Hard Light Productions Forums

Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Sandwich on December 17, 2002, 02:04:43 pm

Title: The Two Towers - Will you go in Stormtrooper armor?
Post by: Sandwich on December 17, 2002, 02:04:43 pm: Not would you, but will you? Yes, this is a direct challenge to any forumite out there to go the The Two Towers in a Star Wars costume of any sort, as long as it's recognizable - stormtrooper armor, Darth Vader, Wookie, etc. So, do I have any takers?? ;7
Title: The Two Towers - Will you go in Stormtrooper armor?
Post by: Razor on December 17, 2002, 02:06:57 pm: :wtf:
Title: The Two Towers - Will you go in Stormtrooper armor?
Post by: Stealth on December 17, 2002, 02:08:05 pm: i'm going as gollum

just kidding

it would be somewhat cool anyhow... i may do it for the 2nd or 3rd time i see it, but i'm definately not going opening night, or i'll get beaten up by 3000 or so hardcore fans

EDIT: I'm going to go as darth vader :D
Title: The Two Towers - Will you go in Stormtrooper armor?
Post by: diamondgeezer on December 17, 2002, 02:10:48 pm: Razor, do you not have cinemas over there? Or did you somehow miss the Fellowship, and the aura surrounding Two Towers?
Title: The Two Towers - Will you go in Stormtrooper armor?
Post by: Petrarch of the VBB on December 17, 2002, 02:23:03 pm: Excuse me if I'm being ignorant, but where's the connection twixt Two Towers and SW?
Title: The Two Towers - Will you go in Stormtrooper armor?
Post by: Sandwich on December 17, 2002, 02:24:53 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Petrarch of the VBB
Excuse me if I'm being ignorant, but where's the connection twixt Two Towers and SW?

That's it exactly!
Title: The Two Towers - Will you go in Stormtrooper armor?
Post by: Styxx on December 17, 2002, 02:26:18 pm: Erm, nope. These silly costumes cost money, which could be invested better (read: in beer and other alcoholic beverages).

:p
Title: The Two Towers - Will you go in Stormtrooper armor?
Post by: Shrike on December 17, 2002, 02:31:29 pm: Indeed. I agree wholeheartedly
Title: The Two Towers - Will you go in Stormtrooper armor?
Post by: Razor on December 17, 2002, 02:42:17 pm: Quote
Originally posted by diamondgeezer
Razor, do you not have cinemas over there? Or did you somehow miss the Fellowship, and the aura surrounding Two Towers?

We have cinemas here and I have heard about the Two Towers.
Title: The Two Towers - Will you go in Stormtrooper armor?
Post by: diamondgeezer on December 17, 2002, 02:49:51 pm: Yet... you don't care? Or do you not understand?

You did see Fellowship, right?

How about reading LOTR? Tried that?
Title: The Two Towers - Will you go in Stormtrooper armor?
Post by: phreak on December 17, 2002, 02:56:37 pm: i'll go as Triumph the Insult Comic Dog and make fun of all of them.
Title: The Two Towers - Will you go in Stormtrooper armor?
Post by: Warlock on December 17, 2002, 03:19:15 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Stealth
EDIT: I'm going to go as darth vader :D

LMAO!
Title: The Two Towers - Will you go in Stormtrooper armor?
Post by: Stryke 9 on December 17, 2002, 03:28:07 pm: This thread rules. I have a newfound respect for Sandwich. Moreover, I'll do this if he does.:D

Need to find an SW suit, tho...
Title: The Two Towers - Will you go in Stormtrooper armor?
Post by: Carl on December 17, 2002, 03:55:36 pm: i can't. i don't think they have a big and tall section at the costume store.
Title: The Two Towers - Will you go in Stormtrooper armor?
Post by: vyper on December 17, 2002, 04:48:13 pm: Ha! I vote to go dressed normally then spend rediclously low amounts of money getting pissed at the student union then gettnig laid.... oh wait the Union's closed for xmas.... :blah:
Title: The Two Towers - Will you go in Stormtrooper armor?
Post by: Razor on December 17, 2002, 05:18:37 pm: Quote
Originally posted by diamondgeezer
Yet... you don't care? Or do you not understand?

You did see Fellowship, right?

How about reading LOTR? Tried that?

I didn't see Fellowship.
I didn't read the book.
Title: The Two Towers - Will you go in Stormtrooper armor?
Post by: diamondgeezer on December 17, 2002, 05:24:06 pm: Then you, sir, suck
Title: The Two Towers - Will you go in Stormtrooper armor?
Post by: Knight Templar on December 17, 2002, 05:38:29 pm: Teacher, I bent my wookie.

meh
Title: The Two Towers - Will you go in Stormtrooper armor?
Post by: LtNarol on December 17, 2002, 06:43:13 pm: last option naturally
Title: The Two Towers - Will you go in Stormtrooper armor?
Post by: Warlock on December 17, 2002, 07:14:06 pm: BTW for those ppl tlaking about wanting an SW suit. Keep tabs on the link in my sig....once my GF's father has a chance to write it up we'll have a full tutorial for a vader outfit ;)
There's posted images of it in the customing forum there,...or if you've seen Star Wars Insider (forget the issue but it's the one with Yoda on the cover) the article about celebration has a pic of her dad in his Vader gear :D
Title: The Two Towers - Will you go in Stormtrooper armor?
Post by: Sandwich on December 17, 2002, 08:16:11 pm: Hey! Who added the last, wimp cop-out option?? :wtf: :doubt:

Quote
Originally posted by Stryke 9
This thread rules. I have a newfound respect for Sandwich. Moreover, I'll do this if he does.:D

I would, but:

Quote
Originally posted by Carl
i can't. i don't think they have a big and tall section at the costume store.

