Avoiding spoilers mostly entirely, he has to, ahem, be playing her.

On the subject of squash/raquetball, I had a look on wikipedia to see if the UK played it (there was a related game racketball which merged with squash in the UK. I get the impressions there are 10 different, very closely related variatations of what is one core sport).

However, another link (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squash_court) let to me an interesting little factoid:

Squash historians assert that the game originated in the 19th century at Harrow School, in London, England, as a derivative of the game of Rackets. Students at the school who were waiting to use the rackets court supposedly began hitting a softer rubber ball against the walls of the buildings with their rackets, and from this the game was ultimately created. The first recorded construction of purpose-built squash courts was at Harrow in the 1860s. It is possible that earlier squash courts were created at Harrow by sub-dividing a rackets court, which is almost exactly the size of three Squash courts (presumably to allow more players on the courts at the same time).

Comments:
1) They were filming at Harrow School => maybe they were actually (accidently) filming in the original squash courts.

2) What is it with English public schoolboys (translators note: that means rich, privileged, private school pupils) breaking the rules to invent new sports. That's what they did to create rugby (and, I suppose, eventually American football because it looks like it comes from the same origins). Toffee nose gits! They get away with rule breaking because they are inventing new sports.

3) How sick must Harrow school feel that Rugby school gets the sport named after it and Harrow's sport gets called "squash".

Avoiding spoilers mostly entirely, he has to, ahem, be playing her.

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Is this the same actress in both pics? and if they are not, just who does he, ahem, play with?? Just curious that's all! ;)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v638/Shelbyshire/318.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v638/Shelbyshire/6444132618431qk9.jpg

Same actress, with whom he plays. ;)

On 8 February Elijah told me that he had being playing squash that morning and expressed surprise that it was tennis in the book. This was in Barking at the University of East London the week before the Harrow scenes.

Toffee nose gits! For having wealthy parents and challenging the status quo? From the Harrow School website:
A list of famous Old Harrovians might indeed name many statesmen, including Peel, Palmerston, Churchill, Pandit Nehru and King Hussein of Jordan; poets and writers as diverse as Byron, Sheridan, Trollope, Dornford Yates and Richard Curtis; Lord Rayleigh, the physicist and Nobel prize-winner; Fox-Talbot, the inventor of photography; the archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans and Bruce the explorer; Sir William Jones, father of philology; Admiral Rodney and Field Marshal Alexander; and nineteen winners of the Victoria Cross. Toffee nose gits?

I posted a comparison shot to the following Jones pic on the first page of HF screencaps. But on that page I concentrated on the first scene Elijah is in, and didn't catch this even better match til later
Tg, that has to be one of the silliest Froshadowings I've ever seen. Nice work! :D

Thank you everyone for marking spoilers for the Oxford Murders. I'm looking forward to seeing it, and to ogling the extras. ;) Cheers!

Toffee nose gits?

Should have been "toffee nosed gits". I just meant they were posh! It's only mildy abusive and perhaps comically so. No idea what the origin actually is, something to do snuck up noses and snobbery.

Mariole, it's not silly, it's research! :haha: When Mumble is banished and asks Memphis not to ask him to change, I am strongly reminded of Frodo's telling Galadriel that he knows what to do, he's just afraid. A perfect example of Frodotyping. (Reference picture #2 from "The Meeting of the Minds" from "The Mirror of Galadriel" in the FotR section on tg's site.)

Thanks for the photos and the lesson on the origin of squash.

C4

Sneaking, I know what you meant. It is the sweeping generalisation that anyone who was privately educated was/is a stuck-up snob and therefore fair game for abuse that I find objectionable. Not to say incomprehensible when they are apparently being criticised for having the iniative to invent a new game.

Sneaking, I know what you meant. It is the sweeping generalisation that anyone who was privately educated was/is a stuck-up snob and therefore fair game for abuse that I find objectionable. Not to say incomprehensible when they are apparently being criticised for having the initiative to invent a new game.

I don't really see what you are finding "objectionable". It was a throwaway jokey comment at least indicative of reverse-snobbery on my behalf as anything else (probably more by my reading of it). It was a sweeping generalisation and therefore obviously not true but certainly does have a certain core of truth to it about some of the kids from the traditional public schools (that's my experience anyway, it may not be yours.).

My point simply was: these boys get to break the rules or do whatever and are allowed to invent a new game simply because of social position and where they were. Anybody else would just have been given a clout round the ear hole and told to play the game properly.

I apologise if I offended you, it wasn't my intention to offend anyone. I was just a bit lazy equating posh=snobbish (which isn't true, snobbishness can exist on all levels and direction) but I don't think I'm guilty of anything more than that. I'm not going to post anymore.

Sneaking, I am sorry if I have offended you by challenging something you wrote. "Objectionable" was too strong a word.
It seems that we are largely in agreement; I don’t deny that some products of independent schools may be as you have described.
Please don’t stop posting. I enjoy your posts and would miss you.

Sneaking, I am sorry if I have offended you by challenging something you wrote. "Objectionable" was too strong a word.
It seems that we are largely in agreement; I don’t deny that some products of independent schools may be as you have described.
Please don’t stop posting. I enjoy your posts and would miss you.

Oops. I only meant on this subject (just because it could descend into a pointless off-topic back and forth). That wasn't really clear from what I said in the post. I obviously wasn't doing really well at expressing myself clearly yesterday. :lol: It was a long, hard day...

It was a long, hard day...Here, sneaking, Elijah/Martin has some flowers for you! His name is Martin in the movie, right? I should know that?!?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v638/Shelbyshire/TOM_0033a.jpg

No matter his name, ;) he sure looks good in character!!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v638/Shelbyshire/20070403OxfordMurders231NicolaDove.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v638/Shelbyshire/TOM_5445.jpg

Have a wonderful Easter weekend, dear Faculty members!

Beautiful pictures, Shelbyshire. These are all stills from The Oxford Murders? I am behind looking at EW LJ sources, so these were unknown to me. I am delighted!

~ M

Thanks for the pictures, Shelbyshire. It's the "in character" ones that get me excited, and those are great. Didn't we have a discussion some time ago about an EJW James Bond? That last pic would fit right in. -- And, as usual, Martin's not quite like any previous character. (The character is listed as Martin.)


Happy Easter!

Lovely pics, shelby! Thanks.

ShelbyShire :)
Wonderful eastereggs err... easterpics...err... elijaheasterpics
;) :p
*wispy's fingers are bit tired and tangled*

Hope everyone enjoyed Easter
:k

:) Your welcome ...and... there is more.

These pics are the last of what could be called "non-spoilers" though. Credit goes to elijah_finds/LJ.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v638/Shelbyshire/DOV_7468.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v638/Shelbyshire/elijah-4.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v638/Shelbyshire/TOM_1884.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v638/Shelbyshire/TOM_1722.jpg

Bunnie recently posted this one over in LJ land.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v638/Shelbyshire/untitledir6.png

Ah, finally something new to play with, thanks to Shelbyshire. :) :) Some Paint Shopped Martin pics here (http://www.frodolivesin.us/Pics/id50.htm). And I took the opportunity to remove the really awful pictures of Mikey during the ice storm and put up a few new ones (http://www.frodolivesin.us/Pics/id49.htm) that are a little kinder to his face.

Those links go straight to the mentioned pages. But for anyone who's new or needs a reminder, to find the sekrit entrance to the Paint Shop section (in a feeble attempt to avoid copyright infringement by not making the pics "public"), just go to the guest book page (http://www.frodolivesin.us/Pics/index.htm) and click on the photo of the hands.


Happy Birthday to Goldenberry!
- if she happens to be peeking in. :k

Bunnie recently posted this one over in LJ land.

Actually, the Oxford Murders shots were my find, but the Day Zero shot was found by lady_snaps. :) I can't wait for a trailer for Day Zero!

Speaking of which, I forgot to post this Day Zero plot synopsis here. I found it on the Tribeca Film Festival website, and it's only vaguely spoilery, much like a trailer would be:

It's nighttime in America--the draft has been reinstated. Our conflicting attitudes toward war are examined through the eyes of Aaron (Elijah Wood), George (Chris Klein), and Dixon (Jon Bernthal) as each prepares to report for duty and learns, individually, what it means to "serve with honor."

Bryan Gunnar Cole makes a striking debut with Day Zero, crafting an all-too-believable American future in which the draft has been reinstated to fight the war on terror. With the help of screenwriter Rob Malkani, Cole ably speaks for a generation grappling with the global discord that affects their everyday lives. The nation's conflicting, and conflicted, attitudes toward war are examined through the eyes of three friends who have been given induction notices and just 30 days to report for duty. Feeling utterly unprepared but convinced that he must serve, novelist Aaron (Elijah Wood) embarks on a panic-stricken quest to prepare for the life of a soldier-enlisting the questionable help of a collapsing Bowflex machine and a hilariously disengaged therapist (Ally Sheedy). Corporate attorney George (Chris Klein) wishes to stay with his wife (Ginnifer Goodwin), a recent cancer survivor, rather than fight in a war that he believes is wrong, but avoiding service does not prove easy. Cabdriver Dixon (Jon Bernthal) is the most fearless and free of doubt, but he falls in love with a sociology student (Elisabeth Moss), and suddenly issues that always seemed black-and-white to him are not so simple. As reporting day, or day zero, draws nearer, the three friends, who could find mutual friendship only in a city like New York, fight, fall out, come together and comfort each other-as each in his own way discovers what it means to serve with honor. Though set in an imagined world, the film reflects how many young adults deal with war today. With a remarkable cast that handles the material perfectly, Day Zero is as much about the current political climate as it is about the relationships of the characters it follows.

Elijah's role sounds as if it might have some aspects of comic relief in the beginning, but I know it doesn't finish that way. It should be a very interesting character arc. :cool: I wish I were one of the lucky people who gets to see it at the end of the month!

Yes, tgshaw, esteemed Faculty Dean, I do stop by on occasion, today of course being one of them. :) Thank you for the birthday wishes! Any hobbit worthy of the name should bring along a birthday mathom; alas, either my computer at work or my atrophied photo-posting skills currently prevent me from doing so. And I had such a lovely group of black-and-white pictures of the object of discussion selected for a birthday offering. :rolleyes: Maybe at home tonight I'll have some luck with that.

I'm looking forward to reviews and discussion of Day Zero after its Tribeca premiere, and hope that some of the Faculty Lounge members get to see it.

:k to all here!

Happy Birthday, Goldenberry!

You never know what may be around the corner at your local grocery store ;) !!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v638/Shelbyshire/Elijah%20Wood/elijahwood.jpg

Photo courtesy of elijah_finds/LJ.

Happy Belated Birthday, Goldberry!

The Biography Channel is broadcasting EW's biography this week. Will check the time.

C4

ETA--

http://www.biography.com/famous/fam_episode_guide.jsp?episode=216443

To my dear Goldenberry! :k


And thanks, ceefour, for the heads up on the Bio thing. I'm off to set the Tivo!

O M G !!!

I'm searching for words for the latest "finds" over in LJ but can't quite find them so...pictures speak a thousand words all on their own!!!!

*bows down to the awesome BunnieBugs*

Okay, business first...http://www.dayzerothemovie.com

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v638/Shelbyshire/dayzero_poster.jpg

then pleasure... (Faculty acceptable since it's professionally taken? maybe? pretty please?)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v638/Shelbyshire/portrait.jpg

Yawn. I stayed up last night past midnight to watch EW's 10 seconds in Internal Affairs. :rolleyes:

Thanks for the pictures, Shelbyshire.

C4

C4 - Was Internal Affairs on television? If so, I'm even more disappointed in the IMDb TV listings. No mention of Internal Affairs this week in either U.S. or U.K. -- also no mention of Biography. After several weeks of posting IMDb's Elijah Wood TV listings on the website, I've come to the conclusion that they include only the channels that pay them for the listing, which doesn't make them a very good source.

I hope the producers of 9 have got all their URLs etc. paid up for and their copyrights done. Seemingly there is another movie being made called "Nine" (which seems to be some kind of Broadway musical). Animated movies take so long to make; it must be likely that "Nine" will get in there first (unless they hold it back for the awards season 2008, the director is the Chicago director).

I think it could be a case of producers blinking and playing a game of chicken. Something tells me that an existing musical title might win out. One of them is going to end changing or they'll have to add something to the titles ("Nine: the musical", "9: Rag Doll Apocalypse Later").

This is pissing me off a bit. I really like "9" as a movie title. I know it's been used before but that's OK; however TWO films in the same year or so is one too many. I hope it doesn't end up as "Tim Burton's 9" (everybody thinks the Nightmare Before Christmas was directed by Burton when it wasn't because of the title).

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117962975.html?categoryid=13&cs=1

"Nine" is based on Federico Fellini's film, "8 1/2" (one of my favourite films). I have never seen the Broadway musical based on it (called "9").

But are you saying Tim Burton did not direct "The Nightmare Before Christmas"? Who did?

(Maybe I should have clicked the link first -- don't answer if the link explains all, since I am now going to open it.)

~ M

Henry Selick directed Nightmare. Tim Burton wrote the original story and produced. Actually, Burton would have directed but I think he was busy doing something else (and it's stop go animation which takes ages).

Oh, no! I really hope they don't have to change the title. Not only is it cool, but for totally selfish reasons, I like the idea of Elijah playing the "title character" again.

Sneaking, thanks for the info. I enjoyed "Nightmare" very much. I wanted to make sure I was crediting the right person.

~ M

Okay, business first...http://www.dayzerothemovie.com There's a trailer now... :)

Courtesy of the capping abilities of salwood at elijah_finds/LJ...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v638/Shelbyshire/dz01.jpgI know a lot of people like his shaved head look, but I'll be very sorry in the film when they cut off that head of hair.

~ M :) Mechtild...don't look at this one then ;) !!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v638/Shelbyshire/dz10.jpg

I'll be back to edit some more pics in...coffee first and another watching of the trailer.

ETA:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v638/Shelbyshire/dz02.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v638/Shelbyshire/dz03.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v638/Shelbyshire/dz09.jpg

Haven't we seen this particular look before...?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v638/Shelbyshire/dz06.jpg

Wow, thank you, Shelbyshire! :k I had no idea there was a trailer. It may be as close as we here ever get to seeing this film until it comes out on DVD, as was the case with EEI and GSH.

Well, I suppose he can shave his hair shaved off for an acting role, yes. Anything for Art. *privately sniffles over chestnut locks hitting the floor*

~ M

I'm a bit reassured by the trailer (only down side I saw was maybe a bit melodramatic in places with slightly too many shots of the 3 of them sitting around chatting. Also some of the scenes may be a hard for us to watch, e.g. the tattooing scene).

In particular, I had been a bit nervous about the physical comparison between Elijah and the other two guys. I wondered if he was a bit miscast. From the trailer, it looks like that is totally compatible with the plot and he's actually well cast.

Again brilliant pictures Shelby! :)

Could someone give the releasedata of Day Zero (if possible and if I'm not makin the wrong suppositions) :rolleyes: for European countries. Naturally it could be that this movie isn't going to be played here at all. Like Paris je t'aime that came in cinemas in the Netherlands but not in Belgium like *darn bad luck* but you never know

Mechtild said:
It may be as close as we here ever get to seeing this film until it comes out on DVD, as was the case with EEI and GSH.

Okay if it comes out on DVD once that's fine too but still....
Yeah EEI (do you mean EII? :confused: ) never was played here, but GSH did I didn't watched it in cinemas but bought the dvd recently. EII i've already ordered that as well. Hope it is available and not out of stock or something.It seems like something really brilliant and extraordinary,not the usual thing but I like that. I'm very curious about his character there. Got to have patience for a while hehe ;)

Could someone give the releasedata of Day Zero (if possible and if I'm not makin the wrong suppositions) :rolleyes: for European countries.The film doesn't have a distributor yet, even for the US. The hope would be that it gets enough attention at the Tribeca Film Festival that someone picks it up for distribution. I know there are rumored dates of release that coincide with Oxford Murders, but as neither film has been picked up, those release dates are strictly conjecture at this point.

I know there are rumored dates of release that coincide with Oxford Murders, but as neither film has been picked up, those release dates are strictly conjecture at this point.
I really WILL have a fit if The Oxford Murders doesn't play at a theatre I can get to. I'm really looking forward to it. Day Zero is another EW film that I wouldn't bother to go see if he wasn't in it. But I would really like to see The Oxford Murders whether he was in it or not.

~ M

Hullo all! :k

Haven't been around much lately. I sorta lost faith, or interest, or something there for a while. But I'm back.

The Day Zero trailer looks really interesting to me. Love the bit when the therapist says "You'll be fine," and Aaron says "Really!?" Mostly just from a writing perspective at this point; we say such stupid inane things when we're trying to comfort someone for something that we truly can't do a thing about. I like the way Aaron says "Really!?" I'd see it even if Lij wasn't in it; I've got a son of "draftable" age, and a young friend currently serving as a Navy medic in Iraq right now. :z: :(

I've got a cold this week, and as a result I've got a lot of knitting done, and seen a lot of weird television. Today I caught about 15 minutes of an odd little Johnny Depp movie called The Ninth Gate on the Independent Film Channel. I swear the TV guide gave it two-and-a-half stars only because Johnny was in it, because it was BAD BAD BAD! Almost worthy of Mystery Science Theater 3000! Something to do with rare books, and satanism, and it nearly reeked of sulfur! Well, I don't really have a point here, so...

honey~

Wow, Shelbyshire, thanks for the link info and for posting these great caps! It's Frodo on the Wooded Road all over again! :D

I do like the pic where he's getting his hair clipped. He looks angry and vulnerable all at once. With those big eyes, Elijah has the perfect "lovely guy caught up in monstrous circumstances" look. I'm looking forward to the film; I hope it finds a distributor! Cheers, all.

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Children of Hurin Events in the US

The folks from Houghton Mifflin Company write: In addition to the big event in NYC on Tuesday that you already know about, a few other bookstores are also hosting events to mark the release of THE CHILDREN OF HÚRIN. These stores will be hosting "READ-A-THONS" and other celebratory activities. Each of these stores will have 5 signed bookplates (signed by Christopher Tolkien and Alan Lee), which they will be using as prizes at their events. April 17, 2:00 p.m.

