J.R.R.Tolkien

[axisoftime]

This weekend at Oxford College in England is the Oxonmoot-a three day celebration of Tolkien and his books.Theres even a masqarade party.They also visit his gravesite.3 different polls taken a few years back ranked The Lord of the Rings as the greatest books of the 20th century.Very rarely does anyone agree on what the greatest book is in any genre-but hardly anyone can argue with LOTR as far as best fantasy series.Or if u didnt agree-youd probably say u really coundnt argue it-much lol.
He was a professor of Literature at Oxford-and 1 day,while grading papers-he wrote down on a blank page-'In a Hole-there lived a Hobbit'and that became the 1st line of The Hobbit.He loved to smoke-and drink beer-dark beer particularily-traits which he passed on to the Hobbits lol.U know originally LOTR was supposed to be released as 1 big book-but the publishers,and Tolkien-wary of how successfull it would be-figured 3 books would have a better chance.

[Sierra-san]

Good ol' J.R.R. Tolkien. May he rest in peace.

[Daphne]

Great books! Loved them!

[axisoftime]

The books are better then the movies IMO.Didnt like how they left out Tom Bombadill!He was great.And they chopped the council meeting down to 3 minutes!
Whos your favorite character?Mine is Gandalf.Sierra-Id guess u would say Legolas!Is he a 'Yum'?lol

[Sierra-san]

Originally posted by axisoftime
The books are better then the movies IMO.Didnt like how they left out Tom Bombadill!He was great.And they chopped the council meeting down to 3 minutes!
Whos your favorite character?Mine is Gandalf.Sierra-Id guess u would say Legolas!Is he a 'Yum'?lol

I miss Tom. ;_; Although I think the way they did Treebeard in the movie was spot-on.

He's more than a 'Yum'. :D :D :D

[axisoftime]

Yeh Treebeard was done very well-hoom haa-lets not be hasty about it-like when he said "Im not altogether on anyones side because no one is alltogether on my side"lol.
U mean Legolas is up there with....KRUM?lol
Whos 2nd?Glorfindal?

[Sierra-san]

Originally posted by axisoftime
Yeh Treebeard was done very well-hoom haa-lets not be hasty about it-like when he said "Im not altogether on anyones side because no one is alltogether on my side"lol.

And I loved the "We lost them, and now we can't find them" line. XD



Originally posted by axisoftime
U mean Legolas is up there with....KRUM?lol
Whos 2nd?Glorfindal?

Above Krum. He's up there with...Edward Elric. Not quite as high though. *nods*
Second is Eowyn. Because she kicks ass. :D

[Daphne]

Legolas..... sigh. Though Krum is one hot hottie too. Have you seen the new trailer?

[Sierra-san]

Originally posted by Daphne
Legolas..... sigh. Though Krum is one hot hottie too. Have you seen the new trailer?

No. Do we get to see a nice shot of him?

[axisoftime]

Yeh that was pretty sad with the Entwives thing.

Edward Elric-Ill have to look that up.Must be anime-though it sounds kind of HPish.

Eowyns cool-but I like Arwen-I could learn some 'elvish' ways from her.HHMMM-oh,sry-lost my train of thought for a minute lol.

[Sierra-san]

Originally posted by axisoftime
Yeh that was pretty sad with the Entwives thing.

Edward Elric-Ill have to look that up.Must be anime-though it sounds kind of HPish.

Eowyns cool-but I like Arwen-I could learn some 'elvish' ways from her.HHMMM-oh,sry-lost my train of thought for a minute lol.

Yah. :<

This (http://sandrock.mp4.free.fr/images/fma/wallpapers/wallpaper04.jpg) (current wallpaper, BTW) is Edward Elric. <3

XD Eowyn could kick her ass though. >O

[TMLS' BROTHER]

I never read the books but the movies were awesome!

Sierra is full metal alchemist good? I thought about buying it. (I could so get into manga I bought Akira the other week too. good movie one scene was sickening though)

[Sierra-san]

Originally posted by TMLS' BROTHER
I never read the books but the movies were awesome!

Sierra is full metal alchemist good? I thought about buying it. (I could so get into manga I bought Akira the other week too. good movie one scene was sickening though)

You should read them. At least the Hobbit, becuase, well...

It is AMAZING. It's one of those animes that everyone should own, like Cowboy Bebop.

[TMLS' BROTHER]

I started Fellowship and Hobbit a few years ago and I got bored with them.

