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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: Dawntreader
We could do the Ballad of Sir Robin.
10,701
posted on
01/30/2003 11:32:28 AM PST
by
Overtaxed
(...and running away and chickening out...)
To: Dawntreader
Better that song than that OTHER song....) Which other song would that be? Sir Robin?
To: Sam Cree
But when I met Jeanne, I knew right away that she was the right kind of person for me."The first time I sawed ya, I knowed you was the one!" LOL!
Interesting, because the day after I met SSQ, and the first time we had a chance to just sit and talk, (which we did til 3 in the morning!) I just knew he was the one for me! I was right; this June will be 30 years since we met, and October, we celebrate our 28th Anniversary!
10,703
posted on
01/30/2003 11:34:24 AM PST
by
SuziQ
(Honestly, I wasn't a big "Hee Haw" fan!)
To: Overtaxed
We could do the Ballad of Sir Robin.Oops. Beat me to it.
To: SuziQ; All
Tolkien's Eldest Son Dies The eldest son of The Lord of the Rings author JRR Tolkien has died at the age of 85. Father John Tolkien, heir to the multi-million family estate, died after a 50-year career with the Catholic church in the Midlands.
To: Carolina
The eldest son of The Lord of the Rings author JRR Tolkien has died at the age of 85. God rest his soul. I'll bet he had a great reunion with his Dad and Mom!
To: SuziQ
I wonder what he thought of the movies so far.
To: Maigret; All
HA! Maigret, I just noticed that your post was on the old Hobbit Hole thread, reposting it here for everyone, on the new thread:
To: HairOfTheDog
To all those screeching that we should boycott the LOTR films because of Viggo Mortensen's radical left views, may I bring a fact to their attention?
I just heard on FOX news in Ari Fleischer's daily briefing that at today's speech by the President at the DC youth club where a new mentoring program was being launched, there were a number of celebrities who will be part of his program, among them was SEAN ASTIN!!! Ari said it with a smile saying, you know, Frodo's friend Sam in the LOTR movies.
Is anyone else noticing many phrases filling the President's language these days harken to LOTR? He even referred to the Two Towers instead of the Twin Towers in his speech, and his comments about 'free peoples'?
48317 posted on 01/30/2003 11:13 AM PST by Maigret
To: Maigret
You know what is really funny, is that I have been sitting here working, and the briefing is on, but I wasn't really listening.
Suddenly my ears perked. I thought... "Did he just say "Lord of the Rings?" - and listened for a minute, but what he was saying about it was over, so I thought.... "naw, I must have heard wrong!"
HA!
48318 posted on 01/30/2003 11:27 AM PST by HairOfTheDog
To: Overtaxed; RosieCotton
Ballad of Sir Robin is hilarious!
Actually I meant better to have "Knights" in my head than the other one that's been stuck in it for days. *coughbilbo!bilbo!cough*
10,709
posted on
01/30/2003 11:47:24 AM PST
by
Dawntreader
(HHD - Only three feet tall!)
To: Lil'freeper
The Tolkien family's official position has been that they had no interest in seeing the films. Christopher was a little prickly about the movies, and said he didn't plan to see them, that a fitting film was not possible.
To: Lil'freeper
I wonder what he thought of the movies so far.I can't help but think he'd be pleased.
To: HairOfTheDog
Good ol' Sean!
To: HairOfTheDog
Christopher was a little prickly about the movies, and said he didn't plan to see them, that a fitting film was not possible.Heh, I wonder if that will stop him from cashing the checks?
10,713
posted on
01/30/2003 12:02:25 PM PST
by
ksen
(HHD)
To: Dawntreader
Speaking of Robin, this morning I had the theme to the cartoon Robin Hood inflicted on me. That's about the catchiest tune known to man. Gonna be stuck with it for weeks, I bet!
I can always listen to a Veggie Tales song or two. Those beat out all.
To: ksen
I think the checks have been most welcome!
The increase in book sales due to the movies have created a whole new generation of fans for that family. I do hope thay someday like the films, for THEIR sake.
This was released before FoTR came out. I seem to recall Harry on AICN reporting that Christopher reports to have still not seen the movies.
NewsWire: Film Won't Do Justice to 'Rings' - Tolkien's Son -- Reuters
December 08, 2001 - Saturday
LONDON (Reuters) - The son of J.R.R. Tolkien says the forthcoming Hollywood adaptation of his father's classic The Lord of the Rings will not do justice to the magical Middle Earth tale. In a statement to newspapers published on Saturday, Christopher Tolkien, who is literary protector of his father's works, said he did not disapprove of the film but was dubious about the adaptation.
"My own position is that The Lord Of The Rings is peculiarly unsuitable to transformation into visual dramatic form," he said.
Michael White, who wrote a biography about the Oxford professor and creator of the trilogy, said the author would have hated the film.
"I think he would have just closed his eyes to it," White said of Tolkien, who died in 1973 aged 81.
"He had a hatred of all things Hollywood and did not believe in the idea of imitation being the best form of flattery. As a writer I find that staggering."
To: HairOfTheDog
HOWDY!!!
10,716
posted on
01/30/2003 12:23:20 PM PST
by
Pippin
(Have you hugged a hobbit today?)
To: HairOfTheDog
The increase in book sales due to the movies have created a whole new generation of fans for that family. I do hope thay someday like the films, for THEIR sake. BTW, I know they will always find the books better, as they should... what I mean by that is that I would hate for them to resent the source of all this new money.
To: Pippin
HOWDY!!! ;~D
To: SuziQ
"October, we celebrate our 28th Anniversary!"
It's very nice, isn't it? 29th for us in May. It's getting to where the numbers are mixing me up.
To: HairOfTheDog; RosieCotton; ecurbh; Overtaxed; Penny; JenB; ksen
10,720
posted on
01/30/2003 12:27:22 PM PST
by
BibChr
(Jesus -- not our feelings -- is the truth!)
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