The Booksmith
1644 Haight Street
San Francisco, CA 94117

April 17, 6:00 p.m.
Borders
132 E. Winchester
Murray, UT 84107
801-313-1020

April 17, 7:00 p.m.
University Bookstore
990 102nd Ave NE
Bellevue, WA 98004
425-462-4500

txtac has also posted this in the Children of Hurin (http://www.khazaddum.com/forums/showthread.php?p=327760#post327760) thread in the Green Dragon. If anyone wants to comment, you can do so there (hint, hint). :z:

If anyone is inserested, you can go over to the Rollingstone website, and listen to an Iggy Pop interview. (I'm not going to provide a link; just type in the obvious url then "/iggypop".) He talks briefly about his stay in a mental hospital; IIRC that's the timeframe for the plot of The Passenger.

Meanwhile, Bunnie unearthed this quote, which sadly leads to doubts that the film will be made anytime soon. (If you want the link for this quote, you can find it at the elijah_finds community at LJ.)

"I've just seen the 'Passenger' script," the suntanned, sinewy rocker says smiling and curling up with his only vice ("just a straight cuppa Joe") in a booth at his Hollywood hotel cafe. "And they definitely wanna make it, but it hasn't quite happened yet; I know that for a fact because they don't have my permission yet. And I'm not debating. I'm just not in a hurry."

He sets down his cup, flexes his skull-ring-adorned fingers, and says, "I'm still just a little too alive. How 'bout if I'm just a little dead? Maybe when I'm a little deader, they can make my movie."


Meanwhile, apropos of not much, am I the only one who's having trouble watching Discoverys Planet Earth series? I keep picturing Mikey Carver's mom doing the narration. :rolleyes:

honey!

honey - or Bunnie - Is there a date for that Iggy Pop quote? Just wondering how recent it is, because IIRC he saw the script quite awhile ago.

..."I'm still just a little too alive. How 'bout if I'm just a little dead? Maybe when I'm a little deader, they can make my movie." Iggy Pop 2007
Maybe it's time for the 600 lb. gorilla to go talk to Mr. Pop. ???

honey - or Bunnie - Is there a date for that Iggy Pop quote? Just wondering how recent it is, because IIRC he saw the script quite awhile ago.

It's hard to tell from the article, which showed up on line last Friday. I'm guessing that it's fairly recent, as it mentions the Stooges latest CD, The Weirdness.

The article also mentions that there is a second Iggy movie in the works, Search and Destroy. Penelope Spheeris will direct that one, but there's no mention of who's meant to play the lead role, or how Iggy feels about it.

I'm going to chance a link here, and if you think it's innapropriate, feel free to delete it.

Iggy Pop Interview (http://www.insidebayarea.com/ci_5659041?source=rss)

h!

honey - or Bunnie - Is there a date for that Iggy Pop quote? Just wondering how recent it is, because IIRC he saw the script quite awhile ago.Unfortunately, there's no way to tell how old the interview itself is (as far as I know), but the article was dated quite recently. The last thing I remember hearing from Elijah was that the script was approved, but maybe the actual permission has not yet been granted.

I've also been told that Elijah said recently (though I haven't been able to locate the quote myself) that they've been having trouble getting funding, and that is holding things up. So, I'm really not sure where things stand with this film right now.

txtac: :lol: Be careful, though... If anyone that small and scrawny can take on a 600 pound gorilla, it's probably Iggy. ;)

Bunnie wrote:txtac: Be careful, though... If anyone that small and scrawny can take on a 600 pound gorilla, it's probably Iggy.
If a 3'6" hobbit can take on Sauron, then 'monkeyboy' can take on the rock icon. Besides- Iggster doesn't have...a Ring! :haha:
... make him an offer he can't refuse...
I wonder how many bananas he wants?

I read more of the Iggy interview, and took "I've just seen the 'Passenger' script," in a different way - maybe from getting it in context with more of what he said, or maybe I'm completely off :rolleyes: . When I first read it, I took it to mean "I've very recently seen the 'Passenger' script." Now I realize it could mean "I've only seen the 'Passenger' script" (as in, I haven't seen anything else about it). That would make sense with what was published some time back about him having read the script (IIRC, he said it was a "masterpiece," but I don't know how seriously to take that). Speaking as an honorary aunt, my biggest hope is that, if it's going to be a long wait, Elijah can see fit to put a little weight back on :( .


------A serious elwoodian research issue that was barely touched on in the wake of these pictures...

http://www.frodolivesin.us/new/1f3e24b0.jpg http://www.frodolivesin.us/new/1f2eab40.jpg

...was left hanging.

These two frames obviously do not constitute a froshadowing, but neither are they a frodotype - Frodo is nowhere to be seen! I called them "comparison shots," but that's pretty pedestrian. Surely the Faculty can come up with better nomenclature than that :z: ! What do we call similar shots of two (or more! :eek: :eek: ) Elijah Wood characters when Frodo's not involved?

This could open up a whole new field of research :cool: !

Honey, I'm not having any trouble with Sigourney Weaver's narration of Planet Earth. So, it must be you! :k I'd not seen March of the Penquins so seeing the shots of Antarctica made me realize how accurate and detailed the animation was for Happy Feet. Now it's my turn--was I the only one singing "We Remain" during the huddle sequence in Planet Earth? ;)

tg, your screencaps show examples from Wood'sStock of Expressions? (boo!) (Frodotyping in this example doesn't seem inaccurate to me because I do tend to see Mumble as Frodo with feathers.)

C4

ETA 1-I was unsure where to post this, but since it has EW on the cover I'll put it here. This is being released in August--

http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/10536.html

ETA 2-tg, to answer you question of a few days ago, Internal Affairs was on cable channel HDnet. Mr. ceefour switched cable companies so we have some new channels and a nifty feature on the new cable box. I can type in an actor's name (you all get one guess whose name I typed! :haha: ) and all the movies in which that actor appears for the next week will be displayed. :cool:

ETA-3 (I"ll keep talking to myself until someone answers! :) ) I went into Barnes & Noble this afternoon to purchase The Children of Hurin and there at front door was a table full of "Gifts That Mom Will Want" and underneath the sign was EII with EW on the cover. :lol:

...because I do tend to see Mumble as Frodo with feathers.
:lol:


(On the suggestion: uh, yeah - any others out there? ;) )

ETA 1-I was unsure where to post this, but since it has EW on the cover I'll put it here. This is being released in August--

From the link:
"The best all-around view of the Tolkien phenomenon." --Tom Shippey, author of The Road to Middle-earth
...and all the rabid movie-haters among the Tolkien faithful feel the earth drop from beneath them because a Tolkien scholar didn't pick Tolkien on Film :eek: :haha: . Thanks, Tom, I'll take this one. :cool:

Certainly glad to see Frodo (with blue eyes :p ) on the cover. It's nice to see someone realize who the real hero of the story is (and who got the most people back for repeat viewings ;) ). I was also relieved to see that my book idea hasn't been taken - I was worried for a second.

...a nifty feature on the new cable box. I can type in an actor's name...
That's what I'm supposed to be able to do at IMDb, too, but all it came up with for that week was one showing of BthF II :confused: . I've taken the listing down from my website, since it doesn't seem to be very comprehensive (and I'm suspicious that it only shows channels that have paid them money for the listing - or does Sky TV really show 95% of the movies on UK television? :rolleyes: ).

I don't have anything to add to the Mother's Day gift suggestion except :D . But it did remind me of one thing I was going to mention from my trip to Best Buy to get HF. They had it on a display with a banner reading "The Best Animated Film of the Year" and some employee who was either oblivious or perceptive had plastered the large "Best Buy Price" sign in exactly the right place to cover up the word "Animated". ;)

Thanks to the good folks over at LJ's elijah_finds, I have this piece of news to offer:

Wood to produce "Black Wings Has My Angel" (http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/film/news/e3i24b21916578451e52e9d905fd230d4fa)

So, he's dipping into producing instead of starring. I'm happy for him, but I can't help but feel a little twinge of disappointment that he won't be in it, as well. :(

There was a phrase in a recent interview (don't ask me which one. Memory , what memory lol ) where he said he thought he'd always be involved in the film business whether acting or producing or whatever (extreme paraphrasing involved with that). I thought at the time that it was a curious way of phrasing whatever he actually said (e.g. emphasis on producing as behind the camera role as opposed to directing). I wondered if he had decided he never wanted to direct. In the light of this, it seems he already knew he was getting involved in producing and that's probably why he said it like that. It probably indicates nothing at all about any eventual directing aspirations (unless doing the Apples' pop video and watching Liev Schreiber try it put him off).

I wonder what actual plan/"general hand waving idea" he has for how he sees his career going. Is he mainly going to continue acting, dipping his toes into producing (and perhaps directing) when he feels like it? Is it eventually going to be a 50/50 split, keeping his options open? Does he think the acting part won't continue indefinitely (or perhaps there aren't enough parts he's interested in that he can get) and so he needs to have more strings to his bow? Is he after developing the producing part as a way of increasing his power and ability to make (and sometimes to star in) the kind of films he wants to do?

If they can manage to do it, producer/actors are in a much stronger position career wise than just plain actors. E.g. Clooney, Drew Barrymore (who wouldn't be in most of the movies she's in if it wasn't her company), even Brad Pitt. Elijah's probably aiming much smaller and indie at present but if he can become a proper, track record producer (as opposed to almost a vanity credit as some acting producing credits are) it is nothing but a good thing from the point of view of his whole career. Though we might see less of him.

:(and I'm suspicious that it only shows channels that have paid them money for the listing - or does Sky TV really show 95% of the movies on UK television? :rolleyes: ).


The answer would be yes, because they are one of the few companies with multiple subscription only movie channels. Try setting up for John Cusack on IMDB, and if you don't get the film Pushing Tin on BBC1 on the 24th, you're suspicion is probably right about sponsored links only, since the BBC shouldn't really be doing that.

Bunnie wrote:
Wood to produce "Black Wings Has My Angel"

So, he's dipping into producing instead of starring. I'm happy for him, but I can't help but feel a little twinge of disappointment that he won't be in it, as well.
He's been saying for the past couple of years that he would like to produce and maybe direct. With his first directing debut with the Apples in Stereo video, I think that he found out how hard it is to create a vision and actually get that vision across on film. Directing a 'real' movie still scares him a bit. He is not ready for directing yet, but his experience with the record label should put him in a good spot to handle a co-producer slot.

Since he likes the "dark and steamy" side, imagine what Elijah would look like in the role of Sam Slade wearing a fedora.
(post the pic of Elijah wearing the velvet fedora here) :cool:

Sneaking wrote: I wonder what actual plan/"general hand waving idea" he has for how he sees his career going. Is he mainly going to continue acting, dipping his toes into producing (and perhaps directing) when he feels like it? Is it eventually going to be a 50/50 split, keeping his options open?
He has no career plan. He takes whatever pops up that stirs his passion. That is one reason why he is doing so much indie stuff right now. Indie is where the interesting scripts are.

If you notice, as he is growing up his intellegence is driving him to learn more and become more involved in movie making and music. When GSH couldn't get funding, Elijah made a few phone calls and arranged the funding. During the Oxford Murders, he was photographing everything (really studying the 'how to'). I have never seen, nor heard of him taking so many pictures behind and on set. OJT Film School. The A in S music vid was his first foray into directing. He has been talking about producing for years. Now he is ready to give it a shot. When he started his record label everyone thought that he was going to give up acting. He hasn't yet and never will. He loves acting too much, but he still needs to do other things as well. ;) Other actors act and direct, or act and produce at the same time. Since this is a co-producer slot, he could find something in the movie to get his face in it for a short time, but he is not that egotistical. I think that he is going to put his full focus into producing and learn that side of the business before he goes on to direct his own movie. It will be a few years yet before that happens, but the hand writing is on the wall...
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For our Friends and Faculty-ites in England:

Photographer exhibits Tolkien imagery in 'Hobbiton'

An English photographer is holding the first ever exhibition of digital imaging at a childhood haunt of author J.R.R. Tolkien in Hall Green, Birmingham, England.

Sarehole Mill, the last functioning watermill in Birmingham, is now a museum and place of international pilgrimage for fans of 'The Hobbit' and 'The Lord of the Rings', and hosts the annual Tolkien Weekend (next on 19-20 May, 2007)

Lord of the Rings author J.R.R. Tolkien lived nearby as a child, and often visited the Mill, which features in his all-time bestselling fantasy books as 'The Old Mill' at Hobbiton, the home town of hobbits Bilbo and Frodo Baggins. He also explored nearby Moseley Bog nature reserve and later lived near 'The Two Towers' in Edgbaston.

Stuart Williams, whose home is in Bloxwich - part of The Black Country, which inspired the dark land of Mordor - was invited by the museum to display his spectacular photographic art there for the entire season until October 28.

Stuart said "The exhibition offers a selection of images from my project 'On the Trail of Tolkien', using computers to transform real world places which inspired the author into his legendary fantasy world of Middle-earth. This year is the 70th anniversary of the publication of 'The Hobbit', and I am delighted that Sarehole Mill Museum has kindly framed 10 special prints and an explanatory panel in the Mill's new tea room, which opened at the end of March."

Sarehole Mill is in Cole Bank Road, Hall Green, Birmingham, England. Tel: 0121 777 6612 for opening hours.

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Everyone knows what a gamer e-dog is. He was at the X-box 360 launching at midnight to be one of the first to get the new X-box. The Shadows of Angmar is launching Monday night. Anyone want to guess if e-dog will be there? Anyone planning on being there to be one of the first one's to have a copy and/or see e-dog in person?

Lord of the Rings Online Midnight Madness Launch Events

To celebrate the launch of The Lord of the Rings Online™: Shadows of Angmar™ Turbine has partnered with GameStop to host “Midnight Madness” launch events across the United States.

Fans will be lining up to be among the first to pick-up a copy of the game, meet members of the development team, and have a chance to win signed posters, pre-paid game cards and exclusive event t-shirts. In addition, special prizes will be awarded at each location to the three players who wear the best “The Lord of the Rings” themed costumes.

Events will be held at select GameStop stores in 5 cities across the country (Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York and Seattle) to kick-off the availability of this highly anticipated MMO from Turbine and Midway Games. Midnight Madness starts at 11:00PM on April 23rd and runs through midnight.

The Lord of the Rings Online will be available at all retail stores nationwide on April 24, 2007.
DATE:

Monday, April 23, 2007 (11:00 p.m. - midnight)

GameStop Event Locations:

Boston: Prudential Center, 800 Boylston Street, Boston, MA
Chicago: 920 Church Street, Evanston, IL
Los Angeles: Universal Citywalk, 1000 Universal Studios Blvd., Universal City, CA
New York: Broadway and 33rd. 1282 Broadway, New York, New York
Seattle: Bellevue Square, 475 100th Ave NE, Bellevue, WA

ceefour alerted me to the following question that tg raised several days ago:
What do we call similar shots of two (or more! ) Elijah Wood characters when Frodo's not involved?I respectfully suggest the term elijanalogue (accent on the third syllable). My New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary defines “analogue” as:
An analogous or parallel word or thing; a representative in different circumstances; something or someone performing a corresponding part.Subcategories could be developed to designate specific situations; e.g.:
“The images that tg offers in connection with her question are clearly elijanalogues (var. JoMumble).” The adjectival form would be elijanalogous (accent on the fourth syllable: “These shots are obviously elijanalogous”).

BTW, like ceefour, I, too, . . .
. . . do tend to see Mumble as Frodo with feathers.For example, in the fishing scene, where Mumble says “Gloria!” (after another penguin has said, “Gloria, Gloria, I’d like to see more of ya”), I think he looks just like Frodo hearing Gandalf singing near the beginning of FOTR.

Pelagia, that's so funny! :cool:

txtac, your run-down on how EW seems to be approaching working on the production side of the performing arts sounds pretty convincing. Thanks for posting!

~ Mechtild

Pelagia, I support adopting the term "elijanalogous". Your research and examples are very Faculty meritorious. *awards you a distinguished ribbon* :)

So who lives in, or around New York and is planning on attending the Tribeca Film Festival? We could use a good internal review of Elijah's new movie.
Here are the times and dates of Day Zero's showings:

Sunday, April 29, 9:30 pm, Clearview Chelsea West (CCW)
333 W. 23rd Street (between 8 th and 9 th Avenues)
Theater 1

Monday, April 30, 10:30 pm, AMC 34th Street (A34)
312 W. 34th Street (between 8 th and 9 th Avenues)
Theater 9

Tuesday, May 1, 7:30 pm, AMC 34th Street (A34)
312 W. 34th Street (between 8 th and 9 th Avenues)
Theater 11

Friday, May 4, 3:00 pm, AMC Kips Bay (AKB)
570 Second Avenue (at 32nd St.)
Theater 11

Friday, May 5, 9:00 pm, AMC Village VII (AV7)
66 Third Avenue (at 11th St.)
Theater 2

I always check for new posts when I come online, so how did I miss this entire conversation :o ?
I respectfully suggest the term elijanalogue (accent on the third syllable).
With the etymology behind it and the potential for numerous variations to serve in different situations, that sounds good to me. :cool:

[My only excuse is that I've had a sick kitty for the last couple of weeks and have been spending more time than I want to count trying to get her to eat. It's entirely possible that I saw there were new posts in this thread, but went to read another thread first and then completely forgot to come back here.]



I know nothing about the following show, and I'm at work so can't check it out, but it just popped up in a google ad over/down in the Tolkien section (and the EJW thread is getting ads for the Online LotR game - go figure :rolleyes: ):
Elijah Wood on The Sauce
See Elijah Wood on fuse's new show The Sauce. Check it out here!
thesauce.fuse.tv/elijahwood

I tried that link that TG posted and didn't get very far, but this one should work: Elijah on The Sauce (http://fuse.tv/tv/thesauce/index.php)

I can't tell when he'll be on, or how one is supposed to watch, though. *clueless*

This might help. I copied it from the Fuse website. Aparently Fuse is a local (New York) cable TV music show. If it is not listed on your cable system, you are not going to see it. :( Anyone in New York who can TiVo it?


PROGRAMMING:
Fuse is a 24-hour music television network, dedicated to music all the time with videos, concerts and programming that is influenced by the viewers for the viewers.

VIEWER PROFILE:
Ages 12-34 Active online users, early adopters of new technology and most inclined to subscribe to digital cable tiers and digital cable modems.

