The Hobbit: There and Back Again
They've released a couple of set pictures from the new Hobbit movies. Words cannot describe my giddy reaction at seeing Bilbo Baggins, who has to be the most adorable Hobbit in existence. Not that I don't love Frodo, Sam, Pippin and Merry, but BILBO! My first literary love!
( In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit )
( In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit )
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Good lord, Amber, I am so thrilled about this. The more I read and the more I hear, the more excited I get for this movie. I say we make plans to see this sucker together, because there is an epic nerd-out that's going to have no choice but to happen.
On a more serious note, those memories of your mom and of "The Hobbit" made me smile. I know that exact feeling. *hugs*
Right. So, I'm going to go make a cup of tea and pop on "The Fellowship of the Ring". Thank you for giving me the excuse.
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She also read to me The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe as well as Richard Adams Watership Down. Thanks mom for giving me high literary expectations from a young age.
Theatrical or Extended? ;) You are most welcome.
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My mom read Jewels, Joe and me sci-fi. Suddenly, so much about my character is explained. Hee.
Pssht. There is no theatrical. There is only Extended. ;)
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LOL - of course, of course. Besides, the Extended editions have much prettier covers. ;)
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Bilbo was the first fantasy book I ever read - I was 12 then, and so enthralled by the book that I asked my mum if she had more like this... and she gave me LOTR to read ♥
So, Bilbo holds a special place in my heart. There's a fight with a dragon!!! I sure hope we're going to see that ;)
Also I think if they do any addition it should be in flashbacks for Gollum and the Ring. I don't know, this book has such a hopeful tone, to me it's LOTR that is darker :/
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I'm looking forward to Bilbo battling wits with Smaug. Although the battle I worry about is the one with the spiders. The one in LOTR gave me nightmares and Bilbo has to battle a huge family of them.
LOTR is definitely darker, which is why I'm so interested to see how this adaption of The Hobbit will be handled because these two films are coming after the Trilogy when we all know that the Ring is bad. Yet, with the books, we didn't realize the true importance of the Ring because secrets weren't revealed till LOTR. Although, reading the book now, I can't help but shudder at the number of times Bilbo uses the Ring for this adventure alone. It'll be interesting to see how Peter Jackson handles that.
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I think that's one of the best gifts a parent can give a child, to let the child help with a family activity, even when it takes so much more of the parent's time than if they just kept the child in a passive role. I'd never realized what a gift this was, until I met other people my own age who couldn't cook (much) because -- unlike my folks -- their parents couldn't spare the time and energy to let them bumble their way around the kitchen as children, cooking various dishes for the family that would've gone much faster, tasted better, and caused much less mess if done by mother alone.
My folks would bring a book or two on vacation so Mom could read aloud to us in the car on those long trips, and I remember being so thrilled when I was allowed to take my turn reading the book to my family in the car or at night in the camper. After I was in 3rd or 4th grade, the folks stopped ( ... )
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That's a beautiful memory. It makes me wish that my family had done something similar on our car trips. :) Although, I'm a bit surprised that your dad didn't go insane with all the "chick-lit". Although, if it had been my dad, he would have probably begged for it after being forced to listen to a bunch of sci-fi and fantasy.
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And sci-fi and fantasy was where the generation gap was most keenly felt in my family -- my parents had and still have zero interest in it (even when written by theologically astute folks like C.S. Lewis or J.R.R. Tolkien, and they've never heard of Madeleine L'Engle, I'm pretty sure), while I practically cut my eye-teeth on reading Andre Norton, then proceeded to work my way through the small town library's entire SF collection between 5th and 7th grades, then promptly became addicted to Anne McCaffrey, and so on (while my baby brother read and re-read The Chronicles of Narnia several times while he was house-bound with rheumatic fever for several weeks in 2nd or 3rd grade and became an ardent Tolkien reader by the time he started 6th grade, and my little sister became an ardent fan of Gordon R. Dickson before she ever started High School).
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Happy birthday to you.
Happy birthday, dear Amber . . .
Happy birthday to you!
And many more!
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Wherever you are and whatever you're doing, I hope you're still writing, because you are truly talented, my friend!
Best wishes for a GOOD year to come, and many more to follow.
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I'm sorry I've fallen off the net for the last year or so. I've been fighting a really bad case of depression due to some family drama that exploded in 2012. I'm doing a lot better now, I just need to start writing again now and regain my confidence in myself. :)
Fingers crossed I'll be back soon and finishing Giselle this year!
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I hope your family situation is being worked out, but even if it's not, I hope that YOU, at least, are doing better and taking good care of yourself. No matter how dark things seem at times, you never know when light from an unexpected source might break through and show you a new path to tread.
Wishing you all the best, and many happy returns of the day, I remain your Rayne-loving friend,
RevDorothyL
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