Thanks! It WAS pretty good, no? 
Posted on 03/14/2002 5:07:26 AM PST by HairOfTheDog
And we need to hear from Bear. Isn't he the one who doesn't do flying?
We was robbed! We was robbed! Nasty hobbitses....
Yeah, Bear doesn't fly. We need to find us a hobbit with a beach house on the coast of Alabama...
The one where Ernest crashes Mrs. Wiley's party to meet girls. Andy tries to clean him up and teach him manners....you know....Barney's famous quail quip?
I don't think Bear does Alabama or Mississippi.
Thanks! It WAS pretty good, no?
Entertainment Weekly's article on the life of JRR Tolkien: Elvish Lives!
From the Article:
To the professor, age 75 by the Summer of Love, a hobbit made more sense than a hippie. ''I remember his secretary telling me that she used to keep things from him, because she knew it would upset him,'' Shippey says. ''She told me once about a hippie who sent a long letter about how, in a kind of drug-induced stupor, he had climbed to the top of a mountain, built a fire, and burned his wedding ring. She said, 'Well, I wasn't going to tell Tolkien that.'
Faced with such dire misinterpretations, Tolkien was all too happy to correct people -- often with a long letter. Alas, too late; his private enterprise was destined to become whatever the masses wanted to make of it. Theories abound -- that his work got swept up in the mind-expansion vogue, that his fantasias provided an escape from Vietnam body counts. People point out, with a wink, the profusion of pipe-weed toking and mushroom eating within the Middle-earth milieu. ''Totally drugs,'' Anderson says. ''Totally marijuana.'' If to be great is to be misunderstood, then Tolkien was a colossus, trailing a flurry of warped conjecture behind him.
Boy, I step away for a couple of days and y'all just go to town on postings...
As far as the 'Moot goes, I'm pretty easy. I'm just afraid it will turn out like the DVD viewing... everyone thinks its a great idea, but almost no one can arrange the time to be there.
As I see it, you've got 4 possibilities: someplace warm (Florida being the favorite so far), someplace famous (DC and NYC being the two favorites), someplace central (Hair or 2J mentioned Kansas City, but I'd suggest St. Louis or Chicago instead), and wherever TORN is having their get-together.
Seeing as how we're making plans a year and a half or so in advance, we should be able to arrange to be most anywhere we can drive to. We wouldn't be crazy about driving through the deep south, but we might be able to manage it (pending Rose's thoughts, of course.)
Very cool... I know Topps put out the cards for the first movie, but I never got any of them, except for a promo card or two. Did you collect the whole series of FOTR cards?
Location, I'm pretty open on, though I'd have to say the more "important" places might be more expensive; maybe not travel-wise, but hotel and food type costs.
Ahhhh! I'm thinking TORN will have their party on the west coast. I'm hoping someplace like San Diego. I've never been to LA.
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