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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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To: Wneighbor
Torengos! Much better than Tostitos and they travel better! *grin*
7,501 posted on 01/20/2003 10:29:55 AM PST by RMDupree (HHD:)
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To: Wneighbor
aighhh...I'm heading off to the office too...not the happiest of things for me to do these days. Hope I come back in one piece. If I'm not back in a few hours, send the dwarves and Riders of Rohan out for me!
7,502 posted on 01/20/2003 10:30:25 AM PST by Scott from the Left Coast (Elves don't play)
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To: HairOfTheDog
RoTK better take it all! And after the big wins, they should give PJ a whole 15 minute Best Director segment.
7,503 posted on 01/20/2003 10:33:13 AM PST by RMDupree (HHD: Hobbit Hole lass pipe dreaming...)
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To: SuziQ
I agree with not awarding them all... Hollywood is not going to let LoTR take over all the major awards for three consecutive years, and awarding only the first or second doesn't make sense, when looking at the whole.
7,504 posted on 01/20/2003 10:34:28 AM PST by HairOfTheDog (I was trying to get people to bet me in the chat room..... no takers.)
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To: Scott from the Left Coast
Will do Scott! - Careful out there!
7,505 posted on 01/20/2003 10:39:12 AM PST by HairOfTheDog
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To: Corin Stormhands; ksen; Sam Cree
Rose and I watched Signs again Saturday night, and only had our positive opinions of the movie reinforced. It is creepy, but for us the "real" story of a man finding his lost faith makes the movie very special.
7,506 posted on 01/20/2003 11:22:07 AM PST by Bear_in_RoseBear (Tagline under construction)
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To: HairOfTheDog
Where is Gidget getting all these little green army men?


7,507 posted on 01/20/2003 11:39:12 AM PST by Bear_in_RoseBear (Not mine... mine were all melted or blowed up)
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To: Bear_in_RoseBear
It is an odd kind of invasion, these men.... I have them lined up on my desk...

How many more are coming, I wonder?
7,508 posted on 01/20/2003 11:40:08 AM PST by HairOfTheDog
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To: HairOfTheDog
Have you ever seen the PC game "Army Men"? The original version came with two little plastic army men in the box (one tan, one green). I've had them standing on top of my monitor ever since.
7,509 posted on 01/20/2003 11:44:45 AM PST by Bear_in_RoseBear (I don't melt them any more)
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To: Bear_in_RoseBear
I haven't "seen" it.... only seen of it!

Good idea for a game...

I saw a parade once that had guys in "green army men" costume... They looked just like the plastic guys! - did all the same poses!
7,510 posted on 01/20/2003 11:49:49 AM PST by HairOfTheDog (It was a little scary.)
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To: HairOfTheDog
It is an odd kind of invasion, these men.... I have them lined up on my desk...

Did you ever see "Toy Story" and "Toy Story 2". The little green Army figures in those movies are some of my favorite characters!

7,511 posted on 01/20/2003 11:50:24 AM PST by SuziQ
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To: Bear_in_RoseBear
It is creepy, but for us the "real" story of a man finding his lost faith makes the movie very special.

That's what I liked about it too.

Did you watch any of the extras? Night said that their first day of shooting was scheduled for 9/11/01 so they ended up postponing for two days and then the first scene they shot (after having a mini-candlelight vigil) was Mel's scenes with his wife at the accident.

7,512 posted on 01/20/2003 12:06:31 PM PST by ksen (HHD)
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To: ksen
Did you watch any of the extras?

Yes, we watched them all. I was impressed once more with Mel Gibson... he seems to have avoided the swollen ego that is all-to-common with Hollywood stars.

There was a thread on FR about the movie, back when it was new in the theaters... there was some interesting speculation there regarding what the aliens *really* were, or at least what they represented. Some things about the aliens that don't make sense if they are aliens suddenly do make sense, if the aliens are not aliens at all, but are, say, demons.

7,513 posted on 01/20/2003 12:26:24 PM PST by Bear_in_RoseBear (Holy water anyone?)
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To: HairOfTheDog
I saw a parade once that had guys in "green army men" costume... They looked just like the plastic guys! - did all the same poses!

It would have been really cool to have a giant balloon of a kid holding a magnifying glass floating over them...

Did any of them have giant fake firecrackers as part of their constume?

7,514 posted on 01/20/2003 12:33:04 PM PST by Bear_in_RoseBear (I really wasn't the nasty kid in Toy Story)
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To: Bear_in_RoseBear
Did you really blow them up and melt them and stuff when you were a kid?

(I guess it is better than burning bugs.... I always had to save the bugs from the boys in the neighborhood)
7,515 posted on 01/20/2003 12:34:31 PM PST by HairOfTheDog
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To: All
SuperBowl goes LOTR
1/20/03, 3:34 pm EST - Calisuri

Thanks to the various Tampa Bay Buccaneer (American) football fans who sent us the following link. Tampa Bay will be fighting to become 'The Lords of the Ring' this sunday at Superbowl XXXVII. Check out this highly creative flash animation at the official Tampa Bay website. [More] (PS - While I wasn't cheering for any particular team, this my lure me to the Bucs side - Calisuri)

The Must-See LOTR Cast Projects Of 2003: Part One
1/20/03, 2:38 pm EST - Strider

With the incredible success of The Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers, many members of The Lord of the Rings cast have sensibly used their appearances in Peter Jackson's epic as a springboard for their movie careers. This year will see the actors and actresses we know and love so well as characters of Middle-earth appear in places such as Australia and Mexico as many of the LotR cast dabble in various genres, from action to drama to comedy. [More]

7,516 posted on 01/20/2003 12:57:54 PM PST by HairOfTheDog
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To: HairOfTheDog
Did you really blow them up and melt them and stuff when you were a kid?

Well, yes... although they don't really blow up all that well. They do melt very nicely, slowly deforming into odd and disturbing shapes...

I never touched any of the neighborhood bugs though... so long as they stayed outside the house.

A cousin and I once filled a model ship with firecrackers and blew it up. Then, we took the surviving superstructure, doused it with gasoline, floated it in a tub of water and set it on fire. Our very own "disaster at sea" recreation...

7,517 posted on 01/20/2003 12:58:55 PM PST by Bear_in_RoseBear (I grew out of it, really)
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To: HairOfTheDog
The Buccs link is taking to long to load for me. :(

But thanks for the link to the other films. Lemme guess which one you will be seeing! *grin*

7,518 posted on 01/20/2003 1:09:43 PM PST by RMDupree (HHD)
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To: RMDupree
It is a cute little flash movie with a lord of the rings theme.... The super bowl ring!
7,519 posted on 01/20/2003 1:11:08 PM PST by HairOfTheDog
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To: Bear_in_RoseBear
Bless little boys....
7,520 posted on 01/20/2003 1:11:52 PM PST by HairOfTheDog
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