Sean Astin Prays For Troops

TheOneRing.net ^ | March 24, 2003 | Mstar

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Sean Astin prays for troops. Tehanu @ 6:36 am EST Sean Astin appeared on Joan and Melissa Rivers' miniature red carpet to send a message out to our troops in Iraq, via television. In short, he said that since the beginning of the war he got down on bended knee to pray for them, and that he's still praying for them and for a victory, and that he hopes for their safe return. Also, Joan and Melissa asked him if it was a disappointment to them (the LotR cast and crew) that Peter Jackson wasn't nominated. Sean replied by explaining that they had pretty much prepared themselves for disappointment with these films (implying that they are getting less credit than due). Overall, Sean was very serious and genuine, and kept a solemn air about him.

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[Alkhin]

Brazos Cantina Ping!

[HairOfTheDog]

He hasn't ruined it for me, I still like Aragorn!

And I think Viggo was probably given good advice about going too far. If so, he was smart to take it.

[HairOfTheDog]

OK... no point in belaboring it. I hope that Sean has a long career.

[Alkhin]

Is there any way to find out if my site has been hacked? I keep getting "HTTP 500 - Internal server error Internet Explorer"

I can't pull up my blog!! This is really distressing me.

[Our man in washington]

Well, if it makes Sean feel any better, Lord of the Rings was the leading vote getter for "The Ronnies", given to the best picture of the year that presents a conservative view of the world.

This award is named after Ronald Reagan and was invented by yours truly last week. See http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/873480/posts

(Okay, so that thread didn't get many responses. But still, LOTR got almost all the votes!)

[HairOfTheDog]

Probably not *hacked*. If someone had hacked it they would just change the words into a Greenpeace Save the Planet blog! The server that runs it must be down? - You don't have anyone to call?

[Alkhin]

Hair...thanks for confirming...just freaking out...

yeah, It would seem the server is down. I have popped off an email, but I dont expect an answer. I have tried to contact them before about my archives, and got no response. They have a policy of only answering those email from Priority accounts, which one has to purchase. I'd PURCHASE if I had the sense that I would get any kind of response at all, much less help in understanding how their program works. People like this really get on my nerves sometimes.

[My back yard]

Yeah, you are probably right. Their parts in it will send them to further successes. Sean Bean has already been given a role as Ulysses in the production on Helen of Troy. And Orlando Bloom will be in it too. And the guy from BlackHawk Down plays Paris!

[sneakers]

Wow! Sam's speech to Frodo! So appropriate to our times.

[sneakers]

Re: That weasel Andy Sirkis in the role of Gollum - talk about typecasting!

[Pippin]

RE: #21

Congratulations, Samwise!

You made Pippin cry!

But it's not of sadness it's over such a beautiful post!

[Alouette]

Did anybody see the horrible, horrible movie ASH WEDNESDAY? Seems like Elijah Wood wanted to get as far away from Middle-Earth as he could, and so accepted a role as an Irish-American deliquent that Leonardo De Caprio must have turned down.

I'll tell you what this movie is about: the characters sit around with black smudges on their foreheads (it's "Ash Wednesday" and they have just been to church), they sit around and guzzle beer, cuss up a storm, and plan to kill one another and seduce their brother's wife (or bragging about the hits and seductions they have already done).

Made me wonder what exactly they were giving up for Lent.

[Mad Dawgg]

I am still pissed Sean Astin did not get nominated for Best supporting for his role as Samwise!

As far as I am concerned the "Academy" can go "Get Bent!"

[sneakers]

He also starred in Encino Man - hilarious movie!

[Pippin]

Thanks for the ping, Alkhin!

[Pippin]

Hi, Y'all!

Thanks, agian, for the ping, Alkhin!

Billie, Daisy, Louie,Nan,Free,MUDDY and Meekie, Y'all gotta take a look at this thread! and read post #21, it put me in tears it was beautiful and it was a quotation from LOTR: TTT.

[HairOfTheDog]

I hadn't heard of it, but I just looked it up. It was done in 1980. Long time ago, before LoTR.

BUY.COM - DVD : Ash Wednesday : Elijah Wood : Edward Burns :

[Mudboy Slim]

Sam: I know. It's all wrong. By rights we shouldn't even be here. But we are. It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines, it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back only they didn't. Because they were holding on to something.

Frodo: What are we holding on to, Sam?

Sam: There's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo. And it's worth fighting for.

[Pippin]

Kinda makes you think of what is going on now in the world.

[HairOfTheDog]

Well, I am wrong.... I guess it was just released but is "set" in 1980? The description is confusing - Nevertheless, no, I hadn't heard of it.