Post by Ven on Nov 27, 2004 21:31:08 GMT 1
The Fellowship of the Ring Chapter 1: A Long-Expected Party
This is the discussion thread for the First chapter of the Fellowship of the Ring. Feel free to post about anything you find interesting or post your thoughts about this chapter here. (The following are some things that I've found in the chapter that are interesting. Some of the quotes I thought were rather cute as well.
-We find out in this chapter that Frodo is an orphan: Drogo Baggins and his wife, Primula Brandybuck, drownded.
-Two ways that some Hobbits thought they could have died from.
-Old Noaks said that Drogo's weight sunk them
-Sandyman said that Primula pushed him off.
-Sackville-Bagginses were depressed, for Frodo was to be Bilbo Bagginses heir, not them.
-The Gaffer says, "She was our Mr. Bilbo's first cousin on the mother's side (her mother being the youngest of the Old Took's daughters); and Mr. Drogo was his second cousin. So Mr. Frodo is his first and second cousin, once removed either way, as the saying, if you follow me." Ya, sure we follow you! Just like we did when Pippin said that in the movie!!
-" 'Elves and Dragons!' I says to him. 'Cabbages and potatoes are better for me and you. Don't go getting up in the business of your betters, or you'll land in trouble too big for you.' " ---Gaffer. Sounds like what he says in the FotR Extended version.
-I thought this was rather strange: "It (a wagon) was driven by outlandish fold, singing strange songs: dwarves with long beards and deep hoods." Dwarves?! This is really interesting!! Dwarves came to see Bilbo again!
-The Shire seems more high-tech than it's cut out to be in the movie. "Before long the incitations began pouring out, and the Hobbiton post-office was blocked, and the Bywater post-office was snowed under,..." And I always thought that they would walk around the Shire to deliver their own mail!
-Instead of getting presents on their own birthdays, Hobbits give away presents on their own birthdays! Now, that would be rather fun if we would do that in our lives, now, wouldn't it!
-So, pretty much, Hobbits always got presents, "Actually in Hobbiton and Bywater everyday in the year was someone's birthday." 'Tis the season, I guess!
-Gandalf's fireworks, in my opinion, were a ton more interesting according to the book than they were in the movie!
-Merry and Pippin didn't get their moment of glory by firing off the dragon-firework in the book, Gandalf did, but the people at the party reacted in the same way they did in the movie.
-A Gross means Twelve dozen Hobbits. I'm thinking that emans about 144 Hobbits. This term was not commonly used in Hobbiton, for it was considered a "bad word" to use.
-I think the fact that Bilbo wrapped up hiis embroidered silk waistcoat in tissue-paper was kind of different. Tissue-paper? Strange...
-Gandalf debated longer with Bilbo when they were discussing where the Ring should stay.
~What do you think: Do you think that PJ did a good job cutting out some of the extra speech or do you think that he should have kept the entire dialog in there?
-Gandalf after Bilbo says how his book will end---"But nobody will read the book, however it ends."
-Oh, ya! What a supporter Gandalf is!
-"Three dwarves came out of different rooms where they had been busy."
-Dwarves had come to escort Bilbo to wherever they were planning to go.
~What are your opinions on this? Do you think that PJ should have left the Dwarf thing in?
-"If you don't let me in, Frodo, I shall blow your door right down your hole and out through the hill," he (Gandalf) said.
-;D lol!!!
-This chapter showed us more things about Frodo and Bilbo. Frodo is more of the quiet type, he only trusts his closest friends with things (in this case, it was Merry). Bilbo is more of the people-person. He likes having big, huge parties. Now that Bilbo is gone, Frodo has to take care of Bag End and it's contents, including the Ring.
Thank you, lilpippin, for reminding me to do this!
I will give you guys 5 days to read this chapter and 1 day to post anything you want to. So, in other words, you have 6 days to do the reading and post in this thread
Have fun!
This is the discussion thread for the First chapter of the Fellowship of the Ring. Feel free to post about anything you find interesting or post your thoughts about this chapter here. (The following are some things that I've found in the chapter that are interesting. Some of the quotes I thought were rather cute as well.
-We find out in this chapter that Frodo is an orphan: Drogo Baggins and his wife, Primula Brandybuck, drownded.
-Two ways that some Hobbits thought they could have died from.
-Old Noaks said that Drogo's weight sunk them
-Sandyman said that Primula pushed him off.
-Sackville-Bagginses were depressed, for Frodo was to be Bilbo Bagginses heir, not them.
-The Gaffer says, "She was our Mr. Bilbo's first cousin on the mother's side (her mother being the youngest of the Old Took's daughters); and Mr. Drogo was his second cousin. So Mr. Frodo is his first and second cousin, once removed either way, as the saying, if you follow me." Ya, sure we follow you! Just like we did when Pippin said that in the movie!!
-" 'Elves and Dragons!' I says to him. 'Cabbages and potatoes are better for me and you. Don't go getting up in the business of your betters, or you'll land in trouble too big for you.' " ---Gaffer. Sounds like what he says in the FotR Extended version.
-I thought this was rather strange: "It (a wagon) was driven by outlandish fold, singing strange songs: dwarves with long beards and deep hoods." Dwarves?! This is really interesting!! Dwarves came to see Bilbo again!
-The Shire seems more high-tech than it's cut out to be in the movie. "Before long the incitations began pouring out, and the Hobbiton post-office was blocked, and the Bywater post-office was snowed under,..." And I always thought that they would walk around the Shire to deliver their own mail!
-Instead of getting presents on their own birthdays, Hobbits give away presents on their own birthdays! Now, that would be rather fun if we would do that in our lives, now, wouldn't it!
-So, pretty much, Hobbits always got presents, "Actually in Hobbiton and Bywater everyday in the year was someone's birthday." 'Tis the season, I guess!
-Gandalf's fireworks, in my opinion, were a ton more interesting according to the book than they were in the movie!
-Merry and Pippin didn't get their moment of glory by firing off the dragon-firework in the book, Gandalf did, but the people at the party reacted in the same way they did in the movie.
-A Gross means Twelve dozen Hobbits. I'm thinking that emans about 144 Hobbits. This term was not commonly used in Hobbiton, for it was considered a "bad word" to use.
-I think the fact that Bilbo wrapped up hiis embroidered silk waistcoat in tissue-paper was kind of different. Tissue-paper? Strange...
-Gandalf debated longer with Bilbo when they were discussing where the Ring should stay.
~What do you think: Do you think that PJ did a good job cutting out some of the extra speech or do you think that he should have kept the entire dialog in there?
-Gandalf after Bilbo says how his book will end---"But nobody will read the book, however it ends."
-Oh, ya! What a supporter Gandalf is!
-"Three dwarves came out of different rooms where they had been busy."
-Dwarves had come to escort Bilbo to wherever they were planning to go.
~What are your opinions on this? Do you think that PJ should have left the Dwarf thing in?
-"If you don't let me in, Frodo, I shall blow your door right down your hole and out through the hill," he (Gandalf) said.
-;D lol!!!
-This chapter showed us more things about Frodo and Bilbo. Frodo is more of the quiet type, he only trusts his closest friends with things (in this case, it was Merry). Bilbo is more of the people-person. He likes having big, huge parties. Now that Bilbo is gone, Frodo has to take care of Bag End and it's contents, including the Ring.
Thank you, lilpippin, for reminding me to do this!
I will give you guys 5 days to read this chapter and 1 day to post anything you want to. So, in other words, you have 6 days to do the reading and post in this thread
Have fun!
