Lord of the Rings

“you shall summarily be ignored.”

“LOL!”

“you spelled "sacrilege" incorrectly”

“I saw the final movie this week. I thought it was a bit too long, but good overall. When I mentioned that I thought it dragged a little to my son, he said, "You're just an old woman and that's why you thought was too long."

This old woman remembers reading the books as a teenager and they didn't drag a bit.”

“I need to re-read the whole thing, now. It seems that there was a lot of jumping around (in the last movie, especially) that wasn't in the books.

I'm still pissed that they screwed up one of my favorite scenes.”

“which scene, tilt?”

“TILT....what scene is that????”

“HA! beat cha”

“LOL....you are younger..I hope you are faster than I am!!!”

“but you are wiser ; )”

“Let's see... I typed it up once before....”

“was it the bed scene at the end of rotk where the hobbits are all frolicking around in homo-erotic fashion?”

“I found a post where someone posted how to make Lenbas Bread. I thought it was cool.

http://greenbooks.theonering.net/moonletters/recipes/files/r060102_01.html

http://fan.theonering.net/writing/recipes/files/jincey_lembas.html”

“I posted that ages ago.”

“Well pardon mio! Mr. Middle Earth Is a Real Place!! LOL!”

“Your confusing me with Stikmon. ;-)”

“StickStomper? Sorry dude! LOL!”

“it does not sit well to raise the wrath of a Wizard. and insults do you NO good towards that effect.”

“i rewathed the LOTR fellowship the other night.



sigh,,,,,what a great movie.”

“I'm hoping I can get Laurel to watch at least parts of LOTR, because I am SO sick of the Harry Potter flicks now! She loves them! THe other funnything I realized today shes saying a few words with a British accent. LOL!”

“Mike got me on these movies and they are the bomb!”

“Mikes got you on movies, huh?”

“Ya the LOTR thing and Family Guy.”

“Shlt Sticky Dumbledore is twice the wizard Gandalf was.”

“Johnny-come-lately. Pantywaiste. Greenhorn.”

“Harry Potter would wet himself before a mass of Orcs.”

“I agree.......”

“So is anyone reading The Children of Hurin? Any first impressions?”

“I haven't been to the bookstore in several weeks. It's on my list though.”

“whats this got to do with lotr? is it written by tolkien?”

“It was an "unpublished" or slightly "unfinished" piece that's finally being published and released.”

“ive thought about reading the silmarillion before. isnt some of that in the lotr movies?”

“It was referenced several times in the movies. I tried reading the Silmarillion as a teen and had a hard time finishing it. I read it just before all the movies came out and was disappointed there wasn't more to it.”

“much of the love story between arwen and aragorn comes from there, if i remember what ive heard correctly


was disappointed there wasn't more to it.”

thats how i felt about the movies. the theater versions are already epic masterpieces, but the extended versions are EVEN BETTER. i would love it if jackson just dedicated the rest of his career to putting the rest of (or at least the best of) the tolkien canon onto film). last i heard, jackson was off the hobbit project due to disputes. how anyone could fck that up is beyond me.”

“Actually I was referring to the book.”

“i know you were”

“The Children of Hurin was started by Tolkien Sr. and was finished by Tolkien Jr. I have no clue how much each contributed. I think Tolkien Sr. basically did all the writing and Tolkien Jr. did all the stitching together of the various drafts.”

“Here's an article written by his grandson Adam about how it all came about...

http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/?docId=1000074611”

“geeks

;)”

“I bet you wouldn't say that to my 20th level palidan, Zandel and her +5 Holy Avenger sword.”

“LOL!!

