The Hall of Fire

I'm sorry I haven't been able to comment or add anything as real life is intrusive at the moment. I have done a version of this myself and think Ethel's has many elements that are better than mine. When I get chance I'll try and list them. But I do have to say that the dialogue is far too long in my...

It occurred to me that the call for cakes and ale is a Shakespearean reference. There must be a thread on TORC about Tolkien and Shakespeare.
*off to hunt*

Actually I thought the steps were wrong given Bilbo's large feet.

Clearly this movie is doomed to suck to use the US vernacular.

I see we'll have to amend the first words of the Goblin King to 'Hello possums!'

Working through the women is too simple an answer for important people to grasp.

Question: Why would Elrond ask Thorin to stay while he and Gandalf and Radagast are discussing White Council business? Thorin's not a part of the Council -- no Dwarf is-- so I'd think they would keep Saruman's message until outsiders had gone to bed. Fair point. I merely included Thorin because of ...

Now why isn't there a nationwide discussion about this rather than Weiner? http://news.yahoo.com/s/usnw/20110601/pl_usnw/DC11944 First, the organization alleges, Justice Thomas falsified 20 years of judicial financial disclosure forms by denying that his wife had income sources; second, he engaged i...

The health and insurance sectors gave nearly $170 million to House and Senate members in 2007 and 2008, with 54% going to Democrats, according to data compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics. The shift in parties was even more pronounced during the first three months of 2009, when Democrats ...

Ok, point taken and no offence taken either at the chiding. We have our own corrupt politicians and elites that disgust me here too. But I was trying to make a serious point. Bear in mind that most of what gets discussed here is American politics. When I started to look at the process of health care...

Americans don't seem to have problems with their elected officials being bought and paid for. To get in a tizzy about a minor flirtation on a social site seems a strange set of values in comparison.

I'm just a little confused as to when we changed from writing a film script to an episodic serialization...did I miss something while I was away? Confused We discussed it on the first page. I have to admit I'm a fan of the serial format as one isn't bounden by movie times. And one can always expung...

The Hobbit: Episode Two: Roast Mutton: Part 2 (….....The company crossing the Fords of Bruinen and riding up the steep bank beyond.......) Cut to them riding over an open hillside covered with heather and dotted with outcrops of rock and scattered birch trees. Cut to Gandalf on his white horse on th...

Final part of my version of the second episode coming up. I checked back and see that Bilbo did pick up Sting at the troll den. I missed that. But I have altered it to make its origin in Gondolin that much clearer if only for the sake of another lost hobbit caught in the terror webs on the borders o...

That's 'cos we're working.

Er, yes.

Ack, you know men. Sharp flint, bored out of his brain, what to do next......hey bet no one's tried this.

If evolution knew best the extraction of wisdom teeth would be unnecessary and the wearing of spectacles.

A religious exemption makes no sense to me. It's saying Jews and Muslims can have circumcisions for religious reasons but others cannot for health benefits.

Give me a day. I've had a rethink about Radagast and think I could fit him in. It really depends on how purist people want this. I did LOTR (partly) as a purist exercise and took that discipline seriously. If we intend the White Council and Dol Guldur to appear (and I think we should) then lots of i...

It still seems to me that the people defining harm are the ones without the alteration not the ones with it. When I get oppressed I'm grateful for expressions of support but I don't welcome people telling me I'm oppressed when I'm not. Let's put it another way. I am perfectly happy in my circumsized...