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The Hobbit Hole III - Journey to the Cross-roads!
Posted on 12/17/2002 7:32:02 AM PST by HairOfTheDog
Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!
Journey to the Cross-roads
The Two Towers Edition
Come on! Come in! -if you would like to have some seedcakes and a pint and relax a while. (If it is a special occasion, we still have a few bottles of the old wineyards left!)
Our first thread ( New Zealander builds Hobbit hole ) reached 4,100 posts, and we thought that was big. Our second thread (The New Hobbit Hole ) held us for over 48,000 posts, and we loved it dearly. We talked about moving to a new thread for the last 38,000 posts, but we are really slow to muster! Finally, the time has come. Tomorrow (at 12:01 am, to be precise!) The Two Towers comes out, and we start a new chapter.
TOPICS: The Hobbit Hole
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It's time for me to go home. My CD playere here at work sometimes doesn't work properly. I was trying to listen to a CD just now, but it wasn't working (sometimes it will spin on a track, but nothing will happen). So I was turning it off and on, banging on it, taking the disc out, putting it in.
I had forgotten I had turned the sound all the way down earlier and it was playing just fine that you very much.
OT, did you sneak some Bailey's in my drink?
To: Dawntreader
Ar you having trouble even getting to the site now? I am... They may be overloaded. Right click this link (
The Hobbit Teaser Trailer - by Steve Latham ) and 'save target as' to download it to your desktop, rather than trying to live-stream it from the site. That might help.
To: All
FROM TORN:
TTT Nabs 10 Saturn Awards Nominations!
3/05/03, 11:01 am EST - Xoanon
Cinescape and The Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films announced today the nominees for the 2003 Saturn Awards ceremony. Leading the pack in the feature film category with a whopping 10 nominations is TTT: BEST FANTASY FILM, BEST ACTOR (Viggo Mortensen), BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR (Andy Serkis), BEST PERFORMANCE BY A YOUNGER ACTOR (Elijah Wood), BEST DIRECTION (Peter Jackson), BEST WRITING (Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, Stephen Sinclair & Peter Jackson), BEST MUSIC (Howard Shore), BEST COSTUME (Ngila Dickson), BEST MAKE-UP (Peter Owen & Peter King), BEST SPECIAL EFFECTS (Jim Rygiel, Joe Letteri, Randall William Cook & Alex Funke). [See Full List]
Will Oscar soldier on if war comes?
3/05/03, 10:52 am EST - Xoanon
The Oscars will probably go on. That's as specific as the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences can be, as war with Iraq seems unavoidable. With talk centering on a mid-March attack, the timing couldn't be worse for the planned March 23 Oscar telecast. But even if troops invade, the ABC show -- second only to the Super Bowl in annual viewership -- is unlikely to be delayed, academy officials say. [More]
To: Dawntreader
LOL!
To: HairOfTheDog; ksen; RMDupree; carton253; Sam Cree; All
Anybody else listening to Rush? He's on a tirade about the stupidity of the anti-war crowd. "Who are these stupid people and why do I have to listen to them..."
Live thread on Powell speech is also interesting. Sounds like he's finally given up on the dipomatic approach as well...
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posted on
03/05/2003 11:40:32 AM PST
by
Corin Stormhands
(Open war is upon you. Whether you risk it or not.)
To: BibChr
It was called Reign of Fire. I never did make it to the theater for that one. I caught it on PPV a few weeks ago. I liked it.
To: Dawntreader
Yeah, I liked it too. Saw it at a not-great time, but it was cool escape. Scary dragons!
Dan
18,447
posted on
03/05/2003 11:47:25 AM PST
by
BibChr
("Reprove a wise man and he will love you" [Proverbs 9:8b; good litmus test])
To: Dawntreader
OT, did you sneak some Bailey's in my drink? Ummm....no. Bailey's is my Precious. :)
18,448
posted on
03/05/2003 11:50:18 AM PST
by
Overtaxed
(Life's rough. It's even rougher when you're stupid.)
To: Corin Stormhands
I was watching the Powell speech! Don't know why, but I never listen to the radio at home, so I never hear Rush.