You see, I'm around 6'4", 220 lbs (or 1.96 m. 100kg). Oh, how I wish!
Title: The Two Towers - Will you go in Stormtrooper armor?
Post by: Deepblue on December 17, 2002, 08:47:33 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Sandwich
Hey! Who added the last, wimp cop-out option?? :wtf: :doubt:

I would, but:

You see, I'm around 6'4", 220 lbs (or 1.96 m. 100kg). Oh, how I wish!

Wow that means your like... a foot taller then me. Feels extremely short looking upwards. :shaking:
Title: The Two Towers - Will you go in Stormtrooper armor?
Post by: demon442 on December 17, 2002, 11:24:44 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Carl
i can't. i don't think they have a big and tall section at the costume store.

Or a shivan section for that matter...:D
Title: The Two Towers - Will you go in Stormtrooper armor?
Post by: Sesquipedalian on December 17, 2002, 11:43:25 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Sandwich

You see, I'm around 6'4", 220 lbs (or 1.96 m. 100kg). Oh, how I wish!
Then you should make a perfect Vader!
Title: The Two Towers - Will you go in Stormtrooper armor?
Post by: Ace on December 18, 2002, 01:15:07 am: Quote
Originally posted by PhReAk
i'll go as Triumph the Insult Comic Dog and make fun of all of them.

Yeah! ;7
Title: The Two Towers - Will you go in Stormtrooper armor?
Post by: Ulundel on December 18, 2002, 01:16:13 am: *mixes up Imperial march and some cool LOTR track*

*listens*

:ick

I'd go in as I am right now and get an elf chick for the evening.
Title: The Two Towers - Will you go in Stormtrooper armor?
Post by: Levyathan on December 18, 2002, 04:27:23 am: Anyone who performs such a blasphemy deserves to get beat halfway to death by the other people on the line to the movies, then the other half when they're getting out after the end.
Title: The Two Towers - Will you go in Stormtrooper armor?
Post by: Nico on December 18, 2002, 04:28:59 am: Quote
Originally posted by Levyathan
Anyone who performs such a blasphemy deserves to get beat halfway to death by the other people on the line to the movies, then the other half when they're getting out after the end.

I thought about the same thing.
Title: The Two Towers - Will you go in Stormtrooper armor?
Post by: beatspete on December 18, 2002, 06:44:56 am: ....could go as an ewok suffering from radiation posioning ;)

(see some other thread)
Title: The Two Towers - Will you go in Stormtrooper armor?
Post by: CP5670 on December 18, 2002, 10:15:56 am: going to a movie dressed as characters from another movie; sounds interesting... :D :D

Quote
Razor, do you not have cinemas over there? Or did you somehow miss the Fellowship, and the aura surrounding Two Towers?

Actually, I had not heard of it at all until now either. :p :D
Title: The Two Towers - Will you go in Stormtrooper armor?
Post by: Ulundel on December 18, 2002, 10:45:54 am: Quote
Originally posted by CP5670
going to a movie dressed as characters from another movie; sounds interesting... :D :D

yeah. sounds like an episode from Garfield ;)
Title: The Two Towers - Will you go in Stormtrooper armor?
Post by: Zeronet on December 18, 2002, 02:21:48 pm: Quote
Originally posted by CP5670
going to a movie dressed as characters from another movie; sounds interesting... :D :D

Actually, I had not heard of it at all until now either. :p :D

Everybody probably could of guessed you didnt know about it.
Title: The Two Towers - Will you go in Stormtrooper armor?
Post by: kode on December 18, 2002, 02:28:19 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Zeronet

Everybody probably could of guessed you didnt know about it.

still, it's weird. that many numbers in it and all.
Title: The Two Towers - Will you go in Stormtrooper armor?
Post by: an0n on December 18, 2002, 03:55:50 pm: I might drink a load of petrol, glue a lighter to my lips and dress up as an AT-AT Walker. Go fire some flaming flem-balls at all the fantasy ****s. Or at the very least, taunt them from afar with my superior fire-power. I mean, bows and arrows, it's so passe.
Title: The Two Towers - Will you go in Stormtrooper armor?
Post by: Shrike on December 18, 2002, 04:08:02 pm: Quote
Originally posted by an0n
I might drink a load of petrol, glue a lighter to my lips and dress up as an AT-AT Walker. Go fire some flaming flem-balls at all the fantasy ****s. Or at the very least, taunt them from afar with my superior fire-power. I mean, bows and arrows, it's so passe.
Except that the bow and arrow-wielding ewoks defeated the imperials!