SUBSCRIBERS:
45 million basic

CORPORATE OFFICE/STUDIO:
FUSE Networks 11 Penn Plaza 17th Floor New York, NY 10001 (212) 324-3400 (212) 324-3445

The Sauce http://fuse.tv/tv/thesauce/index.php
Monday through Friday fuse is bringing you the Sauce, an interactive daily show featuring guests from music, film and everything you love.

4:30 Daddy's Spoiled Little Girl: Snyders
5:00 # 1 Countdown - Rock
6:00 The Sauce
7:00 Steven's Show
8:00 Tattoo Stories
8:30 Loaded: Red Hot Chili Peppers
9:00 # 1 Countdown - Viewers Choice
10:00 Rad Girls

Keep an eye on this one: Celebrity Play List
After Elijah does his interview a bit of it will probably be here:

http://fuse.tv/tv/celeb.php
Celebrity Playlist catches up with today's hottest artists, actors and various A-listers, they tell us what turns them on musically, and we play it!
That's teamwork, fuse-style!

Could be interesting, since it seems they'd be more likely to want to talk about his music label than his movies.

TG wrote: ...they'd be more likely to want to talk about his music label than his movies.
Are you kidding? With that encyclopedic memory of bands and songs, he's going to leave them breathless and in shock with what he can dump on them in a very short order. :D Sauce beware, don't get Elijah started talking music. You won't be able to get him to shut up for a loooooong time. :lol:

Esteemed faculty, I do believe it's report card time of year (OK, it isn't but humour me):

http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f153/sneakingraptor/facultyrightwayround.jpg

(I think that's either the very first image I've ever scanned in or pretty close to it. It's from DVD Review magazine, doing a few pages of jokey "report cards" on films with high schools in. Hence the complaint about the lack of DVD extras - the UK release has absolutely none).

I am on my way home from the first screening of Day Zero at the Tribeca Film Festival and my first near-encounter with Elijah. I'll try to avoid spoilers, and just say I'm glad I saw it - and him!

The screening was late because of technical trouble in the theater, which gave the cast extra time on the red carpet. Elijah was lovely in a dark (blue?) velvet jacket and seemed very happy and bouncy. All the major cast were on hand and very interactive, with the fans and with each other: lots of hugs all around. Pam was there as well, though she seemed to be trying to stay out of pictures (as much as one can when standing near Elijah!) The cast seemed to be doing more interviews and photos than signings, which surprised me a bit. I'd brought my EII DVD hoping Elijah might sign it, but it didn't occur to me to bring my own sharpie, so no such luck! Still, it was fun to see him from just a few feet away, and to listen in a bit on the interviews.

I turned out to be standing in line with one of the cast members, who had played a minor speaking part - too big a part to call him an extra, but not quite enough to get VIP treatment. He was there with a friend who is also in the industry but in wardrobe/costume - and who had previously worked with Elijah on a Rolling Stone photo shoot seven or eight years ago. To my disappointment, he didn't remember the details, but did remember it was about the time that The Faculty came out! Anyway, the three of us struck up a conversation, and when the film's producer recognized the cast member, all three of us were pulled out of line and up to the front with "family and friends". I was glad because the show was obviously sold-out, and possibly oversold - I'm not sure I would have gotten in otherwise. (The theater supposedly seats 500 or so.)

The movie was beautifully shot, the soundtrack was interesting, and the performances were generally quite good. Elijah did a great job, and I overheard at least one person say his character seemed true to the current culture of the East Village - quirky but quite believable. The story is split between 3 main characters so one gets to see quite a lot of Elijah. ;) I especially appreciated that many of the close-ups are really close.... And thankfully, my new friend was happy with his scenes, too.

The director, writer, producer and cast were on-hand for a Q&A afterwards, and I hope to be able to post a pic for you at some point. The questions were mostly about plot points and character decisions, so I'll skip telling for now at least.

With luck the remaining shows will be as crowded as this one, and with luck that will help the film find a distributor - I think it would be good for a broad audience.

I really hope you all get to see it!

rrappelle, thanks for the report - looks like you were up late writing it. ;) Seems silly, but it's just such a relief to get the word from someone who's actually seen the movie that it's good :z: . Here's hoping it gets better distribution than GSH - even better than EII would be nice, although that at least made it to a small theater in most cities.

Nice scan, sneaking. That's something I haven't tried yet. :)

Thanks so much, rrappelle!!! What a thrill to be at this showing with so many cast and crew, but in a relatively small space, so close. SUPER!!!

And the news sounds good on the film. It sounds like a respectable piece of work, if it didn't positively wow. And I'm relieved to hear EW was well-received in his role.

Sneaking, that "report card" was very funny. Thanks for posting your scan!

~ Mechtild

Thank You for posting the review rrappelle! I was hoping that someone in the Faculty would be there. Sorry that you didn't get to talk with e-dog. At the premiere is not the best time, or place- it's the AFTER-Party where everyone loosens up and there is more time to get him a drink and talk 'shop!'

It is starting to sound like Day Zero will be a bigger movie than GSH, or EII. I kind've hope so. It's time for "dog-boy" to have another successful movie. :z:

Thanks, rrappelle! Nice to hear a first-hand opinion of the film. I thin it sounds really good, and the trailer was interesting. I know several other people who went, so I'll be interested to hear what they thought, as well.It is starting to sound like Day Zero will be a bigger movie than GSH, or EII. You think so, txtac? Why? I've been hoping that the film might benefit from the political climate, but so far I've not really heard much buzz along those lines. I'd love to hear news of a distribution deal!
:z:

Thanks for the report, rrappelle. Like everyone else here, I'm really anxious that this film get distribution. I agree that it should be of interest given the current political climate.

Some pics from the premiere...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v638/Shelbyshire/DZP2.jpghttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v638/Shelbyshire/DayZeroPremiere.jpghttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v638/Shelbyshire/DZP3.jpg

Sorry they're so small, I'll try to fix that!

Bunnie wrote: ...Why? I've been hoping that the film might benefit from the political climate, but so far I've not really heard much buzz along those lines.
Despite von Clawswitz's statement that "war is politics by other means," there has been too much gum-flapping about Iraq being the second Viet Nam. The small amount of pre movie release buzz that I have heard is tangentialy trying to link this Day Zero Viet Nam era movie to the curent Iraq conflict. I haven't seen the movie yet, but from what reviews I have read have said that Day Zero is a pretty good, accurate period piece. There is no underlying sentiment to make it an underground anti-Iraq movie.

American mind-thought for what it is, or isn't, will still try to link the two vastly different eras together anyway. They are not going to be able to restrain themselves in trying to make Day Zero an anti-Iraq movie. The growing anti war buzz from the Left will IMHO drive a lot of people to see this movie thinking that (knowing Hollywood) there will be some underground tangential linkage using a Viet Nam era movie as a vehicle for the current anti-Iraq movement/sentiment. It's not the political climate, but the anti-Iraq war sentiment that will drive this movie. If a first tier distributor picks up this movie (and I think that they will) Day Zero will be bigger than EII, or GSH.
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If "they" won't let Peter Jackson film the Hobbitt, I wonder if he can pick up 'Children of Hurin' instead? While the book is hot, NOW make the movie of it before Tolkien cools off again. Elijah can do a wonderful Turin. ;) Besides, if you remember Spy Kids 3-D, Elijah looks great in armor too. It would cover up his current skinnieness until he can do that d***ed Iggster movie. :p

Bunnie wrote:
Despite von Clawswitz's statement that "war is politics by other means," there has been too much gum-flapping about Iraq being the second Viet Nam. The small amount of pre movie release buzz that I have heard is tangentialy trying to link this Day Zero Viet Nam era movie to the curent Iraq conflict. I haven't seen the movie yet, but from what reviews I have read have said that Day Zero is a pretty good, accurate period piece. There is no underlying sentiment to make it an underground anti-Iraq movie.

American mind-thought for what it is, or isn't, will still try to link the two vastly different eras together anyway. They are not going to be able to restrain themselves in trying to make Day Zero an anti-Iraq movie. The growing anti war buzz from the Left will IMHO drive a lot of people to see this movie thinking that (knowing Hollywood) there will be some underground tangential linkage using a Viet Nam era movie as a vehicle for the current anti-Iraq movement/sentiment. It's not the political climate, but the anti-Iraq war sentiment that will drive this movie. If a first tier distributor picks up this movie (and I think that they will) Day Zero will be bigger than EII, or GSH.
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Why are you calling this a Vietnam era movie? It's about a slightly future version of the Iraq War extended into Iran (or something like that).

sneaking wrote: Why are you calling this a Vietnam era movie? The pre-movie info that I recieved said that it was a Viet Nam era movie. If they changed it to Iraq- well that kind of answers Bunnie and Honey's statement about political climate. ;)

TxTac, every reference I've ever seen to the Day Zero script has said it was set a little bit into the future. Go watch the trailer again (dayzerothemoviedotcom); it makes specific reference to a "battle in Baghdad" in the voice-over at the beginning. Also, I'm no fitness expert, but I suspect that bow-flex trainer falls apart on Aaron would be a bit anachronistic for the Viet Nam era.

honey!

Thanks for the positive report rrapelle. I'm keeping my fingers crossed for distribution in the UK.

Day Zero has always been set slightly into the future, with the U.S. at war in Iran.

But I'd appreciate it if we could keep that conversation on the movie in this thread - In fact, I just edited out the second half of my first sentence above because I realized it stepped over the line. This could be a tough one, especially with a lot of us here being of "a certain age," but let's give it a try. There are discussions of the war and the politics in Rivendell, and if you don't find a suitable thread you can start your own (they could actually use some American input - what's there is primarily from the British POV).

One statement that's piqued my interest in the movie said that it shows this generation's feelings about war, service to country, etc., which I've realized I don't know too much about.


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Nice fantasy, txtac, but I don't think you're going to pry CofH out of Christopher's fingers quite yet. ;)

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ETA:

Okay, okay, this gets things on topic ;) -- What did we say that drew a google ad asking:
What does your jawline say about your sensuality?
:lol:

* A little bit spoilery *

Just thinking about the political climate and whether that will help or hurt the movie. One thing about the script is that they weren't trying to be either pro- or anti-war; there are clearly articulated sentiments credibly expressed on both sides. The director and writer were going for ambiguity; it will be interesting to see how audiences respond to that. Maybe both ends of the political spectrum will feel represented and like it because they can identify with someone in the film? Or each end will think the other guys are too-well represented and therefore reject it?

GSH was controversial in part because some people viewed it as pro-violence and I think that ratcheted up the interest a bit (especially in the anti-violence camp.)

Day Zero
But I'd appreciate it if we could keep that conversation on the movie in this thread - In fact, I just edited out the second half of my first sentence above because I realized it stepped over the line. This could be a tough one, especially with a lot of us here being of "a certain age," but let's give it a try.


Oh. You're looking at me, right? Um...Oops. :o You want I should go back and edit out that second paragraph in my last post? Yeah, will do.

Can I make it up to you all? Here's a nice little article I found at LJ. Slightly spoilery.

By Rob Merritt
The Gazette

It's been almost two decades since Elijah Wood left Cedar Rapids for a career in Hollywood.

He says he's due for a visit.

“I often think about going back,” Wood told The Gazette on Sunday at the Tribeca Film Festival, where he was promoting his latest film, “Day Zero.” “I've been away for so long, for so many reasons. I mean, I moved out to Los Angeles at such a young age, but the older I get, the more I want to go back and see it from a completely different perspective.”

Wood, 26, was a student at St. Patrick's Elementary School in Cedar Rapids when he was discovered by a talent agent and moved to California. He found early success in movies likes “Back to the Future II” before the combination of “Radio Flyer,” “The Good Son” and “Forever Young” catapulted him into stardom.

In recent years, the actor's career has included blockbusters like “Sin City” and the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy.

Wood was at Tribeca this week, however, to promote “Day Zero,” a small independent film about what would happen if the U.S. military reinstated the draft.

Wood plays a writer who panics over his draft notice and plans how to spend his last days with friends (Chris Klein and Jon Bernthal) before shipping out to Iraq.

“He kind of loses control; it's a character with a great descent, and I was very attracted to that,” Wood said. “It gave me an opportunity to work with material that I've not worked with before.”

The role is a mature one in which Wood's character smokes weed, hires a prostitute and eventually shaves his head on camera.

Director Bryan Gunnar Cole told The Gazette that Wood threw himself into the project without any reservations.

“He's a consummate professional, an absolute delight,” Cole said.

Actress Ginnifer Goodwin (“Walk the Line,” “Big Love”) also had kind words for Wood, who she said kept things light and entertaining on the set despite the difficult material.

“He has a contagious spirit,” said Goodwin, 28. “He's a dream of a co-star.”

Wood said he spoke with his “Lord of the Rings” co-star Sean Astin when Astin was cast in “The Final Season,” a movie filmed last summer entirely in Eastern Iowa. Wood said he'd love to have his own chance to make a movie in his home state.

“That tax incentive is wonderful,” he said, referring to the tax incentive for filmmakers that the Iowa Legislature passed last week. “If it brings more movies to Iowa, that would be fantastic.”

It's been a long time since his St. Patrick's days, but Wood said he's “flattered” to hear that so many Iowans still
follow his career.

“I hold a great fondness for Iowa and for my childhood while growing up there,” he said. “It was amazing.”

http://www.gazetteonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070501/FINALSEASON/70501003&SearchID=73279729184826

Also, there's this bit, again Slightly Spoilery.

Another movie carried by its actors is “Day Zero” (7:30 p.m., AMC 34th St.), which imagines a Manhattan upended by a mandatory draft. The film follows three friends — played by Chris Klein, Jon Bernthal and Elijah Wood — who have drastically diverse reactions when called to duty. Neither the script nor the direction provides much structure, which should be disastrous but instead results in a couple of weirdly riveting performances. Klein is always best when he twists his pretty face into an odd intensity, as he does here. And while Bernthal does little new with his obsessive soldier, Wood goes completely off the deep end, in a gonzo turn that rivals that of Haas in its raw focus.

That's from here: http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/movies/2007/05/01/2007-05-01_today_at_tribeca_ny_stories.html

honey~

Thanks honeyelf! I really like the gonzo quote at the end; I'm not sure I entirely understand what it means but I like it.

There's a fascinating entry on myspace from the Gazette writer guy who was coincidentally in town mainly for the Final Season and the effort he had to put in with Elijah's publicist to get to talk to him for that article (and how his effort was rewarded). Even although the post is entirely PG (Elijah's swearing is blanked out with stars), I don't think I can link there from here but the user is "Rob". I'm putting the text here but I'm not entirely sure I should be doing that (if I should take it down, just say so and I shall comply ASAP).

Tribeca Day 4: Chasing Elijah Wood

"The Final Season" didn't have anything else scheduled at Tribeca until Tuesday.

So in the meantime, I decided to attempt the impossible: Chase down actor and Cedar Rapids native Elijah Wood for an interview, one that no media in Eastern Iowa has been able to get in 17 years.

Elijah has been gone from Cedar Rapids for so long that many people don't even realize he once lived here. I do, though -- and not just because of the coverage he got when he first left. Elijah and I were once students together at St. Patrick's Elementary School.

We were four years apart, so any interaction we might have had was in passing. (I did know his older brother Zach, who was much closer to me in age.) Still, when Elijah left for California and landed a role in a Paula Abdul video, everyone at St. Pat's taped it. We flocked to the theater to see him in a bit part in "Back to the Future II."

Then Elijah made "The Good Son," "Forever Young" and "Avalon," and just like that he was a superstar.

Around that same time, Iowans stopped hearing from him. When Elijah first left, he'd come back from time to time to give interviews to local media. Sometime in the early 90s, though, it all stopped. Sure, attempts were made – especially when Wood landed the coveted role of Frodo in the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy – but publicists wouldn't return phone calls. When they want to create a wall, ain't nobody gonna get through it.

Unless, of course, you're a stubborn and somewhat deranged Gazette A&E writer at Tribeca, who discovers that Wood has a movie premiering there one day after "The Final Season" does. I was determined to get him -- and if someone from the local media was finally going to get through, shouldn't it be his fellow Catholic school survivor?

Wood's new movie is called "Day Zero." It's about what it would be like if the U.S. military reinstated the draft for Iraq. Wood plays a writer who gets drafted, as do two of his close friends, Chris Klein ("American Pie") and John Bernthal ("World Trade Center"). Even while the three debate whether the draft (and the war) is right, Wood assembles a list of all the things he needs to do with his life in the 30 days before he must report for duty.

It seemed like the perfect chance to catch up with the guy. So weeks in advance, I made a request to be included on the list of media covering the film. I worked out my Tribeca schedule to make sure I'd be free. And so it was that Sunday night, I gathered up my camera and tape recorder and headed to the red-carpet premiere.

I already shared with you the craziness of red-carpet events two blogs ago. That said, let me make clear: "The Final Season" was a cakewalk compared to the avalanche of fans, media and paparazzi that awaited Elijah Wood. This may have been a low-budget independent film, but you wouldn't have known it from the storm of flashbulbs, the shouting of reporters and the sheer number of celebrities walking by. Chris Klein! Ally Sheedy! Topher Grace! And then, there he was: amidst a sea of popping flashbulbs, I was laying eyes on Elijah Wood in person for the first time since 1988.

Now, here's the thing. Just because I had talked my way onto the red carpet didn't mean I'd actually get to talk to Elijah. It's like making it to callbacks after an audition; you got through the door, but you still don't have the part. The publicist made it clear that Elijah had very limited time to do interviews, and that once the premiere was getting close, they would pull him out of there no matter how many reporters were left. And I was pretty far down on the line; ahead of me were much bigger outlets, including MTV, Stuff magazine, InStyle, Fox News … It did not look good at all.

Before he'd arrived, and during that hour-long wait on the press line, I made my case to Elijah's publicist. I explained our childhood connection, and that I wrote for his hometown paper, and that I'd flown all the way to New York to speak with him. (Hey, she didn't need to know I was already here for "The Final Season …") The publicist replied that she couldn't make any guarantees, and that I'd just have to wait and see.

So now here we were, and the TV shows were hogging Wood's time. At least 14 more reporters stood between me and him, and already Klein and Sheedy were being pulled off the carpet and taken inside by their publicists for the start of the movie.

I took pictures of Elijah for the paper from a distance, but figured that was the best I'd be able to offer. Things looked bad. I knew this had been a long shot from the beginning, but still, I felt terribly disappointed.

