so at the end of the japanese conference...

[rodneyscat]

...after the hobbits have done their share of name card trading, Elijah asks something about the card he's holding, and when he gets an answer everybody starts laughing, Elijah looks embarrassed and whatnot. What's that all about? Anybody knows?

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[lindz04.livejournal.com]

I dont know.. what did the cards say?

[rodneyscat.livejournal.com]

I think they were name cards, but I'm not sure anymore if all the cards were name cards!

[uluviel.livejournal.com]

i'm just going on a guess here, but since he and dom and billy had traded name cards beforehands, maybe he was told he held dom or billy's name card? and he'd just had a bunch of pictures taken with it.

or maybe he just held it upside down :D (although i think he would've noticed that, since the card was folded in two, the opening at the bottom)

[rodneyscat.livejournal.com]

If he'd just been holding the wrong name, there must have been someone else also holding a wrong one and it looked like everybody was laughing at him and he was the only one 'embarrassed'. He laid his card on the ground instead of just trading it back for the right one. I almost thought everybody had a name card and he was holding the non-smoking sign or something ;)

[bunniewabbit.livejournal.com]

I turned the volume waaaaay up and heard Elijah say, "How does this translate, exactly?" But then I can't hear what the reply is. Whatever it was, they all seemed to think it was awfully funny. I hope we get a transcript!

*uses icon on you*

[rodneyscat.livejournal.com]

Hold while I'm squeeing over your icon...

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Heh!! Dork! :D

Ok, yeah, that's what I did too and (like I say to uluviel *points up*) I thought maybe he wasn't even holding a name card! Will we ever know?! Argh!

[betterintype.livejournal.com]

if there are screencaps i could try to translate for you. I studied japanese for 3.5 years.

[rodneyscat.livejournal.com]

You did?!?!

I can't make screencaps myself, but I'll ask around (my version download is good enough for me but not good enough to really read the cards, so even if I could make a screencap it wouldn't be very helpful).

[betterintype.livejournal.com]

ok. but yes, i did :)

[lilithlotr.livejournal.com]

Is there anywhere I can still get the compressed version? I missed it first go-round.

[rodneyscat.livejournal.com]

I got mine from slightlytricky but she had to put it down because it was too much for her server to take. I can copy it on a cd if you like. Is there anything else you haven't got that I might have? Because there'll be plenty of room for more stuff on that cd of course.

[lilithlotr.livejournal.com]

I've got NOTHING from this year that wasn't easily available. I just got WM Recorder but I haven't had time to use it yet--my schedule is just insane right now. So, any of the Japan stuff, those behind-the-scenes clips from the Japan site--anything like that?

Can I send you anything in return? I have hi-res scans of about 40 of Oleg's photos of Orli, Dom and Elijah now.

[rodneyscat.livejournal.com]

Most of what I've got is stuff that everyone else already has and is still available at frodoandsam.net. I haven't seen any of those streamload behind the scene clips from that Japan site as downloads, so I can't help you there I'm afraid. I've got the 'Sniper470' download that was on the net a while ago. Have you got that?

I'll just wait for you to answer this, then I'll burn the cd and send it. You don't happen to have that complete Japanese Press Conference 2002 thingy do you? I know some people have it, I've just got the seperate clips.

[lilithlotr.livejournal.com]

I think I've just got the separate clips, too. I've got all the stuff from Frodosndsam.net too. Just hold off and I'll see if I can't use WMrecorder to make my own copy. It's a shame to spend all that postage for one file!

[iolanthe-rosa.livejournal.com]

Are these good enough or maybe they're too blurry. The pics with them holding the cards are at the bottom:

http://geeked.ejwsites.net/japan_press.html

[betterintype.livejournal.com]

from what I can see of the card he's holding, it translates to his name, "iraijah uoodo"... Elijah Wood.

[rodneyscat.livejournal.com]

Undone made this (http://www.xs4all.nl/~dutche/epa.jpg) cap. Thanks for the info! If you read the rest of this entry, you'll get an idea of what's it all about :D

[betterintype.livejournal.com]

k well in that cap, peter is holding andy's namecard, and andy is holding peter's. :P Elijah's got his own.

[msallegro.livejournal.com]

Elijah asks what the name cards say, and the translator says "it says 'I am Elijah'" and he asks again, "okay, but what's the literal translation of the characters" and the translator laughs and says "Elijah!" which causes everyone to laugh at him. :)

[rodneyscat.livejournal.com]

Thanks. It's a lovely little bit and between the comments and emails I've received I get an idea of what is being said.

[mithlondewen.livejournal.com]

....conference? is it a vid clip or summat?? *clueless*

[rodneyscat.livejournal.com]

You can view the clip here (http://www.excite.co.jp/cinema/special/lotr3/). It's an hour worth of Japanese press conference of a couple of days ago.

[mithlondewen.livejournal.com]

thank you!!