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08-05-2007, 12:59 PM
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Desultory Dwimmerlaik
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Pickin' flowers with Bill the Cat.....
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As far as the movies are concerned, I was this sort of fan:
#4 CODE: Get this kid some therapy - "The Raving Lunatic" Yes, I had.....that is, have.....an Elven sword 
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08-06-2007, 01:32 PM
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Mighty Quill
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Walking off to look for America
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08-07-2007, 10:16 AM
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Spectre of Capitalism
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Battling evil bureaucrats at Zeta Aquilae
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I am among the last of the Old School Book Fans, as I read The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings just bare months before The Silmarillion was released. I found The Sil hard going, and gave it up halfway through (not finishing it until about 4 years ago), but read and re-read TH and LOTR, perusing fan BBS and the Internet when it became available, reading movie rumors (oh, the endless debates on who should play Gandalf...Sean Connery being the much-hailed-and-derided favorite) and balrog wing discussions.
The real announcement of a real movie (which I read first on Ain't It Cool News) refueled my interest. I ended up being strongly influenced by the movies, but revere the books alone as canon, of course. Oddly, I find myself standing almost in the exact center of the movies-versus-books road, and suffering the slings and arrows from cars on both lanes. "I love the books, I love the movies, they're two different things, why can't we all just get along?" <Thenamir ducks as another salvo of sharp, pointy objects is hurled his way...>
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08-07-2007, 10:21 AM
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Spectre of Capitalism
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Battling evil bureaucrats at Zeta Aquilae
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Oh, as far as the movies were concerned, check this photo of me and my lovely wife just before the release of TTT. I think this makes me A Raving Lunatic. And yes, that is Glamdring in my hand.
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08-07-2007, 01:59 PM
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A Mere Boggart
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: under the bed
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Oh does that ever beg for a Crazy Caption...
 "Um, Celebrimbor, do you think you could help me? You see I was messing about with Glamdring and there was this big lump of cheese...and they kind of got stuck..."
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