Then the publicist took Elijah's arm. She led him past all the reporters between him and me. As she stopped in front of me, she told the other reporters that this would be Elijah's last interview of the night.

"This is the paper from Cedar Rapids," she told him.

Elijah's eyes widened as he heard that. "No way," he said as he shook my hand.

"Yeah, and we went to school together 20 years ago at St. Pat's," I said.

Elijah started laughing. "Get the f*** out!" he said. "Are we the same age?"

"Four years apart," I said.

"St. Pat's?!" Elijah repeated, shaking his head. "That's amazing!"

And with that, I started interviewing him. I asked him how he felt about Iowans who still follow his career like a hometown hero, and about how he feels toward Iowa today. We talked about the new tax incentive passed in the Iowa Legislature, which makes Iowa a much more financially-attractive place for studios to make movies. We talked about his connection to Sean Astin, who starred in "The Final Season." (You can read the final story here.)

I knew Elijah had to go, so I wrapped it up. Then Elijah came back to the St. Pat's point again.

"That is so cool. That is awesome," he said with a laugh. "Where do you live now?"

"I still live in Cedar Rapids," I said.

"No way!" Elijah replied. And then his publicist, of all people, stepped in and suggested that he get a picture with me, since we were schoolmates and all.

"Yeah, I would love to do that!" Elijah said.

Well, what am I gonna do, say no? The publicist commandeered my camera and snapped a photo of the two of us. (Just for the record, I'm still taller. And yes, I'll put the pic up on MySpace once I get back.) Elijah shook my hand again, and then headed into the theater, despite the pleas of journalists all around me who wanted him. And just like that, it was over. I had actually pulled it off.

It would seem that surreal moments come in pairs, because the next day I went to the press screening of "Day Zero." (Which, by the way, is a great film; I like it more and more as I continue to reflect on it.) After the screening, members of the press went into a theater across the hall for a press conference … and in walk Elijah, Chris Klein and John Bernthal, along with the movie's director and screenwriter. I'm sitting in the front row, which means Elijah sits maybe four feet away from me.

I get the first question, and so I ask Elijah and Chris Klein how they think a military draft would go over in the Midwest, since they both hail from there. And off we go. I got in a few more questions, trying to keep out of my mind that I'm conducting a back-and-forth discussion with a group of major actors while pretending that I belong in this room alongside much, much bigger media people than me. Oh – and whenever I'm not asking questions, I'm shooting photos for the story; it's a heck of a lot easier here than it was on the red carpet. (The photo posted with the story I linked above is from this event.)

By the time all was said and done, I had more than enough material for a story on Elijah. I backed it up with quotes from the director and co-star Ginnifer Goodwin (if you don't know her, she played Johnny Cash/Joaquin Phoenix's first wife in "Ring of Fire" last year) about working with him. I tried to get Chris Klein for that purpose too, and he seemed happy to talk to me – until his publicist noticed, started barking that he had another interview to get to and literally pushed him away from me and out the door of the theater. Those publicists don't fool around, I tell you.

Fortunately, I saw Elijah's publicist nearby, and now I appreciated more than ever that she wasn't like poor Chris Klein's evil stormtrooper. I hadn't been able to thank her the night before, so I stopped over there and did so now. I'd never have gotten the story without her.

As someone else pointed out, between Elijah and Sean Astin, I've now interviewed two hobbits in the span of 24 hours. Now I return to Mission A, which is covering "The Final Season."

But Mission B was one heck of a detour.

:) That was such a pleasure to read, sneaking.

Thanks for posting it. I'd love to see the picture of the two of them. It would be nice to put a face with such an interesting quest!!

Can't post without a pic (hope it hasn't been seen here yet, I'm losing track of what's been posted where and what hasn't)...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v638/Shelbyshire/74031452.jpg

*pic courtesy of elijah_finds/LJ*

Thanks rrappelle, sneaking, Honeyelf and Shelbyshire for your reports and pictures. :)

Anybody figure out where EW's interview on "The Fuse" is on the site? (Currently, Nathan Fillion's picture is showing. RIP Drive. :( )

C4

ceefour, you can go here for a picture: http://fuseblog.typepad.com/the_sauce/2007/04/elijah_wood_kno.html

ceefour, you can go here for a picture: http://fuseblog.typepad.com/the_sauce/2007/04/elijah_wood_kno.htmlBetter yet, use this one:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v32/bunniebugs/Elijah%202/elijah_wood_thesauce.jpg

The picture on the site is reversed (who knows why), so I took it upon myself to flip it back around. I hate reversed photos of him!

Not sure when (or if) his appearance will turn up on the Fuse site, but perhaps not for a few days. If they don't post it, maybe someone will put it on YouTube, or something. I hope so, anyway! From what I've heard, he was in full-out geek mode! :D

Some scans from Q magazine "Cash for Questions". Somebody actually asked the Iggy/prosthetic question (no real answer unfortunately and worse, Iggy project sounds like it might not happen).

Page 1 (http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f153/sneakingraptor/cash1-1.jpg)

Page 2 (http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f153/sneakingraptor/cash2-1.jpg)

Page 3 (http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f153/sneakingraptor/cash3-2.jpg)

Page 4 (http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f153/sneakingraptor/cash4-1.jpg)

Gratuitous repeat of Elijah studying an Iggy poster (http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f153/sneakingraptor/iggyelijah-1.jpg)

Awesome reports and photos, Facultites. You rule the Elijah Woodzone! *bows to you*

I particularly liked your report, Rrappelle. Congrats on being friend and family! It apparently worked for the Cedar Rapids guy, too. So really awesome. I am a happy camper tonight. Thanks, y'all!

Sneaking, it's great of you to post that. I'm just thrilled, especially since I have an e-friend, a fellow-Frodo fan, who is from C.R. (moved away as an older child but still considers herself a Cedar Rapids girl). She'll love reading this!

~ M :k

I have just discovered this excellent Day Zero review, linked from the DZ official site. I haven’t seen it posted anywhere yet, so I thought I would share.

It’s somewhat SPOILERY!

http://efilmcritic.com/review.php?movie=16178&reviewer=358

I especially appreciated this comment:

Elijah Wood puts in a career best here- simultaneously hilarious and disturbing. :)

Thanks, Blossom! :k That's very encouraging to read (although outrageously full of spoilers for a reviewer; who is this guy, Marc Kandel?)--encouraging about the film and EW's performance, both.

~ M

Thanks, Blossom. There haven't been many as detailed or considerate reviews from non-biased sources (fan reviews are lovely but you can never be quite sure of the actual quality since we all have rose-tinted spectacles. ;) ). I'm especially pleased at what he says about Elijah's performance.. This sounds really promising indeed and I hope it gets picked up. I'm desperate to see this.

I've been slightly disappointed in the number of reviews there have been for this film. But looking at the usual suspects, I think there have been less Tribeca reviews than normal even for the main competition films. I think the Trades and the indie press are a bit unpleased with the general direction of the Festival (the $18 tickets, the mess and inconvenience of the press screening tickets).

Another Day Zero review - again linked from the official DZ site:

SOME SPOILERS

http://www.screendaily.com/ScreenDailyArticle.aspx?intStoryID=32217

Elijah Wood, who gives the film's best performance as Feller, a sweet-tempered young writer, is the most marketable member of the cast and could attract an existing fan base. :)

A video preview of Elijah's interview "Elijah drops some rock science." at The Sauce is now showing on the Fuse TV website: http://fuse.tv/tv/thesauce/index.php

Someone please download it for posterity and Faculty Research! :z:

The full 2 minutes and 45 second interview is here:
http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid687557470/bclid758931884/bctid853723696

Only a mixed review from Variety (http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117933583.html?categoryid=31&cs=1) for Day Zero. Not good news. :(

Summary: she thinks it would be good on cable and (by implication), I think she found Elijah's character a bit irritating.

Some SPOILERs in the review but not much more than in the trailer. Not a detailed account like that efilmcritic one!

Well, I guess I'm not so good at industry gossip, because I'm having a hard time figuring out how well this movie is doing here. It opened in Midtown on May 4 as anticipated, and I think it was initially only booked for one week. Then, it not only continued into a second week but added a second theater - this one on the Lower East Side, where the conclusion of the Tribeca Film Festival had opened up some space. Now it looks like, going into the third week, it may be down to one theater again - but it's still going! My puzzlement stems from not really knowing what they'd planned on, so I don't know whether this is meeting or exceeding expectations....

I made it to a weeknight showing, which was quite well-attended for having been in town 10 days already, and despite playful rumors of a local boycott: a few curmudgeonly folks have been overheard saying they don't really want this film to do well here, for fear the sequel will be "I 'Heart' New York!" Setting such prejudice aside, the audience really liked the movie, even though only 1 out 18 segments featured Elijah. ;)

Seriously, there's a lot to like: many strong performances, and many interesting modes of story-telling. With only five minutes to realize each piece, the writing and direction is necessarily intense and the imagery compelling. Strikingly, many of the stories completely lack dialog, relying on the physical acting skills of the very talented cast. [on a side note, I had not realized that Leonor Watling of The Oxford Murders was also in PJT - unfortunately I can't tell you which segment, because I didn't catch it until the credits rolled - oops.] The segments are all very strong, but all very different from each other. It must have been quite the chore to decide the order in which to present them! There are certain unifying features and the segue shots succeed in drawing the parts together into a very satisfying whole. I should think anyone would be proud to have been part of this extraordinary film.

THIS BIT MIGHT BE SPOILERY: Elijah's segment was, simply put, delightful to watch. Despite the many screencaps that have circulated giving away story elements, the story itself was still surprising and fresh. There were several clever and affectionate nods to the genre included in the staging and the score, and - though I may be imagining this - additional nods to Elijah's own cinematic history. The Faculty will have plenty of material to work with here! And I'm pretty certain, now, that the heart behind the Eiffel Tower in the poster is a specific reference to this segment.... OK, NOT SO SPOILERY ANYMORE!

The movie's official website is not very helpful in forecasting when PJT might get to other cities. I surely hope it does, because I think it adds to the fun, to experience it with an audience. On the other hand, the intimacy of the individual tales will, I think, remain powerful on a small screen. Plus, with a DVD it will be possible to pause between segments, as I kept reaching to do in the theater, and as one would do when reading a good collection of short stories. If you believe that pre-ordering on Amazon actually helps motivate DVD distribution, now may be the time to do so. This film will be one for everyone's personal library, to take out and savor in small bites.

Thanks for the heads-up rrappelle. It's a bit tricky maneuvering among the educational videos, theatrical times, etc. at amazon. This is the page you want in order to sign up for email notification when the correct DVD is available for order:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00005JPRA/002-6706691-0310426?ie=UTF8&tag=afewworabo-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=1789&creativeASIN=B00005JPRA

One of the reviews for the educational DVD said simply, "This is an educational film, not the movie with Natalie Portman and Elijah Wood." Out of 46 customers responding, 45 said this review was "Helpful." ;)


The following is meant for the June website updates, but since it was triggered by Faculty discussion (courtesy of Shelbyshire, IIRC), here's an early link to Frodo with Feathers (http://www.frodolivesin.us/id350.htm). Absolutely no seriousness involved. :p

rrappelle wrote:
...to take out and savor in small bites.
This is a test. It is designed to test your knowledge on Elwoodian Research 201. Circle the correct answer.

Is the above quote:

A. Concerning chocolate covered Easter Elijahs?
B. A Pun?
C. An attempt to get around the Faculty Spoiler Guidelines?
D. All of the above?
E. None of the above?
_________________________________________________________________

TG wrote:Frodo with Feathers. Absolutely no seriousness involved.
This is absolutely genius, or after final exams TG has got waaaay too much time on her hands... ;)

rrappelle wrote:

TG wrote:...Absolulutely no seriousness involved.
This is absolutely genius, or after final exams TG has got waaaay too much time on her hands... ;)

I vote for "absolute genius!" Alyon and I got to see Happy Feet again this weekend, together at my house this time. We both agree that it's a bit of an odd movie. And for my part I have to say that, while Mumble is delighful, Ramon tickles me pink! But I'm grateful to CeeFour for "Frodo with feathers," and to TG for her brilliant(ly funny) cap-for-cap series. :k :k :k Oh! Also, I'd always thought that Lovelace's wild feathers were Don King-inspired, but now that I've seen George Miller in the extras, with his delightfullly wild grey hair, I've adjusted my thinking on the matter!

Now why am I suddenly craving chocolate? ;)

hugs you all,
honey!

:cool:

Thanks for "Frodo with feathers". Words kind of fail me - it's eerie...

Thanks for the PJT review, rrappelle! I think it's good news it went to a second theatre. I hope it comes to Denver. We generally get the art films here, although GSH was only here for one week and I missed it. I had to watch the DVD instead.

I love your quiz, txtac. Unfortunately, I failed. But there is now a circle mark on my monitor, as proof that I tried. :)

Tg! :lol:

Also, Frodo and Mumble travel on their missions, quests, things accompanied by great music. :p

Achila, Pelagia and I watched LOTR this past Saturday to celebrate Achila's purchase of an HD TV. (Tried to persuade her to buy the 60 inch, but she insisted on the 42.) Wish you all could have been there to yell "Death!" with us during the Ride of the Rohirrim. :cool:

Parts of PJ's The Lovely Bones will be filmed in our area. Since Pelagia works for a non-profit film institute on the Main Line (think Katherine Hepburn in The Philadelphia Story), we figure it would be the perfect place to show that foreign, independent, subtitled film PJ made while he's here and have him introduce it. ;)

The Passenger announced in Variety (http://www.variety.com/index.asp?layout=Cannes2007&jump=story&id=1061&articleid=VR1117965043&cs=1). Even it's a bit vague in places, it has some more detail (budget = $6-8 million), shoots within the next 6 months and the implication is that it might be shot in Philadelphia.

I know that we've had some of this before and it hasn't happened, but I don't think we've had it so specifically from Variety (e.g. I think it was EW and other places). Since Variety is sort of "Official", this is as near as it can get to announcing that it really is actually going to happen (obviously, something could still fall through). It's announced now because presumably they are doing something relating to it in the Cannes Market.

May I squee just a little at EW and PJ filming in Pennsylvania at about the same time? :cool:

Holy smokes!! I just realized this is my 1000th post! And I thought I wouldn't have much to say when I joined The Faculty. (Some might still say I have nothing to say!! :haha: )

I'm encouraged by the fact that the picture apparently now has Iggy's "blessing." Wasn't he only recently opining that he didn't feel quite dead enough to be biographized?

ETA: Simulposted! Congratulations on your 1000th, CeeFour! Sneaks up on you, doesn't it? :lol:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/53/144930332_2616144d7d_o.jpg

Thanks (I think!) for that picture, Honeyelf! :eek:

Yes, there was a link in here recently to an article about Iggy Pop saying he was too alive for a film about himself and I've been wandering around The Lounge trying to find it, but have had no luck so far.

I thought it was in a Rolling Stone article, but what he said was:
"I've just seen the 'Passenger' script," the suntanned, sinewy rocker says smiling and curling up with his only vice ("just a straight cuppa Joe") in a booth at his Hollywood hotel cafe. "And they definitely wanna make it, but it hasn't quite happened yet; I know that for a fact because they don't have my permission yet. And I'm not debating. I'm just not in a hurry."

He sets down his cup, flexes his skull-ring-adorned fingers, and says, "I'm still just a little too alive. How 'bout if I'm just a little dead? Maybe when I'm a little deader, they can make my movie."

Now I'm not sure where the reference is from though. :confused: But anyhow, sounds like he's feeling "better" about it. Hope he's feeling "well" too! I don't know, having a movie made about you must feel oddly like being on deathwatch, so I understand his reluctance; didn't both Johnny Cash and Ray Charles succumb briefly after their movies were made? :rolleyes:

h!

slight spoiler picture from day zero but i'm sure it's from the trailer so if you've seen that then you've seen this......














Wow, ceefour, if you've been sitting in front of that computer for 1,000 posts you must be in need of a haircut!

There's this one stylist over on Broadway and ......

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v638/Shelbyshire/dz10-1.jpg

C4...congrats on 1,000 posts!

Congratulations on OVER 1,000 posts Ceefour!


The last that I heard, Iggster hadn't inked the permission slip yet. That was what was holding up the funding for the movie. No one wanted to put up the money yet if Iggster still hadn't signed the paperwork. Giving his "blessing" is one thing, but actually signing off on the permission page is another. We know that he finally liked the current evolution of the script. He can give it his "blessing" all he wants, but I want to see the confirmation that he has in fact signed off on the permission slip. :z:


Great photo of Kevin Honeyelf. I see another avatar coming up- *hint, hint.*

Two bits of news:

Bobby is out on DVD.

A nonprofit "art house" theater is opening in Omaha in July! (Yeah, I realize that bit of news doesn't affect anyone other than me - but I just had to share. ;) )

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OMG! It's that C4 again! Doesn't she ever quit?
http://www.frodolivesin.us/ejw/0812c860.jpg

Congratulations, C4!
Sorry I missed crediting you as the "Frodo with Feathers" source :o . For some reason, I occasionally confuse you and Shelbyshire - must have something to do with the quote game. Which reminds me that it seems to be time for a clue there. :p

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Glad the Mumblijah pics were enjoyed. Actually, txtac, that was the result of a lack of time (I wish our workload dropped after the students left campus for the summer, but it doesn't work that way). It's a lot faster to throw a couple of pages like that together than it is to do a new set of screencaps with commentary. As Mariole and a few others could probably tell you, the trick is to have seen the LotR movies so often, and spent so much time looking at screencaps from them, that watching any other EJW movie brings up "That looks really familiar" moments that are then quite easy to track down. :p (For another use of this relatively useless "facial expression" knowledge, see The Wizards Are Odd (http://www.frodolivesin.us/id275.htm) - several years old now, but I still think it's funny :haha: .)

--Most of the screencaps I used for the Mumblijah pages were ones I already had, but I did need to get a few LotR ones. I'm afraid that dipping back into the DVDs like that pulled me back into the vortex of Frolijah screencaps. :eek: :eek: Some parts of the Weathertop episode that I hadn't capped before are first. It does take awhile, but I'm hoping to have something up for June.

