The 2013 Forumshire Awards

halfwise wrote:What's up with the red slippers?  I missed that part.

David has some queer Bree-landish notion that Dorothy's shoes should have been grey  -- or silver, I can't really remember now. Whatever it was it was pretty absurd - it was.   

Orwell wrote:

David has some queer Bree-landish notion that Dorothy's shoes should have been grey  -- or silver, I can't really remember now.

I understand Orwell. They say the memory is the first thing to go.

I try to be liberal in most things (especially during award nominations) but certain lines have to be drawn.
For me, the line is here:
Dorothy's shoes ARE silver.   
Shadowfax IS grey.  
And Azog IS dead.   

As to your hopes on Azog - I concur.   

As to what hue Shadowfax shimmers - grey or silver... should we really being splitting hairs here -- let alone horsehairs?    

As to the best colour for a girl's shoe... now now now.... let's not be stubborn here.... Ask any girl what she prefers, exciting-ruby-red or dull-and-boring silver? I know the answer to that! Baum clearly got it wrong. I mean, only a man would seek to impose something like that on a girl trying to find herself, surely...    

Mrs Figg wrote:well heres my nomination suggestions for the Creative Corner,

1) peoples PJ parodies

How Peej stole the Hobbit - Tin

An unexpected journey -  Petty

A Christmas Carol starring PJ as Scrooge - Bungo

The Hobwit - The Archet Bugle

Peeder Jigson and the Arkenstone - Mrs Figg


2) peoples music

Orwells mobile songs - Orwell

Bungos music thread - Bungo

Lances music videos - Lance

3) peoples stories

The Firefox - Archet Bugle

Movember - Norc

The Great Forumshire story - Lance

The Bandersnatchers - Amarie

Needlehole Mysteries - Eldorion

MacPetty the Scottish play - Petty

My Horrible Adventure - Mrs Figg

You got Bungo and mines stories mixed up!

It is Forumshire, of course. These things happen, Your Maj...

i feel i have to end movember soon, seeing it's nearly january..

Great.   

David H wrote:

I understand Orwell. They say the memory is the first thing to go.

I try to be liberal in most things (especially during award nominations) but certain lines have to be drawn.
For me, the line is here:
Dorothy's shoes ARE silver.   
Shadowfax IS grey.  
And Azog IS dead.   

Let's hope someone tells Peter Jackson before he does his remake of The Wizard of Oz.  

Norc wrote:i feel i have to end movember soon, seeing it's nearly january..

Did you get a good Nordic tash going?

Lancebloke wrote:

Norc wrote:i feel i have to end movember soon, seeing it's nearly january..

Did you get a good Nordic tash going?

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Tinuviel wrote:You got Bungo and mines stories mixed up!

This reminds me that I should try to finish that tomorrow before Christmas.

Norc wrote:

Lancebloke wrote:

Norc wrote:i feel i have to end movember soon, seeing it's nearly january..

Did you get a good Nordic tash going?

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I think he might have been inquiering as to wether you participated in the event yourself.  

He must not have seen your video.

Nope. I didn't know there was a video I was supposed to have seen!?

Bluebottle wrote:

Norc wrote:

Lancebloke wrote:

Norc wrote:i feel i have to end movember soon, seeing it's nearly january..

Did you get a good Nordic tash going?

?

I think he might have been inquiering as to wether you participated in the event yourself.  

He must not have seen your video.

oh that... weeeell... i did my best

Is there an illustration award this year too ?

I think there was talk of one.    Wasn't there supposed to be a Fjordlandian translation category as well?  

Bluebottle wrote:Let's hope someone tells Peter Jackson before he does his remake of The Wizard of Oz.  

Not even he would try. Just in case, I'll put in a little more pistol practice...

Just finished waching Oz again. I think I enjoyed it more than ever! While watching the heel clicking scene toward the end, I thought, "Gray socks don't go with silver shoes, give me Ruby Slippers every time. Seems obvious. Only an Oz Purist could see anything wrong with that.'

