The Elephant In The Room

Dominic Monaghan, Billy Boyd, Elijah Wood and Viggo Mortensen all taking the piss out of Orlando Bloom for going on about a cracked rib too much, while Orlando Bloom desperately tries to wriggle out of talking about it (special mention to Elijah Wood’s “oh it hurts, babes, and I can’t ride the horse, babes” and Viggo Mortensen’s “they can be very fragile, elves, especially the…Mirkwood strain…”)

Ian McKellen commenting that “they never did find any suitable underwear for Gandalf…”

Dominic Monaghan going on and on about how Viggo Mortensen apparently had a crush on one of the Rohirrim extras (who like a lot of the Rohirrim extras was a woman in a fake beard) while Vigoo Mortensen just mutters “one could perhaps say something about Mr. Monaghan’s…proclivities…”

Dominic Monaghan’s imitation of John Rhys-Davies ordering food at a restaurant for the whole cast. “You have partridge? BRING THE PARTRIDGE!”

John Rhys-Davies talking about an incident with the Lothlorian boats and saying “if an elf and a dwarf are in a boat…and…the boat goes under…let us say that the blame was not placed on the elf” while Orlando Bloom splutters “he’s a big guy, man!” 

Elijah Wood talking about how the hobbit actors shared a trailer with Ian McKellen and sometimes they would hear inarticulate bellows of protest from his side when they played loud music in the mornings

Viggo Mortensen talking about how, while filming with those same boats, Kirin Shaw (Elijah Wood’s scale double) started telling him “if the boat tips over…save yourself…I can’t swim.” 

Elijah Wood describing how Sean Astin would try to direct the helicopters to land while they were on location, while the other three hobbits were screwing around and throwing pinecones at each other

Christopher Lee recounting how he had so much trouble going up some steps in Orthanc with his long robe that he stopped in the middle of the scene and said, “I cannot get up these goddamn steps, Peter.” 

OpenAI scraped the entire web. All of which had been a labor of love from humans. Wikipedia is the backbone of a lot of LLMs, and that was volunteer human labor. They stole it and now they're selling it back to us.

Until Grace slips out a sentence along the lines of "could you give me a little grace here" and Rocky immediately points out he used a word wrong so Grace has to explain that yeah, grace means elegance but it can also mean mercy sometimes too.

good mornings a wizard and then immediately implies he should be dead

can’t make it through a meeting he doesn’t even want to be at without chiming in with his opinion

plans to walk to erebor

tells elrond lord of rivendell that he’s full of shit to his face 

avoids bad situations by just falling to the floor

tells a weird and scary creature that lives in the dark and just killed an orc with a rock and is clearly contemplating eating him his full name and address when asked 

dramatic reveals™

tackles an orc - very poor to entirely useless sense of self preservation

can’t stop himself from twanging what it very obviously a ginormous spider web - bagginses obviously unfamiliar with arachnids as a species generally i guess 

remembers instructions well even if he can’t get others to follow them 

steals dwarves 

asks strangers for their names 

makes thorin oakenshield nearly cry in front of the whole town while he’s trying to be majestic 

keen eyes

has no idea what he came all this way to steal

will do whatever it takes to save his dwarves 

look i can’t even joke about this. he loves thorin so much. he fears for him but is never afraid of him. he goes back to thorin’s side again and again and again, even when it might be dangerous. he loves thorin so much and he’ll do whatever it takes. 

including telling a wizard to his face to fuck off and charging head on into an ambush

“i know you must honor him in that way, but to me he was never that. he was…he was…” 

@medic981 @xjsteph