Jayne ,'The Message'
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
my family will be having our own traditional pork pie for Christmas Eve.
You know, pork pie sounds pretty good in theory. What's not to like about pig-related food stuffs and pie? Except pork pie is served cold, in a kind of gelatin. Surrounded by crust.
Yours is probably good though. More like an empanada, which is a little pie that can contain pork.
Not the kind we make! No gelatin. Served warm. With crust. Mmm....tourtiere.
Kathy, Kate, Sumi, Liese, Connie, Bev! And all other LoTR fans, its worth mentioning that Mark Reads is now reading Lord of the Rings.
And he's unspoiled and hasn't seen the movies. But he has read The Hobbit.
Yay, for LotR virgins! Maybe he'll be as gobsmacked by the Eowyn reveal as I was as a kid, so I won't feel so dumb, because apparently everyone else got it.
Woo hoo!
How glorious that he loves Bilbo as much as I do. Yes, yes, yes, Bilbo has such joy in being eccentric. I can't wait for Mark to get to Rivendell. And, of course, Bree, and that mysterious stranger in the corner.
Damn, it's just like reading it again the first time.
edit: Honestly, though, he's a nerd and he doesn't know this stuff? Amazing.
Maybe not the right kind of geek. I mean, I hang out online with people who still debate the Luther Mahoney shooting on Homicide fifteen years out,(admittedly geekish) but I bet that wouldn't mean anything to more than a handful of y'all.
Honestly, though, he's a nerd and he doesn't know this stuff? Amazing.
Ehhh, I think he cheats a bit. It's more fun to pretend that he is completely ignorant, but I don't actually buy that he knows nothing.
This too.
He may also just have a very bad memory. I saw all three movies, but have never read the books (though I did read The Hobbit long long ago). And while some of it would probably sound familiar as I hit it, mostly all I could tell you is um, there's a ring and some guys including Sam and ...Frodo? and some human guys and an elf. And they have to take the ring to Mordor. Throw it in Mount Doom? Because there's um...an evil flaming vagina in the sky? Right, some evil dude named Sauron.The one ring will rule them all? It's evil and makes the hobbit dude weirdly sweaty. And there's a girl named Eowyn who like, rides horses or fights a war or something, and she mostly wasn't in the movie. And there's elves who like, disappear. And Cate Blanchett. And they crawl around through some caves, and fight a war, and there's talking trees, and the creepy CGI thing who talks funny and wants the ring (will it make him less creppy?)
...seriously, that's about all I remember.