The New Hobbit Hole

[htur_75]

I've got cable modem. I am free Friday as well. My hubby is going to go see Jason X with co-workers since I absolutely refuse to go see it. It'll be a good diversion from being alone all evening, with nothing to do. (unless you count endless housework and homework) :-P

[Overtaxed]

Oh, one of my most favorite parts just went by! It's where Aragorn and Boromir are standing there and Legolas says "Crebain from Dunland!" Then Aragorn just bellows "HIDE!" and it sounds so intense!

I keep looking for the pony in that scene! Is he already hidden? Does he duck behind a rock? How does a pony hide?

[ksen]

Either of you on cable modems or DSL? ;~D

Believe it or not I am still chugging along on a 28.8 modem at home. I hope to updgrade to 56.6 within the next month or so. Then maybe DSL sometime after that.

-Kevin

[HairOfTheDog]

Pretty high quality copies of the entire film are available for download at KaZaA.com. The copy most of us have is a roughly 700 MB file that took 9-10 hours overnight to download on cable. It is acceptable quality, good picture quality at full screen, and OK sound. One of us as a slightly better version that is truly DVD quality but is broken into TWO 700 MB files, so it is a bigger ordeal to download that version. Both versions were found at Kazaa. The one I have is no replacement for the DVD that will come out... it is good, but not perfect, and I have to watch it on my computer. So since I will buy the official DVD anyway, and spent more than a fair share on theater tickets, I am able to live free of guilt.

KaZaa is the film version of Napster. You will have to download their software to do it. You are filesharing and getting the file from others that have it available. After downloading it, I think you will want to get KaZaa, and some hidden elements of their software off of your machine, because their software is scary to me. I can get you instructions for all that if you are interested.

[HairOfTheDog]

You may be able to get a copy easier from your brother.

[HairOfTheDog]

ooh... sorry about the connection there. Have any friends with cable and a CD burner that owe you any favors?

[htur_75]

We got ours from a program called IMesh. It is similar to Kazaa, but our version of the movie is wonderful. The picture is so clear that I almost feel like I can walk into the picture, and feel the grass under my feet in the Shire. It is a screening copy. I highly recomend IMesh.

[HairOfTheDog]

hehehehe - I don't think you are supposed to think about the pony in that scene... ponies don't duck under rocks very well!

[htur_75]

I forgot to add that you can get movies as well as music on IMesh.

[htur_75]

I never thought about it before. I was always so caught up in the movie and the suspense of that scene that I never noticed the presence or absence of Bill.

[Overtaxed]

I'll have to watch it again! Maybe they decided to park him in some sort of a cleft (must have grass, I suppose, to get him to stay there.)

[HairOfTheDog]

Ahh - OK! - so you have it then! - dandy! What we do is play it together and chat about it in one corner of the screen while we watch. It was fun, and worked amazingly well the last time. We stayed almost perfectly in sync all the way through and had a good time.

[HairOfTheDog]

I think the pony was back at the barn for that part of the scene myself, but think you like ;~D

[Overtaxed]

I didn't see any white riders on the flood horses either...even after pints!

[ksen]

I think the pony was back at the barn for that part of the scene myself, but think you like ;~D

I think I read in one of the trade magazines that Sam, not knowing that Bill was lactose intolerant, had given Bill some milk to drink about 15 minutes prior to the whole Crebain incident. So when they came swooping in Bill was, thankfully, "off-screen." It was a good thing to, because our Fellowship would not have gotten Bill hidden in time and, as they say, the jig would have been up.

-Kevin

[ksen]

Have any friends with cable and a CD burner that owe you any favors?

Nah, I can bring myself to wait until August, barely. I just keep reliving the movie vicariously through all the discussion that goes on here.

So please keep it up everyone! ;^)

-Kevin

[HairOfTheDog]

Well, as luck would have it... the jig was up anyway. The birds saw them all crouching under the rocks anyway, and flew home to daddy with the news, so the pony, upset tummy or no (still thinking about that one) would not have been the bane of the fellowship.

No, there are no white riders... only white horses... A minor detail change really, for that scene which already had little resemblance to the book, except that there was a river involved. The white horses were the best part of it!

[Overtaxed]

Of course the white riders could have been cut off by the top of the screen......

[ksen]

Well, as luck would have it... the jig was up anyway. The birds saw them all crouching under the rocks anyway, and flew home to daddy with the news, so the pony, upset tummy or no (still thinking about that one) would not have been the bane of the fellowship.

Well that is true. That's it, I'm not reading any of those rags again! ;^)

-Kevin

[HairOfTheDog]

hehehehe