My sister has hooked me to HBO original serieses (er, yeah, I know that’s not a real word.) She has been obsessed with ”Entourage” which has now grown on me.

And following “Entourage” is ”Flight of the Conchords”.

What I find funny is that Bret McKenzie (who, for some reason, makes me think of Orlando Bloom, never mind that one is from New Zealand, the other from England) actually had a bit part in “The Lord of the Rings” movies by Peter Jackson. He had a non-speaking part as an elf at the Council of Elrond. He was thereby christined as Figwit by obsessive fans. Because of popular demand, he actually ends up with a few lines in “The Return of the King”, and actually gets a name: Aegnor, which also happens to be the name of Finrod Felagund’s brother who was a Noldor prince. There is much debate as to whether or not Aegnor is canonical, especially since this name was assigned for a trading-card game.

I definitely vote that this is a different guy who has the same name as Aegnor. This is the same thing that happened with Legolas, originally given to one of the Lords of the ruined city of Gondolin. Legolas the Latter is definitely a different guy because Legolas the Former was Noldorin while Legolas the Latter is Sindarin, being the son of the Sindarin King Thranduil. Also consider Gildor Inglorion, who is supposedly of the House of Finarfin and Finrod Felagund. “Inglorion” actually designates him as the son of Finrod, but this is clearly impossible since Finrod never married after coming to Middle-Earth, and if this were the case, he should’ve been High King of the Noldor instead of Gil-Galad

Still, I suppose Aegnor could’ve been re-embodied just like Glorfindel, who, like Legolas the Former, was a Lord of the ruined city of Gondolin who was killed during the evacuation of the city. But then Aegnor would’ve been in the line of succession for the crown of the High King of the Noldor. (After Gil-Galad, who did not have any direct descendants, there were no more High Kings. Technically, the crown should’ve passed either to Galadriel, the daughter of Finarfin, or to Elrond, the great-grandson of King Turgon of Gondolin, who was High King before Gil-Galad.) Although maybe Aegnor was re-embodied after Gil-Galad died, and because of tradition, no one ever claimed the crown of High King of the Noldor.

But back to “Flight of the Conchords”: it’s pretty hilarious. Their manager even has a Commodore 64. Which apparently they use to simulate an ATM (judging from the font used in one of their videos.)