3:50, #544: Tolkien In Wonderland

I watched Johnny Depp's version of 'Alice In Wonderland'...actually, that should probably be 'Tim Burton's version' since he directed it...last night for the second time and was impressed with some Tolkienesquenesses...hey, if Lewis Carrol and J.R.R. can invent words, so can I! ;P Here's my comparison of two excellent movies:

The obvious first one is that the Good Guys triumph over the Bad Guys when Alice with her crimp style blond hair and shining armor cut off the head of the Jabberwocky in a scene reminiscent of the battle scene outside the Black Gate of Mordor when Sauron's Red Eye (hmmm, Red Queen is the baddie!) comes crashing down to assure the positive fate of Middle Earth. Oh, is Middle Earth situated directly above Underworld?

Speaking of Alice, a.k.a. Mia Wasikowska...she reminded me an awful lot of Galadriel, a.k.a. Cate Blanchett with her crinkle-cut long blond hair both when she was wearing her Chinese-pajama outfit walking back and forth while deciding to fight the Jabberwocky AND when she sailed away...come sail away, come sail away, come sail away we meeeeee...on The Wonder at the end of the movie...heading to The East instead of to The West, of course.

Oh, and did the red card army vaguely resemble ORCS?!! And the white chess piece army had a rather Elvish look about them to someone who's seen 'Lord of the Rings' 29 times!! Oh, notice, too, that the red cards throw down their weapons at the end and desert the Red Queen, a.k.a. Helena Bonham Carter just as the orcs and other bad guys desert Sauron at his downfall.

Let's see, then there's the comparison of Elendil, Aragorn's sword with the Vorpal sword...one has to be rebuilt so Middle Earth's Champion can wield it successfully against Sauron and his minions and the other gets recovered from the Bandersnatch's house so Alice can "OFF WITH HIS HEAD' to the Jabberwocky. ..cool picture for the original of Through the Looking Glass that's in public domain, by the way!

The Battle of the Chess Board reminded me of both the Battle at Helm's Deep AND the Battle at Mordor's Gate with two armies clashing and the Nazgul-wannabe-Jabberwocky getting slain by the curly haired girl just like the Witch King of Angmar got it from Eowyn the curly haired I-was-wearing-my-helmet-I'm-having-a-bad-hair-day warrior of Tolkien's tale.

It's time to open the Gates of Camp Cornelius, so I'll wrap this review for now. It's time for me to 'go snicker snack' but I will be 'galumphing back!'
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