*Whiteling the very, very silent pokes her nose in the Faculty*

Congratulations, Ceefour!! You have been productive. :)

Mumble is delighted with your 1000 posts...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/0903/whiteling/C4-Mumble.jpg

(This pic calls for an explanation: When C4 is mentioned, Americans will think of explosive stuff. :eek: In Europe, we associate it with a "C4" named French car type, made by Citroen. :D)


Tg, your "Frodo with Feathers" is a scream. And I too think, that The Wizard Are Odd is funny.

Rrappelle, thank you very much for your review. :)

Txtac, thanks for the outstanding Elwoodian Research 201 test. I mean, we have to meet our standard. ;)

Debut taunt

The prolific Tao Lin kicks off his fiction career with a two-book release.
By Drew Toal

Time Out New York / Issue 606: May 10–16, 2007
http://www.timeout.com/newyork/Details.do?page=1&xyurl=xyl://TONYWebArticles1/606/books/debut_taunt.xml

ANIMAL PRAGMATISM Lin’s fiction comes complete with angst-ridden slackers and talking bears.
“I used to consider myself depressed,” Tao Lin tells TONY at an East Village coffeeshop. “Now I try not to think in terms of happiness or depression—I just think in terms of whether I’m productive or not.” If that’s the case, then the 23-year-old Brooklyn-based author must be feeling pretty good about himself these days. In addition to diligently maintaining his heavily trafficked blog, A Reader of Depressing Books, the prolific Lin is an editor at the online magazine 3:AM, has written a book of poetry and is now gearing up for the publication of his first two books of prose, the novel Eeeee Eee Eeee and a collection of short stories called Bed. It’s the first double-book fiction debut since Ann Beattie released Distortions and Chilly Scenes of Winter simultaneously in 1976.

Lin, who got his B.A. from NYU in 2005, is presenting himself as something of a literary phenomenon—a DIY writer who’s making a name for himself without an M.F.A. or a mainstream publisher (both of his new books are being put out by the indie press Melville House). A stickler for creative control, he once canceled the publication of his own chapbook when he disagreed with changes suggested by an editor at Future Tense Books. He recently accepted a poem from his mom for 3:AM “because she writes simple, declarative sentences without clichés and does not have a pose.”

Lin’s own fiction mixes unpretentious prose and a robust sense of the ridiculous. Eeeee Eee Eeee concerns the travails of Andrew, a twentysomething pizza delivery guy with a penchant for intellectual contemplation and zero career ambition. Andrew spends a good deal of his time pining after a girl named Sara, but he also finds himself in a series of bizarre situations, discussing the meaning of life with President Bush and watching a poker game played by Salman Rushdie.

Obviously, this is no ordinary tale of alienation in the burbs. The novel’s title refers to the sounds made by a band of homicidal dolphins whose sinister agenda is to kill Elijah Wood and other real-world luminaries (there are some no-nonsense talking bears on hand too). The reasons for the hobbitcide are never made clear, but Lin claims that he means the actor no harm. “I like Elijah Wood. I don’t want to kill him,” he says. “The dolphins probably wanted to murder him because he’s small and easy to kill. He seems pretty gullible.”

Quotes like this suggest that Lin is pursuing the absurd for absurdity’s sake, and yet his fiction, even at its most willfully strange, feels entirely genuine. His intense descriptions of alienation, boredom and curdled ambition have won the praise of artists such as Miranda July. And for all of Lin’s antiestablishment attitude, his work owes plenty to old-fashioned storytelling. On his blog, he recently claimed, “I want someone to review Eeeee Eee Eeee and call me the Asian John Updike.”

An Updikian minimalism is on full display in Bed, a collection of nine stories that are mainly concerned with romantic relationships and how they fall apart. The stories lack Eeeee Eee Eeee’s talking animals but exhibit the same brand of earnest and offbeat existential meditations. In stories such as “Insomnia for a Better Tomorrow,” Lin reveals a knack for capturing how romance can slip into patterns of inexplicable meanness and going-through-the-motions numbness. His characters come off like postcollegiate Rabbit Angstroms for the 21st century.

Lin, to put it another way, is a newfangled writer with some excellent old-school storytelling techniques. But part of his charm is that he doesn’t care about labels or modes of expression. He’s as satisfied cranking out entries on his blog as he is writing books that will become paper-and-glue commodities. “It’s pointless to talk about the death of print, the pros and cons of the Internet, and the end of literary criticism,” Lin says. He isn’t worried about the medium, or about who publishes his work. He just wants to write, and this ambition has produced an adventurous new talent.

Eeeee Eee Eeee and Bed (Melville House, $15.95 each) are out now.

Elijah made the movie Flipper because he wanted to swim with the dolphins. Then several years later he bashes the movie as the worst movie that he has ever made. Now I think that the dolphins are getting even... :eek:

I think I forgot to mention re: the Passenger. The connections that Elijah has with the producer Ted Hope and the company he's part of (This is that). Ted Hope was one of the producers for the Ice Storm. He was one of the executive producers on Thumbsucker (which Elijah was attached to at one point). The company (but not Hope himself) were one/some of the producers of Eternal Sunshine.

Also, in the production company Hope had before (Good Machine, the one that did the Ice Storm), the other two partners went with the company when it merged into something else and ended up being Focus Features. Those two ex-partners are now co-presidents at Focus (one of them is Jame Schamus who was a co-writer on most of Ang Lee's films). So they are in charge at the company which is producing 9 even if they aren't producers of the film themselves.

It's kind of a fascinating labyrinth. But maybe goes to show how doing good work and building good professional relationships pays off over time. It also maybe helps to explain how Elijah might be more likely to get cast in 9 (or even as Iggy) since they've worked with him before and why he would trust in The Passenger and persist with being attached (and skinny) over such a long time period. All of the three companies I've mentioned have produced very good and even outstanding films. I think these are exactly the type of people he wants to be working with, that he wants to work with in the future and I'm sure he's pretty pleased about that. Especially considering if you add it together with having worked with the EII producers who are on a roll following Little Miss Sunshine's success and even Indalo who might be kind of tiny and much less successful but are enabling him to have a shot at producing himself.

Hi, Whiteling. And thanks for the explanation - I wouldn't have gotten it :confused: :) .

Thanks for that rundown, sneaking - very interesting. Shows again that Elijah has made some smart moves in developing his career.

There's one sentence from the report txtac posted in the Tolkien forum, about the London production of the LotR musical, that seems appropriate to quote here:
Choreographer Peter Darling organised elf movement classes (and some for hobbits, showing footage of penguins).
Isn't it nice to know that Faculty research actually has some usefulness in the real world? ;)

...and we'll have to keep a watch on who buys the film rights to Eeeee Eee Eeee -- well someone will, won't they? Although it's never mentioned that Elijah actually appears "on stage," so to speak, I'm sure the script could work him in somewhere - kind of like the John Malkovich role in Being John Malkovich (written by the same screenwriter as ESotSM).

Ah, just one more sign that Elijah has truly arrived as a household name. :cool:

[While checking to see if I'd spelled "Malkovich" right, I stumbled across the fact that amazon is now selling DVDs of The Charlie Rose Show. I'm currently sifting through the listings to find the important programs; will hopefully have them on the "What's New" page before I have to head to work.]

Thanks for that fascinating piece of research, sneaking, and for your thoughtful observations. I know I sometimes find it frustrating that he does not do more/bigger films and your indication maybe that underneath the surface he is building a firm foundation for his future career is reassuring.

TG wrote: ...and we'll have to keep a watch on who buys the film rights to Eeeee Eee Eeee -- well someone will, won't they? Although it's never mentioned that Elijah actually appears "on stage," so to speak, I'm sure the script could work him in somewhere -
Now that e-dog seems to be wanting to step up to the plate, it wouldn't suprise me if HE options the movie rights just so that he could have some fun directing, producing and being the main character to kill himself off. :eek:

Has anyone read this book yet? What is the 'Elijah Cameo' really about?

It's been pretty much forever since I've posted here, but I thought y'all would appreciate the fact that this week's Entertainment Weekly is rich in LotR-actor goodness. Not only does Dom get a two-page spread, but Paris Je T'aime is on the Must List (a list of ten items [books/movies/videos/tv shows] featured as Must-Experience based on their review ratings), complete with a movie still of Elijah and Maggie Gyllenhall.

Also, PJT is opening in the Chicago area this weekend (at the Highland Park art-movie theater), so it's probably arriving at other cities as well.

Now, back to lurker mode...

Really encouraging news, Sharpe's Girl! Thanks for sharing it.

And I'll wave a "Happy Birthday" to kuduk in case she's peeking in. :)

TG wrote:
Now that e-dog seems to be wanting to step up to the plate, it wouldn't suprise me if HE options the movie rights just so that he could have some fun directing, producing and being the main character to kill himself off. :eek:
Actually, that crossed my mind, too. ;) If he would happen to end up with the rights, I'm guessing he'd produce and act, but not direct.

Has anyone read this book yet? What is the 'Elijah Cameo' really about?
Couldn't find it locally, but I have it on order. It was just published on May 15 and isn't from a major publisher so may be a little hard to find unless people start asking for it. (Me giving the title to the clerk at B&N: "It's 5 E's, then 3 E's, then 4 E's." Her: "Yes, that is kind of unusual." :haha: . She was able to find it on the computer and order it for me, though.) I do have the amazon link (with their editorial review) on the What's New page (http://www.frodolivesin.us/new/), of course. :p

I don't know if Elijah's even "on stage" in the book - I kind of doubt it, but that could be remedied in a movie version. I also don't know if he actually gets killed; we are talking about homicidal dolphins, after all, and apparently Elijah isn't their only target - just the one the reviewer thought was funniest. The amazon review doesn't mention him, but says the book is, in part, about "...the search for meaning in a culture gone mad with celebrities and advertising," and my guess is that Elijah figures into the "celebrities" part of that, but we'll have to see.

I believe the dolphins club Elijah to death in cave. And there are hamsters somewhere too... That's just from looking at blogs and mostly ignoring it.

Edit:

Oxford Murders has a UK distribution (http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117965605.html?categoryid=14&cs=1) deal. It seems to be a joint venture type thing between Odeon cinemas and Sky so there's a fair chance that it should go to all/most Odeon cinemas.

The Discovery of the Hobbit -
Mike Morwood and Penny Van Oosterzee
By NICOLA JENNINGS - Sunday Star Times | Wednesday, 23 May 2007
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4070136a20956.html

Long after homo sapiens invented art, porn and sailing, another kind of human scampered about in Indonesian forests. We know this because a team led by one of the writers of this fascinating book, Australian archaeologist Mike Morwood, discovered the creature's skeleton in 2003, in a cave on the remote island of Flores.

Since then, bones belonging to at least eight more individuals have been found, ranging in age from 95,000 to 12,000 years old. Our own species has been alive for at least 100,000 years, in case you were wondering.

These bones are such a conglomeration of the primitive and the modern, so tiny, and so recent, that many scientists thought they were a hoax. "If you told me an alien space craft had landed in a field in Flores I would have been less surprised," said experienced paleoanthropologist Peter Brown, who studied the bones.

The creature has been nicknamed "the hobbit", which is apt, as it was tiny, lived in a cave, and had very large feet. Although the owner of the first skeleton found was about 30 when she died, she stood only a metre tall - the height of a human three-year-old. That's half a metre shorter than the average African pygmy. Poignantly, fragments of a 50cm five- year-old have also been found.

But how smart was a hobbit? An adult's brain was only the size of a small chimp's: puny, even for its size. Despite the lack of neurons, Morwood believes hobbits made the stone knives and axes found with them. This, he writes, is their ticket to our own genus, the very exclusive Club Homo, reserved for primates who eat with a knife (fork optional). He has rather boringly bestowed the scientific name Homo Floresiensis. Homo Hobbitus would have been easier to remember.

Morwood emerges from this first person account as a down-to- earth, plain-speaking but careful fellow, particularly when it comes to Indonesian cultural sensitivities. This was fortunate, as it helped him to manage a remote rural dig site and a cranky, urban Jakartan old-boy network.

He needed all his diplomatic skills. Scientific debate surrounding the bones quickly reached record levels of vitriol, even for paleoanthropology, an enjoyably bitchy science. And nowhere more so than in the halls of Indonesian archaeology.

To Morwood's mortification, several scientists, including "the undisputed king of paleoanthropology in Indonesia", Teuku Jacob, declared that the hobbit's skull displayed microcephaly - a birth defect which causes deformity of the skull and mental retardation - and did not belong to a new species at all.

This theory has not gone away, despite Morwood's team finding more tiny individuals separated widely in time. He is not the only one to point out that it seems unlikely a race of imbeciles could survive so long on an island swarming with meat-eating lizards three times bigger than they were, although he needs to find another skull to prove his point.

A few of the proponents of the microcephalic theory have axes to grind and Jacob is accused, sensationally, of grabbing then damaging the hobbits' bones. The fog of war has been compounded by Indonesian v Australian politico- cultural complexities and newspapers that have given equal time to every theory, whether it met the test of peer review or not.

This book is timely. It clarifies events which have been glossed over in other media, including damage done to the only extant hobbit skull, a jawbone and a pelvis. Although neither Morwood nor fellow writer Penny Van Oosterzee could be confused with Tolstoy, the book is intelligent, pacey and evocative.

Morwood is unexpectedly good at describing the local characters who worked on the dig in Flores, from the woman who made the coffee to the guy who sang love ballads during breaks. Being a true bloke, he lingers lovingly over DIY aspects of the dig, proudly describing a technique new to the locals of shoring up excavation shafts with timber - picked up from workmates who had attended a grave-digging course in Sydney.

But the book's central theme is Morwood's passionate desire to learn more about the ancient beings who lived in South-East Asia and the Pacific, and their relationships. How could a brain the size of a grapefruit conceive of the tool to peel one? Where did our ancestors evolve? What does it take to be human? Are humans subject to the same forces which shape other animals? How many types of human lived at one time? Why did they disappear? Did we kill them?

The Discovery of the Hobbit: The Scientific Breakthrough that Changed the Face of Human History is out now through Random House. RRP $40.

Originally posted on TORn:

Jennifer sends us the latest scans from ToyFare Magazine, they feature some very cool looking LOTR toys coming our way. Included is a '25 Inch Electric Balrog' (with a 36 inch wingspan!) and a very cool looking animated Gandalf maquette. Take a look!

http://www.theonering.net/scrapbook/view/18417

http://www.theonering.net/scrapbook/view/18418

Husband and I saw Paris je T'aime last night. Husband says it was like dim sum, those delicate, perfectly sized chinese tidbits. We both enjoyed it immensley. There were two stories I actively despised though, the one with Bob Hoskins, and the other with Gena Rowlands. Oh! And the mimes, so make it three stories I didn't like. :p There was another segment we both loved, the "red trench coat" story, but it wasn't very well crafted, needing a narrator throughout. By contrast Elijah's segment needed no dialog or narrator; loved loved loved watching his face, which told us all there was to tell.

Spoilers here. Highlight to read:

Le garcon meets vampire, le garcon falls in love with vampire...Oh! And when the vampire sniffs his throat? *swoon*


TxTac may never forgive those of us who brave the elijah_finds community at LJ. We forgot to tell him about Elijah and Zach's DJ gig at the Firehouse Lounge last night. :( :o :( :o :( :eek: :eek:

honey!

May I illustrate your post for you, Honey?

Thank You!!

Elijah and Zach Wood DJing at The Firehouse Lounge in Austin, Texas...

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Pictures courtesy of annwyn55 at elijah_finds/LJ via a MySpace blog from someone who was there.

The following is an address to go to if you want to see Elijah and Zach arriving at a show for SXSW a year or so ago. It was taken by a Texas broadcasting student. ;) Spaces have been added to prevent a direct link and if it's still against house rules, please promptly delete it.

The upload is courtesy of bellewood at elijah_finds/LJ.

http: // www. yousendit. com /download/UVJnek9oZEtOQncwTVE9PQ

Gosh I love those Firehouse Lounge pictures, Shelbyshire!!!! Honey, your spoiler makes me reeeeeeeeeeaaaallly want to see Paris je T'aime. Guess I'll have to wait for the DVD though. :rolleyes: :)

~ Mechtild

oh my gosh. is it my imagination, shelbyshire, or does elijah in that third pic look... pained? and in the fourth one... wistful?

or maybe I'm projecting a little too much about how siblings get along - sorry!

Shelbyshire, very nice illustrations! Thank you!

Mech, I'm wishing you a good movie theater. Every town ought to have at least one.

Rrappelle, I don't sense anything about how Lij and Zach relate in those pictures, myself. I do get the feeling though, that the public wears him out a little. :( I wonder if a tendency to be shy and very private doesn't make public appearances a little wearing. Or maybe that's just my own slight tendency to social phobia speaking. :rolleyes:

honey!

My pleasure, Honey!

rrappelle...When I posted the pics I put them in that order since they did seem to be telling a short story like that so I do agree with you about the expressions but who knows what Zach was telling him. Someone over at LJ suggested Zach was confessing and telling him he was adopted. LOL! Siblings do tend to do that from time to time! I went back and looked at the MySpace they're from and the poster there had them in the exact opposite order that I did.

Though, like Honey, when I first saw these I got the feeling that sometimes cameras are an intrusion even though he's in a public place which could explain the lack of eye contact when Zach's looking right at the person. Hmmm...that was a long sentence.

Time to call it a night...sleep well.

A book review: I'm about halfway through Eeeee Eee Eeeee and this is one weird book. The only person I can imagine figuring out how to turn it into a movie would be Charlie Kaufman. So far, the entire book has been stream of consciousness inside the mind of someone who's terminally bored. Although the blurb on the back of the book doesn't keep it a surprise that Elijah Wood gets killed, along with Salman Rushdie and Wong Kar-Wai, I doubt if anybody really gets killed - the guy probably just thinks about how it could happen. In fact, the one slightly disturbing thing is how often he thinks about killing people (usually "with a lead pipe" - he must have grown up playing Clue). I just flipped a few pages ahead and found the part about Elijah Wood, so I read it, but I haven't come to Salman Rushdie yet. I don't know who Wong Kar-Wai is. I'm glad I just read a book of short stories by Jhumpa Lahiri because she comes up quite often, although I don't think you have to know who Jhumpa Lahiri is to read this book. I've scanned ahead for dolphin sections, and so far when the dolphins aren't talking like people they always say "Eeeee eee eeee" although sometimes it's "EEEEE EEE EEEE", but always 5 e's then 3 e's then 4 e's, which is how I told the person at Barnes & Noble the name of the book when I ordered it. She said it was a strange name for a book. I had dinner with a friend at Applebee's yesterday, and since Applebee's is only a block away from Barnes & Noble I went over after we finished eating and picked up the book. You could easily read this book in one sitting, but I'm using it for bathroom reading so it's taking me more than one sitting. Once in awhile I'll laugh at something but can't quite figure out what. The whole book is written like this. Except that people go to Denny's instead of Applebee's, probably because they're younger than I am. And the guy thinks about killing people a lot more than I do.

