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Kangi Ska
Half-elven
Jun 21 2014, 6:21pm
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I am sorry but BOFTA sounds and looks like a Government agency or maybe an international trade agreement. KS
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dormouse
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Jun 21 2014, 6:40pm
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I think Bofta sounds a bit like Mrs Bofur.... ;-) //
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BlackFox
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Jun 21 2014, 6:41pm
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“Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.” - Henry David Thoreau
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Aruakar
The Shire
Jun 21 2014, 6:47pm
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BOFTA means:
Battle Of Five Thousand Armies
I would watch that movie 
But... if you consider each dwarf as an One Man Army - and the possibility that PJ will have Dáin II bring 5000 instead of just 500 warriors from the Iron Hills - you might as well use the name BOFTA or BO5kA instead of BOTFA 
Edit: You might even call it BOWMTFTA - Battle Of Way More Than Five Thousand Armies
"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by..."
-- Robert Frost --
(This post was edited by Aruakar on Jun 21 2014, 6:55pm)
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Avandel
Half-elven
Jun 21 2014, 7:15pm
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Anyway I'm still stubbornly referring to it as BOFA, as BOTFA puts weird images in my head.
1) Bot flies (eeuww - sorry)
2) A kind of South American grain, like quinoa (would you like grits or botfa with your ham?)
3) A kind of filling for pillows, or possibly a kind of mattress sold by that blue box store.
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Otaku-sempai
Immortal
Jun 21 2014, 8:25pm
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To distinguish the battle from the film...
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I have resorted to this:
- film: TH:BotFA
- battle: Bo5A
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Ham_Sammy
Tol Eressea
Jun 21 2014, 8:40pm
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I am the master of minimalism.
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I would have just gone with "Battle" :)
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Lissuin
Valinor
Jun 21 2014, 9:31pm
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Then BO5A is just dwarves, elves, men, orcs and a hobbit plus assorted other critters mixing it up.
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Arannir
Valinor
Jun 21 2014, 10:26pm
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"I am afraid it is only too likely to be true what you say about the critics and the public. I am dreading the publication for it will be impossible not to mind what is said. I have exposed my heart to be shot at." J.R.R. Tolkien
We all have our hearts and minds one way or another invested in these books and movies. So we all mind and should show the necessary respect.
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tsmith675
Gondor
Jun 21 2014, 11:01pm
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It's not called Battle of Five the Armies, then.
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Earl
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Jun 21 2014, 11:37pm
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... I can also "speak" it 
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Earl
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Jun 22 2014, 12:23am
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The Hobbit Soundtracks - Being an online archive of information concerning Howard Shore's score for The Hobbit films.
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Vepariga
The Shire
Jun 22 2014, 12:52am
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I prefer BOFA aswell.
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MouthofSauron
Tol Eressea
Jun 22 2014, 1:04am
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The flames of war are upon you..
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burgahobbit
Rohan
Jun 22 2014, 1:21am
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But certainly not BOFTA. I actually quite like the way "BOTFA" (bott-FUH) sounds, and to me that distinguishes the film from the battle very well since BOFA is already the accepted abbreviation for the battle ("The Battle of Five Armies"-BOFA) and BOTFA is the abbreviation most true to the name of the film (The Battle of the Five Armies.).
BOT5A is just an alternate form of BOTFA, as BO5A is an alternate form of BOFA imho. To me it doesn't matter whether you use the number or the letter...
"I've found it is the small things, everyday deeds of ordinary folk, that keeps the darkness at bay. Simple acts of kindness and love. Why Bilbo Baggins? Perhaps it is because I’m afraid, and he gives me courage.” - Gandalf the Grey.
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Bombadil
Half-elven
Jun 22 2014, 2:40am
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SINCE we Know SOMEONE?... will SPEAK the Title...
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in dialogue...WhoDAT?
Balin got to Speak
"The Desolution of Smaug..."
Will it Be Gandalf?
Will it Be Thorin?
Bombyzz
Bet?...
IT is
Bilbo...
VOTE Now!
Buy
Bomby a
Brew... if TRUE!
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Morthoron
Gondor
Jun 22 2014, 3:36am
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Let's just call it "There and Back Again"....
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Merely to be contrary.
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Bombadil
Half-elven
Jun 22 2014, 1:34pm
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Bomby hazz ADJUSTED... to THE Title
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In The Way, The Word... "The"
Adds to THE... Epicness..
Since it
Seems
"THE" Five Armies
will likely Remain in our
Collective
Consciousness
As "THE" TOP 5 Battles of OUR
Cinematic Lifetimes
for many years.
Will it be as Great as
Helm's Deep or
Pelennor Fields?
Yes, only
Different?
Definitely
Never
Doubtful...
Bomby
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