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'Hobbits Don't Live Here Anymore'.Oil on canvas
A bit rough round the edges, but a little painting I did many years ago at the age of 15. I'd just finished reading 'The Hobbit' and 'Lord of the Rings' by J R R Tolkien. I was sad the story had come to an end, so painted this to express my feelings at the time! Probably the same feeling everyone has when they finish a good book...not wanting to leave a perfectly realised world.
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Hi, Eva!
How're you doing?
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Hello, Steve, you are most welcome,
I've been busy with artwork, my music and life in general xD
Good to see you around and that you're keeping busy
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It's nice to hear from you again, Eva, and to see that you are keeping busy too!
deviantART has been wonderful for inspiring me to get things finished!
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yes, Steve, I know what you mean, how dA does get people motivated in
doing art work and completing them. I have done so many drawings
since last summer and a variety of work of birds and flowers.
My whole gallery has a complete change over since my former account and so I'm delighted with the support I have now from my dA friends and watchers~~
It has been a good experience for me~~
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I wish dA had been around when I was a young person, making my first forays into art! I could never have imagined that at some time in the future there would be the possibility to display my work to a potential audience of millions! It's an incredible privelege!
keep up the good work, Eva!
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It's a good painting - you should do more. I felt sad when the Hobbit ended too - had to start reading the appendices to continue my addiction and LOTR and then the only logical step was the Simarillion - but that's just a crazy book to follow
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Ha ha! I did that with Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit! Couldn't absorb enough, and like you I went on to the Silmarillion too. Not as gripping as the stories but still enjoyed reading it. More like the King James version of the bible!! Wasn't the Silmarillion compiled, or finished off by Tolkien's son?
Didn't really read anymore of his son's stuff, but did read other stories written by J R R. Like the Christmas letters to his children and books like 'Smith of Wooton Major', 'Leaf by Niggle' sticks in my mind(great one for religious artists!).
Loved his artwork/illustrations too!
Thanks, Alison!
I should have done more back then, because with it's popularity and fandom today I don't think I'd like to jump on the bandwagon!
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I bought the Christmas letters too haha but haven't gone on to his other works - yer I think his son filled in the blanks with the Silmarillion or at least put things in what he thought was the right order from his father's notes. it is very much a creation story which I love completely the romance of. I heard a saying about LOTR and that is "there are two types of people in the world those who have read it and those who are going to"
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Like Marmite!
I should imagine there are a few people who are tired of all the hype too!
I'd never have imagined the Lord of the Rings movie trilogy could have captured the feel of the story so well, though! The first Hobbit movie is out this year or next isn't it?
Leaf by Niggle is a story I can't remember the end of, but I will never forget the image of this artist/recluse...Niggle.. who is obsessed with completing an oil painting that starts off with a single leaf and ends up being a vast landscape! I've got a hankering to read it again!!
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Marmite - that's funny
Can't wait for the Hobbit Movie - I'll be a sucker like everyone else and when I see something odd in the film - I'll go "hey that's not in the book Peter!"
I'll have to look that title up - sounds like something I would enjoy reading.
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With it's director being del torro, it will at least be visually stunning!
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yer I think Del Torro was a good choice for director and even better that they didn't piss the fans off by keeping Peter Jackson out of it - so I'm please he's still in the thick of things just for the sake of continuity.
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Exactly so!
Hey you've got a new avatar!!
Sorry, mine's still blowing kisses!
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haha - yer your is still making me smile. I get bored with my avatars quickly but have little, well none actually, skills of animation so they will just be very boring. I designed this one as a pictorial version for my username to go on an "artist's book" while I was at uni and my lecturer called it a cliche - bitch - what would she know anyway!
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Ha ha ha! You make me laugh!!
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Many thanks! Ok for a young lad!
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I'm remember doing "abstract oil" paintings at 15 (more like splashes and swirls of canvas) 
Awesome work man
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Oh, I did plenty of splashes and swirls too!!
Thanks, mate! Glad you like it!
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Niiice man! To think I was listening to "Into the West" from Return of the King earlier.
This scene reminds me of the very end of Fellowship. 
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Me too! I'm so looking forward to that movie! One of my favourite stories and one of my favourite movie directors - del toro!
Is that the Annie Lennox version of 'Into the West'?
Thanks, David. I value your praise!
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Interesting story about the song. During the filming of the Lotr series there was a young aspiring film maker (probably in his 20's) who wanted to see how something like this was done, but he had a life threatening disease and knew he couldn't do anything longterm. Peter Jackson heard about the boy and invited him on the set for a few days and he might have even been able to film a few scenes (not sure on that). But he inspired so many people on the set and did a video blog that people saw, that when he finally died (not shortly after seeing the movie done) Peter Jackson wanted to dedicate a song to him and Annie Lennox ended up writing "Into the West" which although fits the hobbits going "into the west" is about the young film maker's final journey.
