March 18, 2004

Elijah on Leno
Lilly

...When Elijah Wood was on Jay Leno the other week, he described Ringers as little different than Trekkies. And I though, yeah, whatever...but...the more I think about it, the more it's really true: there's not a lot of difference between the two, in the end.

Star Trek: features a band of people making their way across space, helped by the occasional Vulcan comrade: a tall, wise, pointy-eared, race of people with cool powers.

LOTR: features a band or mortals making their way across middle-earth, helped by the occasion Elf comrade: a tall, wise, pointy-eared race of people with cool powers.

Trekkies: Memorize imaginary languages (i.e. Klingon)

Ringers: Memorize imaginary languages (i.e. Elvish!)

Trekkies: Loathe STAR WARS as copy-cattism, and make fun of the fans for not having an official name.

Ringers: Loath HARRY POTTER as copy-cattism, and make fun of the fans, giving them unofficial nicknames like "pott-heads".

Star Trek: features a variety of different races and beings.

LOTR: yeah, that too.

Trekkies: Wait outside theaters for hours, dressing up as their favorite characters.

Ringers: yeah, that too.

Trekkies: Can quote their favorite episodes (and the movies) line for line, and can name even the minorest of characters.

Ringers: Can quote the movies line for line and can name even the obscurest of characters (where WAS Gil-Galad?)

LOTR: one of the worst enemies used an unatural means for creating a race of mindless killing machines (saruman, uruk-hai)

Star Trek: one of the worst enemies used unnatural means to create mindless assimilating machines (the Borg).

LOTR: Every once in a while a race of immortal beings will step in and help (or sometimes confuse or irritate) the people, all for the progressing of the greater good of everything (Istari).

Star Trek: Ever heard of Q?


....I could go on, but I bore you, I think.

I guess we fanatics, we're really not so different after all, eh? Maybe one day we can live in peace: the Ringers, the Trekkies, the Star Wars fans...whoever it is who requests all those zombie movies...

Mmmm...perfect world.

A Ringer and a Trekkie and sincerely yours.

~Lilly

PS: don't hate me!! Not everybody feels this way...i mean this as a joke and not seriously at all!!