Honey wrote:
TxTac may never forgive those of us who brave the elijah_finds community at LJ. We forgot to tell him about Elijah and Zach's DJ gig at the Firehouse Lounge last night.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!
The picture captions read:
Picture 1. Zach spots "the monkey."
Picture 2. Zach warns S. for B. that "the monkey" is in the house.
Picture 3. S. for B. is worried over what "the monkey" is going to do to him for not calling "the monkey" to tell him that S. for B. will not be able to make it to SXSW this year. "The Monkey" is still upset- and no phone call to say that we're back in town for a couple of days and at the Firehouse tonight. :o

Honey- Evan YOU have my phone number too!!! You could've called ! :eek: :o :mad:

TG wrote: ...I just flipped a few pages ahead and found the part about Elijah Wood, so I read it,
...So what happens? Did the butler do it, or Flipper's grandkids angry at the movie's royalty payments, or lack thereof ?!?

Wong Kar-Wai is a Chinese film director. Very art house and also exceedingly famous and influential in those kind of circles. The only film I've seen of his is "In the Mood for Love" (my main memory of which is "Oh, beautiful chinese dresses").

...So what happens? Did the butler do it, or Flipper's grandkids angry at the movie's royalty payments, or lack thereof ?!?
Nothing so rational, believe me. I suppose the stream of consciousness went from dolphins to Elijah Wood - the dolphin puts on a jacket and takes a plane to Hollywood apparently specifically to find him. Elijah gets to ride the dolphin for awhile and says a couple of inscrutable lines about The Ice Storm, but except for the dolphin telling him he's "stupid" a couple of times, there's no motive given for the dolphin taking him into a cave and bashing him into paste. After that dolphin kills EJW, another one comes into the cave dragging Sean Penn's corpse.

I think my imitation of the book's style in my previous post gets pretty close - especially in the second half, after I really got into it - but the post makes more sense. ;)

While I was having a quick look at Variety's film page, I noticed the following ad (for yet another AFI 100 years TV show). Pretty exalted company for Frodo: ET, the Maltese Falcon and The Godfather. Or perhaps, exalted company for them. ;)

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While I was having a quick look at Variety's film page, I noticed the following ad (for yet another AFI 100 years TV show). Pretty exalted company for Frodo: ET, the Maltese Falcon and The Godfather. Or perhaps, exalted company for them. ;)

...and Schindler's List!

On broadcast TV, no less! :z:

...and Schindler's List!

On broadcast TV, no less! :z:

How embarassing, I mistook Schindler's List for the Maltese Falcon :lol: (Possibly the only sentence ever about Schindler's List to end with a LOL). I couldn't see what was on the table except it was black and thought Neeson was Bogart. Ha! What an idiot.

Happy Birthday, Blossom!

I wondered how I was missing Bogey. :p Didn't realize until later that Steven Spielburg [one out of six chances that I spelled his name right] had two movies in that image, with ET and SL.

Actually, my main purpose in dropping in here this morning was to correct a terrible mistake I made yesterday - It's a bear that drags Sean Penn's corpse into the cave, not a dolphin. I hope I finish this book soon. I'm beginning to think in its sentence patterns, which is not something I want to take root. :(

[ETA: Now how did C4 get in there?] And, hopefully, I'm not making any mistake in wishing Blossom a very happy birthday! :k How about a leather-embossed avatar as a gift? :)

http://www.frodolivesin.us/picsfrodo/23bf53c0.jpg

Happy Birthday Blossom!

Frodo looks down in horror after dropping the lovely bouquet of flowers he was carrying for Blossom.
"The wrath of Frodo and The Faculty is upon you now, Ranger of Ithilien!"

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Thank you, Mechtild, for the screencap.


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And for those without birthdays today...I'm not sure if a sampling of this photo shoot has been seen here yet...?

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Thank you, ceefour, Tg and Shelbyshire for the birthday greetings.

I love the embossed leather treatment you have given my snow-prince-Frodo avatar, Tg. Indeed it is a lovely gift. :)

Shelbyshire, that is one of my very favourite Frodo pics - he's fiesty in that scene, isn't he? It's a shame he dropped the flowers, but it's the thought that counts. :)

:k to all.

BLOSSOM! I missed your birthday -- I'm so sorry! At least I can still give you a little gift:

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I hope you had a good day! :)

I had a lovely day, thanks, Bunnie.

As for your gifts, well, they were certainly worth waiting for. :k I'm loving TOL's hair of late.

Thank you so much for your kind birthday wishes. :)

Happy Birthday, Blossom!!!!!

I must have missed several birthdays. Many adventures with cantankerous computer, and now thanks to HoneyElf and her Hubby Darling (or is it DH...no, I think it's HD) I have something much newer that actually says things like "yes, ma'am!". Doesn't talk back at all. Doesn't crash when I try to load the Faculty page. Just gets right on to it with lots of smiles. Nice computer...

Sorry for birthdays I've missed and celebrations I've not had a drink to.

Happy June. Rabbit Rabbit. ;)

Thank you, Alyon.

It's nice to see you. I'm sorry you have had computer woes, but it's good to know they have now been resolved. :)

It's nice to see you.

Thank you, Blossom. :k Nice to see you, too!!

A quick drive-by post to say that I saw Paris je t'aime this afternoon, and it was definitely a good film! Out of the eighteen segments, I'd put Elijah's in the top five, mostly because I liked the Gothic Silent Film style the director was definitely going for. But, my favorite segments were the one about the quiet young man who falls for a young Algerian (or maybe Moroccan?) woman in a hajib, and the rather sad one about the older couple (played by Ben Gazzara and Gena Rowlands) meeting before they sign their divorce papers.

Definitely worth seeing if you get the chance, and I might end up buying it when it comes out of DVD. (Word of warning to those with clown/mime issues, there is a segment on Mime Love that is...well, unusual.)

Happy Birthday Blossom! Sorry I'm late, but we're jet-lagged, being now in London. I only wish I could say I looked as good as this fellow feels. ...Or, rather I wish I felt as good as this guy looks?...Or...um...I give up. Jet lag!

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TxTac said: Honey- Evan YOU have my phone number too!!! You could've called ! :( :o :mad:

um...lost it?

...Oh, I know eeeee eee eeee

...no opposable thumbs! EEEEE EEE EEEE

I'm truly sorry I didn't think of you before Saturday morning! Really I am. :( :(

honey!

Thanks, tg, for the link through your site. Even though The Faculty Lounge tends to be quiet these days (except for Honeyelf "EEEEE EEE EEEE"-ing), I still like to know I can get here to see that nothing's been posted!

Pelagia's theater has Paris, Je T'aime showing sometime this month. I'm interested to see how EW's chapter fits in with the rest of the movie. And for purely research purposes to see him on a large screen. :D

Okay, I'm slightly early from my timezone--but Honey is in England, in which case I am perfectly in tune.....


Happy Birthday

HoneyElf
!!!!!!!!!!

:k

Happy Birthday, Honeyelf!

Thanks for the birthday wishes, Honey. The picture is lovely - Elijah is either deep in thought, or else he has dozed off! :)

And now it's your turn!

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y121/Blossom10/Birthdays/Honey07.jpg

I hope you're having a wonderful time here in the UK. At least our weather has been kind to you on your birthday. I believe you're meeting up with Lady Wendy and Pearl in London :cool: - be good!

Happy Birthday, HoneyElf!

Three of the hobbits and I wish you a wonderful day! And, yes, they're all dressed up for your party. Don't they look downright handsome!!

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Happy Welcome to 'This Reality' Day Honeyelf.

I still can't post pictures as a present for you, but I can give you this since you like loosing telephone numbers. :haha:
Elijah's home telephone number is 310- (secure site behind the cut)

Thanks for all the birthday wishes, ladies and gent!

Blossom, the triplets are lovely! :)

Thanks for kicking off my b-day on London time, Alyon!

I wanna party with those hobbits, Shelbyshire! After riding the train through the gorgeous green fields of Essex today, dotted as they were with bright wildflowers, I may well dream of hobbits! Buying my rail ticket at the self-serve kiosk I noticed that there was a destination called Bagshot! I nearly threw over my plans for Braintree (there's a textile museum there) and went, just in case!

Very cute TxTac! Kind of like one of those birthday cards that say something really scandalous on the front, and then won't open! :lol:

hugs all around,
honey!

I'm off to my sister's in Arizona for six days. Just dropping in quickly to say:

--Happy belated birthday, Honey! Sorry I missed it.

--It's been a long time since I've downloaded a LotR pic that I didn't have, but, Shelbyshire, that one just got saved. Thanks.

--Behave yourselves while I'm gone! ;)

HEY HONEY Check this out:


Virgin Atlantic offers Lord of the Rings amenity kits

Virgin Atlantic has introduced Lord of the Rings amenity kits in economy class on inbound flights to the UK.

People returning from their holidays can look forward to a travel wallet with a Lord of the Rings bag tag, "Precious Sleep" eyeshades, socks adorned with a quote from Gandalf, and a limited edition gold pen.

The packs, which celebrate the start of the Lord of the Rings stage show in London's Drury Lane, will be available for the next six months on flights arriving at Gatwick, Manchester and Heathrow (debuting on Heathrow flights from mid-June).

"We are very excited to offer passengers these very special edition Lord of the Rings amenity kits," said Virgin Atlantic's Lysette Gauna.

"It's been great fun working with everyone at the Lord of the Rings to create what I'm sure will be a winner with passengers and no doubt become collector's items for the future."

The kits also include a newly designed toothbrush and toothpaste.


http://news.cheapflights.co.uk/flights/2007/06/virgin_atlantic_1.html

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TG wrote: Behave yourselves while I'm gone!
WHY ? :p
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Anyone live near Marquette University???

Celebrating 50 Years of Tolkien at Marquette

Matt Blessing, head of The Department of Special Collections and University Archives, writes: June 7th marks the 50th anniversary of Marquette University acquiring the literary manuscripts of J.R.R. Tolkien. More information about the anniversary, new materials in the collection, and details about an upcoming presentation by John Rateliff, may be accessed online here: http://www.marquette.edu/library/information/news/2007/Tolkien.html

I'm off to my sister's in Arizona for six days.

Have a good visit, TG!

~ M

If you stop by, wood, Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday, wood!! :k

I'm writing this at my sister's in Phoenix.

I had about an hour's worth of great conversation with a younger Tolkienite at a Borders in Phoenix this afternoon. It's reassuring to see the next generation continuing the Quest. :cool: :k (She also agreed that Elijah is a fantastic actor. :p )

I'll be flying home tomorrow.

WHY ?
Oh, I dunno. Just seemed like something a moderator should say. ;)

Happy Birthday, Wood!!
Wherever you are!!!

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Apologies for being late.

Haven't seen you post in a while, but I hope you still lurk here now and then. :)

What's with the Lounge being the bottom thread in the Cafe?! :eek: :haha: Links to a couple of new essays to remedy that:

Not "Frodo with Feathers" (but pretty darn close) (http://www.frodolivesin.us/id355.htm) takes in book-Frodo, movie-Frodo, Mumble, and over a dozen other EJW characters.

'I do not choose...' (http://www.frodolivesin.us/id349.htm) is strictly book-Frodo, with a picture of movie-Frodo as illustration.

Also, if you have any past essays bookmarked or linked, you might want to check the list on this page (http://www.frodolivesin.us/id106.htm) to update the URL's for any that have been moved to the archives.

I don't know if you guys have noticed, but wood now has an LJ: elwoodian (I presume she won't mind me posting that here from the hello post she put up).

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

TURBINE and Codemasters Online gaming TO CELEBRATE THE SUMMER Solstice festival in Middle-earth

Three-Week Celebration Kicks off on June 20th!

WESTWOOD, MA – June 15, 2007 - Today, Turbine, Inc. and Codemasters Online Gaming announced the details of the first annual Summer Solstice Festival in The Lord of the Rings Online™: Shadows of Angmar™, the hit MMO that has taken North America and Europe by storm. The Summer Solstice Festival, the first of many planned seasonal celebrations in Middle-earth, will offer players a variety of quests, vendors and events to highlight this special time of year. The Lord of the Rings Online has been enthusiastically received by many gaming critics, including The New York Times, USA Today, Yahoo!, PC Gamer, GameSpot and Game Informer in the US as well as The Sunday Times, The Guardian, CVG, Eurogamer, PC Juegos and 4Gamers in Europe.

"The Summer Solstice Festival is the first of many seasonal events that we have planned for The Lord of the Rings Online," said Jeffrey Anderson, president and CEO of Turbine, Inc. "These festivals coupled with content updates such as the soon-to-be released Shores of Evendim demonstrate our commitment to delivering the most value for our subscribers through a fun, compelling and evolving game."

The Summer Solstice Festival is called different things by different races. Whether it’s the Lithe Festival (Hobbits), Summerdays (Men), Summerfest (Dwarves) or the Festival of Enedhin (Elves), they all share the common themes of summer including planting, dancing, drinking, games and fireworks. Players can celebrate throughout Middle-earth from June 20th to July 10th by interacting with special vendors and participating in quests designed just for the Summer Solstice Festival including:


Dancing – There will be dancing quests with new race-specific dance emotes as a reward.

Fireworks – Players who collect fireworks from each of the four vendors in the Summer Solstice Festival will receive a unique firework.

Scavenger Hunts – Players can participate in one of three scavenger hunts that will grant them unique special recipes, seeds and pipeweed.

Hobnanigans – Join in madcap chicken-chasing games! There is an arena near the Bree Festival Grounds with two team captains as quest bestowers. Once twelve players are ready, the "Game Hen" will appear in the center of the arena and players will use a stick to persuade the chicken around the arena. Each team will have to get the chicken into a goal at the far end of the field three times within a certain time limit.

The Lord of the Rings Online delivers an interactive experience brimming with life and filled with the familiar people, places and monsters from the most beloved fantasy adventure of all time. From the quaint surroundings of the Shire to Angmar, the vile kingdom of the Witch-king, players will experience the world of Middle-earth as never before. The Lord of the Rings Online is now available for purchase at major retailers across North America and Europe. For more information about The Lord of the Rings Online, please visit www.lotro.com or www.lotro-europe.com.

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AFI'S 100 YEARS...100 MOVIES
10TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION

http://www.afi.com/tvevents/100years/movies10.aspx

A NEW DECADE...
A NEW COUNTDOWN

BE THERE WHEN AFI REVEALS THE 100 GREATEST MOVIES OF ALL TIME.

JUNE 20TH 8:00 PM ET/PT ON CBS

The American Film Institute continues its celebration of the first century of American filmmaking with AFI'S 100 YEARS...100 MOVIES - 10TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION. This year, to honor the 10th Anniversary of AFI's100 Years...Series AFI is repolling the experts and asking, "What are the greatest American films of all time? And which is the greatest?"

AFI's 100 YEARS...100 MOVIES - 10TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION (2007)
List of the 400 nominated films
List of the 100 winning films

Click here to go to the list downloads page.
Simple registration required

http://connect.afi.com/site/PageSer...me=100YearsList

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Lord of the Rings Questionnaire

Lynnette P writes: As part of my research for my current Lord of the Rings book project, I've set up a questionnaire here. To gather comments about Tolkien's book, Peter Jackson's films, and Lord of the Rings fandom. The survey is completed anonymously and takes about 5-10 minutes. I'm looking for a wide variety of responses, from long-time Tolkien readers to new fans of the films. I appreciate all responses to the survey, and thank everyone in advance for helping me conduct my research. If anyone has questions about the survey or the forthcoming book, please contact me at porterly@erau.edu.

http://thelostworldbook.com/lynnetteporter/lotrsurvey.htm

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A book review: I'm about halfway through Eeeee Eee Eeeee and this is one weird book.
Tg, that has got to be the weirdest book I have ever heard of. Thank you for your wonderful summary; I will be sure to avoid this in the future! :eek: :D


Belated Happy Birthday, Blossom, Honeyelf, and Wood!

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y30/mariole/greysuit.jpg
Elijah rushes up to give you a hug...

LotR: FotR was listed as #50 on the American Film Institute's new list, the highest rated movie made in the last ten years added to the list. :cool: EW seemed to me to be featured most prominently in the clips. Somebody at AFI likes EW, maybe?

I've just finished reading Brian Sibley's Peter Jackson biography. EW has a few quotes about making the movie, but nothing new. There is this quote by PJ about EW though-- I remember filming the scene inside Mount Doom at the Crack of Doom: Elijah and Sean delivered amazing performances. We were running out of spaces in which to film and were renting anything we could find. This scene was filmed in a tin-roofed shed used for storing apples near the runway at Wellington airport, with aircraft taking off about 100 feet away!

It was impossible to build the entire Crack of Doom set, so we built a kind of rock gantry, filmed against a green screen, and used a lot of smoke. I was thinking, 'I can't believe it! This is the Crack of Doom?!'

You feel so far removed from what you are hoping for in the finished film. When we got to the point where Elijah was having his final dramatic moment with the Ring, the whole crew was mesmerized. At the end of the take, the crew gave him a huge round of applause, something that doesn't happen very often. It is a reminder that, as a filmmaker, you rely totally on the power of the actors... This was their moment.


*edited because if someone else writes it, it can't be an auto-biography* :haha:

HIIIII EVERYONE !!!!!

THANX FOR ALL WISHES and finaly i got in here !!!!!!!!!!!

i dont post much blossom but im lurking hihihihihi ;)

I whant to tell you all something bad that happened in my family.

The day before my birthday my beloved little brother was killed in a car crash :( :( :( .

And yeasterday we hade the funeral : it became a light and beautiful good bay. but for me it is hard and i cant still accept it.

At the and of the funeral we played IN TO THE WEST you all know why ;)

He loved this movies as much as i did:

i have been visiting livejournal and my name over there is elwoodian hihihi.

but i must say that this is still my home :k

oh and happy midsommer to all!!!


