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Hitchhiker's Guide Film Reports
wakaranai writes "The BBC reports that the new "The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy" movie will star Martin Freeman (Tim from The Office) as Arthur Dent. According to the Internet Movie Database filming starts early 2004, and Marvin's voice will be Stephen Moore, reviving his role from the classic 1981 BBC TV version." If you haven't seen The Office, it takes the subject matter Dilbert has bored us with, and makes it utterly hysterical. This is a good bit of casting. I'm still available to play Zaphod.
Me me me me!
Did anyone see today's ASCII art fart? Looks like they're ripping on the GNAA.
GNAA, TrollKore, TRoLL., and any others I have failed to mention need our support to ruin this SHIT site.
"Will there ever be a boy born who can swim faster than a shark?"
It's just a matter of sewing on the other head.....
Nazi medical experiments. What is it all about... is it good, or is it whack?
Sauron was a lesser ainur, a maiar, but still an ainur - his essence indestructible. Sauron was "killed" at least once before coming up with the plan to make a bunch of rings. He dissipated and took a long time to gather himself back into a coherent entity - he put a chunk of himself into the One Ring not only to gain dominion over the wielders of the lesser rings, but also to speed this process of reorganization should he ever discorporate again.
The physical ring was invincible, impervious to everything - except, ostensibly, the fires of Mount Doom. But its invincibility was conferred by Sauron's imbuement, and Sauron as an ainur cannot be destroyed, only dissipated.
The flaws and foibles of Sauron's physical manifestations, such as the one defeated by Isildur, do not transfer to the ring - unlike Sauron-qua-man you cannot harm it with axe blows or sword strikes. So the question is, "what's so special about Mount Doom?" The ring wasn't indestructible because it was forged there, it was because it was a part of the indestructible elemental force called Sauron.
So how could a volcano destroy what was otherwise impervious to physical destruction?
It couldn't!
The only logical conclusion is that Istari and other 'good' elementals only wanted it put there because of its utter inaccessibility to mortals. But that doesn't really make sense, as a volcano would not be inaccessible to Sauron himself in his elemental form.
What Gandalf et al really did is buy Middle-earth some time until the part of Sauron not contained in the ring gains enough coherence to retrieve the One Ring from the bottom of the volcano...
Thank god I can kneel on this towel and put out a series of shitty CD-ROMs!
...except I can't believe they are going to do an American version of the office and put George Cluney as the boss, absolutely can't work, your not sposed to like David Brent... Those big american tv co's just don't get it :-\ :)
It'll be as bad as the american version of Cracker that I had the misfortune to see once (called 'fitz' I think)
(not that I like cluney either