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.

[RosieCotton]

I think next time I watch Bakshi LotR, I'm gonna have to MST3K it :)

Heh...if you stick around here, you'll see references to "chat viewing", though it's been awhile since we've done one. We have a Yahoo chat room and another chat room set up on ecurbh's site, and once in awhile we'll all watch a movie together while chatting. It's a lot of fun! Takes some planning, of course, due to the different time zones and all, but we've had some pretty good sized groups occasionally.

[msdrby]

RE: your tagline. My dad used to joke about the saying "If it is worth doing, it is worth doing well"

He would switch up the words, "If is not worth doing well, it is not worth doing."

[Wneighbor]

How are you doin' on that math? I'm teaching a lot of geometry to 2 of my classes this week. I'm lovin' it. I love geometry! :-)

Ducking... my students groan and roll their eyes when I say that. I know they really want to throw things at me. LOL

[Sam Cree]

Yeah, I think history is fascinating too, although it is not really my hobby or anything. I think it's just something that I've become interested in as I got older, kind of like age also makes one wonder more about family roots.

At the moment I am finding total fascination with the 19th century, probably because its relationship to the 20th seems much closer and more obvious to me now than it did when I was younger.
Medieval history also seems very exotic to me.

I've got a fedora, in real tree pattern, issued for awhile by Ducks Unlimited, that I wear when I go up north, like to Manhattan or something. I'm sure I look like a damn fool in it, but have always liked the things, I guess from watching old movies.

[msdrby]

loved geometry. I got into doing the proofs. Everyone else moaned. One thing I remember is having to do an original proof of the Pythagorean theorem. Do you know how many times that thing has been proven and how difficult it is to come up with an original? It was fun :-)

[RosieCotton]

What are your favorite ones?

Hm...well, I don't have any Doctor Seuss now, but we really enjoyed those - I like the Bartholomew Cubbins ones...the 5000 hats and the one about Ooblek. If I have it right. ;-)

I mostly have lesser known ones...one about a baby bunny asking his mother what would happen if he got lost in various places - Mom used to read that to me and I'd never part with it. And Tikki Tikki Tembo. I had that one memorized. ;-) I think I also have some Encylopedia Brown books and some Edward Eager - loved Edward Eager books.

[Sam Cree]

I was just visiting an artist neighbor this morning, to admire some of her very good painting.

She made the point that in painting, too much planning can stifle the painting, which is true.

I responded by pointing out the obvious parallel in government: central planning, as practiced and preached by the Left results in poverty and mediocrity, while the random efforts of a free market with competition result in excellence and wealth.

Needless to say, as she is a leftist, like most artists, this got me an unappreciative look.

However, she is a nice lady anyway, not to mention a good artist.

[RosieCotton]

Chesterton's point was basically that you can do something you're lousy at, but still enjoy it and learn from it. For example, me and my music. And a lot of my other hobbies.

So it goes both ways!

[Fedora]

I think I even made a comment to PE that it was obvious that PJ had seen and/or studied the Bakshi version and based much of his work on that version.

I seem to remember seeing an interview where Jackson actually mentioned he had done this. Another scene where he follows Bakshi is Boromir's death scene. I think he took what was good in Bakshi but also learned from Bakshi's mistakes.

[Fedora]

Heh...if you stick around here, you'll see references to "chat viewing", though it's been awhile since we've done one. We have a Yahoo chat room and another chat room set up on ecurbh's site, and once in awhile we'll all watch a movie together while chatting. It's a lot of fun! Takes some planning, of course, due to the different time zones and all, but we've had some pretty good sized groups occasionally.

That sounds like a blast! :) What movies have you watched that way so far? I have a list of bad movies I keep handy for such things. . .

[msdrby]

Yeah, I think my dad was somewhat of a perfectionist.

[Fedora]

Yeah, I like the fedoras in old movies, too :) I like film noir, Bogart, that type of thing. I'm also interested in medieval and 19th century history like you are. My history supervisor specialized in European Intellectual history and his class on the 19th-century roots of WWI and WWII was very informative. What aspects of medieval and 19th-century history are you interested in?

[RosieCotton]

Mostly we've watched GOOD movies...just commented on them all the way through. Like THE Movies (LOTR). Also Casablanca, and I think some watched The Thirteenth Warrior. There have been others, too, but I missed a lot of 'em.

[Fedora]

Hm...well, I don't have any Doctor Seuss now, but we really enjoyed those - I like the Bartholomew Cubbins ones...the 5000 hats and the one about Ooblek. If I have it right. ;-)

I like those, and also To Think That I Saw it on Mulberry Street, McElligot's Pond, If I Ran the Zoo, If I Ran the Circus, Scrambled Eggs Super, Thidwick the Big-Hearted Moose, the Sneetches story, and the two Horton books. I guess I like those ones most because I love the way Seuss draws fantasy settings and animals. In some ways his creativity in that respect reminds me of Tolkien.

And Tikki Tikki Tembo. I had that one memorized.

Do you mean Rikki Tikki Tembo No Sa Rimbo Perri Berri Ruchi Pip Perri Pimbo (sp?!), who has fallen into the well? :)

I liked Encyclopedia Brown, too :)

[RosieCotton]

Yeah, THAT Tikki Tikki Tembo! I adored that book. Mom must have been soooo sick of it.

Star-bellied (and un-Star-bellied) Sneetches and Horton Hatches an Elephant were two we had on tape, which probably was a good thing...that and the pants with nobody inside 'em.

Also had Green Eggs and Ham memorized at one point. I could say the whole thing all the way through.

Sigh...probably used up brain cells very early in life. It would explain a lot!

[2Jedismom]

Learning how to figure perimeter and area of simple plane shapes. It's easy for both of us and we enjoy talking about it...actually went out and figured the perimeter and area of the screened-in porch.

Shows the forula, you know?

P=2xL+2xW
A=LxW

We measured the porch and then he set it up using the formula.

[Sam Cree]

Victorian especially, it has so many fascinating contrasts, the industrial age/ the birth of Marxism, the Wild West/ polite Victorian society, Impressionism/ the academics/ the Realists, etc. Plus, I have noticed that the Victorian ideal of feminine beauty is not much different from our own. Oh yeah, Victorian architecture is cool.

And I've read all those Patrick O'Brian books, which are set in the early 19th.

As for medieval, I'm not sure, the primitive weaponry is fascinating of course. Just the pure distance of those times from ours makes them fascinating.

[Sam Cree]

As a kid, I liked McGelligot's Pool.
Might have something to do with my later love of fishing.

[RosieCotton]

That's the one where he keeps pulling out weirder and weirder things, right? I know we read it, but didn't own it...so I don't really remember.

[RosieCotton]

By the way...speaking of odd movies and Dr. Suess, have you ever seen "The 5000 Fingers of Dr. T."?