Oz Purists are pathetic beings, Blue. They're not at all like Tolkien Purists, you know. WoOz is one of the Great Movies (probably the Greatest!) And made from a 'B'grade book! While LotR is a 'B' Movie made from a Great Book. Go figure!  

y'know whats really odd, even though I know it was made in 1745 out of wood, that spooky forest in the Wizard of Oz still delights me and its still scary. Those Flying monkeys are really frightening, I laugh with Goosebumps every time. I know PJs version has the 21st century gloss and sooperdooper special effects, but his Mirkwood doesnt hold a candle to the spookiness of Oz.

I love how you often can feel very sad and very amused at the same time. When Dorothy is sitting on the step outside the Wizard's door crying while the Wizard at the little window in the door is crying, makes me shed tears of sadness and sheer joy.

Also, when the Tinman is singing about having a heart - sentimental - he and Dorothy share a smile --- one of my favorite scenes ever - actually, ever!

And then there's the Coroner's official pronouncement - the Wicked Witch of the East is not just "merely dead," she's "sincerely dead".

Gold! Full of golden moments.

Don't forget "Rainbow". How could you, mind? (Best song ever just about).

Brilliant movie {{{shame about the book}}}.

And the movie looks like it was made yesterday. Indeed, feels like it was...

Sorry Mrs Figg -- I'm off to find the tissues.... Bloody Ozhobbitstan dustiness. It gets you every time!  

Oh yes my Missus bought me a 75 Year memorial book about Oz for Erumas. What! Does she think I'm afanatic or something?   


{{{Just between you and me and the door post, Mrs Figg - I am!   }}}

 What's the bugle doing broadcasting my feelings? Damn cheek! They were private thoughts!

I think my favourite is the Cowardly Lions song, and the sleeeepy poppy fields, oh everything.   

This song makes me laugh, all about 3 guys trying to get out of doing anything, its from "Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" Some bright spark added it to our glorious,caring politicians   

Mrs Figg wrote:y'know whats really odd, even though I know it was made in 1745 out of wood, that spooky forest in the Wizard of Oz still delights me and its still scary. Those Flying monkeys are really frightening, I laugh with Goosebumps every time. I know PJs version has the 21st century gloss and sooperdooper special effects, but his Mirkwood doesnt hold a candle to the spookiness of Oz.

{{{Hi Mrs Figg. I'm encrypting this because Orwell's Oz-Hobbit proselytizing is starting to worry me. He seem to have fallen completely under the spell of this movie and there's no reasoning with him anymore (not that there ever was.  )

I'm not saying WoO isn't a fine movie for what it is, but it "borrowed" a lot from Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarves. When Snow White came out in 1937 it was the first animated feature film ever, it was the first colour movie most people had ever seen, and it was a runaway hit.

MGM immediately bought the rights to Wizard of Oz, and started writing another movie musical about a girl with problems at home, plagued by woman who changes into a witch who can find her by looking into a magic crystal ball (rather than a mirror), who runs through a scary woods and meets a group of misfits who fall in love with her. She inhales poppies (rather than eating an apple) and falls into a drugged sleep while the wicked witch cackles. The similarities go on and on.

The movie "adaptation" of Wizard of Oz really owes a lot more to Snow White than it does to the book it was supposedly based on. Watch the forest scene in Snow White and you'll see what I mean. By comparison, PJ's Hobbit is quite close to the book.

Technicolor was brand new at the time, newer than PJ's motion capture toys now, and they did everything they could to rub the viewer's face it, including changing the magic silver shoes (a symbol of the little girl Dorothy's childhood innocence in the book) to gaudy red slippers on a teenage Judy Garland (a very different symbolism I think  )

Again, Wizard of Oz is a great movie for what it is, which is the fastest paced, blingiest thrill-ride 1939 could produce. But as an adaptation of a beloved children's book, it sucks.

And Orwell won't hear a word if it.   }}}

((((sorry Dave, I am with the Ozzie on this one, I Always wanted a pair of sparkly red shoes and I still do    although sparkly silver shoes are probably nicerer and more Elven   )))))

The Munchkins were as annoying as the Ewoks. Other than that the movie was gold.

The most fantastical thing to me is the comparison between the young and the old Judy Garland. No wizard could create a more shocking transformation.