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Author:  Elenya [ March 27th, 2007, 4:02 pm ]
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Cool!

Movies:
Lord of the Rings Extended Editions
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
The Village
I Am David
The Patriot

Video games:
:blush: I've never actually played many video games

Songs:
(just a note-my favorite songs tend to change rather frequently. lol)
The Foggy Dew- Sinead O'Connor and The Chieftains
Woven Cord- Iona
Gartloney Rats Set- Craicmore
Now We Are Free- Lisa Cannon
Prelude in D Minor (Raindrop)- Chopin

Artists/Bands
Craicmore
Thousand Foot Krutch
Sinead O'Connor
Iona
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy soundtracks? :confused: Does that count? lol

Books:
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series by Douglas Adams
Sword at Sunset by Rosemary Sutcliff
Dawn Wind by Rosemary Sutcliff
Nemesis by Isaac Asimov
Author:  ethelfleda [ March 27th, 2007, 4:27 pm ]
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these will probably change very soon, but here goes:

Movies

1. rope (i love hitchcock, and this is his best in my opinion)
2. citizen kane (an absolute masterpiece)
3. billy elliot (british filmmaking at it's best)
4. withnail and i (because i love tragicomedy)
5. monty python and the holy grail (sheer hilarity)

Videogames

i don't play them

Songs

1. solitude sometimes is - manic street preachers
2. hurt - johnny cash
3. hallelujah - jeff buckley
4. mr tambourine man - bob dylan
5. a town called malice - the jam

Artists/Bands

1. bob dylan
2. damien rice
3. jeff buckley
4. the kinks
5. r.e.m./radiohead/manic street preachers (can't decide between them)

Books

1. the lord of the rings (i don't need to explain to you guys why it's great)
2. fran's war (really badly written, but i think it's an important book all the same)
3. 1984 (scary, darkly humorous and thought-provoking; and i love orwell's style)
4. beowulf (okay so it's a poem, put it's published as a separate book)
5. the bible (because it contains everything i could ever need to know)

Pieces of Music

1. main theme from swan lake - tchaikovsky
2. merry christmas mr lawrence - ryuichi sakamoto
3. the armed man - karl jenkins
4. aria from the suite antique - john rutter
5. mary young and fair - traditional irish folk
Author:  Estë Undómë [ March 27th, 2007, 4:29 pm ]
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Ok then, my list...


Movies:
1. The Lord of the Rings EE Trilogy
2. Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café.
3. Titanic
4. Moulin Rouge
5. The Matrix Trilogy

Videogames:
4. Spyro the Dragon (Original, PS1) << I'll leave that, that game was class. :lol:

Apart from that, I don't know. Do PC games count? If so, The Sims 2.

Songs:
1. Green Eyes - Coldplay
2. Nightswimming - R.E.M
3. Dosed - Red Hot Chili Peppers
4. Slow Cheetah - Red Hot Chili Peppers
5. At My Most Beautiful - R.E.M

Artists/Bands:
1. R.E.M
2. Red Hot Chili Peppers
3. Oasis
4. Norah Jones
5. Bruce Springsteen

Books:
1. FotR
2. RotK
3. Salem Falls - Jodi Picoult
4. My Sister's Keeper - Jodi Picoult
5. Northern Lights - Philip Pullman
Author:  Elven Archer [ March 27th, 2007, 4:41 pm ]
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Oh good Idea Elegost!

Top 5 Movies
1. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
2. Pirates of the Caribbean (all three)
3. Amazing Grace
4. National Treasure
5. Star Wars

Top 5 Videogames
1. Jack and Dexter
2. Lord of the Rings
3. Nancy Drew(well it's a computer game...)
4. uhhhh...
5. The Sims (well it's a computer game...)

Top 5 Songs
1. The Pirates who don't do anything (Reliant K)
2. Christmas shoes (Newsong)
3. Dare you to move (Switchfoot)
4. Ready to Love (spur58)
5. My Saviour my God (Aaron Shust)

Top 5 Artists/Bands
1. Reliant K
2. MercyMe
3. FFH
4. Stephen Curtis Chapman
5. Jeremy Camp
(6.Mark Schultz, 7. Howard Shore :P)

Top 5 Books
1. Lord of the Rings Trilogy
2. The Witch of Blackbird Pond
3. The Chronicles of Narnia
4. Nancy Drew
5. Uh.....My Side of the Mountain
Author:  Shadowcat [ March 27th, 2007, 5:11 pm ]
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OKay.... I might not actually HAVE 5 of all of these... :erm:

Top 5 Movies
1. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy... duh
2. The Producers
3. X3
4. Ghostbusters :P
5. Stranger Than Fiction

Top 5 Videogames [changed to computer games...:P]
1. BFME 1
2. Nancy Drew... Secret of Shadow Ranch
3. The Sims
4. Not telling, you'll laugh at me
5. Barbie Explorer.... [what? It's really fun!]

