LOTR (nerd strut)
djkingotto
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i played D&D once in my life in 1982 and can't really stand star trek so I am no gamer or sci-fi fanatic, but i love the 4 books that make up the lord of the rings trilogy (?). i'm on my 3rd reading and i watch the movies, extended versions, all in sequence at least once a month. i'm not saying i sit on the couch and watch intently, but i get a lot of use from those DVDs. am i alone here? anyone else ride for middle-earth? any news on the making of the hobbit movie? what say you?
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Getcho nerd on, Sonathan!
I love the making of frodo's town, whatever it is called, on one of the DVD's.
ooh that Simarillion is a hard read! i started it once and let it sit for a couple years and just read it all the way through earlier this year. i want to check out the unfinished tales though....
hobbiton? i met a guy the other day who is going to new zealand soon and said he was going to helm's deep. i guess they left all the sets up for tourists to check out. dopeness!
lot of hints through the books
Yeah, good to watch once so you can say you've seen them, but that's basically it.
As a teen i had a buddy who was a D&D head. He would sit in class designing customized mazes to bring to his crew. I was so impressed by that level of commitment, being an artist myself who spent crazy hours myself creating my own superhero universe in my mind.
The sword & sorcery stuff can get a little boring to me. I can fuck w/ it for only so long. I realized later that Tolkien pretty much set the standard for the classic team of the Human Leader/Old Wizard/Archer Elf/Tuff Dwarf/Fighter Female/etc.....which became such a regular motif in many games/movies/books.
Props. I never had the opportunity to play D & D which just wasnt done in the hood.
madness...them shits was great.
i grew up with LOTR and starwars.
so the phantom menace trilogy and tolkein on film was a dream come true.
childhood relived.
freddy vs. jason was pretty fuckin epic too
got ill with the collector jones, started scarfing up early editions and such in the '90s. crown jewel of my collection is US 1st edition, 1st print, 1st impressions of the hobbit and LOTR trilogy hardcovers. No dust jacket on the hobbit, but im happy with what i got (1st 1st Hobbit with a DJ... well, lets just say choose that or a nice new car). All from a collection of 2 sisters who where total sci-fi packrats from the '20s to the '80s. (pix not mine but its pretty much what they look like).