(I was thinking of getting spirted away next. I used to watch outlaw star I liked that)

[axisoftime]

Well Eowyn is a warrior-Arwen an Elf princess.What if Arwen used magic??

I saw a EE site called 'Not A Shrimp'.

U didnt care much for Sam Sierra?Movie Sam or book Sam too?

[Sierra-san]

Originally posted by TMLS' BROTHER
I started Fellowship and Hobbit a few years ago and I got bored with them.

(I was thinking of getting spirted away next. I used to watch outlaw star I liked that)

Eh, I know some people who don't like the description. :/

(Spirited Away is another great movie. The music is superb, and the dub is well done too. Any Miyazaki film is worth getting IMO.)


Originally posted by axisoftime
Well Eowyn is a warrior-Arwen an Elf princess.What if Arwen used magic??

I saw a EE site called 'Not A Shrimp'.

U didnt care much for Sam Sierra?Movie Sam or book Sam too?

Eowyn would slash her neck before she got the chance. >O

XD You'd have to watch the show. He's a little sensitive about his height. (http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y6/shiningsierra/EdMustang.jpg)

I like Sam. Sam pwns.

[TMLS' BROTHER]

My fave character was Aragorn he kicked-ass.

(Sierra why isn't there a anime or manga thread?)

(I have looked at tons of anime dvds online but I have no clue whats good or bad :\ Oh well I'll just have to guess)

[Sierra-san]

Originally posted by TMLS' BROTHER
My fave character was Aragorn he kicked-ass.

(Sierra why isn't there a anime or manga thread?)

(I have looked at tons of anime dvds online but I have no clue whats good or bad :\ Oh well I'll just have to guess)

I love him too. <3 He's the second-tied member of the Fellowship in the movie, behind Legolas and tied with Boromir.

(Good question. :\ Wait for a few minutes and I'll make one. :D)

(I can help you with that. There are a bunch of animes, and I know some of the best ones.)

[TMLS' BROTHER]

I didn't LOVE him I liked him lol. and he got the hottest babe ni the end lol

(Ok :D)

(Thank you so much :D)

[axisoftime]

Pwn?Is that a term for 'cool'-I thought u had mentioned in the HP thread u werent a Sam fan-guess I was wrong.
That was a great speech in TTT when he told Frodo about going on and doing good;

Sam: I know. It’s all wrong. By rights we shouldn’t even be here. But we are. It’s like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn’t want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened?

Sam: But in the end, it’s only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back only they didn’t. They kept going because they were holding on to something.

Frodo: What are we holding on to, Sam?

Sam: That there’s some good in this world, Mr. Frodo. And it’s worth fighting for.

Samwise really came a long way from the start to the end.

[TMLS' BROTHER]

He did Axisoftime.

I should borrow these movies off my brother again.

Did anyone else have the extended version?

[Sierra-san]

Originally posted by TMLS' BROTHER
I didn't LOVE him I liked him lol. and he got the hottest babe ni the end lol

(Ok :D)

(Thank you so much :D)

He should have been with Legolas. :< *shot*

What? I'm a yaoi fan. :p


Originally posted by axisoftime
Pwn?Is that a term for 'cool'-I thought u had mentioned in the HP thread u werent a Sam fan-guess I was wrong.
That was a great speech in TTT when he told Frodo about going on and doing good

I meant I didn't like him like I liked Legolas.

That was a great speech.


Originally posted by TMLS' BROTHER
He did Axisoftime.

I should borrow these movies off my brother again.

Did anyone else have the extended version?

I own all three. I've watched all of the extras too.

[TMLS' BROTHER]

:lol: - I did sense gay undertones between those two :lol:

I have watched all the movies but none of the extras. I couldn't really see much difference between the extended and the un-extended versions though.

[Sierra-san]

Originally posted by TMLS' BROTHER
:lol: - I did sense gay undertones between those two :lol:

I have watched all the movies but none of the extras. I couldn't really see much difference between the extended and the un-extended versions though.

Aragorn was soooo doing things behind Arwin's back. Things being Legolas, of course. >) You know, in the Golden Hall, at night...

I noticed a difference. I loved the drinking game in the third movie. :lol: Some of the extras are interesting.

[TMLS' BROTHER]

:rotfl:

I didn't catch that part :lol:. It was so long between the movies coming out atthe cinema and them coming out on extended dvd that I almost totally forgot the movies.

