Evangeline Lilly, Speakin’ Elvish
A few things:
1) Evangeline Lilly speaking Tolkien’s Elvish is the sexiest fucking thing somebody somewhere has ever heard. Congratulations, that person. It’s your lucky day.
2) I have sincere doubts as to the interviewer’s “geekiness” despite her claim at the beginning.
3) Good on Lilly for admitting to herself that Tolkien fans may loathe her non-original (Peter Jackson-created) character. However, anyone so obsessed with Tolkien that they hated the LotR movies is pretty much a given to hate the Hobbit movies, too, so whatever.
4) Really? They’re locking up The Hobbit scripts? Do these people know that the book has been available for 74 years at this point? Maybe all the Tolkien fanboys are right to be insane, and Jackson included a big motorcycle race in the middle. I can’t imagine why they’d bother to be so secretive about the script otherwise. (Via First Showing)
About The Author
Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.