“Artist Patrick Acton used over 420,000 matchsticks to create this model of Minas Tirith from “Lord of the Rings”. Acton’s version of Minas Tirith is...
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Jack
jackwhittake...
Feb 26, 2011 7:01 pm
I love the white tree... From: TolkienDiscussions@yahoogroups.com [mailto:TolkienDiscussions@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Ronn! Blankenship Sent: 26 February...
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Nicky A
progfan
Mar 10, 2011 8:04 pm
Do you like movies like Lord of the Rings, Narnia, and the Highlander? Then you'll love Battle Lords! Battle Lords is a web series about a group of friends...
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jackwhittaker2000
jackwhittake...
Mar 21, 2011 12:05 pm
...at last http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-12803125 Production on the films, starring Martin Freeman as Bilbo Baggins, is expected to take up to...
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scott
tripleleome
Mar 21, 2011 10:23 pm
Can we get a yay? ... From: jackwhittaker2000 <jack@...> Subject: [TolkienDiscussions] Hobbit filming under way To:...
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Rob
cosmiccostello
Mar 22, 2011 4:25 am
<<Can we get a yay?>> I can only afford a "Woo-Hoo!" because I am saving up for the movie. ... Rob...
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Morjuc
Mar 24, 2011 2:17 am
Martin Freeman is great! This will be awsome! Yay! Alyssa...
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Jack
jackwhittake...
Mar 24, 2011 7:40 am
What has he been in before? He looks vaguely familiar ... From: TolkienDiscussions@yahoogroups.com [mailto:TolkienDiscussions@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of...
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Gary
pepper_gaz
Mar 24, 2011 5:21 pm
Here is a link to his movie biography and such at imdb which i think is more reliable than wikipedia http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0293509/ Looking at imdb, i bet...
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Morjuc
Mar 25, 2011 12:09 am
I have seen him in a couple of things and his acting has always been good. He's Watson in BBC's Sherlock. He also played Arthur Dent in the most reecent...
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Jack
jackwhittake...
Mar 25, 2011 6:29 pm
Is it only a year since last time? Doesn't time fly! ... Jack (I would love to change the world, but they won't give me the source code) ... Send emails with...
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Jack
jackwhittake...
Mar 25, 2011 6:29 pm
You lose your shilling It was Hot Fuzz ... From: TolkienDiscussions@yahoogroups.com [mailto:TolkienDiscussions@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Gary Sent: 24...
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jack@...
jackwhittake...
Apr 1, 2011 6:55 am
That's spam And Andrew has been banned Regards Jack Moderator  ... That's spam And Andrew has been banned Regards Jack Moderator ...
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poikaa
kb8dns
Apr 13, 2011 5:21 am
Jackson's movie is being shown over and over on Encore movie channels on my satellite dish, Dish Network. Normally I would tire of the repeat quickly but I...
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Rob
cosmiccostello
Apr 13, 2011 6:00 am
<<. the movie is very true to the book with most of what my mind's eye had envisioned very faithfully reproduced in the movie. A testament to J.R.R. Tolkien's...
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poikaa
kb8dns
Apr 13, 2011 10:50 am
My first reading of the Lord of the Rings was in high school in 1971, the first book I read was The Two Towers.... after a few chapters I got it straight! I...
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Kenneth Ayers
justkenneth
Apr 13, 2011 4:55 pm
I first read Tolkien in the early seventies too. I loved those paperbacks that I checked out from the library, the covers illustrated with Tolkiens own...
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jack@...
jackwhittake...
Apr 13, 2011 5:16 pm
In 1973-ish I won a competition for public speaking at school and got LOTR as the prize. Â This was a one volume paperback. Â I read it about once a year until...
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Freeman Ng
tenorslowworm
Apr 13, 2011 9:14 pm
I first read the trilogy in fifth grade in something like two weeks, and have probably read the whole thing all the way through at least twenty times since...
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scott
tripleleome
Apr 14, 2011 12:31 am
Let's see...It was in the early 70's for me also. I had a bad case of the flu and my mom brought home the Hobbit and the trilogy for me: I read all four in a...
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Kenny
justkenneth
Apr 14, 2011 1:14 am
My parents gave me the Silmarillion hardcover when it was first published. I think as a Christmas present. Am I remembering correctly? Was it published...
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scott
tripleleome
Apr 14, 2011 11:58 am
That sounds right. Mine may have been a Christmas present also. Scott ... From: Kenny <justkenneth@...> Subject: [TolkienDiscussions] Re: LOTR, The...
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Morjuc
Apr 14, 2011 8:39 pm
The books are always fun. I'm rereading them now. It was a relief to find I didn't think of the movie too much when reading them. Yes, there are things I...
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jack@...
jackwhittake...
Apr 14, 2011 8:51 pm
Gah! Â I had forgotten the dwarf-tossing jokes! But generally the movies were pretty good ... Â ... Gah! I had forgotten the dwarf-tossing jokes! But...
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Jack
jackwhittake...
Apr 17, 2011 9:39 am
LOTR was published in three parts between 1954 and 1955, according to Wikipedia... So no-one saw it in the 1940s... ... Jack From:...
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Ronn! Blankenship
ronn_blanken...
May 20, 2011 8:58 am
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Science-CAD/MrEnt.shtml (yes, this is from me; no, it's not a virus or spam) . . . ronn! :)...
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Jack
jackwhittake...
May 23, 2011 6:24 am
Guaranteed ... Jack ... From: TolkienDiscussions@yahoogroups.com [mailto:TolkienDiscussions@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Ronn! Blankenship Sent: 20 May 2011...
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poikaa
kb8dns
May 31, 2011 2:44 pm
Jackson has released the titles of the two Hobbit movies, according to Yahoo.... "The first of the two films, which are currently being filmed back-to-back in...
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Jack
jackwhittake...
May 31, 2011 5:48 pm
Hmm, lots of those people don't appear in The Hobbit - Frodo wasn't even born! I can see that we shall have grumbles about not being true to the Book, like we...
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scott
tripleleome
Jun 1, 2011 1:14 am
Yes, I had noticed that list of non-appearing characters too. Oh, well! ... From: Jack <jack@...> Subject: RE: [TolkienDiscussions] Prequels...