:devil:
Title: The Two Towers - Will you go in Stormtrooper armor?
Post by: an0n on December 18, 2002, 04:19:04 pm: Pfff. The only good thing about the ewoks (aside from their cute, cuddliness) was the fact that they could be set on fire and launched from a catapult.
Title: The Two Towers - Will you go in Stormtrooper armor?
Post by: Nobilis Draco on December 18, 2002, 04:56:15 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Carl
i can't. i don't think they have a big and tall section at the costume store.

you could go as a Wookie.:lol:
Title: The Two Towers - Will you go in Stormtrooper armor?
Post by: Razor on December 18, 2002, 05:08:17 pm: Quote
Originally posted by diamondgeezer
Then you, sir, suck

And I suppose you have read every book and saw a film made after that book. :doubt:

Suck? Man, DG for a man of your age I expected a more different reply.
Title: The Two Towers - Will you go in Stormtrooper armor?
Post by: Nico on December 18, 2002, 05:22:03 pm: Quote
Originally posted by an0n
I might drink a load of petrol, glue a lighter to my lips and dress up as an AT-AT Walker. Go fire some flaming flem-balls at all the fantasy ****s. Or at the very least, taunt them from afar with my superior fire-power. I mean, bows and arrows, it's so passe.

well, a guy loaded with petrol and a fire arrow do make a nice combination :p
Title: The Two Towers - Will you go in Stormtrooper armor?
Post by: Sandwich on December 18, 2002, 08:04:40 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Razor

And I suppose you have read every book and saw a film made after that book. :doubt:

Suck? Man, DG for a man of your age I expected a more different reply.

Dude, the LOTR trilogy is the most widely printed and read book(s) aside from the Bible.

...the most!
Title: The Two Towers - Will you go in Stormtrooper armor?
Post by: Levyathan on December 18, 2002, 08:43:46 pm: Quote
Originally posted by an0n
I mean, bows and arrows, it's so passe.

Don't forget the spells and the semi-gods.

Quote
Originally posted by an0n
(aside from their cute, cuddliness)

:lol:
Title: The Two Towers - Will you go in Stormtrooper armor?
Post by: NeoHunter on December 19, 2002, 07:30:54 am: I chose "Go see TTT dressed normally, spend money on booze and women".

Dress normally is the best.
Title: The Two Towers - Will you go in Stormtrooper armor?
Post by: Stunaep on December 19, 2002, 07:38:45 am: Quote
Originally posted by NeoHunter

Dress normally is the best.

not to mention booze and women
Title: The Two Towers - Will you go in Stormtrooper armor?
Post by: Razor on December 19, 2002, 12:07:22 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Sandwich

Dude, the LOTR trilogy is the most widely printed and read book(s) aside from the Bible.

...the most!

Possibly....
But I never actually read the book. In fact, I don't like reading but I will go and see it.
Title: The Two Towers - Will you go in Stormtrooper armor?
Post by: diamondgeezer on December 19, 2002, 08:48:31 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Razor
Possibly....

No, FACT. And there seems little point in seeing this one if you haven't seen Fellowhip...

And yes, you suck.
Title: The Two Towers - Will you go in Stormtrooper armor?
Post by: Setekh on December 28, 2002, 07:32:21 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Sandwich
Dude, the LOTR trilogy is the most widely printed and read book(s) aside from the Bible.

...the most!

*cheers wildly* :D

BTW, I also find it quite funny to envisage Anakin Skywalker appearing at the opening for TTT. ;) "I will be the most powerful of all Jedi!!" *gets squished by a Balrog*
Title: The Two Towers - Will you go in Stormtrooper armor?
Post by: Stryke 9 on December 28, 2002, 07:33:34 pm: Personally, I wanna see Jar Jar vs. Gollum. Where Jar Jar's tied down, and his tongue cut out by a super-orc.
Title: The Two Towers - Will you go in Stormtrooper armor?
Post by: vyper on December 28, 2002, 07:40:17 pm: Quote
Originally posted by StrykeIX
Personally, I wanna see Jar Jar vs. Gollum. Where Jar Jar's tied down, and his tongue cut out by a super-orc.

You have thought about this waaaay too much! :shaking:
Title: The Two Towers - Will you go in Stormtrooper armor?
Post by: Levyathan on December 28, 2002, 08:51:07 pm: Emperor vs. Sauron. Hmm.
Title: The Two Towers - Will you go in Stormtrooper armor?
Post by: diamondgeezer on December 28, 2002, 09:25:14 pm: Well... that would all depend on whether or not the Emperor has a lightsaber, and if Sauron had his Ring on his person. Either way, I'd have to put my money on Sauron, seeing as he's half-way to being a god on Earth, sort of.

Heh, in the backgound there'd be Praetorian Guard fighting werewolves or Morgoth's old Balrog army :D
Title: The Two Towers - Will you go in Stormtrooper armor?
Post by: Stryke 9 on December 28, 2002, 09:44:05 pm: An army of those things?
Title: The Two Towers - Will you go in Stormtrooper armor?
Post by: Alikchi on December 28, 2002, 09:46:08 pm: Stormtroopers versus Uruk-Hai. No contest. :\
Title: The Two Towers - Will you go in Stormtrooper armor?
Post by: Levyathan on December 28, 2002, 10:06:10 pm: My bet is that Sauron would make Palpatine cry like a baby. Maybe not so much without the ring, of course.
Title: The Two Towers - Will you go in Stormtrooper armor?
Post by: Stryke 9 on December 28, 2002, 10:12:49 pm: What could a giant electrified eyeball DO to you?

