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The New Hobbit Hole

Posted on 03/14/2002 5:07:26 AM PST by HairOfTheDog

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To: JenB
So all we have to do is wait for the other hobbits......
15,441 posted on 07/28/2002 5:52:18 PM PDT by Overtaxed
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To: Overtaxed
Wonder how many days we should allow for the pre-order folks to get their disks?

My problem with the simul-view is that our DVD player is upstairs, my PC is downstairs...

15,442 posted on 07/28/2002 6:02:28 PM PDT by Corin Stormhands
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To: Corin Stormhands
Oops! Any chance your PC plays DVD's? Of course you'd have to look at the small screen...
15,443 posted on 07/28/2002 6:07:07 PM PDT by Overtaxed
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To: Overtaxed
Any chance your PC plays DVD's?

No, I don't think the hamster can run that fast...

I actually have my home office set up right now so that I can't see either of the two televisions we have downstairs. But maybe I can watch it the night before and still follow the conversations.

15,444 posted on 07/28/2002 6:09:26 PM PDT by Corin Stormhands
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To: Corin Stormhands
Or we could do the radio program thing we discussed last time. Put the microphone up to the speakers and play it through the voice chat.
15,445 posted on 07/28/2002 6:13:29 PM PDT by Overtaxed
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To: Overtaxed
Hullo! - Good morning! - I just woke up from a Sunday afternoon nap on the couch! [yawn]
15,446 posted on 07/28/2002 7:23:47 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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To: HairOfTheDog
Well, good morning! LOL It's 10:45pm here, time for bed for us old fogey family-type folks!

It was hot but overcast today, so I took the opportunity to go ahead and mow the lawn (instead of waiting and doing it at night by the light of the truck beams!) I got the entire back yard mowed! Remember, we live on a quarter acre....not that big, but I do the whole thing with a non-self propelled 6.5 horsepower push mower. It's heavy and big and I feel like death right now! And it's not like a straight shot either...I have to go around the shop and between the eight 8x10' garden beds and up a hill that goes the whole back of our yard to the fence and around a bunch of trees! I need Aleve! (I need a riding mower!)
15,447 posted on 07/28/2002 8:50:20 PM PDT by 2Jedismom
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To: HairOfTheDog; Overtaxed; All
Good night everyone! See you in the morning.
15,448 posted on 07/28/2002 8:56:11 PM PDT by 2Jedismom
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To: 2Jedismom
Lawn mowing is satisfying work though... I love turn on the sprinkler, pour an ice water and sit and listen to the sound and smell of a lawn well-mowed!

Good Night! - I am not fully waking up from my nap today, I am in kind-of catatonic drone mode... so I may as well go back to bed!

15,449 posted on 07/28/2002 9:04:28 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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From "Filmforce" through TORN....

Jackson Explains New Two Towers Footage

Although principal photography was long over, the cast and crew felt compelled to head back for more takes.
- They've been up to something the last few months down in New Zealand; and by "they," I mean Peter Jackson and the various actors that have been spotted at the airport or in the country's scenic burgs and boroughs.

Jackson explained to British film magazine Empire Online that although principal photography on the Lord of the Rings trilogy ended last year, he and his people have shot about 25 minutes of new footage for The Two Towers in recent months. Some of it will consist of new scenes being added to the second Rings chapter, and some of it was filmed to replace existing scenes.

"It was a process I always planned on," said Jackson. "It's a great way to shoot, like hand-crafting a film, allowing you to figure it out over time." Jackson went on to say that some of the new footage was shot to expand the Frodo/Sam/Gollum story thread. "[Ever] since we finished [principal photography], we really wanted [sic] to make the Gollum story more psychological, things we thought of later."

And as executive producer Mark Ordesky explained to the magazine, Two Towers is the Empire Strikes Back of the Tolkien trilogy – it's where the characters separate, different storylines emerge, and the situation grows grim. "You've got Merry, Pippin and Treebeard in Fangorn and Aragorn, Gimli and Legolas at Helm's Deep and Frodo and Sam going to Mordor. It's like an aperture that opens wider. I mean, they literally get to the Black Gates. You get to see the Black Gates, with these gigantic cave trolls pushing them open."