I wouldn't say Powell has "finally given up". I defended Powell when he was trying diplomatic efforts. The job of Sec of State is to be the diplomatic guy till the very last minute. He and Rummy have very different jobs, and it is unfair to measure him by the 'toughness' of Rummy's talk. I am glad FR is no longer bad-mouthing him. I was upset with that.
To: HairOfTheDog
The job of Sec of State is to be the diplomatic guy till the very last minute. Agreed. I wasn't watching, so I'll defer to your comments. But the way the thread was reading was that Powell was down to "the very last minute."
Of course I believe everything I read on FR. Why do you ask?
18,450
posted on
03/05/2003 11:54:05 AM PST
by
Corin Stormhands
(Open war is upon you. Whether you risk it or not.)
To: HairOfTheDog
Well I have a Mac at work, so that might be the problem right there. But until I get my comp straightened out at home, there'll be no watching it online there.
Oh!! My e-mail seems to retrieve and send fine though. Can someone with a fast connection send that trailer to me via my e-mail? FReepmail me if you would and I will give you my home e-mail address. I can watch it that way I bet.
To: ksen
Do we have what it takes to fight this war in such a way as to defeat people who are willing to blow themselves up in order to see us defeated?If it didn't work for the kamikazes, it sure the hell won't work for this bunch of islamic orcs. It just gives us a "target-rich environment". The Japanese saw utter defeat looming, and assumed their entire population would be killed. After all, that's the way they'd do things. Since no other weapon worked, they hoped suicide weapons might turn the tide. It only slowed us down a bit, despite the losses they dealt us. They realized defeat and occupation was inevitable, but the only debate was how to get the entire population to die in one huge bonzai charge. Our nuclear weapons justly and mercifully ended that insane thinking, saving a million GIs and tens of millions of Japanese.
The islamanazis, however, have none of that kind of courage, or honor. Their military tends to get slaughtered regularly if they try to stand up to real soldiers. They will detour out of their way to avoid the cop with a 9mm and a box of donuts, in order to murder the unarmed and unprepared. And the killers are kids who have been schooled in hate their entire lives, and worked up with visions of a sexually-perverted afterlife, while the guys with the bad shave and beer bellies issue blood-curdling press releases.
We'll manage quite well. It's a damn shame, but there is a mass of stupidity and hatred out there that has decided it won't learn any other way.
To: Overtaxed
Ah yes, I should have known ;-)
To: Dawntreader
My own....my Precioussssss
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posted on
03/05/2003 11:59:11 AM PST
by
Overtaxed
(Life's rough. It's even rougher when you're stupid.)
To: Dawntreader
It's big! - 19MB! If you have a slow connection, it wouldn't work any better that way.... MBs is MBs.
If you could download it on the Mac and just save it to disk even though you can't play it, that would work.
To: RMDupree
Most Cubans I have met, for sure, are conservative. I was ready to put a Cuban flag on my truck during the Elian thing. Maybe I still will. Meanwhile, I take pride in being a "Bannana Republican."
I think I got that from Luis Gonzalez, so I hope it's OK for me to say that.
18,456
posted on
03/05/2003 12:05:17 PM PST
by
Sam Cree
(Penelas is a jerk, give me Crazy Joe.)
To: Sam Cree; Luis Gonzalez
Luis is a very good friend of mine. We go way back to the Elian days together! :) I invited him to our mini-moot but he couldn't make it that day, sadly.
As a fellow Elianista, I have authority to say that you and any Hobbit Hole Dweller are free to use that term ("Banana Republican").
Luis is a LOTR fan. He should be here by now. Hmmm....
18,457
posted on
03/05/2003 12:26:51 PM PST
by
RMDupree
(HHD: I'm with you! Joe was crazy, but he had a spine!)
To: carton253
You can't negotiate with them because they believe they have a mandate from allah. You can either surrender or fight. AMEN, sister!!
To: RMDupree
"He should be here by now. Hmmm..."Hold on, trying to catch up on the thread first.
18,459
posted on
03/05/2003 12:33:56 PM PST
by
Luis Gonzalez
(The Ever So Humble Banana Republican)
To: Luis Gonzalez
LOL!!! See you sometime next month, then?
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