Never mind a little old man with electrical discharges coming out of his fingers. I dunno, it might be a close one.
Title: The Two Towers - Will you go in Stormtrooper armor?
Post by: Levyathan on December 28, 2002, 10:17:00 pm: You know, that's not really fair. Sauron should face Vader, Morgoth should face Palpatine.

Now that wouldn't even be funny.
Title: The Two Towers - Will you go in Stormtrooper armor?
Post by: Levyathan on December 28, 2002, 10:19:14 pm: Quote
Originally posted by StrykeIX
What could a giant electrified eyeball DO to you?

That's Sauron's Eye (or whatever it's called in English, I got the books in Portuguese). Sauron's not just a giant eye.
Title: The Two Towers - Will you go in Stormtrooper armor?
Post by: Stryke 9 on December 28, 2002, 10:36:02 pm: But isn't Sauron's body dead?
Title: The Two Towers - Will you go in Stormtrooper armor?
Post by: Levyathan on December 28, 2002, 10:48:22 pm: Isn't Palpatine dead too?

We're assuming they're not, here.
Title: The Two Towers - Will you go in Stormtrooper armor?
Post by: Stryke 9 on December 28, 2002, 10:59:11 pm: But I meant when his eye's around.
Title: The Two Towers - Will you go in Stormtrooper armor?
Post by: Levyathan on December 28, 2002, 11:06:12 pm: An old geezer against a giant bulbous eye. Not my concept of fun, mind you.
Title: The Two Towers - Will you go in Stormtrooper armor?
Post by: Stryke 9 on December 28, 2002, 11:20:10 pm: Is mine. That'd be AWESOME! And then we GREASE them, and put them in the THUNDERDOME! Yes!:D
Title: The Two Towers - Will you go in Stormtrooper armor?
Post by: Levyathan on December 28, 2002, 11:24:32 pm: Hmm. But how would the greasy eye wear the ring?
Title: The Two Towers - Will you go in Stormtrooper armor?
Post by: diamondgeezer on December 28, 2002, 11:34:24 pm: Quote
Originally posted by StrykeIX
An army of those things?

:nod:

Reason enough to read the Silmarilion, methinks. What was the boss Balrog called... Gothmog, that was it. Hard as nails, him :)

Morgoth 0wned Sauron... back then Sauron was just Morgoth's b1tch. Even at the height of Sauron's power, he'd be no match for Morgoth, Ring or no Ring. Sauron maybe a fallen angel, but Morgoth was a god. Ph33r him :D
Title: The Two Towers - Will you go in Stormtrooper armor?
Post by: an0n on December 28, 2002, 11:42:26 pm: Firstly, I'd like say that you're all very sad. With the possible exception of Stryke for managing to weasle Thunderdome into a LOTR/SW discussion. *applauds*

ANyway, Palpatine ain't dead. His essence or some **** flew off and started a new Sith thingy then he got caught in a magic jar by some Jedi. I forget the specifics as this is just regurgitated information picked from previous threads I've glossed over.

And the big-ass eye is pretty much just a means of co-ordinating the dark-forces. Orcs are the real power behind the evilness.
Title: The Two Towers - Will you go in Stormtrooper armor?
Post by: diamondgeezer on December 28, 2002, 11:45:12 pm: No, Sauron is the power behind the orcs. Read more Tolkien.
Title: The Two Towers - Will you go in Stormtrooper armor?
Post by: Levyathan on December 28, 2002, 11:45:25 pm: Quote
Originally posted by diamondgeezer
Sauron maybe a fallen angel, but Morgoth was a god. Ph33r him :D

Still, that elvish king cut his hand off (or was it his feet, or just a wound? - bah, I don't remember). Not to mention Beren...

*goes to read The Silmarillion again*
*is unable to, because the book's 100 miles away, with Styxx*
Title: The Two Towers - Will you go in Stormtrooper armor?
Post by: Stryke 9 on December 28, 2002, 11:49:14 pm: Uh-huh.

You know, I've always felt that if you were going to spend all your time in an imaginary univers, it should at least be your own imaginary universe.:p
Title: The Two Towers - Will you go in Stormtrooper armor?
Post by: diamondgeezer on December 28, 2002, 11:50:35 pm: Fingolfin chopped of Morgoth's foot, and Beren half-inched a Silmarilion (with Luthien's help). But Sauron was floored by a human of much lesser whatsit than Beren, so Morgoth is still the daddy - it took all the gods and all the elves and men to take him out (by all jumping on him at once at making the world's biggets bundle :nod: )

*is sensible and never lends books to Styxx*

[EDIT] Who says Middle-earth is imaginary? Tolkien always said he was merely translating it from the old Saxon, which in turn was translated from the Elvish. Seems that a chap called Elfwine was sailing on the Atlantic and accidentaly found the Straigh Path in to the vanished West, and met the Elves of Tol Eressëa - they told him the lays of Middle-earth and Valinor, and when he returned he wrote then down.

Possibly, though, Tolkien made that up.
Title: The Two Towers - Will you go in Stormtrooper armor?
Post by: Levyathan on December 28, 2002, 11:51:58 pm: Quote
Originally posted by an0n
ANyway, Palpatine ain't dead. His essence or some **** flew off and started a new Sith thingy then he got caught in a magic jar by some Jedi.