LOVE YOU ALL WOOD

and i diden`t mean to step on any toas in livejournal just whnted to find you all again sorry :k

Wood, I'm so sorry to hear about your loss. :( :k

honey

Oh, Wood. :(
I'm so so sorry to hear this awful news.

I'm sending prayers and ((((((HUGS))))))

:( I'm sorry, Wood.

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I'm glad you found your way back here thru LJ. Don't worry about any toes you may have stepped on over there. The mood there goes up and down and tensions run high sometimes. Ignore it and just enjoy everything Elijah!

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Dear Wood,

I hope you feeling better soon, Wood. I am so sorry to hear of this. Hugs from me and from the One Lad.


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v382/mechtild/AGreyHavensFarewellred..jpg


At the and of the funeral we played IN TO THE WEST you all know why
Yes, I do know why. :k


~ Mechtild

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Wood, I'm so sorry. I would find that hard to accept also. I'm sending you best wishes and good thoughts on your journey from this point on. *hugs*

Thanks all !!! :k

it feels good to have so many friends to share with and hopefully i will be here more often maybe not to post but to read all of your lovely posts
and hopefully to keep the contact with you all.

LOCE YOU ALL WOOD

Wood, please accept my sympathy on the loss of your brother.

Wood, I'm sorry for your and your family's loss.

LotR: FotR was listed as #50 on the American Film Institute's new list, the highest rated movie made in the last ten years added to the list. :cool: EW seemed to me to be featured most prominently in the clips. Somebody at AFI likes EW, maybe?
C4, I just wanted to thank you for posting this news, as well as the lovely Peter Jackson anecdote. FOTR is my favorite of the three movies, because I think it most closely followed the book. Also, the introduction of all these characters, places, and cultures was magical. I'm glad the movie is getting the recognition it deserves. Thanks again.

Wood, I'm so very, very sorry for the tragic loss of your brother.

My sincere sympathies to you and your family.

Take care. Hugs. :k

Lovely belated birthday pic, Mariole. Thank you.

Happy Birthday, SandCastles!

Txtac, the link to Lynette Porter's questionnaire isn't working. She spoke at ELF last summer (Achila, Pelagia and BunnieBugs were thisclose to the stage...and then EW cancelled. :eek: ).

tg, enjoyed your essays (as always).

ceefour wrote: Txtac, the link to Lynette Porter's questionnaire isn't working.
Hhmmm. Try this one.

http://thelostworldbook.com/lynnetteporter/lotrsurvey.htm

Thanks, txtac! The new link for Lynette Porter's survey worked.

I filled out the questionnaire and whereas I could honestly reply I don't have a favorite book character, I had to respond (in a serious effort to provide accurate and honest research data) that Frodo is my favorite movie character and that was because of EW.

I found myself starting to smile as I checked off "one or more copies of the book," "one or more copies of the movies," "one or more copies of the soundtracks," and finally laughing out loud at "one or more action figures of the characters."

I filled out Lynette Porter's questionnaire, Txtac. Thanks for the link! My favorite movie character was Frodo. No one could have guessed that. :)

Count me among those who saw Paris je t'aime. Wow, I really liked this movie! I was prepared to dislike some of the sequences... but I didn't! I liked them all. Some of them were quite normal, some pretty weird ;) -- but it was a terrific movie and I'm so glad I saw it (in company with another KD-er, Ms. Maggot, who enjoyed it as well). I even loved the mimes! :eek: :D

But, my favorite segments were the one about the quiet young man who falls for a young Algerian (or maybe Moroccan?) woman in a hajib, and the rather sad one about the older couple (played by Ben Gazzara and Gena Rowlands) meeting before they sign their divorce papers.
Those were highlights for me, too. The scene with the young girl in the hajib was terrific, partly because it was played against expectation, such as the sweetness of the young love was played against the harsh reality of teenagers' language. Very effective. The older couple was great. I also fell in love with the Denver mail carrier; she really brought a tear to my eye, her dignity rising above her circumstances.

Elijah's scene was great and got a huge laugh out of the audience. I love to see him play humorous roles; he's really got the gift. Just a lovely movie, and I highly recommend it to anyone who hasn't had a chance to see it yet. Cheers!

Iggy Pop backs Elijah Wood

Wed Jun 27, 12:00 PM ET
http://news.yahoo.com/s/launch/20070627/en_launch/44895691

Iggy Pop has backed Elijah Wood's credentials to play him in an upcoming biopic on the rock legend.

Rumors about a movie following the life and times of the Stooges icon have been rife for some months, with the Lord Of The Rings star tipped to play the lead role.

However, Iggy has revealed there are no concrete plans for the film, days after the Stooges played an acclaimed Saturday evening slot at Britain's Glastonbury Festival.

"We have no agreement yet to even do the film. The producers have got big mouths and keep jumping the gun," Pop told XFM.

However, he continued: "I think Elijah [Wood]'s a very good actor though. If he can play a hobbit then he should be able to play me."

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Paris je t'aime just hit Austin! :lol: It's playing in TWO theaters! The Arbor, which is the 'artsy fartsy' movie theater and the Dobie Mall Theater (Landmark Theater chain) which is by the UT campus. Plans are to see it tommorrow "If the rains don't stop and the creeks don't rise..." ;)

My dear friends
Just wanted to say Hello and Let you know I still drop in from time to time
I haven't forgotten this community and how much you all mean to me. :)
Just saw recently that Wood lost her brother...my deepest sympathy to her and her family....Wood I'll be in contact sweetie.
My life has been busy...I'm offically a student now and studying for my Sociology exam set for 3 weeks from now then it's off to World Religions...I have quite a few General Ed coarses to get under my belt before I get to the nursing coarses I need to sit for state boards,,,my goal is to graduate by Sept 09...seems like a long way away...but I'll get there.
You are always in my thoughts and I still am a big EW fan
Hope everyone is doing well and Blossom...a special Hug to you for all your special e-mails :k
My Love to all :D
Candy/Ylla

Ylla! How lovely to 'see' you here again! :)

I hope you're finding time to have some fun in the midst of all those studies - my, you are busy! I'm sure you'll get there, too!

Hugs back to you. :k

Ylla! I second Blossom: it's lovely to see your post. Don't worry--2009 will be here faster than you (or any of us) think. Good luck on your school work and I hope you enjoy your courses. :)

~ Mechtild :k

Ylla, it's so good to hear from you again and get caught up. Even though I'm not online as much anymore, the sweetness of this community stays with me. Peace to you and best wishes in your new endeavors! :k

It would seem from the mass of posts I have been trying to catch up on that I am the only person this has happened to, but for the last 6 weeks I have not been able to get on to this site. Each time, I got a near blank screen with one line up top saying that the site had been hacked into by Darkstar. I really thought it had disappeared for good, and boy did that make me feel sad. I don't post much lately as I haven't had anything relevant to add to discussions, but I really missed you all.

Wood - I am so sorry to hear about your brother. I can't begin to imagine how it must feel to lose somone you grew up with.


I keep hearing such good reports about Paris Je t'aime, but disappointingly, it looks like I will have to wait till the DVD comes out, as it has only shown on small arthouse cinemas in the north west of the UK, and we don't have one near us that I can make it to during its run.

I know I am probably going against general opinion here, but I wasn't blown away by Happy Feet in the cinema, and having just acquired and watched the DVD, I have realised just why. I love Elijah's soft voice, and in many roles it is perfect, but somehow his voice just doesn't go with the character of Mumble for me. I sat for ages wondering why that should be, and I suspect it is precisely because I know him and his voice too well, and he isn't being called on to act enough to take me into another world. I was never able to forget who was talking and see a penguin, and I have to say the same happens with Robin Williams charachter. I'm glad Elijah was associated with such a big budget film to keep his name out there, but I don't think it showcased his talent that well. Green Street was enjoyable, Oxford Murders looks promising as a film, but I so want to see Elijah in more films like EII where he is not just almost playing himself on screen.

Off topic, I have recently come across another young actor who, like Elijah, I had seen and and not really noticed until he drew me in to one particular performance with the way he used his eyes and spoke English. The name's Harry Lloyd, he was in the Family of Blood episode in the latest Dr Who series, his career is just beginning, and I suspect that if he can break out of Saturday night TV work he will be capable of some interesting roles as he matures. I am hopeful he will take me on as interesting a journey as Elijah has so far.

It's interesting that you feel that way about Happy Feet, Skater girl. I enjoyed the film, though I wouldn't call it a great movie, but I did think that Elijah does some of his strongest voice work in it. After the first few minutes that Elijah takes over Mumble's voice, I actually forgot to pay attention to the fact that it was Elijah! The second time around I was able to focus a little bit more on his performance, and I think he really did a nice job with it.

I will look for Harry Lloyd -- we're just getting the third season of Doctor Who now! :)

but I did think that Elijah does some of his strongest voice work in it.

It wasn't that I thought he did a bad job, just that unlike Hugh Jackman for example, who sounds so totally different as (a)himself, (b)Memphis then (c) Roddy in Flushed Away, Elijah wasn't called upon to use an accent other than his own. To me that voice brings strong images of Barney Snow, Sean Sullivan, Leo Beiderman, and a terrified Elijah who is being Punk'd, and that just got in the way of me seeing him as an adolescent penguin on a mission. I will be watching it again, as it is a good movie to iron to (unlike EII with all its subtitles), and maybe in time I will be able to get more of a gelling of voice and character.

Hi, Skater Girl! Glad you made it back. :k The only page not working at KD was the front page, so we've had a few people getting in who either subscribed to a thread (so could follow the link through the notice they received) or knew about the link on my site at the bottom of the EJW index page (http://www.frodolivesin.us/elijahwoodintro.htm). I've been coming in through my site each time, so I wouldn't have known the front page was open if not for your post. You were certainly persistent - I hope we haven't lost people permanently :( .

On HF - One reason I enjoy it so much is that Mumble is so obviously Elijah! If the movie were a serious drama, it might bother me, but in this movie I just get a kick out of it :D . Mumble is Elijah Wood translated into a penguin, in the same way that Memphis is Elvis Presley translated into a penguin and Norma Jean is Marilyn Monroe translated into a penguin. (Blue eyes instead of Marilyn's birthmark? ;) ) The one difference is that the movie had to get trademark permission for Elvis and Marilyn. I love it :cool: !

My suspicion is that those involved fell in love with Elijah - as seems to happen quite regularly on sets of his movies - and put as much of him into the character as they could. The animators must have observed him intently, because I swear they make it to the level of microexpressions (I've identified at least one real - i.e., non-acted - smile). It's difficult to remember that it was Savion Glover who got the motion capture treatment, because the animators capture Elijah's movements so well.

Paris je t'aime was in Omaha for one week. I saw it once and wasn't too disappointed that I didn't have a chance to see it again, but I'm very much looking forward to having the DVD. It's a movie that will play just as well on a smaller screen, and with the DVD it'll be possible to pick which stories to watch. Some of them are heartbreakingly good at capturing moments of real humanity. I wouldn't put Elijah's on that list, although it's a work of art in its own way.

I wonder what Ann Rice thinks about Elijah's Paris je t'aime bit. Over-the-top, campy, or spot-on ?

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Did a quick IMDb search on Harry Lloyd. Turns out that he is the great-great-great-grandson of Charles Dickens. :cool:

http://imdb.com/name/nm0516003/

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Any of our Faculty-ites still close to Oxford?

Celebrate Tolkien at Oxonmoot 2007 - September 14-16, Oxford

Oxonmoot 2007
14th-16th September, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford

A day full of Talks and Papers, a fiendish quiz, Art Show, Merry & Pippin’s Dance Workshop and a sales Room featuring Tolkien Society Trading, Daeron’s Books, ADC Books, and Obelisk Books.

Enyalië (act of remembrance at Tolkien’s grave)

Oxonmoot is the special event of the Tolkien Society year held on a weekend close to Bilbo & Frodo's birthdays. There is a range of activities such as academic talks & papers, workshops, new, second-hand and rare book dealers, an art show (with professional and amateur works), plus a quiet area where you can drink tea, fill up the corners and chat with old or new friends. Of course there is also a party including a masquerade (costume is optional) and entertainments. It is a great time for making new friends in the Society. On Sunday there is a wreath laying and short act of remembrance, Enyalië, at Tolkien’s grave.

Registration Rates:
£23 (members) or £27 (non-members), reduced rates for under 16s up to 31st July
Accommodation and meals available within Lady Margaret Hall College separately

Information and On-line Bookings: www.tolkiensociety.org/oxon/2007/Info.html

Last date for advance (registration, accommodation and meals) bookings: 24th August ‘07

As noted above rates rise after 31st July, day rates may be available later.

E-mail enquiries: bookings AT tolkiensociety DOT org

The Tolkien Society is an organisation which contracts with Lady Margaret Hall for the use of facilities, but has no formal connection with The University of Oxford

Any queries regarding this Press Release should be addressed to:

Ian Collier, Publicity Officer, e-mail publicity AT tolkiensociety DOT org

Hi! The girls and I saw Harry 5 last night. I was telling txtac that I found myself watching it looking for moments when Harry looked like Frodo or Daniel like Elijah. The separation between the character and actor has become a bit blurry now. I look at Harry and see Daniel. But what caught my attention most...

;) Harry was wearing his very own version of the CTJ! Yup...a brown one!!

Pearl posted her reactions to the London version of the LotR musical in the Tolkien section of the forum a couple of days ago. She also mentions a play she saw with Daniel Radcliffe in it - she was quite impressed with his acting. He said in an interview a few years ago that the person he'd most like to be in a movie with was Elijah - maybe he can get him on stage, instead ;) ?

Shelbyshire, :lol: !!

Achila and I went to the midnight showing on Wednesday and I whispered the same thing to her,"Harry has a CTJ!"

Hi! The girls and I saw Harry 5 last night. I was telling txtac that I found myself watching it looking for moments when Harry looked like Frodo or Daniel like Elijah.
I haven't seen Harry 5 yet, but it seems, the boys do have something in common...


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/0903/whiteling/Frodomanips/Harry_Frodo_blue.jpg

"Caution, Harry! Believe me, picking up prophecies in blue surroundings means always trouble..."

(Frodo screencap courtesy of tg. Thanks!!) ;)

She also mentions a play she saw with Daniel Radcliffe in it - she was quite impressed with his acting.

Did she mention that he strips naked in the play. :)

I felt sorry for him on the Jonathan Ross chat show when poor Daniel was forced into discussing, in front of an audience of millions, the fear of uncontrollable things that could happen to a young male (trying not to be too graphic here) during such a role . Elijah should consider himself lucky he got away very lightly when he appeared on the show a few months back.

My son's new mother-in-law mentioned that she'd seen Daniel Radcliffe in Equus in a few months ago. Actually, the direct quote was:
I saw Harry Potter naked, and it was the highlight of my summer! :lol:
We saw Harry 5, and thought that young Master Radcliffe did a great job. It'd be great to see he and Elijah do a project together at some point.

honey!

Honey wrote: ...It'd be great to see he and Elijah do a project together at some point.
You can never go wrong with Tolkien... The movie version of Children of Hurin, directed by Peter Jackson with Elijah as Turin and Daniel as Beleg Strongbow.

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Green Street Hooligans II, Elijah in the West Ham crew and Daniel in the Millwater crew. :z:

Did she mention that he strips naked in the play. :)

Not directly, but she mentioned it was Equus, so I would have been surprised if he hadn't.

TG wrote: ...but she mentioned it was Equus, so I would have been suprised if he hadn't.
Google Equus. The pictures are on the web. Shirt off, clothes off and one full frontal! :eek:

I wonder if E-dog would have the guts to do that? He's usually up for anything, but full frontal in front of a live audience?

Skater Girl, it's interesting you heard Mumble as soft. One of the best parts of the movie, for me, was EW's delivery of the line, "Let me tell something to you!" which sounded absolutely fierce. Mumble's laugh was pitched deeper than EW's and almost raucous at times. But we all see and hear different things in our filmgoing experiences. :) Mr. ceefour and I went to see The Turning Point when we were dating. Walking out of the theater afterwards, we had other audience members laughing as I turned to him and gushed, "I loved it!" while he grumbled, "I hated it!" :lol:

Honey, your son's mother-in-law sounds way cool. :D

On txtac's recommendation, I googled Equus. It's getting rave reviews and is scheduled to go to Broadway with Radcliffe in the role. That's something our lad had not done much of, eh? Stage acting. I wonder if he still wants to?

Since KD is closing at the end of the month, tg, do you have any plans for The Faculty?

I know that there are a couple of you out there that own your own server. How about stepping up to the plate and hosting KD on your/our own server?


Movies.com 2nd Annual Readers' Poll
Xoanon @ 12:47 pm EST
http://www.theonering.net/perl/newsview/8/1184690847

MOVIES.COM LETS FILM FANS DECIDE WITH THE SECOND ANNUAL READERS’ POLL

WHO SHOULD REPLACE TOBEY IN “SPIDEY 4”?
WHO WILL REIGN AS HOLLYWOOD’S NEWEST GOLDEN CHILD – SHILOH NOUVEL JOLIE-PITT OR SURI CRUISE?
OSCARS OR GOLDEN GLOBES?

NORTH HOLLYWOOD, Calif. – July 17, 2007 – Movies.com returns with its exclusive Annual Readers’ Poll, and this year’s categories are sure to elicit entertaining and shocking results. Should Tobey Maguire continue his reign in the Spider-Man franchise? Will Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt outshine Suri Cruise? Movies.com readers decide - and maybe they’ll even sway Hollywood hard-hitters’ decisions!

"This is the only place where film fans get a chance to make their own voices heard, and on a range of topics from the serious to the irreverent,” said editorial director Lew Harris. “Last year, Johnny Depp ran away with most of the honors; we’re anxious to see who’s tickled the readers’ fancy this year.”

Today through August 14, fans can visit: http://movies.go.com/fanpoll/index to cast nominations in categories devoted to individual movies, actors, and other quirky topics. Finalists in each category will be announced August 28 and voting for those nominees will be open until September 25. Official Movies.com Readers’ Poll winners will be announced on October 2.

