The Hobbit Hole VI - And Whither Then? I Cannot Say...

[ecurbh]

Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!

And Whither Then? I Cannot Say...

• First thread: New Zealander builds Hobbit hole
• Second thread: The New Hobbit Hole
• Third thread: The Hobbit Hole III - Journey to the Cross-roads! (Congratulations, we filled it up!)
• Fourth Thread: The Hobbit Hole IV - The Road Goes Ever On...
• Fifth Thread: The Hobbit Hole V - Where Many Paths and Errands Meet...

The Road goes ever on and on
Down from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the Road has gone,
And I must follow, if I can,
Pursuing it with eager feet,
Until it joins some larger way
Where many paths and errands meet.
And whither then? I cannot say.

[Bear_in_RoseBear]

Watch Rankin-Bass RotK, too.

I have. I liked it.

Of course, I was 16 at the time.

[JenB]

Hey guys, I'm having internet trouble and ought to get to bed anyway. Rosie - definitely will be prayers for you, and try to get a good night's sleep. Fedora - search for "Heinlein" at imdb.com and then check his writing credits.

[Bear_in_RoseBear]

OK, I'll behave!

[HairOfTheDog]

I recommend Snapfish or Yorkphoto.... (they use the same nice interface)

I get Snapfish free with my cable ISP, but you might be able to get it free too, I don't know what their usual is. But before that, I used York, and you can have it free for a year, if you buy prints or something from them, you can have it another year.

They will only post pics to a max size of about 400x600, but sometimes that is a good thing, and the links are really stable. (really LONG URLs, but stable.)

http://www.snapfish.com
http://www.yorkphoto.com

[Penny1]

How was skiin' Penny? Should've been a nice clear day!

Ha! So I was led to believe. Instead, it was overcast with threatening dark clouds. However, it was a terrific day on the slopes even without the sun, so I can't complain. Had a great time and walked away with no injuries...it's a good day when I can say that! ;)

I have been searching for any post-Oscar stuff and am finding much less attention than I anticipated. Perhaps I am looking on all the wrong channels, as is usually my problem!

I even taped Oprah, how sad is that! And with nothing to show for it!

TORN is really struggling, too. That poor website was not prepared for the Oscar onslought!

[RosieCotton]

I'll check out that site tomorrow. If nothing else, it'll give me something to do during the slow times at work!

I couldn't see your picture. ;-(

[Fedora]

Very cool! I like "amorpha" and the third one best out of those. The surreal ones have a Dali-esque quality but with a distinct style. Are you in art school or something?

[RosieCotton]

I've been following the Miss. Family thread...they found them apparently, all dead...two adults, one child.

Oh, no. At this point I didn't think there was much hope, but...that's awful.

[Ramius]

You're a lesser-of-two-evils person, aren't you?

Not at all, well... OK... sometimes.

But this is not such a choice. PJ's presentation was hardly *evil*, in that it was somehow diametrically opposed to Tolkien's vision. One can quibble about some fine points of things included and excluded, or characters that were stronger or weaker. Some of those quibbles are reasonable. But the truth I think remains that in order to make a movie that was *only* nine hours long, certain license is not just appropriate, but inevitable.

Any of us that were in PJ's position would have had to make the same sorts of choices. We might have made different choices, but the criticisms would have been equal to or more than what can reasonably be levelled at PJ. It's for this reason that I think PJ pretty much nailed it. Not that somebody else couldn't have done it, but then it would have been merely different, not necessarily better.

my .03

[HairOfTheDog]

Ahhh So TORN finally took some aspirin and got out of bed? - It hadn't been updated at all this afternoon.

ecurbh is looking again for that intro bit from last night.

Did you watch Viggo on KOMO? - I didn't, I turned to E! and left it there till I went to bed. Forgot all about him.

[Professional Engineer]

When getting your order at McThuggies, never ask to be Thuggie-sized.

ROFLOL I sense a new tagline here.

[Bear_in_RoseBear]

I disagree almost completely with your analysis!

Just wanted you to know.

[HairOfTheDog]

I wish I was registered at NYTimes! Love this quote.

Did I say that out loud?

Today's New York Times has a column entitled "Post-Oscar Reflections, Before We Forget ". Notable is this quotation: "The director Peter Jackson and his collaborators, among the most unassuming and unpretentious people in the room, though at this point they had every right to be the opposite, accepted their coronation at the Kodak Theater graciously."

[Darksheare]

Self taught.
My grandparents on my father's side both were artists.
So some of this is inherited talent, but I only inherited less than 1/4th my grandfather's talent.
So you liked Amorphous Dreams, and Spinning Free?
Going to have to scan some of my other stuff then, once I figure this new scanner out, and get it to send scanned images where I want them.

[Darksheare]

Yours if you want it.
*chuckle*

[Rose in RoseBear]

Well, Puppet Masters actually was adapted, back in 1994. Of course, that one was ruined when they didn't make people walk around buck-nekkid ... <wistful sigh>

The movie Destination: Moon, made in 1950, was the screen version of Rocketship Galileo; for its day, it was keenly innovative. The great George Pal was the producer; the great, great Chesley Bonestell did the matts; Heinlein vetted the script, so the science was accurate. If you ever get a chance, watch it ... it's pretty cool!

The 1950s TV series Tom Corbett: Space Cadet was based on the novel Space Cadet. When you read about various members of the Stone family in The Rolling Stones being seduced by the easy money of serial TV, this is the basis. I remember seeing the tail end of the reruns of this series when I was an itty bitty li'l girl, and I never connected it with Heinlein until I was much older.

The 1953 movie Project Moonbase was written by Heinlein, but, although it is chock-full of Heinleinistic women, it kinda sucks ... I think the suits got ahold of it. However, I think this is the movie that they built the inverted set for. There are scenes where people are walking on the ceiling and the floor; it's also got Madam President, and Colonel Briteis.

Red Planet (1994) was an animated series based on the novel of the same name. I haven't seen all of it, so I have no opinion ... but I do know they did show skating along the canals, and the gun-rights fight.

[Professional Engineer]

try

username: biased
password: biased

A FReeper has done this at the LA times and others.

[Fedora]

> Watch Rankin-Bass RotK, too.

I have. I liked it. Of course, I was 16 at the time.

I liked it, too, but I was also young when I saw it, plus I'm a cartoon nut :) I thought they did a good job on the part where Eowyn slays the ring-wraith. Roddy McDowell (Cornelius!) was good as usual as Sam, and some of the other character voices were also good--Otto Preminger, John Huston, Don Messick, Orson Bean, Hans Conried--actually pretty star-studded. But Casey Kasem as Pippin and Glenn Yarbrough singing "Frodo of the Nine Fingers"--okay, some of it was pretty bad :) But the orc song "Where There's a Whip, There's a Way" rocked :)

[HairOfTheDog]

Bear still doesn't like it.

[Darksheare]

The Orc song!!
Loved it.