Did Lucas say that?
Title: The Two Towers - Will you go in Stormtrooper armor?
Post by: an0n on December 28, 2002, 11:53:23 pm: I am aware that the Orcs are tortured Elves, but still, they're the most ass-kickin-est made-up creature in the whole damn Tolien universe. I mean, c'mon, they're big, they're black, they're grown in the ground, they can tear Hobbits heads off and there's millions of the suckers.
Title: The Two Towers - Will you go in Stormtrooper armor?
Post by: an0n on December 28, 2002, 11:53:56 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Levyathan
Did Lucas say that?

No. It was part of the.......err......Something Saga. I forget.
Title: The Two Towers - Will you go in Stormtrooper armor?
Post by: Stryke 9 on December 28, 2002, 11:55:12 pm: It also take approximately 400 of them to take down one human hero. I dunno, man...
Title: The Two Towers - Will you go in Stormtrooper armor?
Post by: Levyathan on December 28, 2002, 11:55:22 pm: Quote
Originally posted by diamondgeezer
But Sauron was floored by a human of much lesser whatsit than Beren, so Morgoth is still the daddy - it took all the gods and all the elves and men to take him out (by all jumping on him at once at making the world's biggets bundle :nod: )

That's just because they had to destroy half the world to get rid of him... The bastard had some good strategies.
Title: The Two Towers - Will you go in Stormtrooper armor?
Post by: Levyathan on December 28, 2002, 11:56:11 pm: Quote
Originally posted by an0n
No

Then it's not official enough for me. kthxbye
Title: The Two Towers - Will you go in Stormtrooper armor?
Post by: an0n on December 28, 2002, 11:56:33 pm: Yeah, that's only coz the hero always has some magic sword or a friggin bunch of elves backing him up.

But still, they can be lost in the hundreds and still be the biggest military force in the land. How cool is that?
Title: The Two Towers - Will you go in Stormtrooper armor?
Post by: diamondgeezer on December 28, 2002, 11:58:06 pm: The big black dudes are Uruk-hai. They're different from Orcs, which are the green dudes. The Uruks were bred by Saruman from Orcs and men, and have the nastiest traits of both :shaking:

Without the will of their masters behind them, orc tribes would just disperse and be of limited danger away fomr the mountains. Only a will like Sauron or Saruman's can forge orcs in to an army :nod:

*laughs at an0n trying to argue with DG about Tolkien*
Title: The Two Towers - Will you go in Stormtrooper armor?
Post by: an0n on December 29, 2002, 12:00:58 am: Orcs is Orcs. If a black man has a kid with a white woman, the kid is still black. Period.

Orcs are the bestest, worstest, bad-assest mofo's in the whole damn magic-loving, tree-huggin, Liv Tyler starin, Hobbit crunching, village burnin universe.
Title: The Two Towers - Will you go in Stormtrooper armor?
Post by: Levyathan on December 29, 2002, 12:02:02 am: Quote
Originally posted by diamondgeezer
*laughs at an0n trying to argue with DG about Tolkien*

Heh. You do know a lot of names...
Title: The Two Towers - Will you go in Stormtrooper armor?
Post by: diamondgeezer on December 29, 2002, 12:02:10 am: Remind me never to discuss classic literature with you, an0n mate...

:shaking:
Title: The Two Towers - Will you go in Stormtrooper armor?
Post by: Stryke 9 on December 29, 2002, 12:03:07 am: Huh. You mean those ugly dudes... and humans... I don't even WANNA know how hard he had to look to find some "ugly" fetishists!
Title: The Two Towers - Will you go in Stormtrooper armor?
Post by: an0n on December 29, 2002, 12:03:55 am: Quote
Originally posted by StrykeIX
Huh. You mean those ugly dudes... and humans... I don't even WANNA know how hard he had to look to find some "ugly" fetishists!
*cough*Shrike*cough*
Title: The Two Towers - Will you go in Stormtrooper armor?
Post by: diamondgeezer on December 29, 2002, 12:04:59 am: *waves a (possibly permanent) goodbye to an0n*
Title: The Two Towers - Will you go in Stormtrooper armor?
Post by: an0n on December 29, 2002, 12:06:58 am: As Shrike's ***** I expect a little laxness in my punishments.

I might start calling him Butch, just for the hell of it.
Title: The Two Towers - Will you go in Stormtrooper armor?
Post by: diamondgeezer on December 29, 2002, 12:07:48 am: Or everytime you see him say "hello, sailor"
Title: The Two Towers - Will you go in Stormtrooper armor?
Post by: Stryke 9 on December 29, 2002, 12:08:08 am: Ah, anon would know about how much Shrike digs the ugly ones, then.:D
Title: The Two Towers - Will you go in Stormtrooper armor?
Post by: diamondgeezer on December 29, 2002, 12:09:12 am: So, back to Tolkein. Ye gods, the Narn i hin Hurin was long! Discuss.
Title: The Two Towers - Will you go in Stormtrooper armor?
Post by: an0n on December 29, 2002, 12:10:50 am: Quote
Originally posted by StrykeIX
Ah, anon would know about how much Shrike digs the ugly ones, then.:D
Yeah, he always gets me to wear this mask with your mothers face on. It's really creepy. The situation I mean, not the mask.........well.
Title: The Two Towers - Will you go in Stormtrooper armor?
Post by: diamondgeezer on December 29, 2002, 12:11:26 am: Well, I tried :sigh:
Title: The Two Towers - Will you go in Stormtrooper armor?
Post by: an0n on December 29, 2002, 12:14:35 am: Fine.

