Posted on 03/14/2002 5:07:26 AM PST by HairOfTheDog
Stopping in, having stolen a few minutes from visiting with relatives. Work is in a mere three hours, I should get to do something fun on Saturday but I couldn't even sleep in because of our visitors! Now you guys will take my precious again. What a nightmare.
But enough... how is Saturday for the other hobbits, Elves, Dwarves, and Men of Gondor?
I just posted this at the "recasting" thread, and I like what I said enough to repeat it.... I got to thinking about the remodel of our beach house, where my brother and dad now still live...
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Sorry, but the thing with Arwen taking Frodo across the river still chaps my bum
They make a good salve for that!
Hehehehe - There are parts of the movie that chap my bum too... but not that part. (Mine is the Galadriel Halloween Ghost part)
There are parts of the book that I read through and wonder - Now why didn't PJ just leave it this way? Other places it worked to change the dialogue and I like it just fine.
I am reminded of when we were remodeling our house. We knew what we wanted to do, which was basically to preserve as much about the house as possible, while adding a few new improvements. It is an heirloom house that I grew up visiting on every special occasion. It needed to remain the same house.
We hired an architect to help us with the planning, and he first came back with a drawing of a beautiful house that was just not ours. The little things that meant so much to us, were just a window, or just a wall, to him, and could be eliminated or moved.
As an architect, he saw our house as his palette... He wanted to put his signature on it... And had we let him, he would have created a beautiful, but different house.
He eventually came around to drawings which were exactly what we wanted. We used a couple of his ideas, but I am sure he wonders why we paid the big bucks to a designer so that we could design it ourselves.
To me it feels like the same conflict of emotions...
PJ put his own fingerprint on the story. His vision was beautiful. Some of us that were around before liked the old window more, but I am getting used to the new one, and the house is still ours.
More coffee is needed.
Agreed, the endless reruns sucked. However, Food Network is showing some episodes new to the U.S., taken from the early seasons of the show when Rokusaburo Michiba was the Japanese Iron Chef.
Has been a busy Saturday here, getting some chores done and running some errands. I'm safe at home now though, and apparently just in time, as some heavy thunderboomers are moving into the area. We've already had the lights flicker once, so time for me to log off until they pass through.
Will be back later!
Lovely picture OT! I would LOVE to live where I could sit on my porch drinking coffee every morning, and a glass of wine in the evening, looking out at a sight like that!! I"ve had the coffee, but I'll forgo the danish. Gotta get on the treadmill!
Oh for heaven's sakes! How about if I post the URL of the Precious picture under Breaking News. Or should I just look for a really cool Ring picture
Yeah, do that and tell them that's the page heading for 10,000...
Same here (more or less) I have to be inside while the little one naps.
It's been 25 hours since my last post on the religious wars.
My name is Corin and I'm a Freepaholic.
Just think "Friends of Bill" means something entirely different here...
Hi, Corin!
Welcome to the Hobbit Hole... sit down a spell. Put your feet up. Have a nice meal and a pint or two. Or three.
There, don't you feel better now?
I must confess I've been reading the posts when pinged today. It's amazing. What a bunch of maroons.
Relaxing here. Will put the boy to bed, have a nice glass of Merlot, read as much in my book as a glass of Merlot will allow...
Family is taking me to King's Dominion tomorrow for Father's Day. Actually it was my idea. We opted not to get season's passes this year. And they're running a half off special for Father's Day. We've had seaon's passes for about the last four years. We can go, do the things we know we like, and get out of there.
We prefer Busch Gardens (we're about 45 minutes from either one), but we'll do that later in the season.
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