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.

[g'nad]

postal snaig...

[HairOfTheDog]

Orlando Bloom, 26, has built up a following of female fans half his age

Orlando Bloom

The budding of a heartthrob

By Kate Stroup
NEWSWEEK

July 14 issue —  Deep in the Magic Kingdom, things are about to get ugly. I’m walking with Orlando Bloom down a 1,050-foot red carpet at the Disneyland premiere of “Pirates of the Caribbean,” between him and a hysterical horde of his prepubescent girl fans. Not a good place to be....

ROTFL! - He also has a horde of fans *TWICE* his age, but they get trompled by the 14 year olds who are younger and faster.

[Corin Stormhands]

[g'nad]

BOSSMAN: Corin, please call and find out this information.

CORIN: Here is this information.

while I applaud yer use of an automatic weapon, I prefer the calming effect of a .12 gauge pump...

[HairOfTheDog]

That is a funny article...

“It’s just the excitement of being at Disney,” Bloom tells me. “It would be like this for anyone.”

Nice try, pal.

[HairOfTheDog]

From that article above, ROTFL... The writer had fun with this one:

“There’s absolutely nothing sexually threatening about an elf,” Bloom says earnestly. (Grandma should embroider that on a pillow.) “Legolas is a good, safe guy for girls to pin their dreams on.” And so was Bloom—you didn’t want to sleep with him, exactly, just doodle his name in your three-ring binder. Nearly 200 fan sites sprang up overnight. Leo DiCaprio has only 80. Who’s king of the world now?

“Orlando’s a one-man boy band,” says “Pirates” costar Keira Knightley, whose fetching Elizabeth Swann gets some above-the-corset action with her fellow Brit—which helped earn the film’s PG-13 rating, a Disney first. So far, it’s Bloom’s only on-screen romance, and Knightley (of “Bend It Like Beckham”) is bracing for a teeny-bopper backlash. “We were filming our kiss, and someone brought her daughters to the set,” she recalls. “I thought I was going to be lynched by a little blond mob.” Might any good come from deflowering Bloom?

[g'nad]

If yer enlistments up, yuh go home... unless the Army puts the unit under "stop loss", in which case, they get discharged when they come home... I have no idea of the status of the 82nd...

but the career planners love a deployed environment... re-enlistments increase dramatically... the whole "Band of Brothers" bonding...

[HairOfTheDog]

ROTFLMDBAO!

In the meantime, he wears the matinee-idol mantle with a surprising degree of grace and class. During the course of this interview, he pauses repeatedly to sign autographs, to rub a pregnant woman’s belly and—please, no more!—to help an old man whose electric wheelchair has broken down. “Oh God,” Bloom groans, “I seem like such a wanker.”

No. To millions of teenage girls, Bloom seems like a slightlysubversive Eagle Scout, the boy next door with supernatural bone structure. Unless this guy starts drowning puppies soon, he’d better get used to the screaming.

[2Jedismom]

Yeah...I figure it would be kinda hard for someone to say "Well...that's it for me! See ya, guys!"

The chaplain's wife is hoping to have him home by mid-August...he's been in Afghanistan since January, iirc.

[HairOfTheDog]

So did the tang pictures get lost or weren't there any?

[2Jedismom]

They were apparently attached to the email she sent me, because it took forever (like usual) for them to load into my OE. 56K, you know...

But when I opened the emails, there were no attachments. I tried to open them through my online email too and there were no attachments there either. (I actually did that first.)

[HairOfTheDog]

hmmmmm - did you reply and ask her if there were pics that were supposed to be there?

[2Jedismom]

I did. I wrote her back and told her the pictures didn't come through and could she send them to me again.

[RMDupree]

Thanks Hair! I'm hoping it's just irritated from the long walk at the zoo.

[2Jedismom]

Well, let me ask you this...

If, after you serve for say, 6-8 months, like the chaplain, away from home...how long is it you get to stay home after you get home? Do you get to stay home for another 6 months, then off you go somewhere else?

I am just curious...I know nothing about this kind of thing!

[RMDupree]

Ramius should show you, if he still has it, the tale of the "Pail of that which stinketh"

I wanna hear it!! That sounds like some of my sister's type of poetry-epic-things!

[My back yard]

Last night I was cleaning my closet and came across a mirror that was my grandmother's that I had wrapped carefull and put in the back of my closet over 10 years ago when we moved into this house. Along with the mirror were some posters I had forgotten all about. Not sure when I bought them, but they are Steve Hickman's series 1 - The Invisible Thief, 2 - Battle Before the Gate, and 4 - The Dread Vale. I don't have #3 - The Watcher at the Gate. I don't remember why not. I probably bought them over 20 years agon. They all have thumbtack marks in the corners, but other than that they are beautiful posters, in great shape. I especially like the Invisible Thief.

Anybody know if they are worth $$$$?? :)

Here's a website with them.

http://www.fairfaxprints.com/tolkien.html

[My back yard]

Thanks.

[RMDupree]

HUBBA HUBBA!

[RMDupree]

During the course of this interview, he pauses repeatedly to sign autographs, to rub a pregnant woman’s belly and—please, no more!—to help an old man whose electric wheelchair has broken down. “Oh God,” Bloom groans, “I seem like such a wanker.”

He's acting like Samwise Gamgee! :)