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Post by IrisHobbit on Mar 28, 2005 19:36:03 GMT -5
Yay! Please do! I'm starting to get worried about her! .mwahahahahaha
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Post by Truey on Mar 28, 2005 23:44:39 GMT -5
lol ;D
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Post by Truey on Apr 20, 2005 18:45:37 GMT -5
Okay, so I havn't done that yet. But she hasn't added anything to her blog in a very long time, so she' probably wouldn't have seen if I did anyhow. Anyhow, it sounds like she's comming around anyways. ;D
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Post by ~Crystal~elf~ on Apr 25, 2005 16:05:01 GMT -5
It's amazing what a small world this is.
I really enjoyed reading about how you came to love lotr. I shall tell you my story in a second, but first, I'll explain my fist comment.
I too homeschooled for years. Untill the end of grade nine. Then I went to public school, for a number of reasons, but mostly because I felt it was time to. I've had a good experiance there, though it has its ups and downs and I've learned some things I wish I hadn't. But on the whole it has been good, God has blessed me with good freinds and many good teachers. But really, at heart I think I'm still a homeschooler, and highschool's just one big feild-trip. ( :
First, we read the Hobbit together on a family vacation. I can remember lying on the futon, listening to my dad read it and looking up at the wooden rafters of the little cabin (which some freinds of ours let us go to when we are in the area). I delighted in the book and remember missing Bilbo all year afterwards. (I still do, really, though since then I've read them to myself once or twice and listened to the bbc tapes of them a few more times than that. However, I had none, or little knowladge of lotr at the time.
Later, a year or so after, a good freind of ours, who is a big lotr fan was trying to convince my sister to read lotr (and apparently had been for some time) Anyhow, I was beging to get interested in fantasy and remembered the hobbit and though, 'I want to read those' So I bought the series for my sister for christmas, knowing she'd let me read them when she was done. She read them over a couple of mounths, then as spring came a snatched them up and read all three in two weeks... and loved them. The following fall, I'd forgotten a lot of it, so I read them again, a bit slower this time.
Then, either that winter, or the next, the fotr movie came out and I was all over it. Since... I've never turned back. ( :
I'm sorry about the long posts. Truely, I am.
God Bless,
~Crystal~
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Post by Lari on Apr 25, 2005 16:46:00 GMT -5
Oh goodness Crystal. Please don't be sorry about the post. There is no hate of long posts on this board. lol... right girls?
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Post by ~Crystal~elf~ on Apr 25, 2005 17:57:23 GMT -5
lol. As you wish. ;D
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Post by Lari on Apr 25, 2005 18:09:15 GMT -5
Hey.. have you seen the Princess Bride? Now if any movie invaded my family, it's that one.
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Post by ~Crystal~elf~ on Apr 25, 2005 18:28:28 GMT -5
lol *is seriously laughing out loud*
I had wondered if anyone would pick that referance up. Yes, I watched it fairly reciantly actually... loved it. The best part is the duel between Westly and Inigo. lol.
~Crystal~
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Post by Truey on Apr 25, 2005 20:14:13 GMT -5
hehehe.... I have some friends who are trying to re-film that movie. Except the girl playing Buttercup can't stand to interact with guys at all, so I wonder how they're going to pull it off without male actors.... lol
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Post by ~Crystal~elf~ on Apr 26, 2005 14:47:18 GMT -5
lol... that would be odd. ( :
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Post by sawen on Jun 1, 2005 14:12:20 GMT -5
Hi I read the Hobbit and LOTR when I was around 11 or 12 I think... When I first read LOTR, I got as far as Gandalf falling in Moria and was in tears! I would've refused to continue if I hadn't peeked ahead to TTT and noticed that Gandalf reappeared... Then obviously I had to know how! It took me three days to get through of all of LOTR the first time. I cried when Frodo went into the West... And cried everytime I read it at that point until I read The Silmarillion and realised that he was going to such a better place! ;D I'm rambling...
