The Hobbit Hole XXXV - ...is Water Hot that smokes and steams.

[HairOfTheDog]

Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!

• First thread: New Zealander builds Hobbit hole
• Second thread: The New Hobbit Hole
• Third thread: The Hobbit Hole III - Journey to the Cross-roads! (Congratulations, we filled it up!)
• Fourth Thread: The Hobbit Hole IV - The Road Goes Ever On...
• Fifth Thread: The Hobbit Hole V - Where Many Paths and Errands Meet...
• Sixth Thread: The Hobbit Hole VI - And Whither Then? I Cannot Say...
• Seventh Thread: The Hobbit Hole VII - But not yet weary are our feet...
• Eighth Thread: The Hobbit Hole VIII - Still round the corner we may meet...
• Ninth Thread: The Hobbit Hole IX - A sudden tree or standing stone
• Tenth Thread: The Hobbit Hole X - That none have seen but we alone.
      Eleventh Thread: Wedding Edition: The Hobbit Hole XI - No One Admitted Except on Wedding Business!
• Twelfth Thread: The Hobbit Hole XII - Tree and flower and leaf and grass
• Thirteenth Thread: The Hobbit Hole XIII - Let them pass! Let them pass!
• Fourteenth thread: The Hobbit Hole XIV - Hill and Water Under Sky
• Fifteenth thread: The Hobbit Hole XV - Pass them by! Pass them by!
• Sixteenth Thread: The Hobbit Hole XVI - Still round the corner there may wait...
• Seventeenth Thread: The Hobbit Hole XVII - A new road or a secret gate...
• Eighteenth Thread: The Hobbit Hole XVIII - Though we pass them by today...
• Nineteenth Thread: The Hobbit Hole XIX - Tomorrow we may come this way...
• Twentieth Thread: The Hobbit Hole XX - And take the hidden paths that run...
• Twenty-first Thread: The Hobbit Hole XXI - ...Towards the Moon or to the Sun.
• Twenty-second Thread: The Hobbit Hole XXII - ...Apple, thorn, and nut and sloe
• Twenty-third Thread: The Hobbit Hole XXIII - Let them go! Let them go!
• Twenty-Fourth Thread: The Hobbit Hole XXIV - Sand and Stone and Pool and Dell...
• Twenty-Fifth Thread: The Hobbit Hole XXV - Fare you well! Fare you well!
• Twenty-Sixth Thread: The Hobbit Hole XXVI - Home is behind, the world ahead
• Twenty-Seventh Thread: The Hobbit Hole XXVII - And there are many paths to tread
• Twenty-Eighth Thread: The Hobbit Hole XXVIII - Through shadows to the edge of night
• Twenty-Nineth Thread: The Hobbit Hole XXIX - Until the stars are all alight
• Thirtieth thread: The Hobbit Hole XXX - Then world behind and home ahead...
• Thirty-First ThreadThe Hobbit Hole XXXI - Mawwage is what bwings us togethew today!
• Thirty-second thread: The Hobbit Hole XXXII - Sweet is the sound of falling rain
• Thirty-Third thread (Our coming-of-age thread): The Hobbit Hole XXXIII - And the brook that leaps from hill to plain...
• Thirty-fourth thread: The Hobbit Hole XXXIV - But better than rain or rippling streams...

Sing hey! for the bath at close of day
That washes the weary mud away!
A loon is he that will not sing:
O! Water Hot is anoble thing!

O! Sweet is the sound of falling rain.
and the brook that leaps from hill to plain;
but better than rain or rippling streams
is Water Hot that smokes and steams.

O! Water cold we may pour at need
down a thirsty throat and be glad indeed;
but better is Beer, if drink we lack,
and Water Hot poured down the back.

O! Water is fair that leaps on high
in a fountain white beneath the sky;
but never did fountain sound so sweet
as splashing Hot Water with my feet!

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[HairOfTheDog]

Also: It's JRR Tolkien's birthday today!

Thread here: Tolkien’s Birthday: Raise a glass!

[RosieCotton]

Hooray! New digs! With a lovely couple come to visit!

And on the good professor’s birthday - very fitting indeed!

~sip~

[Rocko]

Happy Birthday, J.R.R.!

[Bear_in_RoseBear]

Well, I guess JRRT's birthday is as good a day as any to start a new thread...

[HairOfTheDog]

Ping to new thread... Welcome especially ExGeeEye and his new MissusGeeEye :~)

[Rose in RoseBear]

Hi, all!

[Rb ver. 2.0]

In before 10, something ain’t right!

[darkangel82]

Good evening.

