[ This Message was edited by: Kim in Tulsa on 2003-02-03 22:11 ]
YEAH!!! I am “counting sleeps” as my little sister puts it.
Kaitlin
320 more days!! AAHHH I don’t think I can wait that long!
“counting sleeps” 
Kids rule!
Do you think they will go back and make “the Hobbit” when they’re done?
Oh YEAH!!! I just can’t wait!!! I spent two hours this afternoon, when I should have been cleaning the house, looking up LOTR stuff on the internet…reading articles, interviews, etc. Some of the stuff I found talks about Return of the King and I even found some pics from it that will be on a calendar. Here is some info, if anyone’s interested. Hopefully it will make the long wait a little more bearable!
a snippet from an interview with John Rhys-Davies: Regarding his voice talent for Treebeard -
John Rhys-Davies: Peter asks “did you want to have a go at this?” And like a fool I said yeah. I had more trouble creating that character than I did with Gimli. Because you can’t do it the way it’s written in the book. He speaks very slow so you’ve got to find a way of representing that and at the same time not losing the power and the anger of the Ents. I lost more sleep over that. I’d wake up in the middle of the night, sweating, “God, I can’t do it! I don’t know how to do this.” And I still haven’t seen it (TTT) so I can’t tell you whether it works or
not.
Return of the King pics:
http://www.warofthering.net/movies/photos/calendarfull/
Great quotes from Elijah Wood:
Interview question: Can you talk about Frodo and Gollum’s relationship?
Elijah: That’s really about one understanding the other and that Gollum is the way he is because of the ring. He almost sees a mirror image of himself in Gollum and what he could become is frightening to him. It also makes him fight for the belief that he can make Gollum come back and therein lies the hope for him as well.
There’s also an odd manipulation between the two characters going on. Gollum is using Frodo to get the ring back and Frodo is using Gollum to get to Mordor to destroy the ring…
Interview question: Everyone says you’re amazing in part three, give us some insights into the third film?
Elijah: Who says that?! I’ve seen moments from it and it just breaks your heart. It’s these characters that you’ve grown to care about that go to the ends of their existence and they lose quite a bit in the process. The fellowship characters will never be the same as a result of what they’ve been through. You always carry the scars of your experience and the experiences for these characters are very intense. The conclusion is fantastic and it’s all the themes we’ve been dealing with coming to an end (There are hints toward a much longer LOTR 3 movie).
And also I had this hilarious piece of work emailed to me yesterday:
Posted on Sun, Jan. 26, 2003
Why can’t they just lose the ring in the sink?
DAVE BARRY
CASSATT & BROOKINS
I finally saw the new Lord of the Rings movie, which is entitled Lord
of the Rings II: A LOT More Stuff Happens. It’s a tad on the long side
(three days) but I am not complaining. My eyeballs were literally
riveted to the screen, by literal rivets, from the moment I sat down until
the moment I lost all sensation in my lower body.
Yes, this is a classic movie, the kind that makes you laugh; makes you
cry; makes you wonder, over and over, if this would be a good time to
go to the bathroom. Above all, it’s a movie that makes you think about
the issues raised by the plot, the main issue being: What the heck IS
the plot?
I say this because it’s a very complicated story, with numerous
subplots and something like 11,000 major characters, most of whom have
hard-to-remember names like ‘‘Flagodirt’’ or ‘‘Grempkin.’’ So today, as a
service to all of you who were confused by this great movie, I present the
following:
SIMPLIFIED SCREENPLAY FOR LORD OF THE RINGS II
(Scene 1)
FRODO: Darn! I still have this darned ring that I got in the first
movie!
SAMWISE: The ring with the terrible power that causes everyone who
comes near it to over-act?
FRODO: Yes! And to destroy it, we must walk, slowly, in real time, all
the way across New Zealand!
SAMWISE: But who will guide us?
FRODO: How about a reptilian computer-generated creature with a bad
comb-over?
SAMWISE: Dick Cheney’s in this movie?
GOLLUM: Very funny, Hobbitt-breath.
(Scene 2:)
LORD ARAGORN: Well, my two trusty companions – Legolas, the Strangely
Tall Elf; and Gimli, the Comic Relief Dwarf – in our subplot, we are
pursuing Merry and Pippin, who have been captured by Orcs, and now we
find ourselves in the Kingdom of Rohan, ruled by King Theoden, whose
niece, Eowyn, will become my second love interest once the king is released
from the spell cast by his trusted counselor, Grima Wormtongue, who is
secretly in league with the evil wizard Saruman!
LEGOLAS: I have no idea what you’re talking about.
LORD ARAGORN: Me either. I’m just reading the script.
GIMLI: Well, I’m really short!
(Laughter)
LORD ARAGORN: But enough explanatory dialogue. It’s time for one of the
estimated 17 big sword-clanging battles we have in this movie with
hideous computer-generated monsters who always outnumber us by the
thousands, although we defeat them every time, because we are courageous
heroes!
