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Nor I. Which is why I don't trust PBJ to make up stuff.
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Why, they might hang the entire second movie on the drama of the drowning. Perhaps the title will be "Hobbit 2: Watery Grave." They can intercut it with scenes of Isildur swimming the Anduin and Déagol being dragged by a fish. Make it all fit together, you know.

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Yes! And suddenly my prescient screen name selection from, like, seven or eight years ago on TORC will make brilliant sense.

I see Angelina Jolie as Primula.
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Primula Baggins wrote:I see Angelina Jolie as Primula.
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I don't.

You deserve better. :P
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And Brad Pitt as Drogo? Somehow the two of them don't strike me as very ... hobbitish.
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Jonny Depp could pull it off, though. *Sigh* Jonny! :love:
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Jonny Depp could pull virtually anything off! :)
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<feels dreadful temptation>

<is restored to the path of virtue through sheer force of will>
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Leonard Di Caprio has cornered the drowning hero roles.
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And Leo is the right height...
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:rofl:
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Leo????? :help:

People, PLEASE! :shock: :shock: :shock:

Nothing against the guy, personally. Just not in a Hobbit movie. ;)

Reminds me of some of those dreadful casting rumours for LotR, back in the day. Like Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman for Faramir and Éowyn.

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What a virtuous woman you are. :halo:
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:halo:

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Primula Baggins wrote::halo:

Long practice in living a Sunday-school-teacher life with a mind permanently in the gutter.
I'm glad it's not just me. :er:

Being a fine, upstanding woman of the church with her mind permanently in the gutter, I mean. :D
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Can I join the gang? :oops: ;)
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The more, the merrier, Elen! :D

:music:
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:whistle: :pray:

(well I'm a choir member but there doesn't seem to be a "singing" smilie!)
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Pearly Di wrote:Leo????? :help:

People, PLEASE! :shock: :shock: :shock:

Nothing against the guy, personally. Just not in a Hobbit movie. ;)

Reminds me of some of those dreadful casting rumours for LotR, back in the day. Like Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman for Faramir and Éowyn.

:wimper:
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Elentári wrote::whistle: :pray:

(well I'm a choir member but there doesn't seem to be a "singing" smilie!)
Glad to have reinforcements, Elen!

I've used :happydance: as a singer in the band:

:music: :drummer: :happydance: :music:

But it's not a church choir effect, at least in the churches I know well. :P

No, I am really glad Leo's nowhere near LotR. He grates on me.
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OT:

It's strange because I really have not liked di Caprio in anything I've seen except Romeo and Juliet, in which he was really excellent! I think it was a combination of very skilled direction, extraordinary if unorthodox script and his youth at the time. It really worked for me!

But nothing else since.
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