No! Frodo!

Remember when I talked about vlogging here? Well on Saturday I was watching Debbie's kids and when William walked in first thing he says to me is "I want to watch Lord of the Rings". They stayed with me a few weekends ago and sadly I don't have many toys, but William likes to play with my Legolas action figure.

And maybe I also let him play with my bow & arrow.

After asking I grabbed my Lord of the Rings and headed out to my moms house. There we watched the second half of the extended edition of The Fellowship of the Ring. It reminded me of one of my favorite vloggers Elmify's vlog called No! Frodo!.

If you don't want to watch the whole thing you can skip to about 1:50 where 14 year old Elmify is acting out a scene from Lord of the Rings and yells "No! Frodo". (But you should watch the whole thing because she is hilarious) Then last night I went over to Debbie's to watch the kids and guess what they were watching. If you guessed Two Towers, good job. Gracie was going crazy about Golum, who she calls the slimy guy, telling me she hates him when he is bad but loves him when he is good.

I showed Gracie & William the "No! Frodo! clip and they kept wanting to watch it again. 

I started writing this yesterday & decided to share the video with Ms. Elmify herself on twitter & guess who responded?!? You can also see her comment if you go to the youtube page. 

Today I would like to remind Lauren & Lindsey how much I would love for them to start a vlog! And since it was Lauren's birthday I have been remembering the trip we took to California the weekend of Lauren's 18th & my 21st birthdays. So if you need a subject for your vlog, there you go. Consider yourselves birthday challenged!

There and Back Again

When I was a child I remember my older brother Mark watching the cartoon movie of The Hobbit.

I hate to admit this but as a child I did not like movies that were not pretty. Needless to say I was not a fan of The Hobbit, I mean look how ugly he is, he has to be one of the ugliest cartoons. There are other movies & tv show I did not like as a child because they were not pretty, most filmed in the 70's. The cartoon completely turned me off of The Hobbit.

In high school Debbie's class was reading The Hobbit but she had been absent so while everyone else was taking a test or something she had to catch up on reading out in the hall.  While she was reading in the hallway one of the hottest guys* in school came up and started talking to her about The Hobbit. Then my senior year in High School right before graduation I went camping with a bunch of my guy friends & on that camp out we explored what they called a Hobbit Hole, it was just a cave in the ground. Even with a hot boy & my guy friends fans of the book I still had no interest in reading it.
A year later I saw the trailer for The Lord of The Rings, it was just a teaser with the fellowship crossing over a mountain, & I was sold.

I soon became a huge fan of Lord of the Rings, I read the books, bought the extended editions, listened to the commentaries & spent a lot of time talking about the movies & books with friends. We would often play who would you be in middle earth. Who doesn't want to be an Elf but it seemed we mostly were hobbits.
Debbie had my mom make her an Eowyn costume which of course is beautiful even though I have never seen it on Debbie.

My friend Jenny even gave me a Legolas action figure for a gift & dude his bow & arrow works not to mention if you squeeze his thighs his arm does a stabbing motion (think the movie Physco).
So you would have thought that I would have eventually just broken down & read The Hobbit, nope it took for the casting of the movie for me to even buy the book. I think Martin Freeman will be a perfect Bilbo. But it took them dangling some of my pretty movie boyfriends to get me to bite.

John Thornton I mean Richard Armitage 

Remember on North & South when he says "look back at me." What you have not seen it yet, what are you waiting for I own it you can borrow it or better yet why don't you come over and we can watch it  & swoon together. 

Alright I have not actually seen Aiden Turner in anything I just know he is Irish and plays a Vampire in this BBC series I have always meant to watch. You know me, I just like to keep up on hot guys from the UK. 

I saved the best for last Lee FREAKING Pace is going to be an Elf and not any Elf but Legolas's dad. When my friend Melissa text me telling me to look online for the cast news (bless you Melissa). I text her back saying Lee Pace being first cast as a vampire & now an Elf, it is just proof that God loves me!

*Even my sister in law who went to a different high school had heard of this guy.