This weekend, Hall of Fire will resume with a lighthearted chat where we all get to play the…
Continue ReadingThis weekend, Hall of Fire will resume with a lighthearted chat where we all get to play the role of director on the Hobbit.
Because this Saturday June 30 (at 6pm New York time) we’ll be asking the question: “What would you put in the next Hobbit trailer?”. Or if you prefer, what’s your ideal Hobbit trailer?
Come join us then and play director yourself! Continue reading “Hall of Fire this weekend: your ideal Hobbit trailer!”
This Saturday at 6pm (New York time), Hall of Fire rejoins the Hobbits on the Barrows Downs as we resume our Fellowship of the Ring read-through.
‘Splendid!’ said Frodo. ‘If we make as good going this afternoon as we have done this morning, we shall have left the Downs before the Sun sets and be jogging on in search of a camping place.’ Continue reading “Hall of Fire chats fog on the Barrow-Downs”
There’s some odd (spoilers!), peculiar (spoilers!) and just plain bizarre (spoilers!) stories coming out of the Hobbit production of late.
That’s why this weekend in Hall of Fire, we’re devoting a session to pondering what’s going through the minds of the brains trust.
Is this sort of thing your nightmare hobbit script scenario? If not, when do you go, “this is too silly for words”?
Or are you of the view that JRR Tolkien’s The Hobbit is, itself, so often whimsical or fantastical that additions like the above can only enhance the movie’s light-hearted appeal?
So join us this Saturday, June 16 at 6.00pm EDT (New York time), when we’ll discuss all this and much more as we look at the latest Hobbit movie rumours!
Continue reading “Hall of Fire this weekend: Bunnies, boars and bad romance. What next from the brains trust?”
This Saturday at 6pm EST (New York time), Hall of Fire returns to the Fellowship of The Ring as the hobbits take refuge in the house of Tom Bombadil and try to put the horror encounter with Old Man Willow behind them.
“I kept [Tom] in, and as he was, because he represents certain things otherwise left out.” — JRR Tolkien, Letter 153.
FoTR Book 1, Chapter 7: The House of Tom Bombadil
Frodo asks Goldberry who Tom is, and she replies mysteriously that Tom is “master of wood, water and hill.” Tom himself proves scarcely less enigmatic, yet is oddly knowledgeable about Frodo’s quest.
Continue reading “Hall of Fire visits the House of Tom Bombadil!”
This Saturday, Hall of Fire returns to the Fellowship of The Ring as the hobbits abandon the false safety of The Shire and plunge into The Old Forest.
“There,” said Merry. “You have left the Shire and are now outside, on the edge of the Old Forest.”
FoTR Book 1, Chapter 6: The Old Forest
The Hobbits venture deeper into the forest, but it fights there progress at every turn with an almost-sentient wilfulness and disdain for living, moving creatures. Unwillingly, they are turned toward the strangest part of the Old Forest — the Withywindle. Continue reading “Hall of Fire chapter chat: The Old Forest!”
This Saturday, Hall of Fire returns to the Fellowship of The Ring as the hobbits — momentarily free of the Black Riders — finally arrive at Frodo’s new home in Crickhollow.
“Now we had better get home ourselves,” said Merry. “There’s something funny about all this, I see; but it must wait till we get in.”
FoTR Book 1, Chapter 5: A Conspiracy Unmasked Continue reading “Saturday Hall of Fire: A Conspiracy Unmasked”
