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]

Yeah - that site lists to a different recording of a lot of the songs than the one I am used to...

[HairOfTheDog]

You think that's nervous? - I have to get the time off from a new job that I don't even have yet!

[SuziQ]

You got me in a JT mood now. I'm listening to my Greatest Hits CD, WITH the harmony!!

[ecurbh]

Dunno yet. Prices are pretty similar to the entmoot trip, so it'll probably come down to availability. They only allow a limited number of vouchers to be used on any given flight.

[ecurbh]

Well if all else fails, you can always...ahem...get sick.

[HairOfTheDog]

I'll make sure I tell them in the interview that I need vacation in September - and January!

[SuziQ]

Hearing "Fire and Rain" reminds me of my senior year in high school. It was Fall, 1970, JT was the "next new thing", and there was an article about him in Time magazine. I was working in the school library during first period, and I always got to read the magazines as I put them on their display racks.

Funny how a song can just transport you back to another time and place. "Ode to Billy Joe" does that for me too. When I hear it, I'm walking on a back road near our fishing camp that went by the creosote plant. They brought tall poles to be treated and used for telephone poles, etc. When I hear that song, I can smell the creosote and feel the heat of a mid-summer Mississippi day in 1967.

Nice memories.

Oh man, I'm listening to "Close Your Eyes" on the streaming audio. It has the harmony!!

[HairOfTheDog]

This song absolutely gives me the chills - very much in my list of favorites...

Fire And Rain

Just yesterday morning, they let me know you were gone.
Suzanne, the plans they made put an end to you.
I walked out this morning and I wrote down this song,
I just can't remember who to send it to.
I've seen fire and I've seen rain. I've seen sunny days that I thought would never end.
I've seen lonely times when I could not find a friend,
but I always thought that I'd see you again.

Won't you look down upon me, Jesus, You've got to help me make a stand.
You've just got to see me through another day.
My body's aching and my time is at hand and I won't make it any other way.
Oh, I've seen fire and I've seen rain. I've seen sunny days that I thought would never end.
I've seen lonely times when I could not find a friend,
but I always thought that I'd see you again.

Been walking my mind to an easy time, my back turned towards the sun.
Lord knows when the cold wind blows it'll turn your head around.
Well, there's hours of time on the telephone line to talk about things to come.
Sweet dreams and flying machines in pieces on the ground.

Oh, I've seen fire and I've seen rain. I've seen sunny days that I thought would never end.
I've seen lonely times when I could not find a friend,
but I always thought that I'd see you baby, one more time again, now.

Thought I'd see you one more time again.
There's just a few things coming my way this time around, now.
Thought I'd see you, thought I'd see you, fire and rain, now.

[HairOfTheDog]

Fire and Rain has made me at different times think of different people I have lost....

Often my Mom, sometimes old loves..... not really dead but gone...

But the line "Sweet dreams and flying machines in pieces on the ground" is the one that transports me... back to college, when I was in flight school, and we lost two girls who rented a plane and went out barnstorming and goofing off. They hit the ground hard in a perfectly good airplane.

[Corin Stormhands]

You don't think the delivery guys will want to see the receipt do you???

You probably won't need it for the delivery. Most likely you will just have to sign for it.

I don't know about the rebate. You'll have to have the receipt to get it. Talk to the store manager. Probably not policy, but they may give you a break.

[HairOfTheDog]

I think this is a nice kid..... I wish him well, I hope they don't eat him. He at least seems to know they would if they could.

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MSN Entertainment - News - Career Bloom-ing

©Buena Vista

Orlando Bloom

Career Bloom-ing
Orlando Bloom talks about getting lucky and playing 'Pirates'

By Vanessa Sibbald
Zap2It.com

Sure Ian McKellen may have gotten the Oscar nomination, but if there's one person who has reaped success from Peter Jackson's "The Lord of the Rings," it is actor Orlando Bloom. With only a small role in "Wilde" on his film resume, Bloom was plucked out of relative obscurity to play Legolas the Elf in the trilogy based on J.R.R. Tolkien's fantasy novels.

Only two films into the trilogy, Bloom has already landed feature roles in the high-profile films "Black Hawk Down," "Ned Kelly," "Pirates of the Caribbean" and "Troy," in which he stars opposite Brad Pitt, Eric Bana, Peter O'Toole, Julie Christie and Brian Cox.

"I feel incredibly grateful for the opportunity to work -- I'm an actor and that's what we love to do, it's what I love to do -- but it's kind of weird when your dreams start to be realized a little bit," Bloom tells Zap2it.com about his meteoric rise to fame.

"I never really thought I'd be doing what I'm doing -- I never really thought it was possible -- it's always like, one in a million get the opportunity to do what I'm doing, so the idea that I could be one was not really something I thought about, but it's been awesome. It's slightly overwhelming as well and unnerving because there's a lot of stuff that goes with it as well that you don't bank on," he adds.

For example, the tabloids -- whether they're writing about his love life (which he won't discuss) or that he plays video games in his spare time (something he denies).

"People can talk, talk, talk -- it's not true. I know what's true, my friends and family know what's true, the people closest to me. Hopefully, if I try to maintain integrity as an actor, it will quash any rumors that come up like that," he says of the gaming rumor. "It's all I can do."