So when do we get to see the Dragons?
Title: The Two Towers - Will you go in Stormtrooper armor?
Post by: Levyathan on December 29, 2002, 12:16:47 am: Quote
Originally posted by diamondgeezer
So, back to Tolkein. Ye gods, the Narn i hin Hurin was long! Discuss.

All I remember is that he was Turin's father, and there's something in there about that city hidden in the mountains (the one where Glorfindel died slaying a Balrog, I believe) and something else about Ulmo.
Title: The Two Towers - Will you go in Stormtrooper armor?
Post by: an0n on December 29, 2002, 12:16:49 am: Anyway, according to my broken watch it's 0662. So it's off to bed for me. I think it's about 6:15am, not sure though.

*wanders off to the sex-dungeon for some sleep*
Title: The Two Towers - Will you go in Stormtrooper armor?
Post by: Sandwich on December 29, 2002, 01:02:31 am: *looks back on past 2.5 pages of thread*

Ok, all I want to know is: Who vote-bumped this thread??!? :lol:
Title: The Two Towers - Will you go in Stormtrooper armor?
Post by: Levyathan on December 29, 2002, 01:05:35 am: You're the one who should be able to check.
Title: The Two Towers - Will you go in Stormtrooper armor?
Post by: diamondgeezer on December 29, 2002, 01:23:40 am: There's always the possibility of you admins actually disabling the vote bumping thing, of course (at least I presume there is). You're not the only ones who get annoyed by it - though it is keeping my S:AAB thread (http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,10419.0.html) in the top half of the FREDding forum, more or less :D
Title: The Two Towers - Will you go in Stormtrooper armor?
Post by: Knight Templar on December 29, 2002, 01:25:29 am: God knows this place would be more god awful than "grandmas proverbial house in the woods" without vote-bumping :doubt:
Title: The Two Towers - Will you go in Stormtrooper armor?
Post by: Black Wolf on December 29, 2002, 10:54:45 am: At the risk of DGs wrath, Tolkien rather disappointed me. One of my friends is a fairly big LOTR fan, not obsessed, but big enough that he would regularly suggest I start reading them. So one day I sat down and read the Hobbit. It bored the **** out of me. Tolkien is so boring and prissy and overdescriptive. He wastes too much time on unimportant stuff, sacraficing the story for needless overdetailing.

That said, I have the most enormous respect for the amazing complexity of the Elfin language, the concept of something like the silmarillion and the basic story of LOTR. Tolkiens writing style just spoiled it IMO.
Title: The Two Towers - Will you go in Stormtrooper armor?
Post by: kode on December 29, 2002, 11:24:01 am: Err... the hobbit isn't much like the lord of the ring books.
Title: The Two Towers - Will you go in Stormtrooper armor?
Post by: diamondgeezer on December 29, 2002, 09:18:39 pm: *is on his way to Black Wolf's house*
Title: The Two Towers - Will you go in Stormtrooper armor?
Post by: Sandwich on December 30, 2002, 04:03:32 am: *looks at DG and BW's locations*

Hmm, not as bad as I thought - Minas Ithil must be somewhere in New Zealand, so I guess a trip to Australia isn't that bad. :p
Title: The Two Towers - Will you go in Stormtrooper armor?
Post by: diamondgeezer on December 30, 2002, 04:38:24 am: :wtf:

I'm flying to BW's house on my wing-ed beastie thing that the Nazgul ride :nod:
Title: The Two Towers - Will you go in Stormtrooper armor?
Post by: Nico on December 30, 2002, 09:17:48 am: Quote
Originally posted by Black Wolf
At the risk of DGs wrath, Tolkien rather disappointed me. One of my friends is a fairly big LOTR fan, not obsessed, but big enough that he would regularly suggest I start reading them. So one day I sat down and read the Hobbit. It bored the **** out of me. Tolkien is so boring and prissy and overdescriptive. He wastes too much time on unimportant stuff, sacraficing the story for needless overdetailing.

the hobbit has been written for his young nefew -> it was a book for young kids. but the LotR is also overdescriptive ( which for me is good, I like to be able to imagine the Rohan the right way, etc ), so if you don't like that...
Title: The Two Towers - Will you go in Stormtrooper armor?
Post by: Ulundel on December 30, 2002, 09:33:18 am: Quote
Originally posted by venom2506

the hobbit has been written for his young nefew -> it was a book for young kids. but the LotR is also overdescriptive ( which for me is good, I like to be able to imagine the Rohan the right way, etc ), so if you don't like that...

Tell me about it - I usually fall asleep after an hour. :o
Title: The Two Towers - Will you go in Stormtrooper armor?
Post by: Sandwich on December 30, 2002, 12:17:28 pm: Quote
Originally posted by diamondgeezer
I'm flying to BW's house on my wing-ed beastie thing that the Nazgul ride :nod:

...along with the wireless internet connection via which you've been posting these messages. :D
Title: The Two Towers - Will you go in Stormtrooper armor?
Post by: diamondgeezer on December 30, 2002, 10:40:11 pm: :nod:

Nowt but the best for Sauron's boys
Title: The Two Towers - Will you go in Stormtrooper armor?
Post by: Sesquipedalian on December 30, 2002, 11:23:31 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Black Wolf
Tolkien rather disappointed me.
Gah! *recoils as from the putrid stench of Ungoliant*
Title: The Two Towers - Will you go in Stormtrooper armor?
Post by: Cuttenslise on January 08, 2003, 07:22:02 am: Quote
Originally posted by Black Wolf
Tolkien is so boring and prissy and overdescriptive. He wastes too much time on unimportant stuff, sacraficing the story for needless overdetailing.

