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Posted on 12/20/2004 9:01:36 AM PST by ecurbh
Thanks, but I only like my Golden Fruitcake
Well, you won't know for sure until Saturday, will you? ;o)
Do we want to know what that is?
The very first in my St. Nick collection is a wooden Father Christmas cutout painted with a blue robe. The face reminds me a LOT of the Gandalf from "The Hobbit" animated movie. I'll have to take a pic so you can see it!
UGH!
Bilbo wasn't young in "The Hobbit"! He was in his late 60's or so, wasn't he? At the time of "Fellowship", Gandalf noted in the movie that he hadn't aged a day since he returned to Hobbiton from the Lonely Mountains all those years before, even though it was now his Eleventy-First birthday! Of course this was the influence of having the One Ring in his possession. Ian Holm could play him perfectly well!
No, I guess I have saomething to look forward too! :o)
NEET!
Bilbo was 50 in the Hobbit.
Golden Fruitcake is most yummy! It's like a pound cake with brandy, apricots, golden raisins, and pecans in it.
I remember watching and then later helping mom make two kinds of fruitcake, one of them was the golden raisin fruitcake, you guys are bringing back some really deliscious memories! :o)
Thankfully, I did eventually get to my destination!
(I did NOT type "thnakfully"! I did not! Honest!)
There ya go! In the prologue to Fellowship, they showed a bit of Bilbo finding the Ring in Gollum's cave. Ian Holm looked fine there, so he could definitely do it!! It would be a fitting close to the series to have him play that part. I don't know if it would be good for any of the others, except for maybe Ian McKellan and the Elves, since they're immortal, to be in it as well. Might be disconcerting to see the folks we know so well in their LOTR parts to be playing in "The Hobbit" unless they're made up to be older people and relatives of their LOTR characters.
I can't remember where I got this Golden Fruitcake recipe. I'll look for it and post it here. My family doesn't like fruitcake, so I have to bake this to give it away. *sniff*
But then I am going by modern standards. Maybe I am not charitable, but something I have noticed about British/Europeans is that they often look much older than they are, as if their childhoods weren't as healthy as they should be and the alcohol has taken its toll. But that could just be me.
sorry for the delay in answer...got called away by three telephone calls and a package delivery and the insect-spray man. *whew!* never rains but pours around here....
I wonder if Elijah Wood; Sean Astin; Billy Boyd and Dominic Monohan (sp?) would make good dwarves?
Ya done did good! :o)
We're slowly cleaning up the Living room and making space for the tree. I think I've gotten all my shopping done with the exception of two things Paul told me about last night, that he hadn't mentioned before! I think I can find both things locally, though, so I've got time. Have to get the driveway plowed first, so I can get out of it! The boys have to figure out how to use the snowthrower because it snowed about 4 inches after SSQ left for work!
They just don't know what they are missing!
It would be fun to have them in parts where they are so made up, it's hard to figure out who they are!
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