Top 5 Songs
I have absolutely NO IDEA.

Top 5 Artists/Bands
1. Howard Shore?
2. Liz Carroll
[shifty eyes]

Top 5 Books
1. Lord of the Rings Trilogy
2. Thursday Next series [hilarious! :laugh:]
3. The Nursery Crime series ^same author
4. Some series about cats that has a name that escapes me at the moment
5. Abhorsen series

^I just realized that those are all series...

And...
Top 5 Colors!
1. Red
2. Light blue
3. Green
4. White
5. Yellow
Author:  Guest [ March 27th, 2007, 6:28 pm ]
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Movies:

1. Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
2. The Two Towers
3. Eragon
4. Gladiator
5. Return of the King

Videogames:

1. Narnia
2. TTT
3. Eragon
4. The Hobbit
5. Harvest Moon

Songs:

1. Lion--Rebecca St James
2. I Will Believe--forgot who sings its
3. The Getaway--Hilary Duff
4. The Battle--Narnia soundtrack
5. Where--Libseth Scott

Artists/Bands:

1. Rebecca St james
2. Imogen Heap
3. Lisbeth Scott
4. Kutles
5. Bethany Dillon

Books:

1. The Last Battle
2. Eragon
3. Eldest
4. The Hobbit
5. The Return of the King

In no particular order that is.
Author:  Johnny's Fan [ March 27th, 2007, 8:08 pm ]
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Films -

1. The Lord of the Rings
2. The Phantom of the Opera
2. Pirates of the Caribbean: the Curse of the Black Pearl
4. Bringing Up Baby
5. Monster's Inc

Videogames

1. Outlaws
2. The Third Age
3. ROTK
4. TTT
5. Mario Kart Double Dash

Songs -

1. New York - Gerard Kenny
2. Masquerade - POTO OST
3. As If We Never Said Goodbye - Sunset Boulevard OST
4. The Sinking of the Reuben James - The Highwaymen
5. Stuck on You - Elvis Presley

Artists/Bands

1. The Highwaymen
2. Frank Sinatra
3. Johnny Cash
4. Take That
5. Fred Astaire

Books

1. Emma
2. Little Women
3. Murder on the Orient Express
4. Jamaica Inn
5. Rebecca

Pieces of Music

1. The Lighting of the Beacons - ROTK OST
2. In the Hall of the Mountain King - ?
3.The Flight of the Bumblebee - ?
4. Ride of the Rohirrim - ROTK OST
5. Arrival of the Queen of Sheba - Handel

Colours

1. Purple
2. Blue
3. Emerald green
4. Green
5. Midnight blue

Actors/Actresses

1. Michael Emerson (:P)
2. Katharine Hepburn
3. James cagney
4. Cary Grant
5. Bette Davis

Hey, peeps....you are meant to carry on the list and add your own category you know. ;)
Author:  Drew's Destiny [ March 27th, 2007, 11:34 pm ]
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Top 5 movies
1. Elizabethtown
2. Lord of the Rings
3. Pirate of the Caribbean
4. Harry Potter
5. X Men (the first one)

Top 5 video games
1. The Two towers Lord of the Rings
2. Lord of the rings the return of the king
3.American idol
4. the karaoke revolution games
5. Dance Revolution

top 5 songs
1. Learning to fly by Tom Petty
2. I just Wanna be Loved by Bon Jovi
3. Please forgive me (retro song and I have no idea who it is by)
4. Physical by Oliva Newton John
5. Can't get next to you by the Temptations
(these are like some of my all time favorties not just my recent fade ones. lol So that is particaly why i have so much retor...even though I never really got to see the 80s lol.)

Top 5 books ... (if religous ones count then 1. Bible) if not...
1. Lord of the Rings
2. Little Women
3. Harry Potter (from what I have read of them thus far. lol)
4. The Hobbit
5. Pirates of the Caribbean Dead man's chest...okay that probabley doesn't count...(laughs) You can't blame me for trying...um seriously maybe Pride and Prejudice

Top 5 artists/bands
1. Pink
2. Justin Timberlake
3. Nick Lachey
4. Billy Ray Cyrus
5. Bon Jovi

Top 5 colors
1. scarlet
2. midnight black
3. sea foam green
4. light pink
5. emerald green

Top 5 actors
1. Scott Bailey
2. Orlando Bloom
3. Tom Felton
4. Josh Holloway
5. Hugh Jackman

Top 5 actresses
1. Keira Knightley
2. Emma Watson
3. Marcy Rylan
4. Maybe... Elizabeth Mitchell
5. Emili de Ravine or Bonnie Wright