[JenB]

Er, that’s an interesting title.

[HairOfTheDog]

Well, it’s what came next :~)

[RosieCotton]

Howdy, Rose! Haven’t seen you around in awhile!

[Ramius]

New thread... And I didn’t even know there was anything wrong with the old one.

[HairOfTheDog]

I guess it was crowded and cluttered... folk were starting to complain. :~)

[JenB]

Hey, we’re now delegates to our county convention. Heh.

[HairOfTheDog]

You are? Cool!

[RosieCotton]

Considering all the cold and snow folks are getting...it’s kind of comforting.

[RosieCotton]

Considering all the cold and snow folks are getting...it’s kind of comforting.

[JenB]

Yeah, nobody else wanted to be so we volunteered. It’s in March.

[Xenalyte]

Somewhere in one of my innumerable boxes of stuff, I have a vinyl album - remember those? - that has Tolkien reading poems and singing songs (including this one) on the front, and on the back he reads "Riddles in the Dark."



Some dude is selling this one on eBay - it's the only image I could find, so I guess I'll pimp his auction in return for yoinking his pic.

[darkangel82]

Good for you. I don’t have the stomach for politics right now.

[Bear_in_RoseBear]

The geek in me says: Neat!

[Lil'freeper]

Hello new thread!

[osagebowman]

Evening Hair and ALL ; Great picture, Mr & Missus Exgeeeye coming through the famous round door.

[osagebowman]

Nice job on getting 11,111 post. It had ‘Bear’ written all over it.

[Old Sarge]

Good Evening, fellow Middle-Earth Denizens!

I had posted a birthday post here tonight, but more than happy to visit the Hole, as well!

So, let's have a drink - after all, it comes in pints...

[Bear_in_RoseBear]

Thanks! :-) I'm glad I decided to spam for it, before the thread was closed.

[HairOfTheDog]

You can say that again...

[paudio]

Why didn’t they wear Hobbitses’ costums?

[RosieCotton]

Am I the only one getting upstream server errors?

[HairOfTheDog]

I haven’t gotten any errors ???

[darkangel82]

I just got it too. Quite annoying.

[HairOfTheDog]

I think it’s hard to explain to the aunts and grandmothers ;~)

[Old Sarge]

I’m not getting errors, but the forum is crawling - must be all the Iowa traffic tonight.

[HairOfTheDog]

Is it a FR issue or something wrong with the images on the thread?

[Graybeard58]

I’m watching that smarmy, fake, two bit, ambulance chasing, phoney, J. Edwards. I’m about to puke.

But hello to all anyway, thanks for the ping.

[darkangel82]

Probably a FR issue, nothing wrong with the thread.

[RosieCotton]

It’s not an image error...it’s one of those errors that FR does sometimes when it’s busy or messed up. Hence my double post. ;-)

[Graybeard58]

Same thing happening here. Hillary is on Fox blabbing right now - probably her fault.

[SuziQ]

I'll have to wait until next month to toast the good professor. Can't drink with my meds. ;o)

What a great picture to use for the new thread!

[Corin Stormhands]

Well, I’m here.

Just finished watching Virginia Tech lose to Kansas. At least, contrary to what Mike Huckabee said, it wasn’t boring.

[darkangel82]

I just finished watching that too. Tech was just not on their game tonight.

[Bear_in_RoseBear]

I didn't want to say anything, but I was rooting for Kansas...

[Corin Stormhands]

Yeah, they never really had it together from the beginning.

[Corin Stormhands]

[Bear_in_RoseBear]

LOL! I have no response to that, so I'll just go to bed. ;-) Good night!

[Corin Stormhands]

Goodnight Irene.

[RosieCotton]

Huh...fascinating. It’d be interesting to hear what sort of melody he had in mind for some of the hobbit songs.

I’m sure a great deal of what has been made of his books would horrify him. ;-)

[RosieCotton]

*sigh* It’s all your fault.

I decided to start doing a little looking into convection ovens tonight (I did get that bonus, after all...), and ended up in full-bore obsessive-compulsive research mode. I hate it when I do that. Especially as I usually end up even more confused than I was to begin with. There are combo units, convection oven only units, some “convection” ovens that are really just toaster ovens...etc. And of course most folks only review things they either really hate or really like, so it’s hard to get a balanced view of anything.

The internet makes life more difficult sometimes. I think it’s better sometimes to just impulse buy. :-\

But I sure like the idea of being able to bake pizza and bread and cookies...and maybe make roasts or roast small fowl or such like...

[darkangel82]

Hollywood always screws up everything...

[darkangel82]

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