I just had a thought.

[ashinae]

And, yes, sara_elf, it was a tad on the painful side. I will have to take it easy for the rest of the night, my brain may not be able to cope with the thinking. Ow.

Anyway, yes, I had a thought. After reading about the wank on the Sirius/Remus ML, about how it's pretentious and immature to end a story with "the end" or any such thing, my brain said something to me.

My brain said: "I hope whoever this person is, has not seen Return of the King."

Because, really. The end. The end says, The End.

If it's pretentious for a writer to say "The End" so as not to make people think there's more to the story, what does that make Peter Jackson?

Something to ponder as I respond to comments to my rantage of the other night.

Comments

[lannamichaels]

Umm....the end means it's over. And if it's pretentious to end with "the end" how pretentious is it to end with "finish" or "finis" or even "fin"?

*boggles*

[ashinae.livejournal.com]

Well, thinking about it, it probably is a bit on the pretentious side to end with "fin" or "finis" *g* But, yeah, my mind DOES boggle at this person saying that THE END is pretentious! Sheesh.

[lannamichaels]

Well, I end with 'fin' because I can't be bothered to write 'finish' and I like 'finis'. It sounds, well, pretentious. *g*

[perseph2hades.livejournal.com]

i think he meant it's the end of his movies, after spending 7 bloody yrs makin em (or however many yrs it was). i mean, the poor guy.

[ashinae.livejournal.com]

Heh. Yeah. I certainly wouldn't mind being Peter Jackson.

[ashinae.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes, I most certainly do agree that's what he means *g* What I'm saying is that if somebody can't cope with "The End" being tacked at the end of a story, how would they react to it at the end of a big movie like that? *G*

[sahari.livejournal.com]

No, it's not pretentious. It's customary; yes, even perhaps a tad cliche.

And I agree that ending with French words (particularly in an American or English-speaking movie not about France) is even more pretentious.

Perhaps this said person does not know the meaning of the word?

S

[ashinae.livejournal.com]

Yeah -- I do think that "fin" or "finis" are pretty pretentious *g* But I simply don't care if somebody wants to let me know that they're ending their story where it ends. Actually, I think I'd prefer to know that it is indeed the end and that I don't have to go hunting for more, you know?