Monday, January 28, 2013

Why were there so many fat jokes about Bombur?

Sure, he's the fat dwarf, even according to Tolkien, who couldn't be bothered to designate more than one adjective per member of his enormous ensemble cast.

That doesn't mean you can riddle a film with fat jokes. You get one--maybe two--and then you cool it and stop padding out your movie into a gelatinous mass of excess flab. (Thanks for the drinking game inspiration, though.)

Yes, the short and/or slow jokes about Gimli were perhaps too frequent, but at least there were also things happening in those movies!

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