No, the Tolkien Scholar was a woman
Janet Brennan Croft: [link]
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A place to talk about movies--old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.
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.
Janet Brennan Croft: [link]
Interesting
Hey she's my age! Cool.
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.
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
I've been in a state of tears or near tears for the last hour thanks to Moon.
All six movies played at the same time. Just the beginning with all the theme songs on top of each other with some slightly out of sync is hilarious.
We watched The Hobbit last night. Mal had a map of Middle-Earth spread out on his lap for most of it, except when he needed to hide from trolls. He thought the wargs looked like dinosaurs, which made me think megafauna, and a little Google later it appears that the wargs are a mix of megafauna, while Thranduil's war moose is an Irish elk (which is apparently neither Irish nor an elk).
This time I was even more blown away by Martin Freeman's performance.
Why was Benedict Cumberbatch credited?
Why was Benedict Cumberbatch credited?
He is Smaug.