Re: Tolkien in General

by leelee Thu Sep 27, 2012 9:10 pm

Ally wrote:All my posts are posted during intoxication
Apart from this one where I am just really ill
Ifarc ~if any one really cares

I care very much dear girl, we all do. hugs. Please feel better. flower

by **Orwell** Thu Sep 27, 2012 10:48 pm

Ally wrote:All my posts are posted during intoxication
Apart from this one where I am just really ill
Ifarc ~if any one really cares

Not me --- but does anyone else? Interesting thought... Very Happy

by **Orwell** Thu Sep 27, 2012 10:49 pm

Pretty Tyrant wrote:Doesn't mean I dont have a set of handcuffs with his name of on it however.

I had had musings upon that very idea. Very Happy

by halfwise Sat Sep 29, 2012 2:36 pm

Ally wrote:All my posts are posted during intoxication
Apart from this one where I am just really ill
Ifarc ~if any one really cares

Once in a long while Petty will post something while not under intoxication. Can't cypher out a word of it. Do you become more or less cryptic under intoxication, Ally? And can you get buckie where you come from?

by Ally Sat Sep 29, 2012 8:10 pm

Don't tell me, I want to find out on my own.

by chris63 Mon Oct 01, 2012 3:24 am

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/9575599/The-Hobbit-unearths-a-hoard-of-myths.html

by RA Mon Oct 01, 2012 4:38 am

I like how the author points out the Hobbit as more than a children's story; it's a myth, sub creation. He seems to have a good deal of respect for Tolkien which I admire; contrast that with Billy Connolly calling it unreadable. The author knows what Jackson is doing to the Hobbit is wrong. Good read. Smile

P.S.
I haven't seen Troy with Brad Pitt, but that sounds bad.

by Pettytyrant101 Mon Oct 01, 2012 11:56 am

Brad pitt is Achilles and Angelina Jolie is his mother (he should have been Oedipus Very Happy

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Good article that, thoughtful and the author obviously cares about the subject.
I dont know why an actor like Connolly, who doesn't need to do it for the money, would take a part on based on a book he thinks is unreadable.

by RA Mon Oct 01, 2012 6:03 pm

Billy Connoly's statements are symptomatic of a problem I see. There's doesn't seem to be the same kind of love for the source material this time around. I'm mean I don't recall any of the actors from lotr saying they actively disliked the book they were filming.
Maybe it's because last time no one thought that lotr was going to be a box office hit and now, ten years later, every celebrity is jumping on this cash cow.

I might have to see that movie now. Shocked

by Eldorion Mon Oct 01, 2012 6:26 pm

I thought that Angelina Jolie was the oedipus-mom of Colin Farrell in Alexander. Question

by Pettytyrant101 Mon Oct 01, 2012 6:28 pm

Was she?- I might be mixing two really bad films that look much the same together here then. In which case I couldnt recommend either- they are both so bad I can no longer tell them apart.

by **Amarië** Mon Oct 01, 2012 6:28 pm

She does have a lot of kids...

by Ally Mon Oct 01, 2012 9:00 pm

I am joy

by halfwise Mon Oct 01, 2012 10:18 pm

Recoveryanonymous wrote:
I haven't seen Troy with Brad Pitt, but that sounds bad.

Actually, I love Brad's opening scene where he takes down a giant warrior with a sort of angry nonchalance. There's some nice epic set pieces, some ass kissing of hollywood stereotypes; I wouldn't rate it as either a particularly good or bad movie. Between Brad's opening snuff scene and Diane Kruger's naked derriere I'd call it a solid dude flick.

by Eldorion Mon Oct 01, 2012 10:20 pm

The ass that launched a thousand ships?

by halfwise Mon Oct 01, 2012 10:48 pm

I think some scribal errors crept in over the millennia.

by Pettytyrant101 Tue Oct 02, 2012 2:35 am

Both films from I recall looked the part-suitably epic and all that- it was the tale telling I seemed to remember was pretty ropey.
More hollywood than historical lets say.

by RA Fri Oct 05, 2012 5:49 pm

http://www.theonering.net/torwp/2012/10/05/62775-warner-bros-shut-down-free-skyrim-lord-of-the-rings-mod/

TORn has finally posted about Merp.

by Elthir Fri Oct 05, 2012 7:35 pm

TORn has finally posted about Merp.

Drat. I was rather wondering when Farb will be posting about Zorn.

by RA Fri Oct 05, 2012 10:40 pm

As a sort of update. The petition has over 17,000 signers.

by Ally Sun Oct 21, 2012 11:03 pm

Lord of the Rings meets Dark Souls

by Mrs Figg Sun Oct 21, 2012 11:41 pm

merp! oh pardonez moi! its the garlick. Embarassed

by RA Mon Oct 22, 2012 4:13 am

Mrs Figg wrote:merp! oh pardonez moi! its the garlick.

Save Merp

Why does everyone make fun of the name?

It's clever Banghead

by Pettytyrant101 Mon Oct 22, 2012 2:36 pm

It does sound a bit like something a frog would say.

by chris63 Thu Oct 25, 2012 6:56 am

http://public.oed.com/history-of-the-oed/newsletter-archive/jrr-tolkien-and-the-oed/