LOTR fans
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- jay_jay
Just been out for a walk today where I live, just to get some fresh air & take a break around here:
I've lived here for 26 years (all my life), This is where Tolkien wrote part of The Lord Of The Rings. Altho I Haven't watched any of the movies yet (I will do soon).
Just thought I'd share this with you, some might find it interesting.
- stem0
Looks a bit different from where I went to school...
- anxiousarms0
My real first name is Aragorn. My dad was a hippy and a huge JRR fan. Beat that! :)
- I don't just get pissed, I get completely 'legolas'thebottlerocket
- Really?D_Dot
- haha yea, it was hard living thru highschool and worse when the movies came out.anxiousarms
- Not a terrible name by any means.D_Dot
- yea, just hard to pronounce for much of the free world. i consider myself lucky.anxiousarms
- hahahaha bottlerocket! That pun was so bad it flipped right around into awesome.ian
- Hey, I'm on the train to Awesome town right now.thebottlerocket
- toot toot!ian
- hahaanxiousarms
- one of my buddies is named aragorn too ; )pascii
- That's kind of cool, actually. A bit hawt too.Jaline
- kezza_20
I went to school there
- kezza_20
his son was a priest there. He lived in the school grounds for a few years and taught a bit of English
- ian0
Im going to own up to not actually liking the books and actively hating the films.
As you were.
- what DO you like?anxiousarms
- haha. hmm, I like zombie films, corona, steak, salt n vinegar crisps, elmore leonard books and elbow.ian
- And cooking. I like cooking.ian
- thats me too...less elmore leonard though, more non fiction.thebottlerocket
- not just elmore leonard though, I like crime novels, not so much non-fiction though.ian
- fair enough. zombies are pretty great. corona too.anxiousarms
- corona is pee. if you must drink mexican beer then try tres esquis (NOT dos equis)hans_glib
- i can's stand LOTR in any form either btwhans_glib
- and seafood risotto really hits the spot for me.hans_glib
- GET A FUCKING ROOM!brains
- harlequino0
Looks lovely!
Is that your house there on the home page?
- kezza_20
It looks great from the outside, but inside it was moer basic than a prison when I boarded there
- thebottlerocket0
Kezza, are the stories about english boarding schools all true? We you someones 'fag' ? ;-)
- jay_jay0
No, thats the public school, can see it from my bedroom window tho
- jay_jay0
How old are you Kezza? I got a few mates who went there
- kezza_20
yep I was touched by priests...
http://archive.thisislancashire.…
he used to teach me religous docterine. Ah the Catholics.
Seriously though lots of wrongness. The school is now Co-Ed. Just as many girls as boys. Completely different to when I was there.
- kezza_20
jay... I'm 31 I'm often in the Bailey, My dad runs the golf club
you in Hurst Green?
- TheBlueOne0
Ah, see, while I appreciate the artistic achievement of the work, I've more often than not agreed with David Brin's assessment of LOTR:
http://dir.salon.com/story/ent/f…
I have always preferred Elric to Aragon.
- jay_jay0
I live up on the hill in Langho, so got the view of the trough of bowland and stonyhurst.
I was took on a school trip there wen in primary school, that priest took us all into that massive tree house in the grounds, dunno if thats still there or not, but thankfully we had teachers with us so no one was touched haha
- kezza_20
some famous peeps went there as well as myself...
* George Herbert Walker, grandfather of the U.S. president George H. W. Bush and great-grandfather of George W. Bush
* Charles Carroll of Carrollton, last surviving and only Catholic signer of the U.S. Declaration of Independence
* Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author of Sherlock Holmes
* St Thomas Garnet SJ, canonized saint and protomartyr of St Omers, one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales
* Joseph Mary Plunkett, Irish signatory of the Irish Proclamation of Independence who played a leading part in the Easter Rising, for which he was executed
* Sir Frederick Weld, former Prime Minister of New Zealand
* Eduardo Lopez de Romaña, former President of PeruAlumni currently in the public eye include:
* Iain Balshaw, English Rugby International, British and Irish Lion and World Cup Winner
* Kyran Bracken, English Rugby International, British and Irish Lion and World Cup Winner
* Bill Cash, Member of Parliament; Shadow Attorney General
* Crispian Hollis, Bishop of Portsmouth
* Paul Johnson, journalist, editor of the New Statesman; awarded the United States Presidential Medal of Freedom[97]
* Mark Thompson, Current Director General of the BBC
- kezza_20
the priest who built the tree house, was the one fiddling. Used to invite 6 boys to stay with him in the tree house, then he got busy.
needless to say I never stayed there.
- jay_jay0
no surprised famous rugger boys come from there, the place is surrounded by rugby fields
- 7point340
i disliked LOTR enormously.
the 3rd one was decent. i'll give them that.i've never had the patience for the books
- kezza_20
Will greenwood went there too, Brian Ashton was our Rugby coach when I was younger