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Post by IrisHobbit on Jun 1, 2005 15:28:16 GMT -5
Yay! *sobs*
Ok that was random...
I don't remember crying over anything in the books, becuase I read them so fast nothing sunk in, really much. I cried a ton in the movies. And now I'm rereading the books and WOULD Cry if I didn't know what was happening. ;D
Gosh I REALLY NEED TO READ THE SILLMARILLION!
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Post by MessengerSelece on Jun 1, 2005 17:11:07 GMT -5
Wow. I think I must be the only person here who's never read all of the Lotr books. We read the Hobbit in a book club thing I was in. (We eventually quit cuz the teacher was a bioth[sorry, there's no other word to describe her] and we got in trouble. She's a git.]I loved it, so I descided to read the Lotr series. Well....I started to read the Fotr...it got boring, so I stopped, then picked it up and finished it. Over all, with the time spent not reading it too, it took 2 months. Then, I moved onto the Tt. I don't even remember how long that took me. Then, I started to read the Rotk...but never finished it. I got about...2-3 chapters in, found it boring, and never finished it. I know it gets better right after that, but I can't bear to start again. I have the books, but I've never used them. My oldest sister read them. My next younger-older sister never read them. My father tried, but couldn't. Then there's my mum. She's not into stuff like that. Though, she likes to come in and sit in the living room while we're watching the movies and ask questions about it. -_- Very annoying. I actually cried in all of the Lotr movies. I bawled my eyes out when Gandolf died, even though I knew that he came back. I cried in the Tt when that one elf dude died at Helm's Deep. And THEN I cried at the end of Rotk when Aragorn saw Arwen and then everyone bowed down to Frode and company. It was so touching. ^.^ I cry at like, everything in movies. Oh, and I see people mentioning homeschooling and public school. I've been in public school for my entire life and I would never trade it for homeschooling. I've never been homeschooled, so I don't know what it's like. I personally think that public school is great because you interact with lots of people, you learn things that you want, and true, things you really don't want to. (Most of the time it's vulger *shiver*) I know everyone has different views on stuff like how they're schooled. Yes, high school is organized chaos and can be a..a...*insert "bad" word of choice*, but it does people some good. I've been given some of the most amazing friends by God and I wouldn't trade them for anyone else. I've met teachers who I'll never forget and love always. I've had good and bad experiences. *shrugs* It all depends on how you look at it. ^_^ Both types of schooling have their ups and downs. Wow,that was kinda long. Sowwie.
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Post by ~Crystal~elf~ on Jun 1, 2005 17:26:37 GMT -5
*passes on the reprimend about long posts being goooood.* I don't generally cry when I read things or watch things, (though I am very emotional). so I didn't cry for lotr. But I know I felt rather like crying sometimes, and maybe a bit teary. Actually, I tend to laugh almost constantly when I read things. (ok, I'm exadurating... but I do laugh a lot). Anyhows.. when I was watching fotr in theaters for the first time the day after christmas I was with my family and uncle and aunt. My uncle was (he passed away a year or two ago ) a real hill-billy. (litterally, his name was Billy) Anyhow... he had been talking before we went to the movie and said that he's never surprised anymore when anything jumps out in movies, because he thinks it's so unrealistic and you can always tell when it is going to happen. So anyhow, I was wathing FotR and was at the part of the fight it Moria. Remember the 'peek-a-boo' scene between Frodo and the Cave troll before Frodo gets 'stuck'. Well, I remember what my uncle had said and I started giggling at that part. ( : *looks critically at post* That was a really long story and not really all that funny. sry. ~Crystal~
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Post by IrisHobbit on Jun 1, 2005 17:46:26 GMT -5
Don't worry Becky. I've never read Part 3 of the Lord of the Rings... I am going to soon. After I finish re-reading the others. Wow, I cried SO hard in the movies when Boromir died. And then Aragorn... *smiles through sniffles*... appeared. I still get watery eyes when I think about it. Poor Boromir. It was soooo sad! WAA!!
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