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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: Bear_in_RoseBear
The Movie should look great on the new set! It will! When we finally finished our basement remodel 4 yrs. ago, we bought a Mitsubishi 32" TV for family viewing (we don't have a TV on the main floor) The DVD looks great on it; we've seen it 4 times since we got home from vacation in mid-August. We do surround sound on the cheap using sets of computer speakers Sir SuziQ has bought over the last couple of years. It sounds great, too, though I don't hear that harmonic rumble when Sauron bites the dust as well as I did in the theater!
To: HairOfTheDog
Does that mean "Thats outrageous! That's silly!"?[Very] freely translated, it means that the old moral standards are being lost.
Things fall apart, the center cannot hold - E.B. Yeats.
To: Bear_in_RoseBear
Well, I got to the front door using my manure cart and dragged the box in, so it is on the floor of the living room!
Now what do I do! LOL!
To: SuziQ
I don't hear that harmonic rumble when Sauron bites the dust as well as I did in the theaterI'm not an audio expert by any stretch, but do you have a sub-woofer hooked into your audio setup?
To: SuziQ
I don't like so much either the cutesy angels and cupids and stuff, though I think they at least predate the Victorian era.
But I've recently developed a liking for the Victorian era. It's sort of a fascinating time period, after the Civil War, before WWI.
It included the Wild West, and some great artwork, including the impressionists. Also, I guess, Tolkien was born during the Victorian era.
The whole thing was really not so long ago, it's easy to imagine it and how it was.
To: SuziQ
I'm going to have to keep a lookout for more Brueghel! If you find a new one, I'll buy it from you! LOL!
To: Sam Cree
The whole thing was really not so long ago, it's easy to imagine it and how it was.Well two of my grandparents were born in the 1850's, the other two in the 1890's, so I have some closer second hand memories of that time than most of you, I would think!
To: Sam Cree
I like the Victorian era as well, a fascinating period. And I even like the decorative angels done in the Victorian style for Christmas decorations. I just don't like the notion that the Biblical angels would in any way resemble them, but I think that is the image most folks have of angels.
To: Bear_in_RoseBear
but do you have a sub-woofer hooked into your audio setup?Well I think the sound man hooked something like that up, but I'll have to double check!
To: Lucius Cornelius Sulla
If you find a new one, I'll buy it from you! LOL!Oh yeah! like THAT will happen (that I'd buy one, that is!)Who knows, maybe I'll run across one at a garage sale. When PIGS fly!!
To: HairOfTheDog; Sam Cree; All
I good fantasy-related film with a weepy ending is The Whole Wide World, based on the last years of Robert E. Howard, creator of Conan.
To: Lucius Cornelius Sulla
Many of them are meant as educational experiences Don't you mean "re-educational" experiences? Hehehe....If I have to listen to "It's a Small World" for any length of time I'll be puking all over the place!
To: HairOfTheDog
Now what do I do!Uhm, maybe you can take the box apart from around the TV? Then if you can't get it up onto the desk, at least you can still use it from the floor... ;)
To: Sam Cree
I find the Victorian Era interesting as well. My favorite non-SF books, the Sherlock Holmes stories, were written in that era!
To: Overtaxed
Yeah, I agree about that Small World thing....
At least my evening's looked up some... I called a friend...who I've never talked to before... and we had a nice chat...
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JenB
To: Bear_in_RoseBear
I considered your suggestion, but in the end, I went to the corner grocery next door where I am a good customer and asked the owner for help lifting it! - LOL
It is fabulous! - and enormous! watching the movie already! Now I just have to hook my stereo up to it... I finally bought the cords to do that... didn't have them before.
To: JenB
Just started the movie. My 27" set has Surround Sound and I could hear the fall of Sauron harmonics on it.
To: Overtaxed
Small World was my very favorite thing when I was a kid... and the Pirates of the Carribean.... OT is a sour-puss!
To: HairOfTheDog
32 inches huh? Does this mean EntMoot will be moved to your place?
To: NewCenturions
I didn't know if 32 would be enough inches to be a draw.... Now the big 10,000 flat screen (which I could have had for just $300 down) should have named me host of the entmoot. At this point I am thinking we may be headed to Florida. (Could it get any farther from me and still be in the United States? - NO!) LOL!
I think the Florida residents will have to pitch in on renting a projector, what do you think?
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