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Reply 7160

jonnythemoose

Oh dear!! I hope he's ok... :frown:

I too am excited at Sainsbury's opening - and it's good timing too, I need to go shopping

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Reply 7161

jonnythemoose

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-17366992

About Stephen Fry backing the Hobbit - most read atm on the bbc! :redface:

What say you., emma?

making history

BTW Sainsbury's is ****ing amazing...

Reply 7162

fnm

Original post by jonnythemoose

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-17366992

About Stephen Fry backing the Hobbit - most read atm on the bbc! :redface:

What say you., emma?

Haha that's awesome....gonna be interesting to see what happens. Glad I did the freshers challenge last year :')

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Reply 7163

marcusmerehay

Sir Ian McKellen, Gandalf himself, has also offered support:

Gandalf's portrait hangs outside The Hobbit pub in Portswood, Southampton UK and has done for the last 20 years and more. I haven't been there but it's clearly not a place to ill-treat hobbits, elves, dwarves and wizards, in any way. So what's the problem? There hasn't been one until recently. Nor at Gandalf's Night Club in District Six CapeTown. Nor at The Hungry Hobbit, "a sandwich bar based near the author's childhood home," according to The Guardian.

In the past the Tolkien estate has forbidden any commercialisation of the works. So no Tolkien museums. No Tolkien rides at Universal. No theme park. That doesn't worry New Zealand overmuch. The country itself has become the Middle-earth ride.

But it worries Middle-earth Enterprises of Los Angeles. With no apparent explanation they are insisting that The Hobbit pub stop trading under that name. As if it were possible to control the way Tolkien and his characters have entered the culture. Did anyone try to ban "Gandalf for President" buttons? I wear mine with pride.

I am a part-landlord of a pub called The Grapes. So far no vintners' group has objected. That would be silly of course. As is this unnecessary pettiness. More Alice's Wonderland than Tolkien's Middle-earth. Harrumph.

I haven't yet talked to Stephen Fry about his disapproval of this Hollywood bullying but I'm with him all the way. All the way to The Hobbit pub once filming is over in July.

Reply 7164

tooosh

Where actually is the Flowers Estate? Heard so much about it and I know it's the quickest way for Bencraft people to walk back but never actually seen it. Google maps link?

Reply 7165

hothedgehog

Original post by tooosh

Where actually is the Flowers Estate? Heard so much about it and I know it's the quickest way for Bencraft people to walk back but never actually seen it. Google maps link?

It's 'the other side' of burgess road, the one opposite to the side the uni's on. It's basically got roads which are all named after flowers (hence the name!).

Reply 7166

tooosh

Original post by hothedgehog

It's 'the other side' of burgess road, the one opposite to the side the uni's on. It's basically got roads which are all named after flowers (hence the name!).

I've walked through Primrose Road and Violet Road many times to get to Honeysuckle Road from Glen :lolwut:

Reply 7167

hothedgehog

Original post by tooosh

I've walked through Primrose Road and Violet Road many times to get to Honeysuckle Road from Glen :lolwut:

I know... I personally don't think the flower estate is as bad as its name. There are much rapier places in southampton.

Reply 7168

hamijack

http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/9593899.Hobbit_pub_saved/

:woo:

Reply 7169

hamijack

Leaving on the hitch today! Excitement! :biggrin:

Reply 7170

marcusmerehay

Beth's gone to Hamburg today. :sad:

Reply 7171

chrislpp

Wow, a nights sleep in Monte without getting woken up every hour past 1am

Reply 7172

jonnythemoose

Good luck Jack!! Have a blast! :biggrin:

Reply 7173

fnm

Original post by chrislpp

Wow, a nights sleep in Monte without getting woken up every hour past 1am

Same stuck over in GE on a placement....quite depressing. And majorly eerie...

Reply 7174

chrislpp

Original post by fnm

Same stuck over in GE on a placement....quite depressing. And majorly eerie...

You should have been it on Christmas day

Reply 7175

jonnythemoose

Off on a three-week Eurojaunt tomorrow, first stop Naples...so I guess I probably won't be on here til I'm back. Unless I wind up in an internet cafe bored somewhere, have a nice Easter break kids! :smile:

Reply 7176

hothedgehog

Original post by marcusmerehay

Beth's gone to Hamburg today. :sad:

Me too... Strange times.

Reply 7177

Deutsch_Beth

Took GerSoc to Hamburg for the week and it was amaaaazing. Can't believe how much the group bonded and (thankfully) nothing went wrong (i.e no one lost their passport/went to hospital/got scarily drunk and had to be looked after). Oh and the city's pretty nice too. Happy times.