The Hall of Fire

Could I ask for someone to enlighten me regarding the BB7 forum? It isn't a forum I've ever heard of.

Thanks Jnyusa! All the best with the exams.

EDIT: Primula, I've just realised that we both drowned!

The only You Tube clips of "Now And For Always" are from the Toronto version. Their faces look different, if you look closely, because the hobbits wore facial prosthetics in the Toronto version. Gollum also "speaks/acts" his song more than sings it (as he does in Drury Lane) - wh...

I know... I did see it live.

So did I, but I wanted to point out the differences between the delivery of this scene in the Toronto and London versions.

(Perhaps you saw both live, in which case you're extremely lucky!)

Check out the one of Gollum's song afterwards - it ends with the flying Ringwraith scene.

Well, I love it. Wholeheartedly. I feel all the warmth and passion for it that I would so have liked to feel for the films but never could. I would have liked Pippin to be more serious (but his understudy is, so that's OK), and yes, the Balrog is a bit Bakshiesque, so to speak. But there is nothing ...

That looks highly aerobic!

Well met indeed, Wampus Cat.

The Douglas Gresham quotation on this page reminds me of why I think I found the recent Beowulf film so tiresome.

(That's still about the theory of courage, at a slight stretch!)

In the "convent" or the "brothel" sense?

That kind of light, especially in a glass damaged so much by the process, can't stay in Middle-earth long. "... too ennobled and rarified by the Great Quest," as JRR put it (with or without initial capitals). (And I've probably chosen the kind of "rarified" that refers to high a...

Thanks, Primula.