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There is a new LOTR thread up ''Lord of the Rings' Honored at Christian Movieguide Awards', it has a kid asking why is LOTR good and Harry Potter bad, and another one saying LOTR is gay-friendly because of Ian McKellan. The main article is about the awards show mentioned in the title, in which the best picture went not to LOTR but to some picture that sold $36K in tickets altogether. I asked ecurbh to ping the ring list, but he hasn't yet.

I don't know if you saw Bill O'Reilly last night, but he and his movie specialist both predicted LOTR for best picture, keeping my fingures crossed! (My toes too, but with the hair on my feet you can't tell)!

Yes, I saw the article. I appreciate what family.org has to say about LOTR, but I could honestly not care less about what anyone else thinks! LOL Even the Oscars mean little to me, since I rarely watch TV and LOTR is the first movie I've seen in about 14 years!

These books are classics. I know nothing of the Harry Potter books, mainly because I don't really care for fantasy. It takes something spectacular when it comes to fantasy reading to make me interested and LOTR has it. I believe it's not just the story (though the story is the BEST), but it's Tolkien's style of writing and the depth he puts into every statement. We here in the HH can discuss a single sentence for several hundred posts, because of his depth. That's what I like. I can really wrap my mind in his work.

I do love a really gorey murder mystery though...even a poorly-written one!

We had two local critics on last night who both seemed to predict FOTR for best picture. I was really annoyed with Michael Medved, though, because he had this snooty attitude about LOTR as if he figured it would win but that it didn't deserve to. I thought I liked Medved, but now I'm not so sure. He seemed to think In The Bedroom was the best film--why is it that most critics think only "slice of life" pictures should win as opposed to "slices of cake?"

On E!, it seemed like the people they interviewed had it down to being between Moulin Rouge and ABM? What is THAT all about?

Here's a question...if we do win this year, what happens to our chances for the next two years? Is it possible that winning this year will mean we won't win for RotK (which I'm anticipating is going to be the absolute best of the three)?