Virtual Birthday Party, Day 01

[wiseheart]

Hi folks! *waves" I know I'm late kicking off my virtual birthday party of 2013, but considering that I worked almost 11 hours today, I think I can be forgiven, right?

It's that time of a year again - I'm getting older. In this case, I'm turning 57 on October 9, so let's party!

Last years virtual birthday party yielded 1328 comments on 6 pages, before LJ crashed the whole thing, and 617 additional ones on 3 pages at the second coming. Which won't be easy to top, but we're good, aren't we? WE CAN DO IT! WE CAN BREAK THE 2000-COMMENT-BARRIER! Let's give it a try! In the recent years, it has always been great fun, so let's have fun again!

You're all cordially invited to help yourself to a slice of virtual cake of your choice. If you want to post your favourite recipe in a comment, be my guest. If not, just drop by and say hello.

Cheers!

Note: The party will be closed on October 9, at midnight, sharp. However, to avoid the same mishap that occurred last year, there will be a separate post for each day until the 9th. We will count all pages and comments together when the party is closed.

Join us and have fun! Feel free to start any thread, any topic you want; we can discuss it, mock the general stupidity of life and laugh at it. I tentatively started two topics, just to begin the fun somehow, but you may add anything you want.

Comments

[rcfinch.livejournal.com]

Ian Holm was a very good old(er) Bilbo, but Freeman completely nailed the part. If I'm looking forward to Part 2 despite my misgivings, it's because of him.

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

I grew up with Holm as a hobbit, as he played Frodo in the BBC radio version, the first decent dramatisation I encountered. (I recall being flummoxed as a child by the Bakshi version.)

If only one could edit out all those bits where Jackson et al. have gratuitously screwed with canon for no reason whatsoever.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

The only part of the film I really disliked was the unnecessarily long scene in Goblin Town. Mum told me afterwards that she'd expected to be bored by the film but she wasn't - save when she had to watch basically the same running and fighting scenes over and over again in Goblin Town.

Oh, and I still hate Jackson's Elves - though I could bear Galadriel much better here than in LOTR.

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

I've blanked the Goblin Town bit, mercifully perhaps. I just remember the stupid tree thing at the end, and Thorin hugging Bilbo. Argh.

I thought Blanchett phoned in her part in this -- I quite liked her in LotR.

[rcfinch.livejournal.com]

Hm... a private version with only the parts you like. I can't wait for the moment such a thing becomes possible even for the technologically challenged.

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

We can pray. I did recently think about buying editing software to cut the BBC Robin Hood down to just the Armitage scenes, but came to the conclusion it would entail a lot of watching of the other stuff to delete it.

[rcfinch.livejournal.com]

But once you delete it, it will be gone for good.