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.

[HairOfTheDog]

Corin, good morning if you are out there! - Check in with us.... ya leave g'nad here all alone. We do miss you.

[RosieCotton]

My whistles left Hodgkins, IL at 2:35 this morning. I wish I didn't have to wait until Monday for 'em!

[HairOfTheDog]

Good morning rosie! [yawn]

[Overtaxed]

The one with the cracked mouthpiece isn't going to hold you over until then, is it?

[RosieCotton]

Morning came awfully early today, didn't it?

[RosieCotton]

It has LOTS of cracks, I noticed now! I think the mouthpiece must have been from a bad batch of plastic. Or something. It plays, sort of, but does a lot of squeaking and hissing.

[HairOfTheDog]

It did come early! - I was up much later than would have been prudent!

[Overtaxed]

So if the notes don't come out right you can always blame it on the mouthpiece!

[RosieCotton]

I suppose! But I'll be happier when the new ones come! This one definitely has some off notes. I was going to try taping it to see if that helped, but there are sooo many tiny cracks I don't think that would work.

How to bribe UPS...

[RosieCotton]

On the bright side, cookies and Star Kindler may come today! I hope, I hope, I hope!

[Overtaxed]

Mmmmmmm.....cookies.....then I won't have to eat baking chocolate.

[HairOfTheDog]

Return of the King spoilers

6th January 2003

ADANGIO.COM - Return of the King spoilers

Scooper 'T-MACK' shared with us The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King from an article in the Boston Herald. If you'd rather not know a thing about the next and final installment, then be sure to hit the back button...

From the Boston Herald come these Return of the King spoilers from Peter Jackson, Philippa Boyens, and Billy Boyd.

Philippa Boyens, the trilogy's Oscar-nominated screenwriter and producer, also was willing to offer the films' devotees a tease. "In film three, a huge part is the conflict between fathers and sons," she said. "Just as Gollum's schizophrenia is buried in the story and you have to dig it out, you have this story of fathers and sons."

Other events to anticipate in "The Return of the King" include the transformation of Merry (Dominic Monaghan) and Pippin (Billy Boyd) into warrior hobbits. "Merry learns how to ride a horse and wield a sword, and we make big differences in Middle-earth," Boyd said.

Writer-director-producer Peter Jackson says his favorite character in the trilogy is Bilbo Baggins (played by Ian Holm), the humble hobbit whose discovery of the Ring is told in Tolkien's first book, the "Lord of the Rings" prequel "The Hobbit."

"We saw Bilbo in the first film," he said. "He's a very affectionate character, but we will see him again in 'Return of the King,' when the journey ends as the hobbits return to the Shire.

Also, Liv Tyler looks to be following in her fathers footsteps and is taking up singing. In New York to promote the second "Rings" film, "The Two Towers," Tyler told United Press International she recorded "Arwen's Song" a while ago and even previewed it for her dad. The actress, who plays an elfish princess in the spectacular fantasy trilogy, says director Peter Jackson hadn't told her in which of the three simultaneously filmed movies her song would appear.

Also, David Wenham who plays Faramir has stated that he will indeed play a part in Return of the King.

It turns out that size really does matter. Three hours of Middle Earth in "Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers" is nothing compared to the length of the last film in the trilogy due out next Christmas.

"It might be much longer," says Elijah Wood, who plays Frodo Baggins, indicating that the last journey, "The Return of the King," will be inching toward the 3-1/2-hour mark. "It will be as long as it needs to be," says director Peter Jackson, who is busy editing the film right now. "The third is my favorite one in the trilogy. It's almost biblical and makes me cry. It's about incredible courage and the last part of it is just mind-boggling."

Wood adds, "The third movie has always been my favorite. I've seen moments from it and they just break my heart," he says. "You've grown to care about these characters and they lose quite a lot in the process of the third movie. Frodo, Sam, Gimli, Legolas and Aragorn will never be the same."

[ksen]

Morning everyone, sorry I couldn't join in the chat. Did everyone have a good time?

[HairOfTheDog]

A good time was had!

We did a chat-view of FoTR, stayed up too late, you know the drill! I am a bit sleepy this morning!

[Sam Cree]

"Liv Tyler looks to be following in her fathers footsteps and is taking up singing"

Funny, I didn't know Elrond was a singer.

"The actress, who plays an elfish princess"

I think I like this writer's characterization of her as "elfish" rather than elvish.

Cool that the thing might be 3 1/2 hours, I guess that means the extended edition could be 4.

[Overtaxed]

I could really do with some bacon biscuits about now

[RosieCotton]

Mmmmm....bacon...

[2Jedismom]

Good morning Sis! After the chat I took a bath and stayed up reading The Hobbit. Bilbo just found out, you don't laugh at a dragon.

I stayed up too late, I think. Woke up with vertigo (a complication of loosing my hearing) and nausea. Probably oughta eat some breakfast and have some coffee...

[RMDupree]

Good morning everyone!

I've heard the call for breakfast, so here I am! LOL!

Bacon, egg and cheese biscuits are ready, along with hash browns, sausage links and steaming hot coffee. I brought a HUGE mug for 2J! *grin* ENJOY!

Let me just say that I had such a marvelous time last night chatting with everyone. I can't go out to often, being a mommy and all, but I honestly had more fun last night than I would have had anywhere else! Thanks so much to all of you for being such a great group of friends! :)

I tried to get my headset to work last night, but no dice. I tried talking but no one heard me. *sniff* I have to get a mic on the way home so as to be complete!

[RMDupree]

"Merry learns how to ride a horse and wield a sword, and we make big differences in Middle-earth," Boyd said.

Go Merry!