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LotR RotK Premiere Today In New Zealand
donnz writes "Things are getting a little out of hand in Wellington today. For those of you who have not spent the night sleeping on the sidewalk CityLink have been wiring up webcams all over the place. Keep up with all the news and links on Stuff.co.nz. Just to show we are twice blessed, the sun is shining."
ROFL.
That's it. NZ has gone too far. We now be forced to liberate them.
-GWB
Strange women lyin' in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a movie trilogy!
It goes from God, to Jerry, to me.
STFU! I was ROTFL when I saw the NZ link on /. was totally FUBAR. I couldn't even RTFA!
Dwarven metal-detector only turns up bottlecaps, shattered armor of comrades.
Isildur, eldest son and heir of Elendil, was dissapointed late afternoon last Monday when his attempt to find the ring which slipped off his finger failed. "I was lookining all through the muck, between the reeds and shrubs, and I even wrestled a Gladden Gator to see if it accidentally swallowed it." The King of both Arnor and Gondor then employed his three sons to aid in the search. After much searching amongst the reeds, Elendur, eldest of Isildur's four sons, shouted in the gloom, "I have located it, father!" Unfortunately, upon putting the ring on, Elendur did not dissappear, leaving the red embarrasement on his face plain to the eye. "Must be some other ring," he grumbled. The many corpses strewn across the Gladden Fields did not help the endeavour either. "All of this cracked and broken armor is really throwing off the metal detector. It's like trying to find a needle in a bloody, corpse-strewn haystack. I can only hope my insurance covers this." When pressed for comment, Lloyd's of London only said that "Insurance for rings of power laden with the capability of invisibility is not available, not even for a king of the Numenoreans, largely because "invisible rings" are a huge source of insurance fraud." Later on in the day, the heir of Elendil was slain by an orc. "I can only hope the One Ring is not found by some scheming, hideous halfling-like creature which eminates bubbling-like noises, or else all is lost," he said in his dying words, before another arrow punctured his larynx.
"*of course, the first time they tried it, the humans broke ranks and just ran away from the orcs. What does that say?"
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Sounds like that commercial was right "when the courage of men fail"...
Good thing we had Aragorn eh
Has Comcast disconnected your Internet account? Same here. You can read about it at http://comcastissue.blogspot.com
Humorous diary of Saruman
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
I'm waiting for the prequels: The Hobbit, episode 2, and episode 3, however the Tolkien family and Peter Jackson decide to write them.
Yes, but then you did just post to /. about the story, so...
Everybody knows they could have done this faster and cheaper if they were running BSD.
*ducks to avoid flames*
Late Thursday evening, local hobbit Ted Sandyman was only mildly surprised to see the Witch-king of Angmar, Lord of the Nazgul, riding down the road leading up and over The Hill. "Aye, sir, I was a-walkin' down the road to go do some fishin' at the Bywater Pool when up comes this surly fellow all in black," the miller's son commented. "He says to me, he says 'Where can I find Bagginsssss' in a real gruff voice, as if he's the Lord of Angmar, much like. I give him the ol' long look and says straight to his face, 'If it's Baggins you want, then go up-on The Hill. But you look mighty famished, sir, as if you didna' eat for a few centuries.' I then offers him to come over to the mill for some biscuits and the like but 'ee says he hasn't 'et anything for a few centuries 'cuz he's been dead for a few centuries. Than he went a-gallopin' up to the Hill, not even bothering to bid me a good day." Another hobbit, Millo Burrow, also saw the forsaken slave of the second dark lord stroll through the town. "It musta been noon-day when I sees him. He was a-ridin' a black horse, and so at first I thought it was old Mr. Butterbur come from Bree on an errand, but no: I look closer and, bless my hide, it's the Lord of Angmar. I shrug my shoulders and go on my way, seein' as it's no business of mine as to what an eternally damned witch king is doin' in town. Prolly buying some fine Hobbiton cheese, no doubt."
Hah - just found out my (15 yo) sister went down with her friends there at about 2am in the morning :P
"See that dismembered Orc, third along after the pile of heads? That's ME!!!"
My cellphone has just started reporting that I am now located in "MiddlEarth" instead of "Wgtn CBD", you can't do anything here (Wellington obviously) today without some Lord of the Rings theme affecting it.
The hobbits destroy the ring, Sauron is overthrown, the King returns to Gondor.
Of course, you could read the books like I did 20 years ago...
I mean, If I were to claim I was a movie director just because some watery tart threw a scimitar at me, they'd lock me away!
"Do you suppose that's why God lives in the Heavens? Because he lives in fear of His creations?" - Steve Buscemi
If Jackson says it's the best, I'm willing to take his word for it. (Until I see it for myself, and even then I'll probably agree with him, because I have done so in the past.)
I've been watching the making-of interviews and listening to the commentary tracks on the Extended Two Towers DVD With Extra Ass-Kicking And Shiny Bits. Jackson and Walsh explain their reasoning behind the "controversial" decisions (Elves at Helm's Deep, no Shelob, Faramir's initially a jerk, side trip to Osgiliath, etc). The decisions are actually all chained together. And now that I've heard the screenwriter's/director's side of the story, instead of just /. ravings, I have to admit that they probably made the right decisions.
(Okay, maybe not about the Elves showing up. I'm still on deciding that one. The lack of Shelob (leading to the trip to Osgiliath) makes more sense now.)
There's a great comment by Bernard Hill, who played Theoden. (Background: Many of the desired accents changed during the course of filming, and of course there's script rewrites and background noise and whatnot, so almost every actor had to go into a soundbooth at the end and record some overdubs of his/her previous lines.) Anyhow, Hill was recording the lines where the Elves walk into the fortress and he comes running down the stairs. As a joke on Peter Jackson, instead of "How is this possible?", he recorded:
"Who the fucking hell let you lot in the gate?"
You cannot apply a technological solution to a sociological problem. (Edwards' Law)
A lot of people would kill just to have the books written already...
I didn't realize the New Zealand Army was made up of orcs. No wonder they have never been defeated. Any opponents must be terrified. People just aren't used to fighting orcs.
Language students: Don't try to learn English here. This ain't it.
Don't worry, all the starwars films open here (au,nz) before you guys too since they open on the same date and we're like 18hrs ahead :)
Send lawyers, guns, and money!
Well, they could... if BSD weren't dead already. :)
Learn to Play Go
What does that say?
That evil will always triumph because good is dumb?
Only in a Slashdot fantasy can a Slackware install turn into several hours of sex . . . . .
The inscription shone piercingly bright, and yet remote, as if out of a great depth:
C 20 4F6E65204F5320746FE 65204F5320746F206272 696E67207468656D200 6461726B6E6573732062 696E64207468656D
4F6E65204F5320746F2072756C65207468656D20616C6C2
2066696E64207468656D2C0D0A4F6
616C6C20616E6420696E207468652
'I cannot read the fiery letters,' I said.
'No,' he said, 'but I can. The letters are Hex, of an ancient mode, but the language is that of Microsoft, which I shall not utter here. But in common English this is what it says:'
One OS to rule them all, One OS to find them,
One OS to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.
oldie but a goodie