The Fellowship Of The Dorks

I love going to big genre films on opening day and being amongst the hardest of hardcore nerds. Not only does it help build excitement for the movie, but you can't ask for better pre-show entertainment than standing in line with a bunch of pimply-faced miscreants adorned in costumes apparently borrowed from the wardrobe department of a kindergarten play. And as such I present you with The Fellowship Of The Dorks, who I had the pleasure of observing for a good forty-five minutes while waiting in line for "Return Of The King" yesterday:



The girl on the left with the bald cap is meant to be Gollum. Gandalf, meanwhile, is looking more like Moses as a janitor. The guy in the back with no discernable Middle Earth attire was holding a pair of plastic lightsabers. Apparently he thought he was coming to see "Return Of The Jedi." And sadly, I didn't get a picture of Gimly the bearded dwarf, as played by a freckly fat kid with a cardboard helmet and what looked like a raccoon tail taped onto his face. But my favorite, by far, is Legolas, the hunky, questionably heterosexual blonde-haired elf warrior, recreated here by way of a kid in a Robin Hood costume with A MOP ON HIS HEAD. Have a closer look:



Goddamn I love going to the movies.