Top 5 sports
1. soccer
2. gymnastics
3. horse back riding...like in races and other competitions
4. dance..if that counts
5. ice skating (though I haven't done it myself...I want to learn how to and I love to watch it on tv)

Top 5 foods
1. ice cream
2. pizza
3. cheese sticks
4. onion rings
5. potatoe skins
(laughs at 5 foods...well I did ask what your favorite top 5 foods were not what you actualy ate or what was healthy. lol)
Author:  smeagollum [ March 27th, 2007, 11:41 pm ]
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Top 5 Movies
1. Lord of the Rings
2. Pirates of the Caribbean
3. Shrek!
4. Matrix
5. Star Wars

Top 5 Videogames
For what I play.
1. Burnout
2. Hobbit
3. Lord of the Rings
4. I don't know
5. I don't know

Top 5 Songs
Many.. but I will think of some
1. Everything to Me - Avalon
2. I Can Only Imagine - Mercy Me
3. You Make Me Happy - Ayeisha Woods
4. Wherever We Go - Newsboys
5. Shine - Newsboys

Top 5 Artists/Bands
I pick songs, not artists. (Personal preference)

Top 5 Books
1.Bible
2.Return from Tommorrow - ?
3.Of Mice and Men - ?
4.Into the Monkey House - ?
5. Lord of the Rings (Including Hobbit) - Tolkien

And....Top 5 Writing Untensils
1. Glitter gel pen
2. Marker
3. Pen
4. Chalk
5. Colored Pencil
Author:  The Nightingale [ March 27th, 2007, 11:47 pm ]
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Top 5 Movies
Les Miserables
Henry V
StarWars
LotR (as movies, not movies of the books)
Stormbreaker

Top 5 Videogames
Don't have an interest in these... waste of time.

Top 5 Songs
In Christ Alone
Before the Throne
Far From Here
Empty Chairs at Empty Tables
Indescribable

Top 5 Artists/Bands
Sara Groves
Michael Card
Blesk
Jars of Clay
Enya

Top 5 Books
Bible
LotR
Princess Bride
Les Miserables
They Loved to Laugh
Author:  LadyValaren [ March 28th, 2007, 8:25 am ]
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Well, may not have a top 5 in some of these but here goes:

MOVIES:
1. Lord of the rings trilogy :D:D
2. 300
3. Gladiator
4. National Treasure
5. X-Men (all of them)

VIDEO GAMES:
Do not play any

SONGS:
I really have no idea as I have way too many

BANDS/ARTISTS
1. Nightwish
2. Sonata Arctica
3. Loreena McKennitt
4. Enya
5. Within Temptation
honorable mention: Iron Maiden, Scorpions, Evanescence, and many more

BOOKS:
1. Lord of the rings
2. Vampire Chronicles (Anne Rice)

ACTORS:
1. Sean Bean :D
2. David Wenham :D
3. Hugh Jackman :D
4. Karl Urban :D
5. Gerard Butler
honorable mention: Josh Halloway, Clive Owen, Michael Fastbender (hope I spelled his name right) from 300

TV SHOWS:
1. The Sharpe Series (Sean Bean's show from the UK where he plays a British officer during the Napoleanic war)
2. Lost
3. Smallville
4. Gilmore Girls
5. Most Haunted

COLORS:
1. Black
2. Purple
3. Dark Red
4. Dark Blue
5. Light Pink

PIECES OF MUSIC:
1. Toccata and Fugue in D Minor (Bach)
2. Hall of the Mountain King (Grieg)
3. Anything from the LOTR
4. Piano Sonata No 5 (Beethoven)
5. Fur Elise

That is all I can think of ;)
Author:  Kess [ March 28th, 2007, 8:57 am ]
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Movies:

1. Serenity
2. Pirates of the Caribbean, Curse of the Black Pearl
3. Bridget Jones' Diary
4. The Sixth Sense
5. The Ring

Videogames:

1. CSI Miami
2. Sims 2

Just about the only ones I play really...

