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By adamg on Mon, 04/11/2016 - 10:29am
Other parts of the country get Bible quotes. Washington Street in Roslindale gets quotes from "Lord of the Rings."
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Gotta love the awkward source.
Not J.R.R. Tolkien, the one who actually coined the phrase...but the actress as the character in the film adaptation.
A perfectly cromulent source
Jebediah Springfield
Correctly attributed since Tolkien never wrote that
That line is from the movie - not found in any of Tolkien's works. Since he never wrote it, the correct attribution is the actor who said it in the screen adaptation.
Screenwriter?
I would think the screenwriter deserves a citation too.
Not how it's done
Movie quotes are nearly always attributed to the character, or the actor 'as' character. The signwriter did it correctly.
except for getting the movie
except for getting the movie title wrong.
"You miss 100% of the shots
"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take - Wayne Gretzky" - Michael Scott
"You miss 100% of the shots you take"
- My classmates, Grades 1-12
DANG
You got me.
No more commenting before I have coffee.
nah
In a more extended work, you would probably note that Galadriel was played by Cate Blanchett, but you would still attribute lines of dialogue to the character - not to Actor As Character, not unless you were making some sort of meta-point about the connection between the actor and the role. In this case, where space is at a premium, they chose the clunkiest (and not terribly accurate) possible way to attribute the quote.
Signed,
Someone who studies and writes about movies semi-professionally
I've said it before...
Roslindale is the Shire of Boston.
If Roslindale is The Shire
what parts of metro Boston are the rest of Middle-earth?
A few ideas
The Big Dig is Khazad-dum where clever minded folks dug too deep and awoke a fearsome, near invincible creature - in this case, cost overruns.
South Brookline is Lothlorien, where a few select people who think they're better than you live amongst the trees while preventing anyone from moving there. The levers of power are very arcane there.
I'd say Roslindale is actually Bree, a slightly backwater place with a diverse population.
The Lars Anderson hockey rink is Weathertop, where the ruins of an older time are the background for a great view.
mordor-pan
mordor-pan
Hey now
Some of my best friends are southrons
Margaret Mead said it pretty well too.
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
Awesome
You mean "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world"?
http://www.interculturalstudies.org/faq.html
Thank you
She is misquoted all over the innernets.
"Misquoted"
Some of the versions are pretty well mangled, although her own organization, the Institute for Intercultural Studies, couldn't provide a specific source for the quote - even as they embraced it and claimed it as a registered trademark.
I am so sick of misattributed quotes being spread via the internet that these days I do a Google search on pretty much anything I run across that attributes some witty statement to some famous person.
being on the internet
must be very difficult for you
- confucius
"90% of the quotes on the Internet...
...are mis-attributed."
~Abraham Lincoln
A line like that was spoken
A line like that was spoken in the movie "Horton Hears a Who" -
A person's a person, no matter how small,
And Whoville was saved by the smallest of all.
The 'smallest' being Cindy Lou Who.