Can They Make A Movie Out Of This? Please?

Another movie, I mean. A modern day version of The Hobbit - pretty much "The Sons of Durin" on the big screen, only without the Bagginshield twist. It would be so amazing. It would be the best thing ever, second only to The Hobbit itself, of course.

Surely the fans can cobble something together, at least.

Oh, wait, they just did.

But it's only gifs! *wails and flails*

In Pace Christi,

Elyse

Yet Another Tribute to the Dwarf Actors

Because they are hilarious. 'Nuff said.

With some fans. Aren't they cute?

Luke, what are you doing? Seriously. Luke Evans (Bard) is in the back waving his hands, as if he's thinking, "They can't forget me! I'm in the next movie, too! Don't forget about me!" And then Graham McTavish seems to be photobombing it, Adam Brown has decided to be adorkable, Stephen Hunter is smiling right into the camera, John Callen has decided to pull a geezer face, Aidan Turner is laughing, Dean O'Gorman is also pulling a weird face, and it is up to Jed Brophy, of all people, to be normal in this picture.

I love these guys. So much.

Nice beard there, Dean. And I'm not even joking. Also... what's up with Jimmy? Not sure if he's pulling a funny face for the camera or if he's just had one too many drinks. Dunno.

Oh, yes, and they also get up to their usual shenanigans on Twitter, too. You really must check out their Twitter accounts some time. Adam Brown seems to like the idea of taking on the role of the 12th Doctor - at least he's retweeting everyone else saying that would be a great idea. And then Jed Brophy seems to drunktweet half of the time, randomly speaks in rhyme, and signs off with 'xxjedi' most of the time.

Yes, you read that right. He calls himself a Jedi.

I don't think we're going to argue with him on that.

See? This cast is adorably lovely even on Twitter.

In Pace Christi,

Elyse

Further Proof the Adorableness of the Tolkien Casts Is Over 9000

When I say casts I mean those of both LOTR and TH, as should be apparent. However, I will obviously focus more on TH because it is more recent.

I mean... just look at 'em.

Here they are at RingCon, being (mostly) serious for this picture. From left to right, Adam Brown (Ori), Jed Brophy (Nori), Mark Hadlow (Dori), Graham McTavish (Dwalin), Sylvester McCoy (Radagast - and, I looked it up, Amy - he is the 7th Doctor!!!), Stephen Hunter (Bombur), Peter Hambleton (Gloin), John Callen (Oin), and tiny Dean O'Gorman on the end (Fili), doing... whatever he's doing... presumably, peeking around John Callen.

Speaking of Doctor Who, the paper says the 11th Doctor is leaving and they are looking for replacements. I have only a passing interest in the show, but I read the article. It said the front-runners for the 12th Doctor are - get this - Rupert Grint and Russel Tovey.

You read that right.

Ron Weasley. And George from Being Human.

For those of you less familiar with BH, this is George on the left here:

I think I'd be able to take him more seriously than Ron, at any rate.

Oh, and that picture STILL counts for this post since that's Kili on the right. It's a small, small world.

And now back to our regularly scheduled programming!

This is the non-serious picture from RingCon. Dean... what are you doing??? Is Dwalin trying to choke Bombur? What is Oin pointing at??? What is Sylvester doing?? Nori appears to be considering something in the background.

Most importantly, WHAT IS DEAN DOING????

Dorks. Lovable dorks, the lot of 'em.

Picture says all.

Dean apparently wears that red plaid shirt to every convention, because I'm pretty sure this is HobbitCon in Bonn, Germany.

No, I absolutely do not have a desire to acquire such a shirt myself. No, not me. I am perfectly rational and sane. My sister has no reason to despair of me.

At HobbitCon, again, in another one of their panels, with Mark and Adam pretending to be Dori and Ori and acting out a scene from Ori's childhood. I really need to go to Bonn next year...

Really.

Again... Dean, what are you doing? Everyone else looks normal for the camera, so what's up with the weird face? You know, stuff like this has gotten your pics captioned as "Dean O'Derpman" on Tumblr.

Not that I would ever do such a thing, because I like the cast too much for that.

Bonus! Merry and Pippin eating noodles. These two are also adorable. They're like the Fili and Kili of LOTR. Either that, or Fili and Kili are the Merry and Pippin of TH, you decide. Does it make a difference? It's sort of like the chicken-egg debate.

Cool. Just... cool. Awesome, even.

On that note:

I wish I could find pictures like this for all the Dwarves, but not such luck. I've only ever seen ones for Thorin and Fili. You'd think with Kili's popularity someone would have attempted to do one for him, too, but apparently not. Sad face.

Is Jed Brophy wearing a Beecake shirt? I do believe that is Billy Boyd's band.

Small world!

Playing Captions Contest with this picture is an instant cure for any lousy day! My first thought on seeing this picture was: "Jimmy, what are you doing?" Then I thought for a moment, and said to myself, "Jed, what have you done?"

Seriously, Jed could have put a thumbtack down on the seat, which prompted this scene. LOL.

Let's play a game of Can You Spot the Three Funny Things About This Picture!! I'll give you a few moments to examine it.

Ready?

Okay, here we go!

(1) Dean in an Underarmor shirt, still with Fili's hair. I don't think I'll venture any comment here, just moving along...