You won't like Robert Jordan and the Wheel of Time Series, then. The series probably stands at about 6,000 pages so far, with more to come.
Title: The Two Towers - Will you go in Stormtrooper armor?
Post by: Black Wolf on January 08, 2003, 09:02:06 am: I have no problem with long books/series - just Tolkiens style, really :ick.
Title: The Two Towers - Will you go in Stormtrooper armor?
Post by: Stunaep on January 08, 2003, 12:25:31 pm: Two more days to go..... nnnnnnnnjjjjjj
Title: The Two Towers - Will you go in Stormtrooper armor?
Post by: Levyathan on January 08, 2003, 08:08:40 pm: nnnnnnnnjjjjjj?

And I'll just be able to watch it in two weeks, so be happy about it! :nod:
Title: The Two Towers - Will you go in Stormtrooper armor?
Post by: Anaz on January 08, 2003, 08:45:41 pm: When is the next wheel of time book coming?
Title: The Two Towers - Will you go in Stormtrooper armor?
Post by: Setekh on January 09, 2003, 06:34:25 am: I actually just watched TTT a few days ago, and loved it. :) I can't wait for RotK though, the 'Battle for Middle Earth' has gotta be good. :D
Title: The Two Towers - Will you go in Stormtrooper armor?
Post by: Cannikin on January 09, 2003, 07:24:05 am: Quote
Originally posted by Setekh
I can't wait for RotK though, the 'Battle for Middle Earth' has gotta be good. :D

The Siege of Gondor should totally rock if the movies' Helm's Deep is any indication. Can't wait to see the Witch-King in all his flaming head (litterally) glory! ;7 :D

Too bad it seems that they scrapped the Scouring of the Shire. I wanted to see the Shire get enslaved and Hobbits get whacked! :lol:
Title: The Two Towers - Will you go in Stormtrooper armor?
Post by: Sandwich on January 09, 2003, 07:52:37 am: Quote
Originally posted by Setekh
I actually just watched TTT a few days ago, and loved it. :)

Welcome... to the real world. ;)
Title: The Two Towers - Will you go in Stormtrooper armor?
Post by: Stunaep on January 09, 2003, 07:56:50 am: oops... wrong thread
Title: The Two Towers - Will you go in Stormtrooper armor?
Post by: diamondgeezer on January 09, 2003, 07:58:33 am: Quote
Originally posted by Cannikin
Can't wait to see the Witch-King in all his flaming head (litterally) glory!

Judging by TT, I wouldn't put money on seeing him or much anything else that was in the book of ROTK... :sigh:
Title: The Two Towers - Will you go in Stormtrooper armor?
Post by: kode on January 09, 2003, 10:11:04 am: you know how rotk's gonna be, right?
http://bbspot.com/News/2003/01/jaromir.html

anyways, I'm off to see TTT tomorrow. ordered tickets today o_O
Title: The Two Towers - Will you go in Stormtrooper armor?
Post by: Cuttenslise on January 09, 2003, 01:02:42 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Black Wolf
I have no problem with long books/series - just Tolkiens style, really :ick.

I can identify with that. Tolkein can be difficult at times.
Title: The Two Towers - Will you go in Stormtrooper armor?
Post by: Stunaep on January 10, 2003, 01:48:43 pm: THAT. WAS. AWESOME.

It had a deep story, superb actors, the battle of a lifetime, that really gave me a feeling of desperation, dwarf tossing, and Viggo Mortensen and Christopher Lee..

WHAT MORE CAN A MAN ASK FOR!!!:eek2: :nod: :yes:
Title: The Two Towers - Will you go in Stormtrooper armor?
Post by: Ulundel on January 10, 2003, 02:02:57 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Setekh
I actually just watched TTT a few days ago, and loved it.

Lucky you. I watched it an hour ago :D and bought FotR special edition DVD....
Title: The Two Towers - Will you go in Stormtrooper armor?
Post by: kode on January 11, 2003, 07:28:05 am: Quote
Originally posted by Stunaep
THAT. WAS. AWESOME.

It had a deep story, superb actors, the battle of a lifetime, that really gave me a feeling of desperation, dwarf tossing, and Viggo Mortensen and Christopher Lee..

WHAT MORE CAN A MAN ASK FOR!!!:eek2: :nod: :yes:

the memory of a tossed dwarf not humiliated in several ways by becoming the comic relief?
Title: The Two Towers - Will you go in Stormtrooper armor?
Post by: Nico on January 11, 2003, 11:52:21 am: Quote
Originally posted by Ten of Twelve

Lucky you. I watched it an hour ago :D and bought FotR special edition DVD....

opposite here :D just fionished watching FotR Special edition ( I have the one with the two argonath statues :) ) an hour ago, and went to see tTT yesterday night ( well, for the second ime, tho :) )
I gotta say, the special edition is a blessing for those who complains about differences to the book, of course there's still a few things missing, but there's also a lot of stuf ( even the mosquito swamp has a short go :lol: ).
Title: The Two Towers - Will you go in Stormtrooper armor?
Post by: Ulundel on January 11, 2003, 12:15:37 pm: Quote
Originally posted by venom2506

opposite here :D just fionished watching FotR Special edition ( I have the one with the two argonath statues :) ) an hour ago, and went to see tTT yesterday night ( well, for the second ime, tho :) )
I gotta say, the special edition is a blessing for those who complains about differences to the book, of course there's still a few things missing, but there's also a lot of stuf ( even the mosquito swamp has a short go :lol: ).