Post-production crews are already hard at work, fitting the new celluloid into their working cut of The Two Towers; and what's more, they already have a rough preview of The Return of the King, the trilogy's final segment, completed. Even as the December 18th release date for Towers approaches, Jackson is looking ahead to the final installment. Maybe we'll see yet more reshoots, more of Jackson's organic filmmaking happening this winter or in the spring.

15,450 posted on 07/28/2002 9:18:27 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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And a funny from TORN:

Unofficial Frodo Pocket Facial Tissue Paper
Strider @ 3:19 pm EST

We've found it: the worst piece of unofficial merchandise ever whose sole purpose is to cash in on the success of The Fellowship of the Ring. What is it? Well Gollumayee from Singapore has sent in these pictures of..wait for it..the Frodo Pocket Facial Tissue Paper. Ever wondered what Frodo would look like beside Conan the Barbarian and the Grim Reaper? Wonder no more!

'This must take top prize for "worst fake LOTR product": Frodo Pocket Facial Tissue paper! Found it at a neighbourhood sundries shop in Singapore. It costs S$2 (about US$1) for 48 packets. There's no manufacturing info on the packets but it's probably made in Malaysia or Indonesia.

The tissue comes in 2 designs: both have haunted-looking Bagginses and bony "ringwraiths"; one has a pink-and-purple "Gandalf' while the other depicts a green screaming Gandalf/Gimli hybrid beside Conan the Barbarian (Boromir?), and a "palantir"-gazer who definitely doesn't look like Saruman. Please tell me that bow-wielding guy/gal isn't meant to be Legolas! Truly the shadow grows longer...'


Click the pics for larger images! Good morning hobbitses When you wake!
15,451 posted on 07/28/2002 9:29:15 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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To: HairOfTheDog
I posted a piece of that Empire article a couple of days ago...did you see the cover picture? It's here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/646314/posts?page=15123#15123

Very thrilling!

It's after 2:30am. Can't sleep. I'm all keyed up about Matthew's birthday party. I am late getting out the invites, I have to do that tomorrow.
15,452 posted on 07/29/2002 12:37:00 AM PDT by 2Jedismom
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To: HairOfTheDog
I love turn on the sprinkler, pour an ice water and sit and listen to the sound and smell of a lawn well-mowed!

Yes, but I would just soon drink my ice tea while I'm mowing!!


15,453 posted on 07/29/2002 12:53:37 AM PDT by 2Jedismom
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To: 2Jedismom
Good Morning All!

It's supposed to be 100 here today without the heat index factored in....good excuse not to mow the weeds when I get home and just kick back with some ice cream.

15,454 posted on 07/29/2002 4:53:29 AM PDT by Overtaxed
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To: Overtaxed; All
Good morning Hobbitses!

Looks like folks are a bit slow to get going this morning... not that I blame anyone for that.

Hope everyone has a good start to the week!
15,455 posted on 07/29/2002 6:21:55 AM PDT by Bear_in_RoseBear
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To: Bear_in_RoseBear
I agree. Sleepy head hobbits! They need to wake up and smell the coffee.
15,456 posted on 07/29/2002 6:24:03 AM PDT by Overtaxed
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To: Overtaxed; HairOfTheDog
Those facial tissue pictures made me laugh... it looks like they just grabbed clipart images that sort of fit the theme matter and stuck them on the package!
15,457 posted on 07/29/2002 6:32:56 AM PDT by Bear_in_RoseBear
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To: Overtaxed; Bear_in_RoseBear
I'm up, I'm up.... [grumble]
15,458 posted on 07/29/2002 6:35:43 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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To: HairOfTheDog
You should be well rested after that long nap yesterday. :)

What happened to all our dwarves?
15,459 posted on 07/29/2002 6:39:17 AM PDT by Overtaxed
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To: Overtaxed
Coffee good...morning bad...
15,460 posted on 07/29/2002 6:47:54 AM PDT by g'nad
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