(2) Dwalin with a beer. Seriously, Dwalin with a beer. What's amazing is how in-character he still seems!

(3) AIDAN HAS BARRETTES IN HIS HAIR. Why, Aidan, why??? A yellow one and a red one. Gosh, even I don't use barrettes unless one of my braids (when I braid my hair, which is very seldom) is particularly unruly, and even then I pick plain ones. YELLOW AND RED.

Is this someone's idea of a joke? To kill me with hysterical laughter???

Because I'm really ROFL at this point.

Oh, look, even Elrond and Galadriel can get in on the adorableness. I like Elrond SO MUCH more in TH than in LOTR. In LOTR he was grumpy and spent most of his time trying to separate Aragorn and Arwen (contrary to the book, I might add!). In TH, he takes out a patrol of orcs on wargs (look, his father killed Shelob's mother AND the largest dragon who ever lived... yeah, it's that kind of family), snarks to Gandalf ("You never are."), and is generally more like the Elrond, "as kind as summer", that we meet in The Hobbit while still being awesome.

Plus... Elrond in armor. I needn't say any more.

Irish adorableness. Can't beat that. Not a chance.

I notice how Aidan and Dean are always together in the group shots. I would also like to take a moment to point out that Aidan seems really to have gone to ground since TH:AUJ came out. Dean's been going to conventions and things, but not Aidan.

*checks Tumblr briefly*

Smart move, Aidan. Smart move.

Speaking of Tumblr:

Fun with captions! I suggest: "Dean Discovers Tumblr." That's certainly the look I would have if I discovered what creepy fangirls were writing about me - and, I promise, sooner or later I will do that threatened Guidelines for Sane Shipping and post it!

Before people get any weird ideas, I know this isn't what's going in this picture, and I know Dean knows about the creepy fangirls. When asked how Fili and Kili lost the ponies at HobbitCon, he replied: "Hobbiton weed. I don't want to say who gave it to us but he's tall and has a pointy hat. But nice try. It's not what you were thinking."

Poor darlings. For every nice fan you get, you get ten creepy Internet stalkers.

I'm totally doing those Guidelines soon.

In Pace Christi,

Elyse

I Need A Laugh

*sigh* It was another grumpy day at school. Actually, it started off happy and ended up grumpy. It started off well in calculus (you know something's weird when that is possibly my favorite class this semester. Actually, the fact that we are a very small group - there's only nine of us! Nine Nazgul! - probably helps since we - mostly - know each others names and can commiserate). Instead of having our normal lecture, we went to Research Day to check out the various exhibitions done by faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates.

Which was very convenient, as our assignment in human geography was to go to Research Day and write about two of the exhibits we saw there. So I sat in the library and did that. Very good.

Then it went downhill from there. *headbang*

...Hmm. I don't seem to have any grumpy gifs, other than the one of Scar going, "I am surrounded by idiots." Which is probably a good thing. So, instead, I think I'll post some happy gifs and then some funny stuff I've found on the Internet and hopefully get myself in a better mood.

Here is Andy Serkis (a.k.a., Gollum), apparently dancing happily through a field of flowers near Matamata, New Zealand (or, at least, that looks very much like the location of Hobbiton to me...). I'm not really sure what he's doing here, but this definitely qualifies as a happy gif. Also, Andy Serkis needs more love. He's been snubbed by the awards people so many times on his role as Gollum; maybe one day he'll make it big as a director and will be able to win awards there.

Why this gif? I like Fili. He's the responsible older brother. I can relate to that. He also has better blond braids than Legolas. (Whaaat? Elves are so last year!)

I just like Fili, okay? Even if he does have a brief blond moment (i.e., "If there's a key, there must be a door," although I think that could actually be a valid deduction, since the presence of the door was previously unknown).

And this gif makes me smile. It's adorable.

So on this blog it goes!

I'll have you know I looked a very long time for it. There's another gif of Fili I've been looking for, too. I'm just lucky I found the Dwarf boot camp gifs I've been looking for a very long time. Everywhere I saw them, they were just pictures. I didn't want the pictures. I WANTED THE GIFS! And so I finally found them. Here they are, in all their glory:

How can you not love this gif?

(For your information, that is Richard Armitage/Thorin on the left, Mark Hadlow/Dori in the center, and Graham McTavish/Dwalin on the right. No, I don't know who the dude int he back is. He bears a passing resemblance to John Howe, one of the concept artists, with his glasses, beard, and hair, but I HIGHLY doubt that it is him.)

This is a link to John Howe's website. He does wonderful art. Go check it out.

And, as for the other gif:

This gif doesn't show the beginning of the clip, but Graham basically jump-tackled Richard like a football player. It's nice to see that the trust and loyalty between Thorin and Dwalin (they are almost always together in fights, and when they're stuck in Rivendell they trash-talk about it to each other... watch that part again and tell me that's not what they're doing!) extends to behind the scenes as well.

Plus, I just love the hit-their-boots-together thing the actors do. It's hilarious.

As an added bonus, I have to share something that Amy shared with me. I honestly cannot give any description of this video; it is too funny for any attempt at a witty explanation.

There. I think I'm in a better mood now.

In Pace Christi,

Elyse