes on.. I love this movie...though I have not read the actual epic written by J.R.R. Tolkein....but after watching the movie...I feel pretty sure don't know why that the director has done full justice to the epic...I am sure Peter Jackson hasn't missed anything! Great dialogues..and the English...so beautiful...I love speaking out loud..the dialogues from this movie..! :-) ....it was not the usual slang and ungrammatical usage as we see in Hollywood....but it was like the 'Sanskirtized' dialogues in our old DD-1 epic Mahabharata!  Some good ones to quote:


Frodo: You're late.
Gandalf: A wizard is never late, Frodo Baggins. Nor is he early; he arrives precisely when he means to.

Frodo: I wish the Ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened.

Gandalf: So do all who live to see such times; but that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us. There are other forces at work in this world, Frodo, besides the will of evil. Bilbo was meant to find the Ring. In which case, you were also meant to have it. And that is an encouraging thought...isn't that?

Gollum: We wants the precious...!  ( The only character in the movie.. who had no regards for grammar! :-) ). Some gems from Gollum: We wants it...we needs it...they stole it from us! Sneaky little hobbitses. Wicked, tricksy, false! 

They do not see what lies ahead, when Sun has faded and Moon is dead. 

Sam: What we need is a few good taters. 

Gollum: What's taters, precious? What's taters, eh? 

Sam: Po-tay-toes! Boil them, mash them, stick them in a stew... Lovely big golden chips with a nice piece of fried fish. Even you couldn't say no to that. 

Gollum: Oh yes we could. Spoilin' nice fish. Give it to us raw and w-r-r-riggling; you keep nasty chips. 

Sam: You're hopeless. 

The background score is excellent....and as I have mentioned before...music is the ink with which my memory logs are written in my mind...so this 'Shire' piece takes me down the memory lane...I still remember watching all the three parts of this movie with my good old friend 'Adi' in the sleepy town of Morley, UK...during the Good Friday-Easter long weekend of April 2006 at King street TCS hostel (Now plz don't think that TCS provided us a hostel in UK..but we called it so....as all the three back to back flats were occupied by TCS guys in that old Victorian age building)! The flats were at the first floor, and the entrance to the building was into a narrow lane with iron stairs...I often used to say that this entrance looks like those narrow & dirty HongKong streets which they show in those Kung-fu movies!


Later on in the next long weekend during May....we visited Scotland for the first time....and some places there in the countryside reminded us of some of the 'Lord of the rings' stuff....mountains...some misty..some icy....large pieces of land..some barren...some full of grass...beautiful lochs (Gaelic word for Lakes)...it was 'middle earth' indeed! 

Some good time spent!...Some memories to cherish!  Now when I look at my writing...I started with the movie...the music...and ended up in Scotland!