Heh, they forgot a very important thing - the original FotR trailer and teasers. :p

But I dunno...I like FotR more than tTT. :nervous:

*runs*
Title: The Two Towers - Will you go in Stormtrooper armor?
Post by: Nico on January 11, 2003, 01:34:33 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Ten of Twelve

Heh, they forgot a very important thing - the original FotR trailer and teasers. :p

But I dunno...I like FotR more than tTT. :nervous:

*runs*

I like them both, they're both great, and I want to see the special edition of tTT now :D
Title: The Two Towers - Will you go in Stormtrooper armor?
Post by: Ulundel on January 11, 2003, 01:53:01 pm: Quote
Originally posted by venom2506

I like them both, they're both great, and I want to see the special edition of tTT now :D

Yeah, me too...

I'd like tTT more but those battle scenes were a little dissaponitment. They used too much slow motion and it just wasn't what I hoped. Though the short battle scene from FotR was fantastic. :)
Title: The Two Towers - Will you go in Stormtrooper armor?
Post by: Nico on January 11, 2003, 02:16:06 pm: dispoainted by the battle scenes in tTT? Whoa, I don't see how they could be better... ( yeah, remove the Legolas surfing trip, but that aside... ).
Title: The Two Towers - Will you go in Stormtrooper armor?
Post by: kode on January 11, 2003, 02:18:32 pm: I actually might go see tTT again on tuesday or something. maybe use that free ticket I got a while ago... It wasn't too bad, only it's the big between in the trilogy.
Title: The Two Towers - Will you go in Stormtrooper armor?
Post by: Stunaep on January 11, 2003, 02:35:23 pm: Quote
Originally posted by venom2506
dispoainted by the battle scenes in tTT? Whoa, I don't see how they could be better... ( yeah, remove the Legolas surfing trip, but that aside... ).

yeah, that was a desperate battle, if ever I haved seen one, and the slowmo, teno' complained about made that all the more desperate. yeah.
Title: The Two Towers - Will you go in Stormtrooper armor?
Post by: Ulundel on January 11, 2003, 02:39:37 pm: Quote
Originally posted by venom2506
dispoainted by the battle scenes in tTT? Whoa, I don't see how they could be better... ( yeah, remove the Legolas surfing trip, but that aside... ).

All the action was kinda slow. I didn't get the feeling of a big battle except the beginning, the explosion, Legolas' ride and the moment Aragorn broke out of the castle. I think the battle scenes were ok but camera work was baaad. They should learn something from Ep2 about moving cameras...and of course not to turn on slow motion during the coolest parts...
Title: The Two Towers - Will you go in Stormtrooper armor?
Post by: Stunaep on January 11, 2003, 02:47:11 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Ten of Twelve

All the action was kinda slow. I didn't get the feeling of a big battle except the beginning, the explosion, Legolas' ride and the moment Aragorn broke out of the castle. I think the battle scenes were ok but camera work was baaad. They should learn something from Ep2 about moving cameras...and of course not to turn on slow motion during the coolest parts...

d00d, Ep2 was a WWII battle, tTT was a battle of Agincourt battle. You cannot use WWII camera movements (such as the documental zooms in Ep2) in a fantasy setting.
Title: The Two Towers - Will you go in Stormtrooper armor?
Post by: Ulundel on January 11, 2003, 02:51:18 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Stunaep

d00d, Ep2 was a WWII battle, tTT was a battle of Agincourt battle. You cannot use WWII camera movements (such as the documental zooms in Ep2) in a fantasy setting.

Errr, your right...

But then at least they should've used FotR camera movements. Like this camera flying and spinning over the battlefield.
Title: The Two Towers - Will you go in Stormtrooper armor?
Post by: Stunaep on January 11, 2003, 03:00:11 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Ten of Twelve

Errr, your right...

But then at least they should've used FotR camera movements. Like this camera flying and spinning over the battlefield.

no argument here.
Title: The Two Towers - Will you go in Stormtrooper armor?
Post by: Ulundel on January 11, 2003, 03:05:53 pm: I just freaked me out when I heard a big big battle and they showed me some elf ****ing his bow.
Title: The Two Towers - Will you go in Stormtrooper armor?
Post by: Stryke 9 on January 11, 2003, 03:40:36 pm: http://www.bbspot.com/News/2003/01/jaromir.html
Title: The Two Towers - Will you go in Stormtrooper armor?
Post by: kode on January 11, 2003, 03:52:51 pm: Quote
Originally posted by StrykeIX
http://www.bbspot.com/News/2003/01/jaromir.html

you know I posted the exact same link two days ago in this same thread, right? if you have 50 posts per page, it's even on the same page. worth visiting the link, tho.