YIYF's Long Bridge Club — Page 25

Long live YIYFLBC!!!! Whooohooo!

One of the most useful threads ever! Not sure how we managed over a whole year without it.

I am extremely tired, but I don't feel like sleeping since I don't have to work tomorrow, so as a result I am pondering many of the mysteries of the world.

And one that's really bugging me at the moment is this: I was just thinking about The Lord of the Rings movies, and there is a rather interesting scene where Gandalf and Bilbo are smoking pipeweed, and they both look a bit spacey, overly happy and mellow, etc. Yet, in the books Tolkien makes it perfectly clear that pipeweed is tobacco. In fact, I think it is exclusively referred to as tobacco in The Hobbit.

So why does Hollywood muck around with stuff like this? Surely by tabacco he means something other than tobacco. wink, wink. Does Hollywood have to ruin everything? (Sorry, been reading some Alan Moore interviews, and besides being a total freaky ass hippy that all freaky ass hippies ought to aspire to be like, this guy fucking hates Hollywood, and I think it has temporarily rubbed off on me.

No, Tolkien was a long time pipe tobacco smoker, and I have no doubt he was always refering to tabacco.

sean wookie said:Would I be lynched for like the Dylan version of All Around The Watchtower better than Hendrixes?

Couple of years late in the reply, but hell no! Personally, I think Jimi's version of All Along the Watchtower is way over rated, and it makes my head hurt when I listen to it. Dylan's version on the other hand is by far one of the greatest bits of song every recorded. And John Wesley Harding is a pretty sweet album.

I have nothing against Bob's original AATW but Jimi's is fcuking awesome.  It's faultless.  Even Dylan preferred it.  Back in the 60s it must have sounded like it was coming from another planet!  One of my top 5 songs of all time, no doubt.

As for the LOTR smoke thing, maybe they were just getting a buzz off the backy.  I'm a non-smoker but when I do have a little puff (or, like when I was in the midwest and tried chew - disgusting) I get a bit of a nicotine buzz... and Bilbo is a small guy - wouldn't take much to go to his head.  He probably gets high on sugar.

This thread is pretty cool.

I've been wanting the watch the Lord of the Rings movies again as I started a D&D campaign and doing that makes me want to watch the movies.  I'd love to just sit and watch all the Extended Editions in a row, but I don't have that kind of time anymore.  I did in college, however, and I jumped all over the Lord of the Rings Marathon they had in theaters before RotK came out.  Did anyone else go to one of these?

They actually printed the Extended Editions to film for this, and showed the first two movies in their extended form (with breaks inbetween them), and then after another break they showed RotK a couple hours before the midnight release.  It was so much fun, though we didn't have the best seats and all of my friends and I got cricks in our necks from staring at an angle for 14 hours!

I smoke tobacco from a pipe from time to time, I remember getting buzzed when I first started, but I never do anymore. Bilbo, being a seasoned pipe smoker I am sure would not.

What is worse, many people took the smoke rings and Gandalf's magically created smoke ship as being psychedelically induced, since it wasn't explained in the movie as it was in the book.

As for the LOTR marathon. I'd never have had the patience to do anything like that. It is hard enough for me to sit through a single viewing of the theatrical version, let alone all three extendeds.

If I was seeing them for the first time that way, I'd be pretty awesome.

There was $2 theater in the town I lived in at the time Return of the King was in theaters. In the weeks before they were able to get a copy of The Return of the King, they ran The Fellowship of the Ring and Two Towers. So just for fun, a couple of my buddies and I went and saw all three of them there over the course of three weekends.