Loni's Life

This week's pizza and movie night was The Lord of The Rings: The Two Towers (2002)...   Another long film; extended battle scenes; but decent film.   I even refrained from making Star Wars commentary.   I mostly restrained myself during The Black Gate scene.. but  will admit to sending a text to Mama with what was going thru my head at the time... that I didn't start humming the scene was a small miracle... ROFL!

So this week I scrambled to complete my homework so that my summer Pizza & Movie Night with Hunter to start The Lord of the Rings trilogy would be unaffected... woohoo, got that done.   I enjoyed it and am looking forward to the next installment... but here was a FB thread on my thoughts... ME: My viewing companion did not appreciate my comparisons of some scenes in Fellowship of the Rings to some in Star Wars (Episode IV)... Mama:  He said you were wrong. Deb:  that I'd have to hear...might be interesting! Hunter:  In case you were wondering, the book of the Fellowship of the Rings was published in 1954, 23 years before Star Wars Episode  IV. So the notion that they "stole this from Star Wars" is about as ignorant as saying the concepts were stolen from Harry Potter. Mama:  Ahhh, I don't have a horse in this race. I am enjoying sitting on the sidelines this week and hearing the banter while I quilt. ME: I never said it was st...