Maybe he wanted the credit line I spotted in the Hobbit for Tolkien Scholar. Probably someone who could definitively say "No, we don't have names for the two blue wizards."
Wesley: And how does your kind define love? Demon: Same as all bodies. Same as everywheres. Love is sacrifice.
'The Girl in Question'
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Connie Neil - Mar 24, 2013 3:15:16 pm PDT #23920 of 30000
brillig
beekaytee - Mar 24, 2013 4:12:22 pm PDT #23921 of 30000
Compassionately intolerant
Connie, was the Tolkien Scholar credited as Lee?
I'm sure that would make him very happy.
The stories from the set, back in the day, included Lee carrying his first edition around, correcting things in the script. There were apparently a few, "Yes, we know, but for the _movie_ " arguments.
Honestly, after today's viewing, I really need to go back and reread the Hobbit. There was a lot I did not remember.
Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 24, 2013 4:54:34 pm PDT #23922 of 30000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
He rereads Tolkein every year and once met the man himself, so I can see him being a purist about the works.
Connie Neil - Mar 24, 2013 6:29:30 pm PDT #23923 of 30000
brillig
No, the Tolkien Scholar was a woman. I was thinking I'd be very pleased to put that on my resume.
dcp - Mar 24, 2013 6:48:37 pm PDT #23924 of 30000
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
beekaytee - Mar 24, 2013 6:51:25 pm PDT #23925 of 30000
Compassionately intolerant
Oh, me too, but I'd never qualify.
I am daunted. Daunted I say. Any book, like the Silmarillion, that _begins_ with a glossary, is destined to be my undoing.
We it not for the Rob Inglis read audiobooks, I might not have gotten through the Fellowship at all. After listening, I was able to read.
beekaytee - Mar 24, 2013 6:53:00 pm PDT #23926 of 30000
Compassionately intolerant
Janet Brennan Croft: [link]
Interesting
Connie Neil - Mar 24, 2013 8:17:28 pm PDT #23927 of 30000
brillig
Hey she's my age! Cool.
sumi - Mar 24, 2013 9:56:51 pm PDT #23928 of 30000
Art Crawl!!!
Christian Kane is going to be playing Mark Allen - co-owner of Mine that Bird in a movie about the Kentucky Derby winner.
Skeet Ulrich will be playing his trainer Chip Woolley.
Polter-Cow - Mar 24, 2013 10:05:39 pm PDT #23929 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Went to Olympus Has Fallen last night and it pretty much SUCKED.
Oh, really? The review in the SF Chronicle was pretty good. Huh.
Javi's review:
"olympus has fallen" is like a slasher flick where the camp is the white house, the teens are terrorists and gerard butler is jason voorhees