Sumi, try WYCC (Channel 20)--they've got Charlie Rose on 5:00 pm, 11:00 pm, and 12:00 am today, according to their online schedule.
Good luck. Try not to kill people. Hands! Hands!
Willow ,'Storyteller'
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.
Kathy A - Jan 08, 2004 10:58:42 am PST #1306 of 3902
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
sumi - Jan 08, 2004 11:00:02 am PST #1307 of 3902
Art Crawl!!!
I don't think my cable brings me that station. ( I get a combination of Chicago and Rockford stations.)
Sean K - Jan 08, 2004 11:07:53 am PST #1308 of 3902
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
(she finally listened to the unabridged audio version last spring--she's tried the books and couldn't get past the Council)
A stumbling point for many people, including myself the first two times I tried to make it through the books. I only got past it on the third attempt, at which point I couldn't put the damn thing down.
Kathy A - Jan 08, 2004 11:12:59 am PST #1309 of 3902
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I remember reading Watership Down for 8th grade English, and getting stuck on page 56. It took me almost an entire week to get past that one damn page, but once I finally did, I finished the rest of the book in a couple of days.
sumi - Jan 08, 2004 11:16:20 am PST #1310 of 3902
Art Crawl!!!
Looking at that comparison site -- the Saelbeth actor looks downright goofy in real life.
Consuela - Jan 08, 2004 11:23:03 am PST #1311 of 3902
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
The council of Elrond is such a hugeass infodump it's hard for a lot of people to get past.
Kathy, re: Watership Down. There's a political blogger out there somewhere with a blog named "Silflay Hraka". Made me spew Diet Coke on my monitor... (Seems to be rather right-leaning, so I'm not likely to read it much, but I love the sense of humor.) Yet another geek shibboleth.
I got lots of props from my coworkers for my not-even-close-to-encyclopedic knowledge of Tolkein history etc. It was fun.
bon bon - Jan 08, 2004 11:28:31 am PST #1312 of 3902
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
EW was actually entertaining with Jon Stewart last night.
I wasn't going to watch last night, until I started watching and saw it was a new one. I was convinced that I'd seen him plugging RotK on TDS before Christmas and so no need to watch. And then I realized-- the show I was so certain I'd seen a few weeks ago was during the FotR junket. Man.
sumi - Jan 08, 2004 11:32:15 am PST #1313 of 3902
Art Crawl!!!
Bwahaha!
I thought it was good too -- at least everytime you see him Elijah has new and different things to say.
Okay -- WBBM which is Chicago's local CBS station has a show called Kickin' It. Now, I have NO IDEA if this is local or syndicated or what but on December 18th at 12:30 am they will have Viggo Mortensen as a guest.
Jessica - Jan 08, 2004 11:33:07 am PST #1314 of 3902
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
There's a political blogger out there somewhere with a blog named "Silflay Hraka".
Ha!
It's easy to tell when I'm reading Watership Down (which happens a few times a year) because I start using "Frith on a hill!" instead of human expletives.
Una - Jan 08, 2004 11:36:52 am PST #1315 of 3902
when i die, please bake my ashes into a brick and use me to hit fascists.
I love listening to Tolkien geeks and peppering them with questions and being edumacated. Saves me a lot of trouble (haven't yet made a successful attempt at the books--I'm sorry, I just can't deal with the writing style!!) and I get all the nifty info.
So, anyway, thinks, y'all. I love lurking on this thread. :-D