The Hall of Fire

I'm not expecting June and Ward Cleaver to walk through the door. I get that in 2024 the lines are more gray than 70+ years in the past, and that the characters need to be more Fëanor complicated like. Would it be so wrong or too boring to have a Fingolfin type character today? I know we got 5 minut...

I don't consider this series as an adaptation, but more of an alternative perspective of Tolkien's world. Whatever the showrunners do or don't do, it's still the Tolkien world, and that was my initial draw. So, because I like the premise, I watch. I like to believe that I'm judging the series as a s...

So a couple of people mentioned a "relationship" between Elrond and Galadriel. Are they depicting a romantic relationship? Or a professional one? An uncomfortable one? It just strikes me as weird and disjointed. I'm not really sure what the direction is, or what to make of it. It just fee...

So a couple of people mentioned a "relationship" between Elrond and Galadriel. Are they depicting a romantic relationship? Or a professional one? An uncomfortable one? It just strikes me as weird and disjointed. I'm not really sure what the direction is, or what to make of it. It just fee...

I have no idea if the show is continuing their run of red herrings or not, but the "follow your nose" line from the Stranger , and the whole "gand" talk from the Harfoots is totally meant for us to believe that the "wand elf", or gand (according to the Stoors vernacular...

I was having a discussion with one of my kids about the canon issues regarding the films and the Rings of Power series. He was more tolerant of the films, and saw this series as a way to use character names and places to invent a story and rake in cash. He's not having this series at all. I'm not of...

In all seriousness, this is the Hobbit. In reality this is "The Hobbit".
And I say that with a mind towards adaptation.

PJ is wot tuk the holy writ uv Tolkien and turned it unto prfofits as it wuz.

That image was no accident, no matter how much you insist upon it. That image and any and all portions of any film or book or screenplay is only what it is according to how it spoke to you. No author, publisher, director or artist of any sort can be all things to all people and could never satisfy ...

Take this for what it is worth.....just an observation. A few weeks ago at 8 on a Saturday night, Rebecca and I went to see Catching Fire. It was opening weekend and we struggled to find seats. By the time we got into the theater, there were maybe ten seats open. We went to the same theater last nig...

Wet blanket time. I won't say that I hated the movie, but it is likely that if Rebecca wasn't with me, I would have walked out. It was tolerable PJ stuff for awhile, but when I saw Bombur fighting with a barrel over him, I had had enough. The spider and Beorn scenes were just all wrong and turned in...

If there are any other Drew brothers in need of a ring, send them along.
We'll take them.

Go Sox!

The last time the Red Sox won it all in Boston was with a victory over the Chicago Cubs on Sept. 11, 1918.

OPS?

Allow me please to qualify that last post. It came across harsher than I intended. Of course it would be great to have tickets to game seven in Boston, a place that hasn't seen a clinching game in 95 years. That would an astounding, and you can bet that is an event for the ages. Mainly what I was ge...

You couldn't pay me enough money to go to game 7 on Halloween in Boston.
Not no way, not no how.

I wouldn't want to be a cop in Boston this week. Oy.

I should have "quotated" (sublime Arlo Guthrie reference) "wild and wooly", which was a staple of Ned Martin's Red Sox broadcasts back in the day. Ned is to me what Vin Scully is to Dodger fans. Ned was an interesting guy, but more than that he was a guy you wanted to know, a guy...

There have been some wild and wooly ballgames, and the Series has been a lot of fun.
Just won (sic) more.

In an effort to maintain momentum, and not at all to appear haughty or coarse.....


GO FREAKING SOXXXXXXX!!!!!

Okay fine I am haughty and coarse, but the Sox shouldn't suffer because of that.

Lol. That is awesome.
I had a near opportunity to go to last nights game, but it fell through.
I suppose I could scrounge my way to one of the games, but the cost is prohibitive.

Have fun V.

What a fun series that was to watch. The Sox have a few stars, but mostly they are a team with journeymen players who just win. I really can't explain how. Sure they have solid pitching and Koji is a machine, and yeah they can score runs too, but I think this is one of those times that the whole is ...