Return of the Fans

The last time I stood in line for more than an hour for movie tickets was for The Empire Strikes Back so I was not about to queue up for LotR tickets for several days in the cold just to get in for the midnight showing. I wanted to see the costumes of the more devoted fans though so we went down to the theatre and watched the crowds of Elves, Nazgul, Wizards and Hobbits go by. A few disinterested freaks were playing "Dance, Dance, Revolution!". Heathens.

There wasn't much time and the theatre was mobbed so I couldn't get many pictures. There wasn't any other press that I noticed and few of the news wires have photos of fans in costume so I put the few photos of fans that I managed to get up on-line. The Nazgul costume was fabulous and I'm a bit sorry that I didn't get a much better pic of him/her. There was a dude on knee pads which I presume was a Hobbit costume but I can't say that it was very clever. Lots of Gandalfs and Arwens but no Ents! I guess that sitting in the theatre as an Ent would get you defoliated pretty damn quick but, still, in a country where the trees are as important as the sky itself I was sad to be deprived of Ents in costume.

The 10D, in spite of the fact that Canon serviced it back in September, is beginning to resemble the electrical system in my old Volvo which had it's own demon and sense of humour. The camera behaves in unpredictable ways at times and, especially in low light, likes to crash. I loved my old Volvo in spite of its quirks and law-of-physics defying cantankerousness by sometimes only allowing the passenger window to roll down on the coldest day of the year. Multiple mechanics couldn't ever find a thing wrong with the window motor or the electrical system in general but I knew there was some sort of anime in the machine. And now, the camera has begun to behave the same.