LEGOLAS: Also, they have the hand-to-hand-combat skills of alfalfa.
MONSTERS: Arrrrrr.
SWORDS: CLANG! CLANG! CLANG! CLANG!
(Scene 3:)
MERRY: Well, Pippin, we escaped the Orcs, and now we are being carried
around by talking trees!
PIPPIN: Apparently, the audience will swallow anything!
TREE: It gets worse! Later on, we engage in branch-to-hand combat!
(Scene 4)
MONSTERS: Arrrrrr
SWORDS: CLANG! CLANG! CLANG! CLANG! (Scene 5)
FRODO: How come, if I’m the protagonist, Lord Aragorn has TWO love
interests, and I’m stuck in a subplot with Dick Cheney?
GOLLUM: Maybe it’s because your big hairy feet make you look like
you’re wearing a pair of dead weasels.
(Scene 6)
LORD ARAGORN: Well, Legolas and Gimli, with the help of Gandalf the
White, formerly Gandalf the Grey, also known as Gandalf the Beige, we have
defeated the Uruk-hai in a giant computer-generated battle. Now we must
make haste to the Really Big Rock of Karambador, before the forces of
Ba’Zoot, led by the evil King Weltpimple, conquer the Mullions of Gneep
and obtain the Remote Control Unit of Doom!
LEGOLAS: Now you’re just making stuff up.
LORD ARAGORN: Well, it’s not as stupid as the kung-fu trees.
GIMLI: I’m still short!
(Laughter)
(Scene 7)
FRODO: UH-oh! The movie is over, and I still have this darned ring! Do
you realize what that means?
SAMWISE: That ‘‘Weasel Feet’’ would be a good name for a rock band?
FRODO: Yes, as would ‘‘Kung Fu Trees’’ and ‘‘Combat Alfalfa.’’ But my
point is that the forces of Evil have been let loose upon the land,
which means soon there will be…
SAMWISE: No! Not that!
FRODO: Yes. Another sequel.
MONSTERS: Arrrrrr.
Edit: I checked my links and found they didn’t work. I guess for anyone who wants to you can go to http://www.comingsoon.net/ and on the left-side menu click on “search news” then put in search terms of “Lord of the Rings” to find the great articles and interviews I found. Enjoy!
[ This Message was edited by: Cees on 2003-01-31 00:14 ]
PS Bagfed, an interview with Peter Jackson that I read, they asked that very question–if he wanted to do the Hobbit. He said when he was done with this trilogy that he wanted to take a break from this theme for a while, but he did say “I’m not saying never–just not for a while.”
And also, if anyone here is a fan of the Chronicles of Narnia books, I read today that someone is making a live-action version of “The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe” for theaters. Yay! (If it is a good version, that is…)
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[ This Message was edited by: Cees on 2003-01-31 00:21 ]
Kim, you’re a fanatic! Go read the books again in the meantime.
Cees, great stuff. Thanks!
Jens
On 2003-01-31 03:53, Jens_Hoppe wrote:
Kim, you’re a fanatic!
Ya think?? 
Glad to see I’m not alone. Cees, I’m glad you’re here with me! LOL
K
Yes, Kim, I’m with you! Good to have someone to share my obsessions with. Let’s start our own club. 
Someone had the audacity this morning to call me a “LOTR head.”
LOTR forever!!!
I’m new here and I’m also looking forward to ROTK!!
A great site I’ve been browsing is http://fan.theonering.net/middleearthtours/
Oh man!
Kiirsi, you kill me!!! This is great stuff! LOL
B~
Glad you liked it, Brian.
Lisa,
Welcome to the board! You can’t just sneak in here unnoticed! Tell us more about yourself! What do you play, how long have you been playing, etc.
What do you think of Peter Jackson’s slightly loose grasp on the plot and characters in TTT?
Guess it’s about time I showed up on this thread, no?
Thanks, Kim! Though…is that a heartbreaking picture of my Sam or what??
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[ This Message was edited by: Martin Milner on 2003-02-04 11:21 ]
So, Frodo and Sam were “really good friends” (nudge, nudge, know what I mean)?
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=138905&perpage=40&pagenumber=1
This thing is like 47 pages of LotR parodies, “what if LotR had been written by someone else”
My favorite one (it’s on page 5): “Flowers for Smeagol” (if you’ve read Daniel Keyes’ "flowers for algernon, you’ll get the joke)
3d progris riport
martch 5 – Mr Gandalf and Mr Elrond say it dont matter about the writin on the ring. I tolld them i dint carv the words in it and I coudnt see anything on it. They said maybe they will still use me. I told Mr Gandalf that Bilbo never gave me tests like that only riting and reeding. He said Bilbo tolld him I was his bestist pupil in the Baggins family of retarded hobbits and I tryed the hardist becaus I reely wantd to quest I wantid it more even then hobbits who are smarter even then me.
