A Little Conspiracy Among Friends

[Mistwalker]

One of the side stories going on in The Fellowship of The Ring is the conspiracy of friendship, between Merry, Pippin, Sam, and Fredegar. It only makes sense that they would have had meetings. They need to compare notes, and share new bits of information about things they had seen and heard. This leaves room for a few ideas of meeting places. Since Sam doesn't travel a lot it would make sense that some of the meetings would have happened in Hobbiton maybe at The Green Dragon, and others with Merry, Pippin, and or Fredegar could have happened at the Floating Log in Frogmorton, the Bridge Inn at the Brandywine River, The Gold Perch Inn at Stock, and naturally at the house in Crickhollow. So a lot to think on for inspiration for the conspiracy shot(s) I hope to catch a clipped and swedged Lonestar for Pippin's knife, but while I play with concepts I'm using Lisa's Bushboot. I felt the Raptor would be a good fit for Samwise. I still have to make a decision on Fredegar's knife...Obviously some things will have to change. The table top will need to be wooden, and they will need a bit more food but it is nice having a friend who runs a coffee shop, and also supports the arts and didn't mind me dirtying up a few of his dishes to play with some ideas. These shots were taken in the upstairs at Stone Cup Cafe. Which has a clientele of a lot of college students, which didn't seem to think anything about the work I was quietly doing in one corner of the room. I think a lot of them are used to seeing me taking odd random photos. Not the first time I have used Stone Cup as the back drop for my art work

 

[Luca917]

I would enjoy hanging out for coffee with you Brian. Knives and coffee and Hobbits!

 

[Mistwalker]

I would enjoy hanging out for coffee with you Brian. Knives and coffee and Hobbits!

Thanks Tony, sometimes I may have too much imagination for my own good For the final version of this shot, several things will have to change obviously. I will likely just build a wooden table top to go over the cultured marble, and take some different colored bowls and saucers that(those) day(s). But I really like the idea of using Trip's coffee shop...well he doesn't actually own it alone. I think hee co-owns and manages it. It was the brightly colored small coffee cups and saucers that gave me the idea to play around a bit. There will also have to be more food. I hd to get creative this time. I got there a bit late, like 1:30 pm, and there had been an event in the park, and I barely got there in time to snag the last muffin

 

[Mistwalker]

I may have just settled on Fredegar's knife

 

[Mistwalker]

Well so far this has been one great Monday. I have lucked into sorting out Pippin's and Fredegar's knife. Then even sorted out the details of doing more of the shots at Stone Cup the way I need them. I am sooooo stoked, and so looking forward to the next shots of the conspiracy. This is gonna be fun

 

[Fiddleback]

One of my chief complaints about the recent movies is the way they depicted the hobbit feet as big paddle looking things with mangy looking (glued on) hair. I always pictured it is curly and pretty looking hair and nimble feet. To me this was an instant write off. And the last set, the comically bumbling dwarves being so warriorlike was just sacrilege. To make one of them a romantic love interest. Jeez. Terrible.

 

[Mistwalker]

One of my chief complaints about the recent movies is the way they depicted the hobbit feet as big paddle looking things with mangy looking (glued on) hair. I always pictured it is curly and pretty looking hair and nimble feet. To me this was an instant write off. And the last set, the comically bumbling dwarves being so warriorlike was just sacrilege. To make one of them a romantic love interest. Jeez. Terrible.

Yeah, Mr. Jackson's visuals of the scenery were really good, but damn in many ways he butchered the story enough to enfuriate. One of the things he did that pissed me off the most was to cut out the talk of the strange happenings going on at the borders of the shire at the beginning and then The Scouring of The Shire at the end. What he did with the Dwarves was just mind boggling. I heard a while back that he had wanted to do more, but that he had pissed Christopher Tolkien off so much with all the butchering of the story that he was turned down. These stories were originally written by Tolkien for his son Christopher who was serving with the RAF in Africa. I imagine Christopher found much of Jackson's changes as being insulting to his father.

For anyone who likes these stories, I highly recommend the Recorded Books audio version narrated by Rob Ingles who does a fantastic job of narrating the story.

 

[Luca917]

My son was most upset about the abbreviation of the Hobbit songs.

