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Well this is an new section for those lucky people who have met people from LOTR
This event was held in Milton Keynes UK between 3rd and 5th May 2003
I was very lucky to be there I met a great many LOTR actors and went to both the Fellowship and Two Towers screenings which had talks before them. Here is where the reports will be. Due to the size of my report I will be putting it on a seperate page.
HobbitLovers's Collectormania experience
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Ian Smith's (Interesting report)
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Thanks to Katchoo
Sarah's Pictures
DO NOT TAKE special permission has been given to me to put these pictures on this web site do not remove the rest of the image i.e take the head of Billy or Dom off. My friend would be very upset and she wants people to see these pictures but not to take them.
The lovely lucky girl
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credit to m4sure
If you would like your account on here or if you have met any of the other LOTR guys and want to write an report please email me at HobbitLOTRLover@aol.com Photo's are always good too but please email before you send the photo's and put an subject in the line something like I met Billy or who ever you met.
Edmonton
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Bree
aka Silme
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Bree
and friends with Billy
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clips from trent university talk
I met him at the Garneau Theatre, in Edmonton. He was wearing finely striped jacket overtop of a grey t-shirt, with dark denim jeans. The first I saw of him was on the stage, but he had lost his voice that morning so I could hardly hear him! After the show, he was a bit late for the Q & A session. The announcer said that he would be signing autographs on a table outside the doors. So, instead of wasting our time listening, over and over, about whether Billy would marry them or not, we headed straight out to the autograph table. To our surprise, we were the first ones there. A women helped us get arranged for Billy's arrival. In a couple of minutes, the fans started coming out of the theatre, and stood in line behind us. We were so excited, and my cheeks felt like they were on fire, Maeve and Bailey couldn't stop smiling either. Everyone was staring back towards the doors for him, but I knew that he wouldn't come through there! I stared at the entrance doors, thinking that he might have taken the outside way, and sure enough, he walked in through those doors a minute later! I screamed out in joy, and everyone stood up and shuffled, trying to get a good look at him! I was 3rd, first Bailey then Maeve, then me! I waited anxiously, but they didn't take long at all! It was finally my turn.
" This is gonna take a while!" I said while I slammed a foder full of books and pictures to be signed. He signed my poster first, then my Return of the King, then the Making of the movie book. But not all of it was for me. I got a picture signed for one, and 3 slips of paper for the others, then last I got him to sign two pictures for my high school friends.
"
You know that this isn't me right?" he asked puzzled, yet still in a kind
tone, smirking.
" Oh yeah! That is for my friends, they said that they
didn't have any other pictures for you to sign!" I replied, blushing even
more. One picture was of Orlando Bloom, on it he wrote, THIS IS NOT ME! BILLY
BOYD, and on the other, he wrote ROCK AND ROLL DUDE! BILLY BOYD. But I found it
really sweet that he was willing to sign everything, and when his manager (I am
pretty sure it was her!) started telling me off for taking to long, I only asked
for one last thing....
" Can I get a hug, too?" I asked shyly, turning towards him again, smiling like a lovesick child.
"
Ofcourse!" he replied in a kind voice and he got up and gave me a quick hug,
(did he ever smell nice, after actually relizing what happened a half hour later!).
"
Your just getting everything tonight!" he remarked as I left.
" BYE!
WE LOVE YOU BILLY!" and that was the last time I saw him!
Amanda B. from Edmonton
I was in the second row at the Garneau and got an excellent view (and, hopefully, some good pics) of Billy. Our poor sweetie had mostly lost his voice (probably our dry air) and had to speak in a husky almost-whisper that sounded verrry sexy. He quickly introduced the shorts (I swear I cannot remember what he said; I think it was the usual kind of thing about how it's wonderful to be able to share films with other countries and he hoped we like the shows, etc).
The first show was Sniper 470. The Billy-wanking scene was actually quite good: you get to see him stroke himself several times before he gives up. And I have to say I wouldn't have wanted to whack off to that virtual reality chick either - she had the pointiest, floppiest, weirdest tits I have ever seen. And although I am completely obsessed with Billy and *thought* I wanted to know absolutely everything about him, I realized that I didn't actually need to know what faces he makes when he takes a dump.
The other shows were fairly good too, especially Cry for Bobo or whatever the clown one was called - it was hilarious. They only showed us 6 films instead of 8; apparently 2 of them were never sent to Canada or something. Not a huge deal I guess, since I'm sure most of us were there for Billy, but it strikes me as something they should have known about in advance and not advertised incorrectly.
I won't take up space and time talking about the other films except to say that my best friend and I decided that in addition to the traditional pastimes of smoking and drinking, the other two major themes of Scottish life seem to be taking a crap and beating small animals to death, activities which were featured in several of the shorts.
Billy didn't stay for the films; he went for supper or something, and he was a little late getting back for the Q&A because he thought there were 8 shorts, not 6 (go figure).
The Q&A only lasted 5 minutes or so. I had a question, but I didn't put my hand up right till the end cause I was chickenshit, and by then it was too late. No offense to anyone out there who might have been the poser of one of these questions, but I thought most of them were really lame and a complete waste of Billy's and our time.
These are not in the right order, cause I forget what the right order was, but somebody asked what Billy thought of Edmonton so far, and he said he hadn't had a chance to see much of it but "The street I'm living on is really cool" (Translation: he was staying somewhere on Whyte Ave, maybe the Varscona?) That question was okay, but it was immediately followed with "So what do you think of Canada so far?", which I thought was pretty redundant. Also, those were both the kind of question you're obligated to give a politically correct response to no matter what your real opinon is, so what's the point of asking?
The only good questions were about if Billy felt isolated while filming Sniper 470 all by himself (he said he didn't because he wasn't really all by himself; the director, the cameraman, the makeup girl, and a bunch of other people were always there too), and how they filmed the space scenes (Billy said he practiced 'floating around his living room'). Oh, and someone asked what's up with the screenplay he and Dom are working on, and he said Dom's typing it up right now and there's been some interest in it.
Somebody asked if he supports the Scottish film industry (well duh, what do you think - he's here, isn't he??), a girl in front of me asked if he'd be in a picture with her (selfish and inappropriate during a general Q&A IMHO), and a girl behind me asked if he would marry her friend Jen cause she's in love with him (immature and a waste of time, again IMHO).
And somebody asked if he would show us his tattoo of the Elvish word for 'nine'. I thought this question was pointless because if you are informed enough to know not only that the Fellowship got tattoos *and* what the tattoos are of, you *must* also know they agreed not to show them publicly. So why waste everybody's time asking when you know he's going to say no.
Then Billy signed a very very small number of autographs and left. They had to kick us all out cause there was a 9:15 show waiting to get in.
I decided afterwards that although seeing Billy in person wasn't everything I had hoped for (I really wanted an autograph, dammit), it was more than I expected. He was really nice to everybody and funny and sweet, and the shorts were good too, and I made some new friends. And Billy did not disappoint me. I think I had been worried that he would say or do something that would somehow diminish my admiration for him, which would have made me sad. But nope - he managed to stay right up there on that pedestal.
Now
I can't wait to see him again!!