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.

[Pippin]

BREAKFAST!

Thanks, RMD!

I'll take a HUGE plate of those MUSHROOMS!

[Corin Stormhands]

mmmm....thanks fer breakfast Ruthy.

[Corin Stormhands]

Okay, back later. The trolls are restless again this mornin'...

[proud_2_B_texasgal]

yummm, the shrooms look wonderful ... and the pico. you're a FABULOUS cook.

[Lil'freeper]

Awesome pages! Might have to hit you up for agility advice this fall. we're getting a couple australian cattle dogs that'll need to be kept busy.

[proud_2_B_texasgal]

out of dim shrooms.. those are MINE!!

ok ok ... I'll SHARE..... hummmmph

[HairOfTheDog]

www.yorkphoto.com is a good host... the pics I post are all from there, good stable links. The URLs are a paragraph long, but they work!

[HairOfTheDog]

It might only be able to load a few pages at the exact same time. You might have got caught in a traffic jam.

[proud_2_B_texasgal]

cool .. anyone use webshots?

I'm a bit of a photographer, and have TONS of pics.. it would be really nice to be able to share with my friends and family around the world.

[Pippin]

Thanks fer sharin'! :O)

[proud_2_B_texasgal]

thanks! I'm no expert .. but it is a fun sport .. get a good, FUN instructor.

It will be sooooooo good for those cattledogs. The can be somewhat stubborn and need a job to do. excellent choice.

[HairOfTheDog]

I have webshots albums. The links don't stay stable. Good for photo albums, not good for linking.

[HairOfTheDog]

Thanks for breakfast Ruthy! Hullo! Good Morning!

[HairOfTheDog]

Spoiler alert!

Great story here! Lots of detail on Extended TTT scenes!

USATODAY.com - 'Towers' collectors' DVD runs a spell longer

By Susan Wloszczyna USA TODAY

Boromir lives!

Admirers of manly actor Sean Bean will rejoice, if somewhat briefly, when the three-hour, 43-minute extended cut of last year's No. 2 box-office hit The Lord of the Rings:The Two Towers reaches shelves in a four-DVD collection on Nov. 18. One of the year's most-anticipated DVD releases is timed to the release Dec. 17 of The Return of the King, the final film based on J.R.R. Tolkien's beloved fantasy trilogy.

		Sean Bean's Boromir is resurrected in a lengthy DVD flashback.

USA TODAY got an early preview in Wellington, New Zealand, last week at director Peter Jackson's private screening room. Though a two-DVD set with the original three-hour Towers arrives on shelves Aug. 26, Rings completists will find plenty of fresh Middle-earth fodder in the longer version.

Bean's ring-craving Boromir, slain at the end of 2001's The Fellowship of the Ring, is resurrected in a lengthy DVD flashback after brother Faramir (David Wenham) finds a boat bearing his body.

Not only is there more Bean to savor, but the twisted emotional ties that ensnare ruler Denethor (New Zealand actor John Noble, who officially joins the cast in King), his favorite son, Boromir, and scapegoat Faramir also are exposed. The scenes also help explain why the noble Faramir is rather rude when he meets heroic hobbits Frodo (Elijah Wood) and Sam (Sean Astin).

Other DVD additions to the middle tale that heighten the drama and lighten the mood:

• Rohan horseman Eomer (Karl Urban) finds his mortally wounded cousin Theodred and brings him home, where his subsequent death goes all but unnoticed by his spell-stunned father, King Theoden (Bernard Hill).

• The plight of Eowyn (Miranda Otto), Eomer's sister, deepens as she sings a mournful dirge during Theodred's funeral. Meanwhile, her unrequited passion for visiting warrior Aragorn (Viggo Mortensen) is further inflamed when he tames an unruly horse by whispering sweet nothings in Elvish.

• There are more tree treats as the once-truncated encounter between ancient Treebeard the Ent and hobbits Pippin (Billy Boyd) and Merry (Dominic Monaghan) stretches its limbs. At one point, Treebeard's droning rumble of a voice causes the halflings in his branches to become drowsy.

• Jackson injects much fun with food and beverage. Eowyn, not especially deft in the kitchen, serves Aragorn a vile-looking bowl of homemade stew, which he politely chokes down. Boromir and Faramir share a couple of victory brews, and one declares in beer-ad fashion, "Today, life is good." Pippin and Merry greedily guzzle the magical elixir known as Ent-draught, adding inches to their wee stature.

The most surprising revelation in the longer Two Towers? That hale-and-hunksome Aragorn is 87 years old. Maybe it's something in that stew.

[My back yard]

Sean Bean's Boromir is resurrected in a lengthy DVD flashback.

Have you any idea how much I'm looking forward to that? I hope it is something nice, and they don't butcher him up or something. A nice affectionate scene 'tween brothers would be great.

[HairOfTheDog]

I don't think their relationship would be portrayed as affectionate. I think the sibling rivalry angle is more forefront. But the scene where he sees Boromir dead will be something! - FMM!

[HairOfTheDog]

Eowyn can't cook. HA! - Good!

[HairOfTheDog]

Gidget airs above the ground.... She did love this stuff, and could have been a competetor in the large dog 24 inch class.... if it weren't for all the borders and aussies that are soooooooo speedy! She did 6-second weave poles though.... not bad for a big dog!

[HairOfTheDog]

I buried my AWESOME agility dog almost a year ago ..

SO sorry.... I buried my two old dogs this spring.... at 16 and 17 respectively. Pics of them on my profile still.

Logan was my 'show dog' of record.... he was a pretty boy.

[RMDupree]

That is truly a FMM post!!! Yippee!!