But one thing he is very willing to discuss is his latest film, "Pirates of the Caribbean," also starring Johnny Depp, Geoffrey Rush and Keira Knightley ("Bend it Like Beckham"). It was produced by his "Black Hawk Down" producer Jerry Bruckheimer, who says that he had the actor in mind for the project back in 2001. But Bloom says it was actually best actor Oscar winner Rush who first suggested he take a look at the Disney project, based on a Disneyland ride.

"I'd finished working on 'Ned Kelly' and Geoffrey Rush was going on to do this and he sort of brought it to my attention, as it were. I wanted to read it on his recommendation because he said there was a part which would be good for me," Bloom explains. "It was a bit of a no-brainer."

The part was that of the love-struck Will Turner, straight man in much of the film to Jack Sparrow (Depp), a somewhat eccentric pirate determined to get back his ship, the Black Pearl, no matter the cost.

"I was so envious of what Johnny was doing, but Johnny created that character -- it didn't read that way on the page. That's what Johnny does, that's what's so amazing about him," he gushes. "The way that he played Jack left it open for me to play in a certain way... had Johnny played [Sparrow] as more of the hero character it might have conflicted, but Johnny left it open for me to go whole hog on the hero number."

But it's working with stars like Depp that keep the actor, currently on break from shooting "Troy" in Malta, excited about acting.

"I feel really lucky because I've worked with great people who raise the bar the whole time," he says. "When you work Peter O'Toole and the whole cast of 'The Lord of the Rings,' role models like Viggo, Johnny and Brad -- that's three leading men there that, I don't care what anyone says, that's the demographic. That covers a lot of territory right there in terms of people that I can learn from, and they're all so gracious."

"That's been great to work with Johnny and Brad now and pick their brains about how they dealt with stuff like the fame element -- because it isn't easy actually, like to figure it all out, and I'm trying to do that now."

One aspect of fame that he is giving particular energy to right now is his future film choices, which he calls "really important" since they ensure that he won't just be the next pin-up boy but have a career for years to come.

"It's like there's a rite of passage; you have to do a certain amount of stuff to put yourself in the position where you can have choices, you know what I mean? As an actor you don't really have choices until you get to a point where there's enough people who are behind you and you have enough of an audience who are interested to watch you, to have choices," Bloom explains. "I think if I've got the choice, I would start to downscale a bit and do more human, dramatic, character-driven pieces where you get to see less of a show and more of an actor."

"Not that I'm not grateful for the experiences and opportunities that I've had, but I just think it would be good for me to do something like that to show that I'm not just a reaction/action one-line man ... Because I feel like there's more to me than that and hopefully I can get an opportunity to show that," he adds.

But in the meanwhile, he still has a few big-budget projects to look forward to: in addition to "Pirates," the third and final "Lord of the Rings," titled "Lord of The Rings: The Return of the King," will hit theaters this December. But Bloom says he's not entirely excited to see the film, which he shot over two years ago, again.

"It was weird to see the second movie because when it was finished I had changed so much and I said, 'I would have done that different now. What was I thinking? I obviously wasn't. I was so nervous. I'm so tense,'" he says in a singsong voice. "There's things like that, but, shit, it was an opportunity and I loved that character. I tried really hard to get it right and Pete [Jackson] was really amazing and directed me really well and I feel lucky."

[HairOfTheDog]

Article above also for Orlando Bloom fans...

RoTK Teaser Poster Grows!
7/08/03, 9:50 am EST - Demosthenes

For those who were dissatisfied with the rather tiny version of the Aragorn Teaser Poster we posted a week ago, here's a high-resolution version for your downloading and viewing enjoyment. [More]

[Corin Stormhands]

Funny how a song can just transport you back to another time and place.

Dan Fogleburg's "Run for the Roses" came out not long after I graduated from college in Kentucky...snif...

And it's run for the roses
As fast as you can
Your fate is delivered
Your moment's at hand
It's the chance of a lifetime
In a lifetime of chance
And it's high time you joined in the dance
It's high time you joined in the dance

[RMDupree]

"It was weird to see the second movie because when it was finished I had changed so much and I said, 'I would have done that different now. What was I thinking? I obviously wasn't. I was so nervous. I'm so tense,'" he says in a singsong voice.

Flitty. :)

*Seriesly*, I can't wait to see Pirates!

[SuziQ]

Do you know what the song is about? JT had been in a 'Mental Health' facility, in the Carolinas, I think, and had become friends with a young woman. When she committed suicide, he wrote this song about her. That REALLY gives me the chills when I hear it.

[RMDupree]

Snopes said that wasn't true. Hmmm...

They said it was about his drug problems and depression. I dunno!

[RMDupree]

Correction. They said it was not "confirmed".

Which probably means it's true!

Never mind me this morning...I need more coffee!

[Fire-Breathing_Freeper]

or that he plays video games in his spare time (something he denies) Yea, sure, who dose'nt play video games?

[HairOfTheDog]

I don't know really what it is about, but I think it sounds to me like Suzanne died in a plane crash....

[HairOfTheDog]

I guess it makes a difference *which* video games....