"No you may not use the restroom, restrooms are for paying customers only"

Comicbook Store Guy
Simpsons”

“The Witch King of Angmar was present when the Gates of Gondor fell and he and Gandalf had a lovely little tête-à-tête. Jackson needs to fix that first.... then he can put Tom Bombadil and the Barrow Wights in where they're supposed to be... THEN he can work on the rest of it! [GRIN]



The drums rolled louder. Fires leaped up. Great engines crawled across the field; and in the midst was a huge ram, great as a forest-tree a hundred feet in length, swinging on mighty chains. Long had it been forging in the dark smithies of Mordor, and its hideous head, founded of black steel, was shaped in the likeness of a ravening wolf; on it spells of ruin lay. Grond they named it, in memory of the Hammer of the Underworld of old. Great beasts drew it, orcs surrounded it, and behind walked mountain-trolls to wield it.
But about the Gate resistance still was stout, and there the knights of Dol Amroth and the hardiest of the garrison stood at bay. Shot and dart fell thick; siege-towers crashed or blazed suddenly like torches. All before the walls on wither side of the Gate the ground was choked with wreck and with bodies of the slain; yet still driven as by a madness more and more came up.

Grond crawled on. Upon its housing no fire would catch; and though now and again some great beast that hauled it would go mad and spread stamping ruin among the orcs innumerable that guarded it, their bodies were cast aside from its path and others took their place.

Grond crawled on. The drums rolled wildly. Over the hills of slain a hideous shape appeared: a horseman, tall, hooded, cloaked in black. Slowly, trampling the fallen, he rode forth, heeding no longer any dart. And as he did so a great fear fell on all, defender and foe alike; and the hands of men drooped to their sides, and no bow sang. For a moment all was still.

The drums rolled and rattled. With a vast rush Grond was hurled forward by huge hands. It reached the Gate. It swung. A deep boom rumbled through the city like thunder running in the clouds. But the doors of iron and posts of steel withstood the stroke.

Then the Black Captain rose in his stirrups and cried aloud in a dreadful voice, speaking in some forgotten tongue words of power and terror to rend both heart and stone.

Thrice he cried. Thrice the great ram boomed. And suddenly upon the last stroke the Gate of Gondor broke. As if stricken by some blasting spell it burst asunder: there was a flash of searing lightning, and the doors tumbled in riven fragments to the ground.


In rode the Lord of the Nazgul. A great black shape against the fires beyond he loomed up, grown to a vast menace of despair. In rode the Lord of the Nazgul, under the archway that no enemy ever yet had passed, and all fled before his face.

All save one. There waiting, silent and still in the space before the Gate, sat Gandalf upon Shadowfax: Shadowfax who alone among the free horses of the earth endured the terror, unmoving, steadfast as a graven image in Rath Dinen.

"You cannot enter here," said Gandalf, and the huge shadow halted. "Go back to the abyss prepared for you! Go back! Fall into the nothingness that awaits you and your Master. Go!"

The Black Rider flung back his hood, and behold! he had a kingly crown; and yet upon no head visible was it set. The red fires shone between it and the mantled shoulders vast and dark. From a mouth unseen there came a deadly laughter.

"Old fool!" he said. "Old fool! This is my hour. Do you not know Death when you see it? Die now and curse in vain!" And with that he lifted high his sword and flames ran down the blade.

Gandalf did not move. And in that very moment, away behind in some courtyard of the City, a cock crowed. Shrill and clear he crowed, recking nothing of wizardry and war, welcoming only the morning that in the sky far above the shadows of death was coming with the dawn.

And as if in answer there came from far away another note. Horns, horns, horns. In dark Mindolluin's sides they dimly echoed. Great horns of the North wildly blowing. Rohan had come at last.”

“Dang it, now I gotta re-read the books b/c of Tilt's long quote. :)

I've read the Silmarillion. Tough read. I need to get the Children, too.”

“I concur re: the Silmarils. Time to take another run at it, I guess ;-)

Still can't believe Jackson 'edited' that scene. Did he really do that or did I just hallucinate the whole thing? < G >”

“The Witch King of Angmar was present when the Gates of Gondor fell

i thought he was killed by eowyn at palindor”

“oh nevermind i was thinking of the black gates”

“Dat was after! (in the book, anyway)”

“yea, i know. i was thinking the black gates were the gates of gondor

i had issues with some plot points too. like the king of rohan (forget his name at the moment) made no sense. that whole subplot with refusing to come to the aid of the other armies, and then the steward refusing to light the fire, seemed half-baked. and his entire character just wasnt true to the book. much too gee gosh i dunno maybe we can negotiate with the nice orcs”

“don't want to go off half-baked....

It is better to be already dead if you find yourself on a funeral pyre.”