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Lord Of The Rings

OscarWilde

Tue Nov 6 16:02:47 2001

This is the first time in a long time i'm enjoying a book this much!!!!!

WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What an absolutely incredible writer.
I can't wait to see the movie.

Imitation Gruel

Tue Nov 6 16:05:29 2001

I have an old battered copy of the trilogy that I haven't read in years.

I also am looking forward to the films, but I must reread the books first.

AllYorBaseRBelong2Us

Tue Nov 6 16:12:33 2001

Here's the spoiler....

katie holmes makes no appearance in the book.  Galadriel wouldn't let her as katie would have upstaged her as a much more beautiful woman.

Tom Bombadil is actually one of my Zigs.  He's there to establish one of my bases, but the lazy bastard sings dances and flirts with that water chick in those crazy assed yellow boots of his WHEN HE SHOULD BE WORKING!

I also need to enforce a uniform dress code it seems.

DuffMan

Tue Nov 6 19:59:14 2001

I remember the LOTR trilogy as being very good, but very slow. Probably because when I read them as a little wee one I couldnt read as fast and had a short attention span.
Jeremy Reimer

Wed Nov 7 02:29:22 2001

I'm re-reading the trilogy right now to prepare for the movies (well, the first movie anyway) and I'm finding them a bit slow, even now.

Long, long descriptive sections on forests, and trees, and rivers, and rocks, and banks of rivers, and trunks of trees, and leaves, and such.  In the Fellowship of the Ring I found one such section that went on for three and a half pages.

In general I find the first book very slow going in parts.  But it's a great story all together.

OscarWilde

Wed Nov 7 02:49:04 2001

The book isn't really that slow is it? Yeah its descriptive but thats the great part. It sets the stage for the kind of world the book is set.

And the Lord of the Ring is NOT a trilogy. Thats what it says in the introduction of my book (which has all three 'main' books).

" The Lord of the Rings is often erroneously called a trilogy, when it is in fact a single novel, consisiting of six books plus appendices, sometimes published in three volumes."

Granted I'm having a hard time not seeing it as a trilogy but then again I also can't overlook the fact that it is written as a total of six books. So it could be a sexolgy. (No not sex as in fucking, sex as in six).

(Edited by OscarWilde at 9:50 am on Nov. 7, 2001)

AllYorBaseRBelong2Us

Wed Nov 7 02:51:37 2001

All Your Ring are belong to Me!

I shall bring them all together and in the sillyness of OSY, bind them!

In the land of OSY where post-whores lie.

One Troll to Rule them all,
One Troll to find them,
One Troll to bring them all together and then Banana-Creme-Pie them!

In the land of OSY where the Postwhores lie!

AllYorBaseRBelong2Us

Wed Nov 7 02:53:08 2001

OW is my poopy-headed balrog!

OscarWilde

Wed Nov 7 03:13:55 2001

In the darkness bind them...

I'm on the second book (2nd out of 6).

AllYorBaseRBelong2Us

Wed Nov 7 03:15:59 2001

The color of the sky is grey as I can see, throught the blinds

OscarWilde

Wed Nov 7 03:19:09 2001

woot realtime posting
OscarWilde

Wed Nov 7 03:19:29 2001

time to increase post count
AllYorBaseRBelong2Us

Wed Nov 7 03:22:29 2001

Come on now try to understand
The way i feel under your command.
OscarWilde

Wed Nov 7 03:31:42 2001

what are you now? Bilbo?
AllYorBaseRBelong2Us

Wed Nov 7 03:36:18 2001

No, Natalie Merchant.
:)
OscarWilde

Wed Nov 7 03:40:39 2001

Well then I'm Tom Bombadillio oh what a merry chap o illio
Jeremy Reimer

Wed Nov 7 04:16:58 2001

I really can't stand Tom Bombadillo.  Although I liked his wife...  
Madan

Wed Nov 7 13:08:14 2001

I'd like to read them. I've heard good things about them.

I just might too, since the second War of Souls book for Hickman and Weiss  REFUSES to come out in paperback!

