The Church of Alvis

I was talking to Furiel about this last week, but I am in the middle of doing the Tolkien classics. I read the Hobbit as a teenager, but never got far into The Fellowship of the Rings before becoming impatient and stopping.

I reread the Hobbit last week and find it gave me so much more than I remember from my youth. I guess if anything I aged into it well. I'm about a hundred pages into the Fellowship now. I am falling back in love with hobbits, the shire, elves, dwarves, and Gandalf.

I now have the idea that after the Hobbit is finally made (Peter Jackson is supposedly at the helm now) and released on DVD/blu-ray whatever to have the Feast of St Frodo (preferably as close to September 22nd (Frodo and Bilbo's birthday) where I watch the Hobbit and the entire LOTR trilogy extended directors cut editions whilst also engaging in the Hobbit meal plan (breakfast, second breakfast, elevenses, lunch, tea time, dinner and supper) figuring it would be an all day eat and watch affair.

Just figured I'd let you knuckle heads know what I've been thinking about lately.

Blackferne wrote:I was talking to Furiel about this last week, but I am in the middle of doing the Tolkien classics. I read the Hobbit as a teenager, but never got far into The Fellowship of the Rings before becoming impatient and stopping.

I reread the Hobbit last week and find it gave me so much more than I remember from my youth. I guess if anything I aged into it well. I'm about a hundred pages into the Fellowship now. I am falling back in love with hobbits, the shire, elves, dwarves, and Gandalf.

Translation: Blacky is into midget pr0n and old men.

Blackferne wrote:I now have the idea that after the Hobbit is finally made (Peter Jackson is supposedly at the helm now) and released on DVD/blu-ray whatever to have the Feast of St Frodo (preferably as close to September 22nd (Frodo and Bilbo's birthday) where I watch the Hobbit and the entire LOTR trilogy extended directors cut editions whilst also engaging in the Hobbit meal plan (breakfast, second breakfast, elevenses, lunch, tea time, dinner and supper) figuring it would be an all day eat and watch affair.

I thought you called that "Tuesday."

You are worse than Lobelia Sackville-Baggins!

Hehehe you said sack

Read the Silmarillion and that will kill any enthusiasm you ever had for anything written by Tolkien.

Happyclam wrote:Read the Silmarillion and that will kill any enthusiasm you ever had for anything written by Tolkien.

QF-motherfucking-E

Happyclam wrote:Read the Silmarillion and that will kill any enthusiasm, the enthusiasm's family, friends, acquitances, pets and coworkers, you ever had for anything written by Tolkien.

Yeah, that's about right...

I think one of my favorite little touch to the novel was a line where after Bilbo had a rather rough day Tolkien mentions he fell asleep soundly and dreamed of eggs and bacon.

Happyclam wrote:Read the Silmarillion and that will kill any enthusiasm you ever had for anything written by Tolkien.

^ OMG I WANTED TO DIE.

I'd rather watch episode I about three dozen times than re-read that shit.