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LOTR Campout Begins

Posted by michael on from the crazier-than-a-barrel-of-gnomes dept.

Rocknalle writes: "As reported on The One Ring queues have have already started lining up for The Fellowship Of The Ring. Team GladBlad (having placed themselves nr. 1-4 in the queue), are reporting live from the event via notebooks and and cellular networking (9.6 Kbps rules! :-). Visit GladBlad and see what happens when geeks goes outside." The other LOTR news I know of is a description of the journalistic teaser trailer. Salon seems to have liked what they saw.

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  1. In other news... by Cutriss · · Score: 4, Funny

    People with jobs report that working between October 20th and December 19th resulted in two months' worth of paychecks!

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  2. You know what that means... by Ando[evilmedic] · · Score: 2, Funny

    Sooner or later those notebook and cellphone batteries are going to wear out, and then we'll have some inconsoleable geeks out in the miserable cold.

  3. Oh my GOD!!! by Looge+Over+All! · · Score: 0, Funny

    ...my horse is ON FIRE!

    *runs away to extinguish blazing quadruped*

  4. Re:What a bunch of losers by TroyFoley · · Score: 5, Funny

    And when people keep telling me that American stupidity runs rampant, I point to John Q. Condescend here who blames American culture for Danish fans obsessing over a New Zealand produced movie based on a book written by an Englishman.

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  5. That's my Geek! by tcc · · Score: 4, Funny

    Locked home for over a year, camping in front of his computer, camping in a game of Quake, going out for the first time since forever, for something OTHER than his job, and guess where he's going? CAMPING in front of the theatre...

    I'm starting to beleive all those psychologists claiming "games have a negative impact on human behaviour" :)

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  6. jeez by zerocool^ · · Score: 5, Funny

    Freakin' campers. Now you can't even go to the movies. They're everywhere.

    jeez, just used to be that you couldn't get to the quad damage.

    ~z

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    1. Re:jeez by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      I'm just waiting for the next slashdot story:

      LOTR fan goes on a shooting spree outside of theater with prototype railgun.

  7. That Evil Gandalf by Ellen+Spertus · · Score: 4, Funny
    According to the San Francisco Chronicle:
    This first installment focuses on Frodo (Elijah Wood), the Hobbit, who embarks on a quest to destroy the One Ring before the evil Gandalf (Ian McKellen) can get his hands on it.
  8. Re:Echos of Ep1 by Black+Parrot · · Score: 4, Funny


    > Here in Norway, ... I also used "theatre", singular, in the first paragraph. That's because the ticket sale was limited to only one theatre in the entire country.

    Here in Mordor, they aren't going to show it at all.

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  9. dollars and cents by necrognome · · Score: 2, Funny

    one movie ticket: $10 (NYC)
    one tub of popcorn: $3
    production of LoTR: $270,000,000

    Gandalf v. Balrog onscreen: priceless

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  10. Re:What a bunch of losers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Finnegan? Is it really you?