:hatred:

In any event, I won't start them for awhile. I don't have time, what with me dating Viconia and chilling tossing back cold ones with Minsc, Boo and Jaheira...

:(

Oh shit, I'm such a freaking loser!

M.

Riso

Wed Nov 7 15:37:11 2001

from Jeremy Reimer posted at 3:29 am on Nov. 7, 2001

Long, long descriptive sections on forests, and trees, and rivers, and rocks, and banks of rivers, and trunks of trees, and leaves, and such.  In the Fellowship of the Ring I found one such section that went on for three and a half pages.

Only one such section?
Man, english writers are soo lazy.

Karl May* used to fill most of his books with that.


*German writer. Wrote Winnetou+Old Shatterhand.
Probably more known to germans.

Magus

Wed Nov 7 21:30:10 2001

No, there's plenty of such description. If you haven't already gotten there, wait until Saruman's castle is described or the beginnings of Mordor.
OscarWilde

Thu Nov 8 03:41:52 2001

how much of the LOTR trailer is actually from the first two books (or the first 'trilogy')?
And so far I don't see whats so "eye opening" about the two hobbits, Frodo and Bilbo. Considering that you have the other three hobbits, Merry, Pippen and Sam that are on the adventure too. Yeah yeah yeah, the baggins (or whatever the evil creatures that are called that live in the rock) did not really effect Frodo, but still. Sam seems to be quite the warrior. I suppose i'll have to get further into the book.
And parts of the text seemed to jump around a bit, especially at the councel. Hmmm... probably have to read a lot closer to get some of whats going on.
Great read so far though. Granted i'm taking my time though, but thats because I have so many other things to do throughout the day and the only time I can read is when i'm travelling back and forth between work and home on the train.
Jeremy Reimer

Sat Nov 10 10:03:57 2001

how much of the LOTR trailer is actually from the first two books (or the first 'trilogy')?

The trailer is for the first movie, Fellowship of the Ring, which covers the first book of the trilogy.  Then there'll be two more movies for the other two books.

These movies are going to rock.

HitScan

Sat Nov 10 14:47:00 2001


Then there'll be two more movies for the other two books.

[size=5] W00!  As it should be.[/size]
PaulHill

Sat Nov 10 15:07:29 2001

Except for the third one.

Hands up anyone who didn't get horribly bored through "Return of the king" about the dull old war, and couldn't wait to get to the cool spider-fighting stuff with Frodo and Sam.

Plus, gay hobbit sex!

OscarWilde

Sun Nov 11 04:45:47 2001

There is gay hobbit sex? :eek:

between frodo and sam i'm assuming? Or is it Sam forcing onto Frodo? Kinda like the pizzaman forcing onto RQE..

woo hoo!!! i bree-ink teh pAst* to teh futhure!

* Say in teh brit accent not american:
american: plant == plaaaant
brit: plant == plAnt
american: bastard == baaastard
brit: bastard == bAstard

American accent tends to sound very nasaly.. if nasaly is a word and if it is indeed spelled as such.

(Edited by OscarWilde at 11:47 am on Nov. 11, 2001)

AllYorBaseRBelong2Us

Sun Nov 11 06:54:31 2001

american: Oscar Wilde is a poopy head

brit: Oscar Wilde's noggin is covered with shite!

Socrates

Sun Nov 11 10:07:26 2001

Return of the King is great.  Went through 3 sets of paperbacks, so I bought a hardbound version.

I tend to like the run to the forest, and, Treebeard.

socrates
and searching for beauty, Galadriel

Socrates

Sun Nov 11 21:46:12 2001

Paul Hill sitting at keyboard:
"Damn, I got another one.  Let's see how deep I can get the hook in this time."

"Wow, this guy not only took the bait, he ate the whole damn sinker."

Socrates

Gay hobbit sex: rofl
Paul: Are you and Pizzaman related, or engaged?
rofl

Socrates

Sun Nov 11 21:48:27 2001

Let's see. The Return of the King end scene where Frodo finally gets the ring into the fire should end, with
The Talking Heads song
"Burning down the House"

?

Socrates