 

[Onedog]

Yeah, Mr. Jackson's visuals of the scenery were really good, but damn in many ways he butchered the story enough to enfuriate. One of the things he did that pissed me off the most was to cut out the talk of the strange happenings going on at the borders of the shire at the beginning and then The Scouring of The Shire at the end. What he did with the Dwarves was just mind boggling. I heard a while back that he had wanted to do more, but that he had pissed Christopher Tolkien off so much with all the butchering of the story that he was turned down. These stories were originally written by Tolkien for his son Christopher who was serving with the RAF in Africa. I imagine Christopher found much of Jackson's changes as being insulting to his father.

For anyone who likes these stories, I highly recommend the Recorded Books audio version narrated by Rob Ingles who does a fantastic job of narrating the story.

I honestly feel like Peter Jackson did a great job with the Fellowship trilogy. At least as good a job as can be done without it being six 3+ hour movies. There is a lot of stuff that was left out that I would've liked to have seen on a big screen but all in all I think he kept true to the major aspects and themes of the book. The relationships between Sam and Frodo, Legolas and Gimli, Eowyn and Theoden, Merry and Pippin. Aragorn's struggle with his heritage, Eomer's loyalty to his King and Uncle despite his banishment. All those things, as well as a few other themes come across well in the movies. I definitely understand some of the disappointment in the movie but I still enjoy watching and re-watching them. I'm in the process of packing for a move right now and I've had the extended versions playing as I do. I gotta say, the Battle of Helm's Deep and the battle before the gates of Minas Tirith are just awesome to watch. Especially when the Rohirim join the battles. At least in the extended versions you see who really won the contest between Gimli and Legolas at the Battle of Helm's Deep.

Now, Peter Jackson's rendition of The Hobbit is a whole other story. I still don't understand how you can take a book that I can and have read in an afternoon and make 3 movies out of it. I can literally read the book in less time then it takes to watch the movies. His additions to and changes of the basic story are just awful. He actually goes so far as to alter history as far as the books are concerned. It's just not fun to watch. :thumbdn:

The audio version narrated by Rob Ingles is top notch. I listened to it when I moved back east from California. It's so well done and unabridged which is awesome. Sadly, I only own them on cassette and I no longer own a cassette player.

My son was most upset about the abbreviation of the Hobbit songs.

The version of "Far Over Misty Mountains Cold" from The Hobbit is pretty good. However, that's about it. They do some good versions of the songs in the Rankin/Bass animated version though.

 

[Mistwalker]

My son was most upset about the abbreviation of the Hobbit songs.

Yeah, the songs were definitely short-sheeted

I honestly feel like Peter Jackson did a great job with the Fellowship trilogy. At least as good a job as can be done without it being six 3+ hour movies. There is a lot of stuff that was left out that I would've liked to have seen on a big screen but all in all I think he kept true to the major aspects and themes of the book. The relationships between Sam and Frodo, Legolas and Gimli, Eowyn and Theoden, Merry and Pippin. Aragorn's struggle with his heritage, Eomer's loyalty to his King and Uncle despite his banishment. All those things, as well as a few other themes come across well in the movies. I definitely understand some of the disappointment in the movie but I still enjoy watching and re-watching them. I'm in the process of packing for a move right now and I've had the extended versions playing as I do. I gotta say, the Battle of Helm's Deep and the battle before the gates of Minas Tirith are just awesome to watch. Especially when the Rohirim join the battles. At least in the extended versions you see who really won the contest between Gimli and Legolas at the Battle of Helm's Deep.

Now, Peter Jackson's rendition of The Hobbit is a whole other story. I still don't understand how you can take a book that I can and have read in an afternoon and make 3 movies out of it. I can literally read the book in less time then it takes to watch the movies. His additions to and changes of the basic story are just awful. He actually goes so far as to alter history as far as the books are concerned. It's just not fun to watch. :thumbdn:

The audio version narrated by Rob Ingles is top notch. I listened to it when I moved back east from California. It's so well done and unabridged which is awesome. Sadly, I only own them on cassette and I no longer own a cassette player.



The version of "Far Over Misty Mountains Cold" from The Hobbit is pretty good. However, that's about it. They do some good versions of the songs in the Rankin/Bass animated version though.

