applekisses said:

Sounds like the devil's writing to me!

who's everyone's fave character/s from LOTR then? mine's Samwise with a close second on Aragorn

Natisse said:

I love Gandalf, Frodo, Galdrial, Arwen Samwise and Treebeard.

i love tolkien!!! he was amazing! i still remember reading the hobbit way back in school. i never read LOTR, but i bought the books when the movies came out. i still haven't finished reading them, i was too impatient and wanted to watch it on the big screen. i think PJ did an amazing job with the books, esp. considering how stinkin' huge they were!!!

my favorite characters are:
1) Samwise Gamgee. who wouldn't want a friend like that!? i loved how he stuck with frodo no matter what, and was always looking out for what was best for frodo.

2) King Theoden. such a noble king, and always did the right thing. (when he was in his right mind.)

3) Gimli. hilarious! i especially liked the humor shown between him and legolas when they were keeping score in the battles. legolas takes down that enormously huge monster and gimli comes back with "that still only counts as one!"

4) Arwen. i wish i was that beautiful! they made a good choice when they cast liv tyler for that role!

5) Aragorn. another reason i wish i was arwen!

6) Legolas. yummy! he's amazing with a bow and arrow. i'd let him watch my back any day! (he could watch my front too! ) yeeeees

i might as well just list all the characters, because i loved them all so much! eowyn, pippin, elrond, galandriel (though she kind of scared me a little too!), merry, gandalf, frodo, boromir, etc, etc.

the only one i didn't like, and kept thinking "why don't they just smack him around or something!" was Denethor, Boromir and Faramir's father. he was so hateful, and so mean. and an idiot in the battle!

I read the Hobbit in like 6th grade

hahah me too!!

ive even got the books of maps of middle earth!

I love Tolkien, I read the LOTR just a short while before the movie was released, I think it's better to read it first because you get your own interpretation rather than Peter Jacksons. The imagrey and desriptions in the book are good enough not need any real visual aid. Saying that I loved the movies, I think Peter did an amazing job, much, much better than what I expected (and the old budget cartoon lol). There were a few bits I would have liked to have seen in the movie like the barrowdowns and tom bambodil (I can't remeber the exact name, I read it a while ago) but still 9 hours is still a constraint for the book

There's this pub in town where Tolkien used to hang out at all the time with CS Lewis (I think it was Lewis, Im not sure I always get him mixed up with someone else), Its so cool being able to chill in the same pub where Tolkien used to go, they a few pictures of his up, and some letters that he wrote too. It seems to be busier tourists with since the films were releasedso I don't go there often now.

I heard it's very unlikely Jackson will be able to do The Hobbit, something to do with the rights, but Ian McKellen said there may be a chance of a play in the West end. I doubt anything will get done though at least not for quite a few years, I hope I'm wrong though because 'the hobbit' is a great book too.

Yep Im in Oxford, Eagle and Child is so nice but it's a bit of a walk from the rest of town, but all the other old pubs have been re-done to look like wine bars so it makes for a nice change. I went to a couple of the quiz nights but I was awful lol
Where abouts are you from ?

hey frog, yeah you should, its some day during the week, maybe a tuesday, it's been a while I don't remember. I only come back during half term now so I havent been out and about in Oxford properly for a while. My other favourite pub in Oxford is The Trout, if you haven't already check that out

AshK said:

hey, i dig that place. my friend introduced me to it, but it was quite a trek - food was good though

the chronicles of narnia



memories

for Tolkein... for he gave us Viggo Mortensen.

sag10 said:

I was watching Crimson Tide about a year ago and caught his performace there. Didn't recognize where I had seem him before but he looked soooo familiar.

His first movie was Witness??? (looking up his filmography) I'm going to have to watch that one again!