[axisoftime]

Youd be amamzed at some of the differences between book and Movie TMLS.Like Tom Bombadill-a big part of FOTR-neither man,nor elf,nor wizard-almost a combination of all 3.
I never saw the xteneded versions-do they show the Gandalf-Saruman confrontation where Gandalf breaks his staff?

[TMLS' BROTHER]

Yeah. I know that the spider (Can't recall its name) was in book two not three!

I don't know. Sierra do you?

(Call me Alex.)

[Sierra-san]

Originally posted by TMLS' BROTHER
:rotfl:

I didn't catch that part :lol:. It was so long between the movies coming out atthe cinema and them coming out on extended dvd that I almost totally forgot the movies.

Oh, you should at least see that part. Legolas. Gimli. Drink-off. 'Nuff said.


Originally posted by axisoftime
Youd be amamzed at some of the differences between book and Movie TMLS.Like Tom Bombadill-a big part of FOTR-neither man,nor elf,nor wizard-almost a combination of all 3.
I never saw the xteneded versions-do they show the Gandalf-Saruman confrontation where Gandalf breaks his staff?

Yes, they do, right at the beginning of ROTK.


Originally posted by TMLS' BROTHER
Yeah. I know that the spider (Can't recall its name) was in book two not three!

I don't know. Sierra do you?

(Call me Alex.)

Shelob. The reason they put her in movie 3 was because they felt that it would be rather anti-climatic to show both the battle at Helm's Deep and the Shelob confrontation.

[TMLS' BROTHER]

lol... I understand but I didn't notice it.

Oh ic... thats my least fave part of 3 though probably because of my enormous fear of spiders and how it looked real. BTW.. why didn't Shelob talk? I know she can.

[axisoftime]

Creative liscence-Peter Jackson did an overall great job-and u cant please everyone-but I would have done a few things abit different.Look at how Frodo and Sam just ran into Merry and Pippin when they started out for Buckland.Actualy in the book-Pippen was with Frodo and Sam and then they meet Merry.

[Lexgirl33]

ahhh he was great, thanks to him for bringing us LOTR! :D BTW the books are awesome!

[crn]

I loved the movies, and I'm proud to say that Tolkien is from South Africa. :D

[axisoftime]

One of my favorite parts was in FOTR when the group is 1st trapped in Moria and Boromir says something like"Trapped in a deep dark place of the world-who will lead us now" and Gandalf
raises his staff and creates a light and says "I will".And the fight with the Balrog was great-"Fly u fools".The best was when he came back as Gandalf the White and Aragorn says "Gandalf-beyond all hope"

[Lexgirl33]

That scene with gandalf and the staff was definaltly really cool, Moria looked great in the movie. Very detailed.

[axisoftime]

Yeh whether or not u agree with Peter Jackson and certain things he changed from the books-or left out-he was very good in recreating Middle Earth.

[Lexgirl33]

Yeah plus he had to rearrage all the books so that the movie would be taking place at one time. Good job by him in figuring that out! But I definatly agree with Jackson's view on recreating Middle Earth

[axisoftime]

After the 1st film I was dissapointed.No Tom Bombadill?He was such a cool character-bouncing all over the place-singing

" Hey Ho Derry Do Old Tom Bombadil is a merry fellow;
Bright blue his jacket is, and his boots are yellow."

Not to mention that he also saved then twice!
And the council meeting-there were many good stories-and all they showed was some of Boromirs story.Or when they first meet Aragorn they left out some good parts.But after seeing TTT I appreaceated more what a tough job it was to film-and what a good job PJ did.

[Sierra-san]

Originally posted by axisoftime
And the council meeting-there were many good stories-and all they showed was some of Boromirs story.Or when they first meet Aragorn they left out some good parts.But after seeing TTT I appreaceated more what a tough job it was to film-and what a good job PJ did.

Yes but, the average viewing audience wouldn't want to watch them blab for half an hour. We wouldn't mind, but casual viewers would.

[homosuperior]

There was a very very funny animation circulating the net giving new text to the council of elrond...something about Boromir wanting ninjas to attack mordor.

Grew up on Tolkien. Not such a fan but still very fond. I actually chose my college at uni because he went there. Geek.

[axisoftime]

Hey I wouldnt mind going to the same college Tolkien went to!
I seem to remeber a skit I saw also where Boromir mentioned ninjas.

Very true Sierra.I read an interview with PJ where he said it was impossible to please the hardcore fans-the movies would be twice as long.But...Saruman wanted the ring for himself-he wasnt just Saurons pawn-he didnt have to change that so much.