I don't think my cable brings me that station. ( I get a combination of Chicago and Rockford stations.)
Oh my god. What can it be? We're all doomed! Who's flying this thing!? Oh right, that would be me. Back to work.
Wash ,'Bushwhacked'
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.
sumi - Jan 08, 2004 11:00:02 am PST #1307 of 3902
Art Crawl!!!
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
§ ita § - Jan 08, 2004 11:45:36 am PST #1316 of 3902
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
A coworker came to me to ask me a question about LotR because I was an expert.
My fingers were poised over this very posting box, but she only wanted to know if Saruman was in the third film, and if not, what really happened to him.
She was impressed with my level of detail, I was merely embarassed.