I know, Jackson did a fantastic job on the visuals. So close to my own imagination it was uncanny. I think he did a good job on the Trilogy as a whole, all things considered. I too have the extended versions. I get that he had to make cuts, and I'm pretty sure any attempt at Tom Bombadil would have been beyond challenging. I just wish he could have done the conversation with Sam and Ted at the Green Dragon about the odd things happening on the borders, and then the re-taking of the Shire. I like that he made Rosie more prominent in the story. Interesting that he made her a bar keeper, but I get it. There was a lot that many of us wish Tolkien had expanded on. I think the stories could use some fan fic done by serious fans

I think we can solve that audio book problem

 

[pertinux]

I've forgotten, again, what this knife is called, but to my eyes it looks absolutely correct for Middle Earth circa LOTR.

~ P.

 

[VANCE]

wingman


thats the only thing im familiar w/ ITT's

 

[Onedog]

Yeah, the songs were definitely short-sheeted




I know, Jackson did a fantastic job on the visuals. So close to my own imagination it was uncanny. I think he did a good job on the Trilogy as a whole, all things considered. I too have the extended versions. I get that he had to make cuts, and I'm pretty sure any attempt at Tom Bombadil would have been beyond challenging. I just wish he could have done the conversation with Sam and Ted at the Green Dragon about the odd things happening on the borders, and then the re-taking of the Shire. I like that he made Rosie more prominent in the story. Interesting that he made her a bar keeper, but I get it. There was a lot that many of us wish Tolkien had expanded on. I think the stories could use some fan fic done by serious fans

I think we can solve that audio book problem

I definitely would've liked to have seen the re-taking of the Shire as well as at least some type of reference to Tom Bombadil. He had the scene in the extended edition where Treebeard makes the tree release Merry and Pippin but still no mention of Bombadil. I am curious as to why he had Saruman killed in the Tower. I can't remember if that scene was even in the theatre release. I did like the scenes with Rosie. I would imagine a bar keep is a highly respected position in the Shire as it is here. Sam is probably my favorite character in the book. I see him as the unsung hero and I think Tolkien felt that way as well. In the same way I think Sean Astin is the unsung hero of the cast. He did such a great job portraying Sam in the movie. I'd definitely like a good fan fic story about the travels of Legolas and Gimli.

Audiobook problem solved. :thumbup:

 

[Mistwalker]

I agree, Sam was definitely the unsung hero. I thought we could solve that issue pretty easily

 

[Mistwalker]

I've forgotten, again, what this knife is called, but to my eyes it looks absolutely correct for Middle Earth circa LOTR.

~ P.

That one is the Wingman I chose for Merry. The first time I saw one I wanted it for Merry, and having edc-ed it at times, I still think it has the right attitude for Merry

 

[Onedog]

That one is the Wingman I chose for Merry. The first time I saw one I wanted it for Merry, and having edc-ed it at times, I still think it has the right attitude for Merry

What sheath do you carry that Wingman in? I've been curios about that model since the first one I saw. Everyone seems to enjoy that handle style.

 

[VANCE]

What sheath do you carry that Wingman in? I've been curios about that model since the first one I saw. Everyone seems to enjoy that handle style.

unclick all the multi-quotes you have done in this thread.

the far right option at the bottom of the post "+

 

[Onedog]

unclick all the multi-quotes you have done in this thread.

the far right option at the bottom of the post "+

Yeah, I finally did that. I always forget that they don't unclick themselves. Hopefully I'm not driving anyone crazy with notifications.

 

[VANCE]

Yeah, I finally did that. I always forget that they don't unclick themselves. Hopefully I'm not driving anyone crazy with notifications.

i do it all the time when i'm going through the claiming of knives on Fiddleback Friday

 

[Mistwalker]

What sheath do you carry that Wingman in? I've been curios about that model since the first one I saw. Everyone seems to enjoy that handle style.

I carry it in a Diomedes Earl APS most of the time. Sometimes in one of the danglers made for the 3.5 inch models. BUT you have to be careful resheathing if you aren't used to trailing points. The point on this model is VERY sharp and could easily come through a single layer of leather while sheathing.

I have carried it in both of these sheaths.