I could squeeze you until you popped like warm champagne, and you'd beg me to hurt you just a little bit more.

Fuffy ,'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.


sumi - Jan 14, 2004 4:46:26 am PST #1422 of 3902
Art Crawl!!!

A review of the National Geographic RotK special with descriptions of clips not seen in the movie -- including the drinking game one.

Also a transcript of Sean Astin's appearance on The View and here is another chance for Californios to meet Viggo.


JohnSweden - Jan 14, 2004 7:58:03 am PST #1423 of 3902
I can't even.

a transcript of Sean Astin's appearance on The View

Thanks! That was a nice interview.


Kathy A - Jan 14, 2004 8:25:02 am PST #1424 of 3902
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

There's another interesting Sean Astin interview in Rolling Stone.


Shari_H - Jan 14, 2004 8:27:00 am PST #1425 of 3902
Keep breathing!

Back in 2000 my brother sent me a bit about a game where you substitute "pants" for a word in a quote from Star Wars. Definitely coffee on the monitor stuff.

"Use the pants, Luke!" "I used to bulls-eye womp-rats in my pants back home." "A tremor in the pants. The last time I felt this was in the presence of my old master."

Points were given for knowing the speakers and re-constructing the original quote. Wish I had a place to post the whole thing, but it's long.


Jars - Jan 14, 2004 2:10:48 pm PST #1426 of 3902

My welcome message when I turn on my phone is "Not idly do the pants of Lorien fall."

If only...


Sean K - Jan 14, 2004 2:18:26 pm PST #1427 of 3902
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

"They run as if the very pants of their masters were behind them."

"There is some evil here, that gives them pants, and yet sets its will against our own.


quester - Jan 14, 2004 3:19:19 pm PST #1428 of 3902
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.

This is too funny!


Kathy A - Jan 14, 2004 3:33:41 pm PST #1429 of 3902
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

Some award noms just came out: Chicago Film Critics nominations include eight for RotK, with both Sean Astin and Andy Serkis getting Best Supporting Actor nominations (!), and the Visual Effects Society announced their nominations, and RotK got a lot (I didn't count them all), including Sean Astin for Outstanding Performance in an Effects Film, and notice that the RotK nom for Outstanding Character Animation includes Andy Serkis with the techies!

The SAG nominations are being announced tomorrow morning (6:20 am PST, broadcast on the E! channel)--if Sean Astin gets a nom here, there's a good chance that he might snag an Oscar nom as well (Oscar ballots are due this Saturday, and noms are announced on Jan. 27th).


amyparker - Jan 14, 2004 5:55:50 pm PST #1430 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.

I did not get to see Andy Serkis. By the time we got there, a thousand people were ahead of us in the line, there wasn't anywhere large enough to do the reading, and contractually he was only able to sign movie-related stuff (of which there was none: the manager got 200 copies of the Gollum book from another store, and by the time the clerk got back to our section of the line to inform us of this, the books were gone).


JohnSweden - Jan 14, 2004 6:01:25 pm PST #1431 of 3902
I can't even.

There's another interesting Sean Astin interview in Rolling Stone.

Thanks, Kathy. That was good stuff too.