Critics review 'An Unexpected Journey'

Not sure weather it will be quicker

Worth a go!



mmmmmmm sounds le git



Besides I cant remember if you have an obvious email address, easy to find, or a stupid one like pettytyrant that I'll never find.

Hit an email snag check your pms.

Let me know if you get the links ok.

ok

Have recieved e-mail. I shall leave the downloading to the brainyer half.
Who's bob ?

My made up name for when I created the second drive- I had been watching Black Adder at the time.

I was thinking of Twin Peaks.

Too scary.

http://the-hobbit-movie.com/2013/05/04/the-success-of-the-hobbit wrote:J.R.R. Tolkien already hauled with him a rather large fan following when he first began publishing his works with two, The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings, proving to be some of his most iconic works to date.

i think its unfair that academics are writing articles for thn, how are bloggers supposed to replicate this flair for words and critical analysis

Is that sarcasm CC?

I stopped following THM on Facebook just the other day because I couldn't handle the barrage of shit they were spamming at my newsfeed. I had been a "fan" since back when Ady ran the site.

Not having much luck downloading this. Might have to send mem stick after all

Are you downloading a folder or the individual files inside?- might be best to download the files individually rather than all at once if youre not already.
Otherwise yeah just send a mem stick.

Mrs spent hours on it. Think she said somthing about cant download windows on to I-Mac or sumert like that. Was to busy dodging expletives

Mmm far as I know Halfy and Norc are on macs and they can- perhaps one of them shall enlighten us.

download the individual files. Then you have to find something to unrar them. I use a unix utility by petty has found some OS X versions - search online.

I don't speak any languages other than English (and a very little bit of German and even less Italian) but every now and then I visit Tolkien forums in other languages just to see what they're like. Today I was poking around a newish French Tolkien forum and I came across a review of The Hobbit that amused me. I only have the Google Translation, so while it appears that the guy writes under the pen name "Hateful Bastard", Google gave his name as "Heinous Asshole".

http://odieuxconnard.wordpress.com/2012/12/20/le-hobbit-un-spoiler-inattendu/

To begin with he gives a call to Peter Jackson's office asking if he can use copyrighted images in his review.

The secretary chuckled while dialing, before engaging speaker. There were a few nervous coughs before finally someone answers.

"Hello?
- Peter Jackson? Here Mr. Asshole, the Spoiler Corp.. Listen, we would bâcher your movie, there Bilbo, because, well, it's still a bit of a scandal. You could spin us the rights to use your images? It would help us much.
- What? Fuck no!
- Come on Peter, a little effort. The spirit of Christmas, all that sharing, huh? We do not know it at the big bearded geeks?
- Listen you cocksucker, I'm not gonna give you a single picture for your shitty spoil.
- Oh no, because I usually use at least images, even if I do not videos.
- Then fuck you. "

Even reading this through the filter of Google I could tell I'd discovered a kindred spirit of Petty and had to keep reading. For "copyright issues" the whole post is illustrated with more GIFs than your average Norc post about Cumberbatch. Here's an example (rehosted for bandwidth reasons) depicting Gandalf's mark on Bilbo's door:

Bilbo has now, in addition to a magician, 13 dwarf home. Let me list them:

• Thorin
  
• Balin
  
• Jean-Jacques
  
• Jean-Jacques
  
• Jean-Jacques
  
• Jean-Jacques
  
• Jean-Jacques
  
• Jean-Jacques
  
• Jean-Jacques
  
• Jean-Jacques
  
• Jean-Jacques
  
• Jean-Jacques
  
• Fat-Jean-Jacques

It goes on like that for a while and I encourage everyone to read it, even (especially) if you don't know a single word of French.

that's great