If you have the extended edition of the return of the king, that story is somewhere in there
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That's a cool story! I love Annie Lennox's music...I just didn't realize she'd sung this (where have I been!).
Have you seen Peter Jackson's zombie movie 'Braindead' or 'Dead Alive' as it's called over in your neck of the woods? I'm hoping it'll come on the telly again soon, then I can show the lads now they're a bit older! Very over the top splatter movie, but very funny! When I first saw it, I couldn't believe what I was seeing!!
Oh! By the way I didn't tell you that my wife and youngest and I saw Avatar 3d the other week. I thought we'd missed it, but a kind baby sitter looked after our little 'un and we saw a real 'experience' of a movie! By the end of it I can only describe that we all felt a bit like the Avatar in the movie. Like we really had visited another world!
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I hadn't seen that one, but we LOVE his movie "The Frighteners" with Michael J Fox. Peter Jackson's Pre LOTR phase was very "weird" to say the least
I knew you'd like Avatar. I'm happy you saw it in theaters. The end fight was both figuratively and literally out of this world.
What blew me away about the 3D was the details of the lightning bugs and other insects that had no part in the movie, each scene was a painting! It blew me away, I have to take my family to see it eventually
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I absolutely loved "The Frighteners". Thought it had a great story and ending to it, but the critics hated it!
I loved the final fight in Avatar too, but it was the first drop into the jungle that blew me away. I felt like I'd turned into the avatar!!
As you say, the phosphorescent glow of most of the plants was just plain wonderful and the bio-diversity was amazing! Everything just seemed so unbelievably believable...if you see what I mean!
In another 10 years time 3d tv's will be as common place as lcd's today, so we'll all be able to relive the experience in the comfort of our homes. That's going to be a funny contradiction!
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I saw this ad a long time ago for glasses so you could see "Real life in 3D" 
The years they put into this movie really was worth it and I'm willing to see it again. Just shows you, patience is a virtue
Did they hate the frighteners? Just shows you why I hate critics. Seriously though, I'm not sure what you think of M. Night. Shamalan and his movies like "the 6th sense, signs, unbreakable, lady in the water" he gets absolutely ripped over here for being to predictable but I love his movies. Maybe I just have weird tastes
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Ha ha!
I hate critics too!
I've not seen the 'Lady in the Water', but we have all the rest on DVD. How can they say any of those stories are predictable? Ha ha Signs had me really scared at one point...much worse than any horror film, 'cos there was a believable 'what if?' thing going on. The tension was real bump in the night stuff!
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Lady in the water got destroyed by the critics. Honestly though, it is one of my favorites from him, different from his normal stuff. It has a story book feel, I think that is why they gave it "thumbs down". Paul Giamatti (sp?)(the guy who was in the John Adams HBO miniseries and about a 100 other great things is in it too)
Although I wasn't a fan of 10,000 BC when my buddies and I went to see it, the theater was completely empty and we could talk and laugh at it. Which actually made the movie really enjoyable.
I liked signs too, although my friends would kill me for saying that
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Just googled 'Lady in the Water' and I still don't recognise it! I'm wondering if it even got released over here!
Don't take me too seriously on 10,000 BC, David! It just had a kind of seventies 'When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth' feel to it, which took me right back to my school days and Raquel Welch. But there was just something that appeals to me about it! I think I must be a sucker for pre-history movies or something, of which in my opinion there is a sad dirth! Come on Hollywood!
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If you can ever find a copy I recommend it. Just add it to the list of movies "Dave has recommended"
I was praying 10,000 BC was not your all time favorite movie of all time 
It was one of those movies being so bad it was watchable. Did you guys see Night at the Museum 2 with Ben Stiller? I've been meaning to watch that
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No!
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I still have to see it
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yes Sir! Ben Stiller has been in some stinkers but I always enjoyed the first night at the museum. Did you ever see Zoolander or Tropic Thunder?
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I was tempted to buy Tropic Thunder (as everybody says it good) at the local store just the other day, but I'd just bought District 9 (bluray) and we've already got the worlds largest collection of unwatched movies.
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I still have to see it. Our local movie rental place went out of business so we haven't seen anything new since last year
Definitely keep an eye out for zoolander - although it might be a little 'too far out there' - tropic thunder is definitely better
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Zoolander ...too far out there!? Oh no, the weirder the better, as far as I'm concerned!!
Just picked up the 3rd installment of the 'Bourne' series. Looking forward to watching that soon!
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