Mr Gandalf askd me how come you want to go to Mordor all by youyrself Frodo. How did you find out about it. I said I dont remembir.
June 20 – Perhaps I should have waited before going to see Bilbo; or not have gone to see him at all. I don’t know. Nothing turns out the way I expect it to. With the clue that Bilbo had gone to Rivendell to finish his book, it was a simple matter to find him.
How could I tell him? What was I supposed to say? Here, look at me, I’m Frodo, the nephew to whom you left the One Ring? Not that I blame you for it, but here I am, all fixed up better than ever. Test me. Ask me questions. I speak twenty languages, living and dead; I’m a tactical whiz and I’m planning a stealthy invasion into Mordor that will make Middle Earth remember me long after I’m gone.
How could I tell him?
I wasn’t his nephew. That was another Frodo. The Power of the Ring had changed me, and he would resent me - as some others from the Fellowship resented me - because my growth diminished him. I didn’t want that.
June 29 – Before I go back to Hobbiton I’m going to finish the projects I’ve started since I left the Cracks of Doom. I visited the New Age of Man Institute for Advanced Study, about the possibility of utilizing the pair-production nuclear photoeffect for exploratory work in biophysics. At first he thought I was a crackpot wizard, but after I pointed out the flaws in some of his older scrolls he asked me to come back to the Institute to discuss my ideas with his Council. I might take him up on that after I’ve finished my work at the lab – if there is time. That’s the problem, of course. I don’t know how much time I have. A month? A year? The rest of my life? That depends on what I find out about the psycophysical side-effects of bearing the One Ring.
Nov 18 – prof Elrond was very nice when I came back to Rivendell. Frist he was very suspicius but I told him what happened to me and then he looked very sad and put his hand on my shoulder and said Frodo you got guts.
Evrybody looked at me when I walked into the room and started working in the chamber pot sweeping it out like I used to do. I said to myself Frodo if they make fun of you dont get sore because you remember their not so smart like you once thot they were. And besides they were once your frends and if they laffed at you that dont mean anything because they liked you to.
Nov 21 – I did a dumb thing today I forgot I wasnt in the Felloship any more like I used to be. I went in and sat down in my old seat in the circle and he lookd at me funny and he said Frodo what are you doing. So I said hello Mr. Elrond Im redy for our talk today only I lossed the ring we was using.
Mr Gandalf started to cry and run our of the group and everbody looked at me and I saw alot of them wasnt the same pepul who used to be in my Felloship.
Then all of a suddin I remembird some things about the Cracks of Dum and me getting smart and I said holy smoke I reely pulled a Frodo Baggins that time. I went away before he came back.
Thats why im going away from here for good to the Gray Havens. I dont want to do nothing like that agen. I dont want Mr Gandalf to feel sorry for me. I know evrybody feels sorry for me back in the Shire and I dont want that eather so Im going someplace where there are a lot of other litl pepul like me and nobody cared that Frodo Baggins was once a ringberer and now he cant even reed a book or rite good.
Anyway I bet im the frist dumb person in the world who did something inportent for Middle Erth. I did somthing but I dont remembir what. So I gess its like I did it for all the dumb litl pepul like me in the Shire and allover the world.
Goodby Mr Gandalf and Samwise and evrybody…
P.S. please tel Sauron not to be such a grouch when pepul take his stuff and he woud have more frends. Its easy to have frends if you let pepul share your stuff. Im going to have lots of frends where I go.
P.S. please if you get a chanse put some flowrs on Smeagols memoreal in the bak yard.
On 2003-02-03 09:59, Jens_Hoppe wrote:
So, Frodo and Sam were “really good friends” (nudge, nudge, know what I mean)? >
Yes, they were really good friends. No more than that. Why people feel the need to read more than that into it is beyond me. I don’t find it humorous…I find it stupid. Is it impossible anymore for two people of the same gender to be best friends without it being at all sexual?
On 2003-02-03 10:15, RosieCotton wrote:
Why people feel the need to read more than that into it is beyond me. I don’t find it humorous…I find it stupid.
Sorry RosieCotton, I was just fooling around - no offense meant. And I don’t really “read more than that into it”: On a serious level, I’ve never interpreted LOTR as showing a homoerotic relationship between Frodo and Sam. And I thought a bit of fun, when the subject came up, to be quite innocent.
Now, for penance, I will go home and spend the night pondering the immortal question of whether balrogs have wings.
“Stupid” Jens
On 2003-02-03 10:43, Jens_Hoppe wrote:
Sorry RosieCotton, I was just fooling around - no offense meant.
I know it’s just joking…it just bothers me because there ARE people who discuss it seriously.
Now, for penance, I will go home and spend the night pondering the immortal question of whether balrogs have wings. >
“Stupid” Jens
Now there’s a hot topic!
(They don’t have physical wings, but do have “wings” of flame…)
[ This Message was edited by: RosieCotton on 2003-02-03 10:50 ]