moving to bag end?

[bluegreen17]

yeah well...it's almost time to watch fellowship of the ring and i preordered the extended version of the vhs today at work.

as one person on livejournal (thanks roland!) said...there are worse things than watching that over and over.

and he's right. there's worse things than watching the fellowship of the ring a thousand times and being inordinately fond of hobbits. i wonder if bag end is for sale?

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The Wizard of 0z

[seraphimsigrist.livejournal.com]

0z is a good place to visit and even live in for a
while too. after I blew out my knee in a bowling alley
some years ago and was layed up , just then the first
14 0z books were reissued in paper and were just
right for the mood of convalesence and childlike sense
of passage of time...after that I got the others(all
40 and lived in Oz as much as possible for a couple
of years) and then sold them off--today they would
be worth more--to support work in Moscow, having
rejoined, but not without regret, the main flow of
things...
0f the two Tolkien's world I would say however is much
less escapist and really is mostly our primary world made
perhaps more bearable by the showing forth of its
inner side more than most of us most of the time can
sense it, or anyway just this thought,
+Seraphim

[yex-x.livejournal.com]

Hey hey hey!

You haven't discovered the joys of DVD yet?

I hate to act like some cyberpunk who is pushing the latest technology on people, but you must get a DVD player! Once you get one, you'll never go back.

: )

I got my 4-hour special edition ordered, as well.

[bluegreen17]

oh,so i take it you liked the fellowship of the ring then? ha.
and what about second breakfast? er,i mean...what about the super duper collector's edition of the dvd? i was reading dvd mag or something like that and it's hard to tell if the collector's addition has more footage or it's just the fancy bookends it comes with...ha.

i am tempted to buy the dvd for when i get a player. i actually like technology...well,sometimes...ido hate cell phones and i do dislike the consequences of some technology but i love it in entertainment! the bottom line is i haven't had a lot of money in a while,but we'll see if i can remedy that in time...got to improve my 'abundance consciousness' you know!

[mollyringle.livejournal.com]

I would have given a suggestion as to a new hobby other than watching FOTR repeatedly, but that's my favorite hobby too, so I don't know what to tell you. :)

I always rewind and rewatch Gandalf's "death" and the ensuing grief (so sad, so beautiful), and usually the boat scene at the end too (aww, Sam and Frodo...). It's unfair how pretty that kid looks with tears on his face.

Must agree that having DVD is awesome. I can watch with subtitles if I want! Yay! Hehe.

[bluegreen17]

one of the things that was sort of a bummer when i watched fellowship of the rings has nothing to do with the quality of the movie. i read the books 30 years ago (yes,i am ancient...though not compared to elves) and there is tons of stuff i didn't remember,but of course i remember that gandalf came back as 'the white' (i assume i'm not spoiling that for you since everyone has seen the ttt trailers but me!) so i really didn't have much of an emotional reaction to his 'death'...and i love crying over movies...

[mollyringle.livejournal.com]

Ah...well, even knowing Gandalf comes back (right, no spoiler there; I read the books too!), it's still a moving scene to me because of the hobbits' reactions. They don't know he's coming back, poor little guys. For the same reason, I'm sure Frodo's "death" scene (thanks to Shelob) will be heartbreaking, even though we all know he can't really be dead--but Sam will think he is, and that's the saddest part of the books in my opinion.

Though perhaps the goodbye at the Grey Havens will be sadder...