A large cricket. Or, more germaine to the conversation, the special effects company that PJ started and which did the effects for the movies.
Oh, yeah. There was this time I was pinned down by this guy that played left tackle for varsity... Well, at least he used to before he was a vampire... Anyway, he had this really, really thick neck, and all I had was a little, little Exact-O knife ... You're not loving this story.
Buffy ,'Beneath You'
LotR - The Return of the King: "We named the *dog* 'Strider'".
Frodo: Please, what does it always mean, this... this "Aragorn"? Elrond: That's his name. Aragorn, son of Arathorn. Aragorn: I like "Strider." Elrond: We named the *dog* "Strider".
A discussion of Lord of the Rings - The Return of the King. If you're a pervy hobbit fancier, this is the place for you.
Elena - Jan 07, 2004 2:54:54 pm PST #1210 of 3902
Thanks for all the fish.
amych - Jan 07, 2004 2:59:15 pm PST #1211 of 3902
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
amyparker - Jan 07, 2004 3:03:18 pm PST #1212 of 3902
You've got friends to have good times with. When you need to share the trauma of a badly-written book with someone, that's when you go to family.
Oh, Kathy! I'm sorry! I will take down my gloaty post if it bugs.
Steph L. - Jan 07, 2004 3:15:07 pm PST #1213 of 3902
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
Does WETA stand for anything? For example, West Ethiopian Tiki Argonauts?
amych - Jan 07, 2004 3:18:37 pm PST #1214 of 3902
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
The PBS station? No idea.
The effects studio is named after the family of insects, which take their name from the Maori name for the largest of them, Wetapunga, which means "the god of ugly things".
Ya know, like girly elves....
(eta: and yes, I am large with the weta-geekery tonight, for some reason I don't know.)
Kathy A - Jan 07, 2004 3:39:47 pm PST #1215 of 3902
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Oh, Kathy! I'm sorry! I will take down my gloaty post if it bugs.
Nah, just promise to give us all the details!
I had my Borders famous author viewing back in 2002 with Alton Brown, and I remember how insanely crowded that one was. I can't imagine what Andy Serkis would have been like.
I'm getting revved up for the Oscars already--I really think that RotK has a possibility of a sweep in the nominations, and might actually win more than six awards. The nomination ballots aren't due for another 10 days, but the snubbing of Anthony Minghella by the Directors Guild leads me to think that the only major competition that RotK has left is Mystic River. We'll find out if it's a sweep on January 27th, when they announce the noms; if RotK gets all of the tech noms (except for makeup and costume, most likely), as well as Best Pic, Director, Adapted Screenplay, and at least Supporting Actor, then I have a good feeling about the final award count.
I'm going all out for my Oscar night party this year--all Buffistas in the Chicago area the night of February 29th are welcome!!
Nutty - Jan 07, 2004 3:43:51 pm PST #1216 of 3902
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
The PBS station? No idea.
That's W.E.T.A. out of New Haven, right? Channel 2 for those reared in Connecticut.
Somebody had to convince me that Weta Workshop/Weta Digital wasn't actually an obscure arm of W.E.T.A. New Haven. It was the sculpture of the giant bug in the lobby of Weta Workshop that finally clued: this is not a Connecticut kind of bug.
amych - Jan 07, 2004 3:54:04 pm PST #1217 of 3902
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
That's W.E.T.A. out of New Haven, right?
I was thinking of ch. 26 out of DC, but I had the very same confusion.
Volans - Jan 07, 2004 4:27:09 pm PST #1218 of 3902
move out and draw fire
Dear heaven, the cloak fabric scarf is $99!
But that's in New Zealand dollars, so it's more like, what, $65? But then postage and handling...
My office roommate was stuck on Pelennor Fields on the LOTR game also. Is this the segment where you have to throw down the siege towers?
Steph L. - Jan 07, 2004 5:18:08 pm PST #1219 of 3902
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
The effects studio is named after the family of insects, which take their name from the Maori name for the largest of them, Wetapunga, which means "the god of ugly things".
Okay, so it's just named Weta, then? It's not an acronym?
I started watching my EE FotR DVDs tonight, and it feels like watching S1 BTVS. They're so....*young*, you know? And they have no idea what's going to happen to them.
Also, the big-ass battle against Sauron in the beginning, when he's a giant Transformer/Battlebot? Elrond is in that battle, right? And then the narrator (that's Galadriel, yes?) says that about 300 years passed between the Ring being lost and Frodo leaving on his journey, right? Or was it 3,000? In either case, that makes Elrond pretty fucking old, especially if it's 3,000. He must moisturize really well.
And, if I understood correctly, the Black Riders/Ringwraiths/Nazgul (they're the same thing, right, under different names?) are the original nine men who received rings when the elves and dwarves got theirs? Because that's cool, that the rings and greed for power turned them into big freaky shrouded dudes of death.
Yes, you can mock me for my observations, but remember -- I haven't read the books, so this isn't familiar to me. To me, I'm making totally new connections.