Fans will be able to nominate their favorite movies and celebrities in the following categories:

All-Time Bests

Favorite Movie
Favorite Actor
Favorite Actress
Favorite Over-60
Favorite Soundtrack
Favorite Quote

The Next Big Thing

Hottest Upcoming Male
Hottest Upcoming Female
Movie You’re Most Looking Forward To
To Replace Tobey in Spidey 4
To Replace Tom Cruise in MI4
TV Show You Want to See on the Big Screen

Perfect Pictures

Most Romantic Movie
Funniest Movie
Best Sci-Fi Movie
Best Battle Scene
Best Car Chase
Best Performance by an Animal

Hollywood Yearbook

Time to Hang It Up…
In Need of Plastic Surgery
Too Much Plastic Surgery
Most Likely to Run for President
American Idol Most Likely to Next Star in a Movie
Best Celebrity Feud

Favorite Web Sites

Official Actor Site
Official Actress Site
Official Movie Site
Unofficial Movie Site
YouTube Trailer Smash

Movie-Fan Smack!

3D or 2D
Sweeney Todd or Mamma Mia
Golden Compass or Prince Caspian
Downey Jr.’s Iron Giant or Ed Norton’s Hulk
Oscars® or Golden Globes
Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt or Suri Cruise
Borat or Bruno
Brett Ratner or Michael Bay
Superman Returns 2 or… Forget It!
Hellboy 2 or Mummy 3?

I know that there are a couple of you out there that own your own server. How about stepping up to the plate and hosting KD on your/our own server?


Moggy doesn't want to just move it, though.


I also do not think it is fair to sell the site to either a stranger or to a regular and so will completely close the site and ensure everything is deleted.


The Faculty does have that LJ back up but it's such a different format...

Sheryl

:confused: :eek: :( :( :(

Would folks like to continue over at LiveJournal? I'm not sure I like it quite as well as a message board for our sort of discussion, but it's not hard to set up a community. In fact, I thought that we had a community over there, but I can't find it, now.

There was a Yahoo group, too, wasn't there? Though, again, not really that great for discussions, IMO. Another option would be to set up a message board on a website somewhere, I suppose.

*sigh*
I am SAD.

The LJ community is at: User: _faculty_lounge (7441917)

The Faculty Lounge
An Elijah Wood Discussion Group I've never been good at packing and moving but...we must. With people losing interest in LOTR, it would be a shame to lose touch with those of us who wish to remain to the end of all ages. ETA: And, of course, interest in following Elijah's career.

Wherever home is, please save a spot for me.

:) Shelbyshire

There is too much information (photo's, articles and links) archived here. Someone has to archive it somewhere so that it will not be lost. Moggy said that we could keep the same format- how about the name too? We can't let this go without a fight. What would Elijah do knowing that a big part of himself was going to be lost?

What??? :confused: KD is going away? NOOOO! I'm sad too. Let's figure something out. Let's not just drift away, please!

honey~

What??? :confused: KD is going away? NOOOO! I'm sad too. Let's figure something out. Let's not just drift away, please!

honey~

Indeed.

Is it possible to archive threads from here properly? I had a go at (mostly automatically) ftping all the pages for the Faculty threads (except 2 and 3). So, I've think I've got all the content that's still around as HTML pages but that's not exactly user friendly. And it doesn't have things like avatars (maybe an anti-robot thing?). And the images are just as they are here (URLs to other sites).

I would be happy to continue the conversation wherever people decide to move.

Ah, but the archives! We had some splendid discussions. I am grateful to Moggy for all the support and fun he brought to so many people over the years. Is there a way to preserve our past somewhere in a coherent fashion?

Ah, the computer age. The downside to instant connectivity is the ephemeral nature of that communication. :(

I did offer to take over the place and move it to my site, but what with program licenses (and vbulletin has just been bought by a huge internet entity, so who knows what they'll do?), hosting arrangements, admin accounts and passwords, security problems with the program, etc., etc., it became quite a sticky wicket (is that a proper Britishism?).

I've been thinking very seriously about starting a forum on my site, but didn't want to seem to be bailing out of KD with the numbers falling they way they have been. As long as there was a chance someone would take it over, I was kind of dragging my feet.

But now that things are definitely decided, I'll follow through with my plans. It won't be KD :( , but I do have some ideas. With the program I've been planning to use, there's a way for the LJ people to hook into the board a little more easily if they want - as well as any other bloggers.

Moggy and all the KDers who were already here, greeted us refugees with open arms way back when :k :k - and we didn't have until the end of a month to plan! :eek: For anyone who wants to load up the handcarts again, I'll try to do the same.

--BTW, the best way to archive a thread is to save the "print friendly" version. The vast majority of the pictures aren't really "at" KD, but are linked in from wherever the person posting them keeps their stuff (photobucket, site, etc.), so that will have to be up to the individual posters. The only things actually at KD are whatever was posted as attachments. If anyone has any of those they want to move, let me know - hopefully they're still on your hard drive and you can email them (but let me know, so I can tell my email program to let the attachments through).

This was supposed to be a quick drop-in to check for any new posts before I headed home... I'll start pulling things together, but it'll be a few days before anything will actually be happening.

:k Faculty :k

:k Café :k

:k KD :k

Oh, my. I'm not here as much as I used to be, but I always come back. You guys are my home.

Thank you, TG, for whatever it is you are able ot work out.

:k

TG, thanks so much for volunteering to put something together. I don't know whether to hope that we don't overwhelm your servers, or to hope that there will come a day when we'll outgrow your hospitality. But in the meanwhile, I for one will be very grateful to take up your generous offer.

I'm thinking of the past threads, where we all had so much fun, and which I don't want to see just dissapear. Are there enough of us that we could each commit to "saving" a thread? At least until we have somewhere to archive them more permanently?

And I'll talk to hubby too, about what we can do. Maybe we have the space to archive the past threads, but I'll have to ask and get back on that.

Love all you-all! Can't imagine my life of the last few years without you! :k :k

honey

ETA: My Hubby-Darling is currently archiving all of KD. When we see how big it is, we'll decide what to do. We may be able to put all of it on one of our servers, or maybe only the Faculty Lounge archive there. Once it's up, however much of it, it'll be browsable, but we won't be able to post to it.

Meanwhile he suggests that we investigate ning.com for setting up a community. It's web-based, so we can upload "pictures and junk." (His words.) But we won't have the convenience of e-mail alerts. (That's only a minor concern to me.) Sounds like a good possibility to toss on the table, along with TG's site, a new group at LJ, and the old Yahoo! group (which we were all less than enamored of, IIRC.)

I'm going away for a few days. Hubby_Darling is working at the Santa Monica office, and I'm tagging along so I can go to the Getty, among other things. I'll check in when I get back.

h!

Oh, my. I'm not here as much as I used to be, but I always come back. You guys are my home.
My sentiments exactly. :( It is so sad that this great place will vanish. Khazaddum.com was the first message board I've ever posted at and it holds a special place in my heart. I've made such wonderful friends here, learned a lot and had great fun. Thank you all for the memories! :k

Tg, Honey, whatever solution you'll find, I'm very grateful for your offers! I'll be of no help over the next few days, I'm afraid, since I'm going on holidays tomorrow. Will check back here at the end of the month.


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/0903/whiteling/I_know_why_FOTR.jpg

"I know why it makes me sad..."


:k to all

Tg, thanks for the offer! Honey, thanks for what your hubby is doing! :k

I don't know if this is late to the party. A friend of mine wrote me:

I have a geek friend who runs a webserver and might be able to host. I guess I'd need to find out needed storage space and bandwidth requirements for the site. (I probably need to know other stuff, too, but I'm not a techie, so I don't know what to ask yet.)

Is this redundant to what you are doing above? If you do need this webserver, please let me know how I might get the friend in touch with Moggy so they can work these things out.

Thank you!

I had already started mourning the passing of KD when I couldn't get in last month for several weeks and thought it had just disappeared for good. Although I really sorry to be losing this place that has been my Elijah home for over 3 years, I am so glad that we do have the opportunity to set something else up.

My computer experience and expertise doesn't really run yet to archiving, hosting etc, but if I can help out a new home financially I would be more than happy to. I know in the past that Moggy has appealed for contributions to keep this place going, and I felt it was the least I could do when I get so much pleasure out of coming here.

Posting very fast as I'm about to go out. I've already got all the Faculty threads I could find pretty much as good as the "show print version" version of saving. I don't have time to put it up but here's an example of what I have:

Faculty 15 page 1 (http://uk.geocities.com/sneaking666/faculty/faculty_15_1.html)

Faculty 15 page 2 (http://uk.geocities.com/sneaking666/faculty/faculty_15_2.html)

Faculty 15 page 3 (http://uk.geocities.com/sneaking666/faculty/faculty_15_3.html)

Faculty 15 page 4 (http://uk.geocities.com/sneaking666/faculty/faculty_15_4.html)

Faculty 15 page 5 (http://uk.geocities.com/sneaking666/faculty/faculty_15_5.html)

I'm not entirely sure how well they will look to people who aren't me.

If they look OK and if anybody wants them, I can put them all up and a zipped version of the lot (20MB).

Threads 2 and 3 don't seem to be there though.

I shall be sorry to see K-D disappear, but I am thankful that we have so many capable people able to archive what exists and provide an alternative. Thank you tg, honeyelf's wonderful h-d and sneaking

I'm not entirely sure how well they will look to people who aren't me. They look perfect, exactly as the original.

If they look OK and if anybody wants them, I can put them all up and a zipped version of the lot (20MB).I, for one, would be very grateful if you could.

NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! :eek: :confused:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v327/ShirelingUK/BanksofAnduin01.jpg

This is too sad :( I know it's been a while since I contributed here - most of my online time being consumed by my Elijah project - but I've never ceased to enjoy reading your thoughtful and intelligent discussions. I can't believe this place will just cease to exist!!

I was going to post the link to the LJ which was started when KD disappeared for a while some time ago, but it seems LJ itself is down at the moment :rolleyes: That would seem one option - but it would be such a shame if all the past threads were lost forever. I wish I was a bit more computer-literate so that I could offer some sort of help, but I admire all the valiant efforts taking place now and will keep a very hopeful eye on what transpires :z:

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y121/Blossom10/Frodo3/wake1d.jpg

A sad day indeed! :( This is the only message board I frequent - although most of the time I don't say much. I have noticed lately how quiet it has been around here, and some of us have been pursuing our Frodo and Elijah interests elsewhere - namely Shireling's (Waves 'Hello!') and Mechtild's addictive ongoing LJ projects. :)

Thanks to Tg , for offering to provide a meeting-place. I regularly check in on frodolivesin.us, Tg, so I'll keep a look-out for any developments there. Honey and H-D - it's wonderful that you're actually archiving KD, especially The Faculty Lounge - it would be such a shame if all those discussions were lost completely.

Sneaking - Those pages look fine to me. A 20MB zipped version would be great, if that's possible.

I'm sure a way will be found so that we can all catch up and keep in touch with Elijah, and each other. We have a couple of weeks left until KD disappears for ever, but right now I feel like singing a chorus of :

'We'll meet again, don't know where, don't know when.
But I know we'll meet again some sunny day.' :z:

I've never actually bothered having my own web site/space so it turns out the free stuff I get from my ISP isn't enough for all the threads. What I have up is here: here (http://uk.geocities.com/sneaking666/faculty/) (quite possibly this is not working because it's rubbish).

However, here's a megaupload link to the zip version all the threads I could find:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=4XTJP15V

They seem OK to me with no access to the internet so I don't think they are depending on anything as khazad-dum.

It's 20MB. Any images are external links to the originals (exactly as they are here) so if there is any particular images you want to archive, you'd need to save them on your own computer. Please comment if the link should need putting up again.

Thanks, tg. I lurk, but I'm still here about twice a week catching up. Looking forward to continuing at your site.

Wasn't this your guys' place?

http://www.frodosharem.org/

However, here's a megaupload link to the zip version all the threads I could find:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=4XTJP15V

They seem OK to me with no access to the internet so I don't think they are depending on anything as khazad-dum.

It's 20MB. Any images are external links to the originals (exactly as they are here) so if there is any particular images you want to archive, you'd need to save them on your own computer. Please comment if the link should need putting up again.

Sneaking - Thank you so much for this. It works perfectly. Some day, I will put aside a few hours to go through the early discussions that I missed.

Whiteling - One of the first things I came across when trying the downloaded files at random was your very first post back in 2003. I can't even remember now how I found this place, but it hardly seems credible that over 3 years have passed since I joined the Faculty to be able to contact you about the Dayo film. It opened up a whole new world to me for which I will always be grateful.

Thanks a lot for the zipped Faculty threads, Sneaking.

All your hard work is much appreciated. :k

I'm seconding Blossom, Sneaking. You should get ten extra little green boxes while they're still there. :D

~ M

oh no. This is such bad news. :(

I've had the same problem as SkaterGirl these past few weeks, and than I wasn't online for a while, and then ...this! I hope we can all continue our discussions one way or the other!

Hi! I've only posted here a couple of times but I lurk here alot and read all the wonderful posts, it's sad to see the place shut down. :(

If you need a place to go to continue on with the Faculty I have an unused message board that can be used as a new host. Hope it's ok, it will need to be modified and given a name change.

http://gia21ca.suddenlaunch3.com/index.cgi

To The Faculty :k

C4

I'm without a computer until the weekend. It's so hard to log out for the last time....

TOO ALL FRIENDS I HAVE GOT HERE OVER THE YEARS !!!!!!! :k :k :k :k

HOW WILL THIS END ????? :( :( :(

for all of you here is my adress lena-lill@telia.com

plz keep in touch or tell me if there is another place!!!

LOVE YOU ALL WOOD

It's NOT over yet until the fat lady sings!
Has anyone cajoled Moggy enough yet to keep the forums open? :eek:
Where are we moving to??? :confused:

Gia21's most gracious offer to use her unused message board to continue Khazaddum sounds do-able to me. What say ye?

Farewell, Faculty friends, until we meet again. Husband and I have archived a bunch of KD, but I don't know the disposition of it yet. I'll try to post something in the Elijah_Finds community at LiveJournal, and at TGShaw's Frodo Lives website. (http://www.frodolivesin.us/) Has anyone heard from TG?

I've got computer problems, and am sneaking this in on a very shaky machine.

Don't lets drift away! Many of you have my e-mail, or can contact me over at LJ. I'm Ms_Banazira there.

HUGE HUGS,
for the last time here :( :k ,

honey!

I might not have the forum open on my site until sometime this weekend (my brother just left after a week's visit during which we made great progress getting my apartment organized but I got nothing done that's computer related).

-- Anyone who might be interested in continuing any Tolkien discussion (books and/or movies), or most ;) kinds of Elijah Wood discussion, just follow the link in my sig, and bookmark the site. Then check back in a few days to see if the forum's up. (There are also links on the site to email me.)

Or if you just want to keep the URL handy, it's:

http://www.frodolivesin.us/

I guess nothing's been decided yet, as far as a new home goes. Do let's find a place! There is nowhere quite like the Faculty Lounge, and I'd hate to see it disappear forever. :( Many of us have LJ's, now (I'm bunniewabbit, in case you didn't know) and can be reached there. We also have quite a few members at the Yahoo group (http://movies.groups.yahoo.com/group/facultylounge/?yguid=191202270), though I'm not sure how many email addresses are active there anymore. I just don't want to lose anyone in whatever move we make!

I've put up a final picspam over at the Hugs Haven, if you have a second to go over there and have a look. :)

Dang -- I didn't quite make it to 1000 posts, did I? Oh, well. Take care, Faculty-ites! I hope to see you elsewhere very soon! :k

Goodbye, goodbye to all the wonderful people from the Faculty Lounge. It was wonderful knowing you.
:k :k :k

teeg, I shall keep your site amongst my favorites and will take a peek now and again to see how you are. :)

Hugs,

Ezzie
Brandy Hall and the Harem

If it helps, the forum program I'm using allows for people to either start new blogs on my site or to have a link directly to an already-existing blog (LiveJournal or anywhere else) as if it's on the site. I chose the program specifically for that - it's the only forum program around that has that ability. For either a new blog or an existing blog/LJ/etc., the owner has individual control over permissions, etc. I'm kind of hoping this feature might keep us from getting too scattered, even when people are concentrating on LJ.

So I guess this is the end. Last day of KD today... :( *cries*

I hope to see everyone over at LJ, or else at a new Faculty Lounge home.
HUGS all around! :k

It's almost the end, but hopefully a new beginning, too.

Thanks to all who are striving to find The Faculty Lounge a new home, and for those who have archived this beloved thread - or even the entire KD site -for posterity. It has been a very special place.

Thanks for the beautfiul Hugs Haven picscam, Bunnie.

I hope to see many of you again at Tg's Frodolivesin.us, or Bunnie's Elijah_finds. I'm sure The Faculty will live on!

Here's one last gif - Elijah morphing into Frodo.

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y121/Blossom10/Gifs/ew-fro.gif

Until we meet again... :k

Farewell to the old home, and I hope we meet in a new one. You are all such lovely, intelligent and diverse friends. I don't want to lose touch.

My lj name is Alyrthia.

Be well. Hope to see you somewhere, soon!!!
:k

Blossom- that morphing of Frolijah is too cool. :cool: :k

To the KDer's: So long, farewell, alvedisain, adieu...

"The grey rain curtain of this world rolls back and all turns to silver glass. Then you see it. White shores and beyond. A far green country under a swift sunrise."

I always wanted an opportunity to use that quote (I may have misquoted...).

Khazaddum is over but hopefully something of the faculty lives on even in another guise. I hope to see everybody around on LJ and at TG's new forum.

I'm not leaving- and you can't make me. !!! :p

Oh my.

Nothing is constant but change, and that's the truth.

Although I haven't posted here recently, and very little in the past year or so, this place--Khazad-Dum and the Faculty Lounge in particular--and all its inhabitants are dear to me.

A heartfelt thanks to the incomparable tgshaw, for being the guiding light of the Lounge, and to Blossom for that swoonalicious morphing ElijahFrodo. And to everyone for making K-D so special.

You are each and every one of you great people. It's been far too short a time to spend among such excellent and admirable hobbits!

My LJ name is golden_berry. See you around! Namarie!

Farewell, dear friends here at KD's Faculty Lounge!

As soon as Tg's forum is up, I'll be dropping by sometime to hang up the Faculty Lounge blackboard, okay? ;)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/0903/whiteling/faclounge.jpg


:k to all!

Blossom, I just had to tell you that morphing gif was so so so so so so COOL!

:D

Planning to re-join you all at frodolivesin.us

Thanks again tg for offering to host the Faculty Lounge.

See you all there.