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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:
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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: Overtaxed
I saw that I had more than half the food I cooked yesterday leftover and figured I'm gonna be eating good this week. Haven't been eating much lately cause I haven't wanted to cook... but, now, I have leftovers to hold me for at least a week. Put half of it in the freezer too.
4,941
posted on
04/25/2004 1:27:10 PM PDT
by
Wneighbor
(Texas. Land of opportunity! No restrictor plates here!)
To: Fedora
who's got the two remaining Elf Rings of Power? Glorfindel and Galadriel. . . Dang! And no one in Middle Earth has tin foil!
And what was their plan for Frodo? Did they intend the Quest to fail? Boromir dead, the Fellowship scattered. Sam nearly drowns......and Legolas wants to go after Frodo....
4,942
posted on
04/25/2004 1:27:25 PM PDT
by
Overtaxed
(No lembas for oil.)
To: RosieCotton
I know, that's such a horrible scene. Great book, though. My sibs don't like it for some reason, but it's one of my favorite historical fictions.
Ever read any Rosemary Sutcliff novels?
4,943
posted on
04/25/2004 1:27:47 PM PDT
by
JenB
(Zettai!)
To: Wneighbor
Car ran good 'til it broke.
4,944
posted on
04/25/2004 1:28:29 PM PDT
by
Overtaxed
(No lembas for oil.)
To: JenB
I don't think so...doesn't ring a bell.
4,945
posted on
04/25/2004 1:28:57 PM PDT
by
RosieCotton
(Anything worth doing is worth doing badly. - G. K. Chesterton)
To: JenB
My brother read a lot more historical fiction than I did, though.
I was busy reading Dickens and Austen and mysteries and juvenile fantasy and such.
Probably a shortcoming on my part...but I didn't like history much at that point in my life. Time travel, yes...history without any "magic" involved, no.
4,946
posted on
04/25/2004 1:30:58 PM PDT
by
RosieCotton
(Anything worth doing is worth doing badly. - G. K. Chesterton)
To: Overtaxed
heh... famous last words.
4,947
posted on
04/25/2004 1:31:10 PM PDT
by
Wneighbor
(Texas. Land of opportunity! No restrictor plates here!)
To: RosieCotton
She wrote the best Roman-Britain novels. I loved her books. She just got into the era beautifully.
Let's see... the only Civil War novel I've ever liked was "Rifles for Watie". Great book.
I like historical novels! Read one just last weekend, about Julian the Apostate.
4,948
posted on
04/25/2004 1:31:12 PM PDT
by
JenB
(Zettai!)
To: JenB
OK, I DID read Rifles for Watie. I remember liking it, but it's been ages!
4,949
posted on
04/25/2004 1:31:49 PM PDT
by
RosieCotton
(Anything worth doing is worth doing badly. - G. K. Chesterton)
To: JenB; RosieCotton
Okay, I was mixing
Timeline up with that movie about time-travel to the Middle Ages that came out a few months ago, then. What was the name of that one?
On Andromeda Strain, yeah, that was about a virus brought back from space (for review see Review by Mark Wilson). It sort of fit into a series of apocalyptic SF books/films from that period of SF and is an interesting period piece as a movie, complete with some classic mainframe computers and very rudimentary styles of computer graphics. A couple other movies I like of the same subgenre are Colossus: The Forbin Project and The Omega Man.
I think I've seen some of The Satan Bug on TV but never watched the whole thing or read it. Worth reading?
To: Overtaxed
What are they hiding in the forests? WMD?Which is exactly what the Elven Rings of Power are! Then there's the fact that the King of the Woodelves was hanging back waiting for the Dwarves to kill Smaug so the Elves could move in on the treasure of Lonely Mountain. . .definitely some interesting geopolitics going on in Middle Earth. . .
To: Wneighbor
Heh. I liked that time the pit reporter guy went to interview the King after the engine blew.
"Richard, what happened to the car?"
"Blowed up!"
The King was kinda ticked and he said it like "what does it look like, fool!"
4,952
posted on
04/25/2004 1:36:36 PM PDT
by
Overtaxed
(No lembas for oil.)
To: Fedora
Timeline DID come out a few months ago, I believe.
I'm a big fan of Alistair MacClean's books, so I really enjoyed "The Satan Bug". He wrote lots of military / spy / action type books...pretty intense, and I only read them once in awhile, but good stuff.
4,953
posted on
04/25/2004 1:37:40 PM PDT
by
RosieCotton
(Anything worth doing is worth doing badly. - G. K. Chesterton)
To: Fedora
Never trust an Elf!
4,954
posted on
04/25/2004 1:38:04 PM PDT
by
Overtaxed
(No lembas for oil.)
To: JenB
You've never read Johnny Tremain? I thought that was required reading[Bows head in dishonor and shame, prepared to commit seppuku] Another one for the reading list. . .
I know what you mean about wanting to read something you wouldn't have to think about. Last night I reread some old comics I'd already read before for the same reason. I was too tired to think but not tired enough to fall asleep!
To: Overtaxed
Ya gotta respect guys like that. Used to be you heard more like that. Especially from the *real* racers. Now, everybody's more into PC interviews. *sigh*
OTOH it appeared that Sterling was wantin' to talk like that just then. LOL
4,956
posted on
04/25/2004 1:38:36 PM PDT
by
Wneighbor
(Texas. Land of opportunity! No restrictor plates here!)
To: Fedora
MacLean wrote some other books you might be more familiar with - "Guns of Navarone", for one.
4,957
posted on
04/25/2004 1:40:04 PM PDT
by
RosieCotton
(Anything worth doing is worth doing badly. - G. K. Chesterton)
To: Wneighbor
Hehehe....like the time they tuned into Rusty Wallace's in-car radio right after he'd been in a wreck.
They had to cut away. "Rusty's a little upset right now."
4,958
posted on
04/25/2004 1:41:22 PM PDT
by
Overtaxed
(No lembas for oil.)
To: Overtaxed
I remember that! They did that too one time with Tony Stewart, except you heard the first sound coming out... was and f....
4,959
posted on
04/25/2004 1:42:46 PM PDT
by
Wneighbor
(Texas. Land of opportunity! No restrictor plates here!)
To: Wneighbor
Nowadays they can't even cuss with all those eavesdroppers listening in.
4,960
posted on
04/25/2004 1:43:57 PM PDT
by
Overtaxed
(No lembas for oil.)
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