The Hobbit Hole VI - And Whither Then? I Cannot Say...

[ecurbh]

Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!

And Whither Then? I Cannot Say...

• 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...

The Road goes ever on and on
Down from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the Road has gone,
And I must follow, if I can,
Pursuing it with eager feet,
Until it joins some larger way
Where many paths and errands meet.
And whither then? I cannot say.

[JenB]

Eh, I'm a loser with no life, I have time to remember these things.

[Fedora]

> I'm gonna be a party-pooper and pass on that whole list. The period between the end of the Second Age and, oh, "The Hobbit" is pretty much a blur.... I do much better on Hobbit-lore, and Elf knowledge.

Same here--like I said, that was a hard one.

Okay, since you're better on Hobbit and Elf lore, I'll post one last set of questions on Hobbits and then quit the quiz for the night, since I guess we're not supposed to have a class on Friday nights, LOL! Here are 10 Hobbit questions for the night:

1. What Hobbit was called "muddy feet" by Tom Bombadil?
2. Name the Hobbit who invented the game of golf, and explain how he did it.
3. What was it that the Took family usually hushed up?
4. Give the name of a Shire firm of auctioneers.
5. Which Hobbit families lived in Tightfield?
6. To whom did Bilbo leave an empty bookcase, and why?
7. Who was called Cock-Robin, and what was his duty when Frodo and Sam returned to the Shire?
8. What was Tunnelly?
9. What was the Hobbitish nickname for "stay at home"?
10. Give the village and area of the Eastfarthing where the Bolger family lived.

[JenB]

1. What Hobbit was called "muddy feet" by Tom Bombadil?
I'm going to guess... Sam

2. Name the Hobbit who invented the game of golf, and explain how he did it.
"Bullroarer" Took used a club to knock off the head of the goblin king Golfimbul and it rolled down a rabbit hole. Battle of the Green Fields, I think.

3. What was it that the Took family usually hushed up?
The Tooklings who went away and had adventures and were never seen again.

4. Give the name of a Shire firm of auctioneers.
Grub, Grub and Burrows

5. Which Hobbit families lived in Tightfield?

6. To whom did Bilbo leave an empty bookcase, and why?
Hugo Bracegirdle, because he borrowed books and never returned them. He ought to have been left something nasty.

7. Who was called Cock-Robin, and what was his duty when Frodo and Sam returned to the Shire?
Robin Goodfellow, a Shirrif.

8. What was Tunnelly?

9. What was the Hobbitish nickname for "stay at home"?


10. Give the village and area of the Eastfarthing where the Bolger family lived.
Crickhollow, perhaps?

I think I flunk this one. Oh well :)

[2Jedismom]

2. Bullroarer
3. The adventurous relatives
4. Grubb, Grubb, and Bun-owes
6. HUGO BRACEGIRDLE
7. Robin Smallburrow
8. A common name in the Shire.

[2Jedismom]

I'm off! Gonna drink some tea and have a hot soak, then read in bed for a bit.

Good night all!

[Fedora]

The book's answers--you two got quite a few of them right:

1. What Hobbit was called "muddy feet" by Tom Bombadil?

Farmer Maggot.

2. Name the Hobbit who invented the game of golf, and explain how he did it.

Bullroarer Took; he knocked off the head of the Orc king with a wooden club.

3. What was it that the Took family usually hushed up?

The fact that some of their members went on adventures.

4. Give the name of a Shire firm of auctioneers.

Messrs. Grubb, Grubb, and Burrowes.

5. Which Hobbit families lived in Tightfield?

The Gamwiches, the Gammidges, and the Ropers.

6. To whom did Bilbo leave an empty bookcase, and why?

Hugo Bracegirdle, a Hobbit who borrowed books but seldom returned them.

7. Who was called Cock-Robin, and what was his duty when Frodo and Sam returned to the Shire?

Robin Smallburrow; the hobbit of Hobbiton who became a shirriff under Lotho Sackville-Baggins.

8. What was Tunnelly?

A surname used by the Hobbits of Bree.

9. What was the Hobbitish nickname for "stay at home"?

Ranugad.

10. Give the village and area of the Eastfarthing where the Bolger family lived.

Budgeford in Bridgefields.

Whew! I'm all quizzed out for the night! :) Think I've gotta review "Silmarillion" and the appendices to RotK again so I can do better next time I try these questions!--I missed more than you two did :)

[Fedora]

> I'm off! Gonna drink some tea and have a hot soak, then read in bed for a bit.
>
> Good night all!

G'night!

[JenB]

I'm off too, maybe... well, good night!

[msdrby]

I'm here, but I am no good at the lore. Have only just gotten into the Silmarillion. Long read, that.

[Fedora]

> I'm off too, maybe... well, good night!

Good night! :)

[Fedora]

> I'm here, but I am no good at the lore. Have only just gotten into the Silmarillion. Long read, that.

Yeah, it was long for me, too, the first couple times! The last time I read through it I found it helped a lot to guide myself through the text using the illustrated summaries in Karen Wynn Fonstad's Atlas of Middle-Earth and David Day's Tolkien Bestiary. Made it easier to visualize what was going on.

[Graybeard58]

Is anyone else having any problems with Internet Explorer?
I've had nothing but problems for about a week now and finally down loaded Netscape7.1

I.E. would only let me have open one window at a time. The address bar would not remember web sites I had visited for quick reference and "My Favorites" lost everything in it and would not let me book mark any more.

So far I am having no problems with Netscape.

[Professional Engineer]

Msdrby and I have been using Netscape for some time now. Works great, and the multiple "tabs" are really neat.

[msdrby]

We are not having any troubles with netscape either. Seems to me to be a better browser than explorer. More able to be customized. Some things still have to use IE, but for the most part we don't use it anymore. It's too much of a hassle.

[Fedora]

I'm using Internet Explorer and not having any problems like that. Usually if I want to open more than one window I just go to the page that's open and under File I click "New: Window"; or else I click on the IE icon and it opens another window; is that how you do it? On the address bar the first thing I'd do is check your settings under "Tools: Options: History: Days to keep pages in history"; if that's not the problem I don't know what it might be. Not sure about the "My Favorites" thing, either; the only problem I've ever had with that is when Lop.com hijacked my browser and added a bunch of favorites links which I can't get rid of now. You might try scanning with an anti-spyware program in case you have something like Lop on your system. Those are just some suggestions based on my very limited experience; maybe someone who knows more about IE will have better suggestions.

[Graybeard58]

I've done all that. I have had probs for a week now and I'll just run Netscape for a while. Might just be my imagination but it even seems to be faster.

[msdrby]

Sure is quiet in the Hole tonight...

[Graybeard58]

11 days without a cigarette now. It's getting a little easier.

I started when I was about 12 years old. I am 58 now.

[300winmag]

11 days without a cigarette now. It's getting a little easier.

Congrats. And one of the side benefits is that food will start to taste better. We'll pray that you're now over the hump, and coasting downhill to victory.

[Graybeard58]

Everything smells sharper too (That's not always good)