ROTK U Jackson auto

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[Roz]

[ferdinand_the_yak]

I can't keep thinking 'hobbit' everytime i see PJ

Wish they'd chosen a nicer pic though *cough* with Oscar *cough*
I guess that isn't his style...

[savage727]

Geez it looks like Peter Jackson is constipated or something!!    

Who the heck chooses the images for these?  If I was being represented on one of these cards I sure as heck would want some input as to what my image was especially an autograph card!!  

[ferdinand_the_yak]

 
LOL Savage, didn't even occur to me, but now that you mention it...
I thought all the actors had to ok the card design before they agreed to sign? Maybe PJ just has strange ideas of what is a good photo of him

[savage727]

Hi FTY - speaking of disappointing images on auto cards - I hated the second one of Viggo from The Two Towers - he looked like a drowned rat for crying out loud!!  Why they did not choose the image like the one in my avatar is beyond me - that would have been one cool auto card had Topps done it that way!!  

Of the 3 Viggo auto cards I think the best one is the first from The Fellowship.

[ferdinand_the_yak]

YES! That was the exact term I used when I saw the TT image... prob why I didn't get it and opted to get the FOTR one instead as I always intended to only get one auto/actor. Cost a bit more, but nicer photo and much better auto than alot of the TT and ROTK ones I have seen. Do you have all three?

I don't know why, but I prefer Viggo as the ranger, rather than as king... he looks like hes aged 10 years in his coronation scene - the rugged manly stubble is sooo much more Viggos look

*cries in a corner*
 

[savage727]

Yes I have all 3.    I also have about 6 or 8 8X10's signed by him and about 8 Decipher and Topps LOTR's cards with his signature as well.  Most of these are from established autograph companies.  

[ferdinand_the_yak]

 

*retracts title of certified obsessed Viggo fan from Roz and bestows it upon savage*

Actually... I think yo could both share it

[Roz]

Nope - Mark and I have to admit our Aragorn fandom has partly rubbed off from Savage - so he'd best have the crown  

[savage727]

Yea I have to admit that I am an Aragorn fanatic!!  

I even have a licensed Aragorn's Ranger Sword!!  You know in case of a home invasion by those lowly Uruk-Hai and Orc scum not to mention a Ringwraith or two!!

 

[ferdinand_the_yak]

So thats where the last remaining groups of Saurons minions escaped to after the defeat of Mordor. Are they a real problem around where you live? I didn't think you'd like to get that nice shiny sword dirty and scatched
 

[Roz]

LOL - from what I hear the situation is so bad he's thinking of getting a "sting" simply for use as an early warning system

[savage727]

Ha Ha!!    Now you know why I live on the top of a mountain - easily defensible!!  

Now Roz that is one great idea for an early warning system - why did I not think of that?  

No problems here at all FTK except the 4 legged variety of bears, coyotes, and bobcats!!  Real cool to watch and photograph.

[Roz]

Yep sorry - my mistake - Savage is in America - there's no Hobbits, Orc, Uruks or Elves in those lands - the LOTR was set in Europe, some say that it was set on the downs in Southern England, but others say that middle earth was spread more around the whole of mainland Europe - perhaps that makes the UK the grey havens.... or is Madeira "into the west"

any ideas?

[savage727]

Awe jeez there aren't Roz?    It figures now that I am fully outfitted and ready for battle!!  

[beckham1]

Ha Ha!!    Now you know why I live on the top of a mountain - easily defensible!!  

Now Roz that is one great idea for an early warning system - why did I not think of that?  

No problems here at all FTK except the 4 legged variety of bears, coyotes, and bobcats!!  Real cool to watch and photograph.

Savage didn't I read you live in New Hampshire.  If so where my Grandparents live in Vermont and I spent many a summer there when I was a kid it is so picturesque.

[savage727]

Hello Beckham:

I live in Franconia, New Hampshire right in the heart of the White Mountains.  They have the highest elevation in all New England.  

I too spent many summers in Vermont at my Grandparents.  My Grandfather was a building contractor and built many of the homes in Rutland, Vermont and around Lake Bomoseen.  The family had a cottage there at the lake and that is where I learned to fish, swim, and sail.  Great memories!  My wife and I grew up in Connecticut and we chose to live in New Hampshire because of the mountains and all the outdoors activity.  I love to mountaineer, back country snowboard, cross country ski, and hike to name a few.
Our town was listed in Outdoors Magazine as one of the 10 best places to live in the country for outdoors activity.

We are at 1200 feet elevation and have a 180 degree view of the mountains right in front of us.  It is so beautiful especially when you can see an entire rainbow from end to end in the valley below.

Where in Vermont did you spend your summers and have you ever visited New Hampshire and my area to include Mt. Washington?

[Roz]

 

Every time you post about NH am I going to have to manually change - "white mountains" to "misty mountains"?

 

Ed - what happened about the old man of NH? Did they give in to the elements or try to rebuild him?

[savage727]

Hi Roz:

A Commission was set up to explore the feasilibility of trying to reconstruct The Old Man but it concluded that it was not due to many factors.  One of the biggest was the very poor quality of the surrounding rock.  Geologists felt it would not support a rebuilt image and local people here did not want a man made structure to take the place of something nature constructed.

A museum, park guides explaining what happened to The Old Man, and special steroscopic viewers have been installed to show what The Old Man looked like.

Education programs for schools throughout New Hampshire have been instituted to keep the Old Man alive in thought and image.

[samwise16]

Ed it's sounds amazing where you live... and there is me, stuck in a run down estate full of 'no hopes'. I would love to see what it looks like were you live, any chance one day you could take a photo (if you have a digi cam) or be able to show me a website which will have pictures of your area   would be cool.