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Penthe
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Jun 12 2009, 11:36pm
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He's a person who can carry a knighthood, I reckon.
Now?
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Patty
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Jun 13 2009, 1:40am
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Man, it's way past time! Few other folks....
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are more worthy.
Let's see. If Ian Holm were to narrate The Hobbit, it could be a movie of Sirs!
Ian McKellan
Ian Holm
Christopher Lee
Permanent address: Into the West
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diedye
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Jun 13 2009, 1:55am
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Well, it's about freakin' time!...
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I had just about given up hope that this would happen.
Kudos to Mr. Lee! 
Blessed are the cracked,
For they are the ones who let in the light!
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silneldor
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Jun 13 2009, 2:23am
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This man needs and deserves some satisfaction.
Salute!
''What connects Nature to the spiritual, or requires the presence of the latter? In positive terms, as Alkis Kontos points out, when nature was still largely experienced as integral, alive and active, 'It was the spiritual dimension of the world, its enchanted, magical quality that rendered it infinite, not amenable to complete calculability; spirit could not be quanified; it permitted and invited mythologization.' And I would add, it still is and does.''
Patrick Curry-Defending Middle-Earth-Tolkien: Myth and Modernity - chapter: 'The Sea: Spirituality and Ethics.'
May the grace of Manwë let us soar with eagle's wings!
In the air, among the clouds in the sky
Here is where the birds of Manwe fly
Looking at the land, and the water that flows
The true beauty of earth shows
With the stars of Varda lighting my way
In all the realms this is where I stay
In the realm of Manwë Súlimo
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Nimloth
Lorien
Jun 13 2009, 3:43am
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Well overdue  .
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Elven
Valinor
Jun 13 2009, 4:30am
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Congratulations Sir!!! What on earth were they waiting for!
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Swishtail.
Tolkien was a Capricorn!!
Russell Crowe for Beorn!!
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Quote of The Week: The thing is I always write in the morning, and I know that if I go to the Net I won’t write ... you can start in the most scholarly website and end up at Paris Hilton dot com .. GdT
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Peredhil lover
Valinor
Jun 13 2009, 5:29am
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Great! And about time, too! //
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I do not suffer from LotR obsession - I enjoy every minute of it.
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Earl
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Jun 13 2009, 7:42am
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... this Knighthood was *WAY* overdue. I'm so glad he's finally finally received it
"Crows and Gibbets! What is the House of Eorl but a thatched barn where brigands drink in the reek and their brats roll around on the floor with their dogs! You are but a lesser son of greater sires."
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N.E. Brigand
Half-elven
Jun 13 2009, 3:37pm
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A major role in a widely acclaimed film?
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Plus a little time to pass -- he did get the CBE in 2001.
Some of Lee's earlier roles are esteemed by some audiences and critics (Dracula, The Wicker Man), but remember that FOTR was --I think-- only his second film to be nominated for an Academy Award. The Oscars are hardly infallible indicators of quality, but people use them as benchmarks. The first nominated film? Hamlet in 1948 -- in which he had a bit part, and which remains his only film to win Best Picture (as you know, he's not in the theatrical version of ROTK).
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Jazmine
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Jun 13 2009, 4:48pm
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About time too! I was starting to think this would never happen!
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Elven
Valinor
Jun 13 2009, 5:52pm
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Well at least he's got one before Posh Spice & David Beckham ...
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... but there's no mistaking, Lee's contribution to the Industry has been, and still is, outstanding.
Im just glad to see him with a little more recognition - this guy works so hard!
Cheers NEB
Elven x
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Tolkien was a Capricorn!!
Russell Crowe for Beorn!!
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Quote of The Week: The thing is I always write in the morning, and I know that if I go to the Net I won’t write ... you can start in the most scholarly website and end up at Paris Hilton dot com .. GdT
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FarFromHome
Valinor
Jun 13 2009, 8:37pm
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as you know, he's not in the theatrical version of ROTK
was that when I saw this announced on BBC TV this morning, the clip they showed was from the missing Voice of Saruman scene from ROTK.
They went in, and Sam shut the door.
But even as he did so, he heard suddenly,
deep and unstilled, the sigh and murmur of the Sea
upon the shores of Middle-earth.
From the unpublished Epilogue to the Lord of the Rings
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Artanis
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Jun 13 2009, 8:43pm
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I was stunned when I read this. I had presumed he had got one of these years ago! It certainly is about time...I'm still in shock he hadn't received one sooner.
Artanis
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Random Delights: TORN, Facebook (and LOTRo, hopefully, one day..please)
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L. Ron Halfelven
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Jun 13 2009, 8:54pm
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"What happens now?"
"Well, we wait until nightfall, then Aragorn, Legolas, and I leap out of the rabbit..."
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Elven
Valinor
Jun 13 2009, 9:20pm
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I think he would have smiled at that ..
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and PJ may never hear the end of it
Swishtail.
Tolkien was a Capricorn!!
Russell Crowe for Beorn!!
Avatar: Liberace - The other Lord of the Rings.
Quote of The Week: The thing is I always write in the morning, and I know that if I go to the Net I won’t write ... you can start in the most scholarly website and end up at Paris Hilton dot com .. GdT
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Sharky
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Jun 13 2009, 10:09pm
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It is well overdue...
And here we find you, smoking and...feasting!
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John_"Gandalf"_Locke
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Jun 14 2009, 4:49am
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McKellen was nominated for the Academy Award for his work in The Fellowship of the Ring -- not Lee.
And CONGATULATIONS, MR. LEE!
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N.E. Brigand
Half-elven
Jun 14 2009, 5:28am
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was only the second film in which Lee appeared that earned an Oscar-nomination for Best Picture (following Hamlet by 53 years!) and the first in which he had a major role.
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FarFromHome
Valinor
Jun 14 2009, 10:01am
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It's much easier to get a knighthood
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for work you do in the theatre, than for work you do on-screen, especially if your films aren't made in the UK.
What on earth were they waiting for?
The British theatre doesn't pay well (probably most theatre doesn't...) so there's a sense that you're doing something worthwhile for British culture by performing there. So Ian McKellen and Ian Holm were probably rewarded primarily for that. So were many other British theatrical knights and dames, like Derek Jacobi or Judi Dench.
In principle, the Queen's honours are meant to be to reward people for services to the cultural/social/economic life of the UK, not just for fame and talent in and of themselves.
They went in, and Sam shut the door.
But even as he did so, he heard suddenly,
deep and unstilled, the sigh and murmur of the Sea
upon the shores of Middle-earth.
From the unpublished Epilogue to the Lord of the Rings
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grammaboodawg
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Jun 14 2009, 12:10pm
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Wonderful! Congratulations SIR Lee :D
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That gives us 3 Sirs to our cast :D Very Awesome!!
"There is more in you of good than you know, child of the kindly West."
~Hug like a hobbit!~ "In my heaven..."
I really need these new films to take me back to, and not re-introduce me to, that magical world.
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