08-24-2003, 03:05 PM | #21 |
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Here's something that wasn't meant to be funny, but it made me chuckle -- in Queer Lodgings, Gandalf tells them how he followed Beorn and had to swim across the river. It put a funny picture in my head of Gandalf swimming freestyle across the river in the dead of night with his staff and grey cloak, etc. Swimming is not one of those activities I readily picture him doing!
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09-27-2003, 02:42 PM | #22 |
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one of my favorites is: "...and sat down in a hurry. He missed the stool and sat in the fender, knocking over the poker and shovel with a crash."
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09-27-2003, 04:49 PM | #23 |
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It's all in the voices. "Lazy lob", if said correctly, can make most people laugh (admittedly at you rather than with you).
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12-30-2003, 03:34 PM | #24 |
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Bilbo/Smaug discussion is also great:
ex. "I suppose you got a fair price for that cup last night?" he went on. "Come now, did you? Nothing at all! Well, that's just like them. And I suppose they are skulking outside, and your job is to do all the dangerous work and get what you can when I'm not looking - for them?..... "Truly songs and tales fall utterly short of the reality, O Smaug the Chieftest and Greatest of Calamities," replied Bilbo. "You have nice manners for a thief and a liar," said the dragon. "I don't know if it has occurred to you that, even if you could steal the gold bit by bit - a matter of a hundred years or so - you could not get very far? Not much use on the mountain side? Not much use in the forest? Bless me! Have you never thought of the catch? A fourteenth share.....But what about delivery? What about cartage? What about armed guards and trolls?.....You will hardly believe it, but poor Bilbo was really taken very aback...... "I have always understood," said Bilbo in a frightened squeak, "that dragons were softer underneath, especially in the region of the - er - chest."..... "Never laugh at live dragons, Bilbo you fool!" he said to himself, and it became a favourite saying of his later, and passed into a proverb.
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03-06-2004, 04:09 PM | #25 |
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good morning!
MY favorite parts:
"Good morning," said Bilbo... "What do you mean?" [Gandalf] said. "Do you wish me a good morning, or do you mean it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?" "All of them at once," said Bilbo... LOL that makes me laugh all the time (Bilbo feels uncomfortable, so he says,...) "Good morning!" ... "What a lot of things you do use 'Good morning' for!" said Gandalf. "Now you mean that you want to get rid of me, and it won't be good until I move off." LOL So that's all but I think they are funny ! |
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I absolutely love all the parts you guys have mentioned!
In addition, I love the whole scene where Gandalf turns up and defeats the Trolls! Starting with this quote: Quote:
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06-12-2004, 10:07 PM | #27 |
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I've just finished re-reading The Hobbit so it's been great fun reading all of your favorite comedic parts. I laughed at them, too, and really enjoyed the book again. Bilbo's conversation with Smaug is one of my favorite scenes.
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And Bilbo forgetting.. That's exactly what I would have forgotten too! And it can't have been too funny to ride a barrel in the ice cold water.. I also laughed hysterically when I read how golf was invented. You learn something new every day, don't you?
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tolkien was an amazingly funny writer!
my funniest bit is prob. the troll scene, or the arrival at beorn's house |
07-21-2004, 10:47 PM | #30 |
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I think the golf story tops everything! Hysterical!
And all those other things are so funny, too! Around our house, we all say "eggses" and "pocketses" now
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thanks for that picture, Olmer!
lol! i think it looks like he has jeans on.. maybe not. no.. that's wrong.. that's transferring humanity to other creatures! always will my image of elves be destroyed..
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08-18-2004, 11:16 AM | #34 |
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my favorite part has got to be the part where Gandalf says to the dwarves, "After all he is my friend and not a bad little chap. i feel responsible for him. I wish to goodness you had not lost him."
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I love how a lot of TOlkiens funniest lines from the Hobbit are totally out of context to whats going on. It sjust these little tidbits which are very funny. Man that guy was a genius.
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08-28-2004, 02:40 PM | #37 |
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I like when the dwarfs escape Mirkwood out of the barrels. I can just get apicture in my head of 13 dwarfs stuffed in to 13 barrels hehehehe.
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That has the makings of a funny song......
thirteen dwarves in thirteen barrels riding down the river to get to Dale They were captured by the elves and now their running thirteen dwarves in thirteen barrels......
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