Amazon has a Kindle edition of the Silmarillion. [link]
Xander: Am I right, Giles? Giles: I'm almost certain you're not. Though, to be fair, I haven't been
listening.
'Sleeper'
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Calli - Dec 14, 2012 11:48:02 am PST #23150 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
le nubian - Dec 14, 2012 9:21:17 pm PST #23151 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Some asshole (a professional movie critic no less) in my timeline compared "The Hobbit" to "The Phantom Menace."
Okay, even if I think "The Hobbit" is garbage when Beau and I see it tomorrow, ain't no possible way PJ fucked up that badly.
Ain't no way. Too many critics seem to enjoy doing an Armond White on movies and don't really know (or what to seriously assess) whether a movie is BAD or not.
Consuela - Dec 15, 2012 6:17:49 am PST #23152 of 30000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Some asshole (a professional movie critic no less) in my timeline compared "The Hobbit" to "The Phantom Menace."
Yeah, no. It doesn't piss on the original by undercutting it. And the cast is uniformly good. But PJ does seem to have fallen in love with his technology to the detriment of the story.
chrismg - Dec 15, 2012 10:00:54 am PST #23153 of 30000
"...and then Legolas and the Hulk destroy the entire Greek army." - Penny Arcade
Heading out to see Hobbit in IMAX 3D 48 FPS.
If fall into movie will have Bilbo put message for you-all in the Red Book.
Juliebird - Dec 15, 2012 12:54:18 pm PST #23154 of 30000
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
My family is going to drag me to see The Hobbit. I get to sit next to my brother's girlfriend so we can both bitch about how we don't want to be there and didn't like the PJ LOTR trilogy to begin with.
le nubian - Dec 15, 2012 2:28:44 pm PST #23155 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
ha ha ha!
Sounds festive.
chrismg - Dec 15, 2012 2:45:40 pm PST #23156 of 30000
"...and then Legolas and the Hulk destroy the entire Greek army." - Penny Arcade
Well, I'm back.
Consuela - Dec 15, 2012 3:21:03 pm PST #23157 of 30000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
chrismg, did the 48fps make you feel ill, or was it wonderful?
chrismg - Dec 15, 2012 4:34:10 pm PST #23158 of 30000
"...and then Legolas and the Hulk destroy the entire Greek army." - Penny Arcade
Neither? I could definitely tell something was different, but I definitely didn't get sick. I kind of wonder if the 3d effect made it better.
You know how you'll see a ChromaKey effect on an older show, and the image quality difference jumps out it you? It was like that, only the ENTIRE image had the slightly-too-real effect. I'd really like to see something non-realistic with the effect. Too bad Del Toro couldn't use it for Pacific Rim.....
Kalshane - Dec 15, 2012 8:30:32 pm PST #23159 of 30000
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why?
Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.
Got back from seeing The Hobbit.
I enjoyed it. I think I would have preferred one good 3-hour movie that stuck to the book, as opposed to this weird hybrid trilogy Jackson is doing. It wasn't bad, it just wasn't The Hobbit.
I like the fact that The Hobbit the book is a fairly straight-forward adventure romp. I don't need all the ill-portants and hints of something more and a bunch of Middle-Earth bigwigs standing around talking about what to do about said portants.
Also, Glamdring (and now Orcrist) not glowing still bugs the crap out of me.