Pete hosted an early dinner for the tribe last night.... Nels brother Jap and wife were in town, Kat was wafting through, Ryan and Alicia and Etienne and us were invited and we all ate extremely well.
Afterwards was an historical film show; as the man that schlepped the kit into the MJC said in his presentation, ten days after the Champs Elyeeses it arrives in Esperaza! l' Ob'ete in 3-D. Marvellous.
Heres the Captain in the special specs they give you to wear in order to be fully frightened.
The crowd naturally participated but in rather unexpected ways - for instance, I had a deal of tendresse for the elegant elves but Esperazanais gave their best cheers for the bone -headed giants (who were very funny, it must be said). There was a rather splendid fluffy and fully armed pig who acted as a mount for a dwarf that attracted great approval. And rousing cheers when the baddie was thwacked by the corpse of the burning dragon :)
Tolkien may not have recognised his work but he would have clocked the subtexts with pleasure - never break your word, always act with honour, gold is inherently dangerous. For me the thing was rendered less-than-trite by being in French. It had gravitas where it might otherwise have been portentous.
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