Songs:

1. What you're made of--Lucie Silvas
2. All by myself-- :blink: The one off Bridget Jones...
3. All at once--The Fray
4. Chasing Cars--Snow Patrol
5. Beautiful--Christina Aguleria

Artists/Bands:

1. The Feeling
2. The Fray
3. Lucie Silvas
4. P!nk
5. Snow Patrol


Books:

1. The Apprentice--Tess Gerritsen
2. The Torment of Others--Val Mcdermid
3. Cold Shoulder--Lynda laPlante
4. Break no Bones--Kathy Reichs
5. Ptolemy's Gate-- Jonathan Stroud (Yes, I know this one is the odd one out amongst all my crime novels)

Colors:
1. Turquoise
2. Storm Blue
3. Grey
4. Dark Purple
5. Black

Tv Shows:
1. The Wire in the Blood
2. Bones
3. Doctor Who
4. Top Gear
5.Grey's Anatomy
Author:  Antigone [ March 28th, 2007, 1:56 pm ]
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Top 5 Movies
1. All three LotR babies
2. Monty Python and the Holy Grail! :roll:
3. Men In Thights!
4. Dune
5. Pirates of the Carribean, I & II

Top 5 Videogames
1. Age of Empires :D
2. Civilization II
3. Lineage II
4. old school Warcraft -- just because I played it when I was six, lol
5. Spider Solitaire!!!!

Top 5 Songs
1. Tenth Man Down - Nightwish
2. Anywhere - Avantasia
3. The Unforgiven - Apocalyptica
4. Cloud Connected - In Flames
5. Slaying The Dreamer - Nightwish

Top 5 Artists/Bands
1. NIGHTWISH ♥
2. Apocalyptica
3. Metallica
4. Avantasia
5. In Flames

Top 5 Books
1. LotR. Face it
2. Dune - Frank Herbert
3. Priestess of the White - Trudi Canavan
4. Hitch-hiker's Guide To the Galaxy - Douglas Adams (DNA lol)
5. Literature textbook :P


Can't think of anything to add ...
Author:  Elenya [ March 28th, 2007, 4:20 pm ]
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Hm, here's more of my faves for some of the new catagories

Tv shows-
Stargate Atlantis
Stargate SG-1
Star Trek
Erm...I don't watch that much tv. lol

Colors-
Turquoise
Orange
Lime green
Blue
Silver

Pieces of music-
Danny Boy
Raindrop prelude-Chopin
Praeludium in E Minor by Mendelsohnn
Toccata in D Minor by Back
In the Hall of the Mountain King-Grieg
Author:  tim4x [ March 28th, 2007, 5:11 pm ]
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Films -

1. Donnie Darko
2. The Rules of Attraction
2. Little Miss Sunshine
4. Children of Men
5. Hannibal Rising / A Very Long Engagement /Shaun of the Dead / 300

Videogames

1. Shadow of the Colossus
2. Halo
3. The Third Age
4. Age of Empires
5. Prince of Persia

Songs -

1. Starlight - Muse
2. Hang Me Up to Dry - Cold War Kids
3. Robbers - Cold War Kids
4. Thoughts of a Dying Atheist - Muse
5. Mr. Brightside - The Killers

Artists/Bands

1. Muse
2. Cold War Kids
3. The Killers
4. Jeff Buckley
5. MCR / AAR

Books

1. The Eagle of the Ninth - Rosemary Sutcliff
2. Cell - Stephen King
3. Gathering Blue - Lois Lowry
4. King of Shadows - Susan Cooper
5. Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury

Pieces of Music

1. The Gravel Road - The Village OST
2. Woad to Ruin - King Arthur OST
3. Remember Us - 300 OST
4. Main Title / The Trenches - A Very Long Engagement OST 5. Cellar Door - Donnie Darko OST

Colours

1. Black
2. Red
3. Orange
4. Yellow
5. Dark Blue

Actors/Actresses (In no order)

Gaspard Ulliel
Gerard Butler
James Van Der Beek
Clive Owen
Paul Dano
Ray Stevenson

TV shows

1. Stargate
2. Bones
3. Dr. Who
4. Rome
5. Saved

Places you've vacationed at:

1. San Francisco
2. Myrtle Beach
3. Colorado/Arizona/Utah
4. NYC
Author:  ethelfleda [ March 28th, 2007, 6:32 pm ]
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since people have already added new categories since my first post, here's an update (because i have nothing better to do with my time):-

foods

1. salad (seriously - i love it)
2. chicken (in any form except live)
3. toast (with jam/butter/chocolate spread/pate)
4. ice cream (especially toffee fudge)
5. my own homemade flapjack

places i've been on vacation (bearing in mind i rarely go on holiday)

1. dublin, ireland
2. the random little irish village i stayed in whose name i can't remember
3. st. david's, wales
4. pocklington boarding school, yorkshire (went there for an amazing summer school)
5. bath & west showground, gloucestershire (went there for soul survivor, a big christian event)

actors/actresses

1. christopher eccleston
2. james mcavoy
3. richard e. grant
4. audrey hepburn
5. viggo mortensen

tv shows

1. neighbours
2. doctor who
3. torchwood
4. have i got news for you
5. the mighty boosh

comedy shows (none of these run anymore so can't come under tv shows)

1. black books
2. blackadder
3. dinnerladies
4. fawlty towers
5. coupling
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