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The Hobbit Hole VIII - Still round the corner we may meet...
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Posted on 04/06/2004 6:53:09 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog

Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!

Still round the corner we may meet...

New verse:

Upon the hearth the fire is red,
Beneath the roof there is a bed;
But not yet weary are our feet,
Still round the corner we may meet
A sudden tree or standing stone
That none have seen but we alone.
Tree and flower and leaf and grass,
Let them pass! Let them pass!
Hill and water under sky,
Pass them by! Pass them by!

Still round the corner there may wait
A new road or a secret gate,
And though we pass them by today,
Tomorrow we may come this way
And take the hidden paths that run
Towards the Moon or to the Sun.
Apple, thorn, and nut and sloe,
Let them go! Let them go!
Sand and stone and pool and dell,
Fare you well! Fare you well!

Home is behind, the world ahead,
And there are many paths to tread
Through shadows to the edge of night,
Until the stars are all alight.
Then world behind and home ahead,
We’ll wander back to home and bed.
Mist and twilight, cloud and shade,
Away shall fade! Away shall fade!
Fire and lamp, and meat and bread,
And then to bed! And then to bed!

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To: Scott from the Left Coast
Har!
1,401 posted on 04/12/2004 8:27:07 PM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast
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To: Scott from the Left Coast
Har!
1,402 posted on 04/12/2004 8:27:07 PM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast
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To: Scott from the Left Coast
Hmmmm...... You mean you wouldn't o' pushed him off the ledge? Just think, we elves woulda had a lot easier time of it if that stupid Isildur hadda gone over the edge back then!
1,403 posted on 04/12/2004 8:27:11 PM PDT by Wneighbor (Texas. It's a whole other country... and we support OUR president!)
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To: Scott from the Left Coast
Do tell?
1,404 posted on 04/12/2004 8:27:20 PM PDT by Rose in RoseBear (HHD [... hmmm ...])
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To: Corin Stormhands
Heh...an honest precious.

The Dwarf's still got it!
1,405 posted on 04/12/2004 8:28:28 PM PDT by Corin Stormhands (More people have died in Ted Kennedy's car than in this tagline.)
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To: Rose in RoseBear; Corin Stormhands
ARGGGHHH! My ISP started hiccupping on me while I was sneaking and the DWARF zapped me (AGAIN!)

Oh the shame (AGAIN!)

1,406 posted on 04/12/2004 8:28:37 PM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast
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To: Rose in RoseBear
they crack and crumble at the slightest provocation.

So, you didn't "help" it crack and crumble did you? :-)

I can't think what I mighta learned from any of my English teachers!

1,407 posted on 04/12/2004 8:29:09 PM PDT by Wneighbor (Texas. It's a whole other country... and we support OUR president!)
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To: Corin Stormhands
I am officially 16 days older than the Mrs. I tell her that when we met, time stood still for me... ...and she caught up.

Oh, I'm sure that one goes over real well! :-)

1,408 posted on 04/12/2004 8:30:17 PM PDT by Wneighbor (Texas. It's a whole other country... and we support OUR president!)
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To: Wneighbor
No, I wouldn't have pushed ME off the ledge, which the syntax implied. Well I prolly wouldn't have pushed him off either, given that fate was against it.
1,409 posted on 04/12/2004 8:30:41 PM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast
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To: Scott from the Left Coast
oops!
1,410 posted on 04/12/2004 8:30:45 PM PDT by Wneighbor (Texas. It's a whole other country... and we support OUR president!)
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To: Scott from the Left Coast
Oops... sorry bout the syntax. I meant wouldn't you o' gone ahead and pushed Isildur off! I mean, it woulda been a lot easier for us elves to push a whole army o' them humans over the edge.
1,411 posted on 04/12/2004 8:32:27 PM PDT by Wneighbor (Texas. It's a whole other country... and we support OUR president!)
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To: Wneighbor; Scott from the Left Coast; All
'Nite folks.

I'm traveling on Tuesday and Wednesday. May stop by briefly tomorrow, but likely gone until sometime on Thursday.
1,412 posted on 04/12/2004 8:35:45 PM PDT by Corin Stormhands (More people have died in Ted Kennedy's car than in this tagline.)
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To: Wneighbor
No, I didn't help her do anything!

She was a trippy sort, a post-hippie hippie. Walked around in a state of mild bemusement most of the time. We sat in a circle, so that we could discuss the literature better.

I don't recall her name ... she wasn't that important to me, I suppose.

"Do not confuse "duty" with what other people expect of you; they are utterly different. Duty is a debt you owe to yourself to fulfill obligations you have assumed voluntarily. Paying that debt can entail anything from years of patient work to instant willingness to die. Difficult it may be, but the reward is self-respect. But there is no reward at all for doing what other people expect of you, and to do so is not merely difficult, but impossible. It is easier to deal with a footpad than it is with the leech who wants "just a few minutes of your time, please -- this won't take long." Time is your total capital, and the minutes of your life are painfully few. If you allow yourself to fall into the vice of agreeing to such requests, they quickly snowball to the point where these parasites will use up 100 percent of your time -- and squawk for more! So learn to say No - and to be rude about it when necessary. Otherwise you will not have time to carry out your duty, or to do your own work, and certainly no time for love and happiness. The termites will nibble away your life and leave none of it for you. (This rule does not mean that you must not do a favor for a friend, or even a stranger. But let the choice be yours. Don't do it because it is "expected" of you.)

1,413 posted on 04/12/2004 8:36:24 PM PDT by Rose in RoseBear (HHD [... A generation which ignores history has no past -- and no future....])
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To: Corin Stormhands
See ya Thursday!
1,414 posted on 04/12/2004 8:38:07 PM PDT by Wneighbor (Texas. It's a whole other country... and we support OUR president!)
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To: Wneighbor
Dunno...but I'd have shoved Celeborn and had Galadriel all to myself.
1,415 posted on 04/12/2004 8:38:18 PM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast
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To: Corin Stormhands
Hmmm...mercurial dwarf...here...gone...
1,416 posted on 04/12/2004 8:39:18 PM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast
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To: Rose in RoseBear
But let the choice be yours. Don't do it because it is "expected" of you.

Very good one!!! Hmmm... good discussion topic with Myranda too at this time.

1,417 posted on 04/12/2004 8:40:47 PM PDT by Wneighbor (Texas. It's a whole other country... and we support OUR president!)
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To: Scott from the Left Coast
Hmmmm... how does Mrs. Left Coast feel about that one?
1,418 posted on 04/12/2004 8:41:34 PM PDT by Wneighbor (Texas. It's a whole other country... and we support OUR president!)
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To: Scott from the Left Coast
BTW, you know why Galadriel wanted to settle by those Rohirrim don't ya?
1,419 posted on 04/12/2004 8:42:32 PM PDT by Wneighbor (Texas. It's a whole other country... and we support OUR president!)
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To: Wneighbor
You mean Arwyn? She's never jealous of gramma.
1,420 posted on 04/12/2004 8:43:37 PM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast
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