The Hobbit Hole III - Journey to the Cross-roads!

[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.

[JenB]

too much chocolate - makes you fat
too much bacon - gives you heart attacks
too much beer - makes you drunk
too much Bailey's - isn't good?
too much Tolkien - ok, you got me there.

[HairOfTheDog]

FROM TheOneRing.net™

NEW LINE CINEMA’S THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING DOMESTIC RELEASE DATE MOVED TO MAY 12, 2004
leo @ 3:41 pm EST

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

NEW LINE CINEMA’S THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING DOMESTIC RELEASE DATE MOVED TO MAY 12, 2004

Last Release to be Biggest

Film delayed to maximize postproduction efforts and bring trilogy to a suitable closing

Los Angeles, CA, April 1, 2003 – New Line Cinema’s The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, will be held for domestic release until Wednesday, May 12, 2004. The effects work on this third and final film of the trilogy will surpass its predecessors in scope and intensity, and the producers as well as director Peter Jackson feel that the extra time will cement the film’s status as the king of fantasy films and the crowning jewel of New Line’s massive effort to bring J.R.R. Tolkien’s epic to the screen. A senior New Line executive made the announcement, joined by Jackson, who stated, “With the earlier Oscars in 2004, the original December release date will not make the deadline for Academy consideration. Given that fact and the tremendous amount of work needed in postproduction for this film to reach its full potential, New Line has decided to take the extra time in order to best please the fans.”

Jackson added, “The May release schedule is typically the biggest of the year, including the kings of the summer box office. The lineup for 2004 is a bit empty at the moment, and we feel that placing Return of the King in May will give the fans something out of the common run of action films to appreciate all summer as well as establish New Line at the top of the order for the summer rush.”

Jackson, the cast, and the effects house, WETA Workshop, will be working on postproduction for the remainder of 2003.

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King stars (in alphabetical order) Sean Astin, Cate Blanchett, Orlando Bloom, Billy Boyd, Brad Dourif, Bernard Hill, Ian Holm, Christopher Lee, Ian McKellen, Dominic Monaghan, John Noble, Viggo Mortensen, Miranda Otto, John Rhys-Davies, Andy Serkis, Liv Tyler, Hugo Weaving, Karl Urban, David Wenham, and Elijah Wood.

New Line Cinema presents a Wingnut Films Production, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, directed by Peter Jackson. The screenplay, by Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, Stephen Sinclair and Jackson, is based on the classic trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien. The film is produced by Barrie M. Osborne, Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh. The executive producers are Robert Shaye, Michael Lynne and Mark Ordesky. The director of photography is Andrew Lesnie, A.C.S. The production designer is Grant Major. Michael Horton is the editor. The co-producers are Rick Porras and Jamie Selkirk.

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[HairOfTheDog]

Fox announcing that one of our POWs has been RESCUED!

WOO HOO!

[Argh]

Interesting. I wonder what it is they're not telling us, or am I just too darn cynical?

[Samwise]

That was really mean. They must have orcs on their staff.

[libarian]

my name would be Vrór Songhelm

[HairOfTheDog]

Did you click the link at the end? - You should see what the TORN staff had to say about it!

[Rocko]

I must quote my daughter, "What a bunch of retards!!!!"

[Argh]

Hah!! Somebody started a thread about this, and the April Fool option was suggested in there somewhere.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

Here for my usual few minutes.

As far as the comments made earlier about the anti-American types, I say 'Make lists!! put them in enemies lists in databases, this will be useful down the road, when some of them try to run for office.

[libarian]

April Fool's????

[HairOfTheDog]

Hullo LCS! - They went in and grabbed one of our POWs.... it is a good day.

And, in other news, I get to meet Sean Astin on Saturday.... or at least SEE him in person! Will be cool.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

Another story on FR is that the ground offensive started about 15 minutes ago. God protect our men and women, and get ready to deal with the numerous traito4rw!

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

That is traitors of course!

[HairOfTheDog]

Good grief! - God protect them indeed!

I am on news overload! - Too many live event threads, I need to just stay here where it is quiet and listen.

[Bear_in_RoseBear]

RELEASE DATE MOVED TO MAY 12, 2004

That would have been my 40th birthday. Oh well, guess I'll have to find some other present....

[HairOfTheDog]

[blinking innocently!]

[HairOfTheDog]

I must quote my daughter, "What a bunch of retards!!!!"

Heh....

[HairOfTheDog]

There was a thread here started about it?

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

bye-bye!