The New Hobbit Hole

[Penny1]

Today's Cinerama update:

Checked Yahoo, and they have LOTR at least through next Thursday--are we on (tentatively) for Tuesday the 16th?

[Overtaxed]

Doesn't this picture of Rivendell look like the same setting for Rivendell in the movie?

[HairOfTheDog]

Yes, I think we can be tentatively on for that!

[Sam Cree]

In the movie, the wraiths raise their sword hilts to their faces, with the blades up, just prior to their attack on the weathertop. I notice that Aragorn does the same before meeting the Uruk-Hai attack at the breaking of the fellowship.

Does anyone know where this gesture came from? It looks dramatic, but I didn't know if there is a real basis for it or not.

Just talked my wife into seeing LOTR for the 4th time with me, happily, it seems better and better on increased viewings.

[JenB]

Uh, well, no. It looks like something you'd do before a battle but I have no idea - my notions of sword battles come from books and movies, not necessarily the best places. I don't think it's an explicitly Tolkien thing, if that's what you're asking.

[Penny1]

Has anyone seen a logo for The Two Towers yet? I'm thinking of creating an online "theater poster" since there are no official ones yet (as far as I know). Do they have one up at the OS? I'm thinking of a black background with just the title of the movie that I could use as a base for a collage of a few shots from TTT. A bonus would be if it said something about the release date. It'd be nice to have something like that to post when all these threads crop up about Star Wars. ;)

[Penny1]

It seems like something that might have its roots in medieval writings, though I couldn't say that with any confidence. I will check and see if it's mentioned in any of the stuff I have at home (if I remember to look it up, that is). I'm thinking it particularly would show up in accounts of medieval jousts and that sort of thing.

[Overtaxed]

[HairOfTheDog]

From the OS...

It would however, be very wicked for us to continue to hijack every Star Wars thread... The three Star Wars fans are hopelessly outnumbered, and we should not gloat!

[Overtaxed]

Beat ya! :D

[HairOfTheDog]

hehehehe - yes - you were faster! I spent too long looking at the Aragorn pic while I was there.

[Overtaxed]

See where ogling gets you? For a moment, I thought I had double-posted again. :)

[Penny1]

Oh that's beautiful! Thanks!

And why shouldn't we gloat? It's just a bit o' fun!

[Penny1]

Ahhhhhh.....there we go! :)

[Ramius]

HEY EVERYBODY! Did HairoftheDog happen to mention yet that today is her Birthday? Please make with the birthday wishes!!!!

Happy Birthday HairOfTheDog!!!!!

:-)

[Overtaxed]

Happy Birthday Hair! But you don't get the Precious for a present!

[Penny1]

Happy Birthday Hair!!!!!!!!

[HairOfTheDog]

Thank you Ramius!

No - I hadn't mentioned it...

I am immensely fond of you all, and [censored] years is too short a time to live among such excellent and admirable hobbits!

I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve!

[Overtaxed]

; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve!

Hmmmmm.....is that a compliment? :))

[Sam Cree]

I don't remember having read about it in the book(s), but also don't know if it's grounded in medieval tradition or if Jackson thought it up or what. It looks almost religous.