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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

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To: Wneighbor
Stoopid NASCAR rools.

He should pull a Mark Martin.
5,001 posted on 04/25/2004 2:23:28 PM PDT by Overtaxed (No lembas for oil.)
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To: Wneighbor
What a crock!
5,002 posted on 04/25/2004 2:24:22 PM PDT by Overtaxed (No lembas for oil.)
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To: Overtaxed
I'm in whole-hearted agreement with ya on all counts!

Disgusting.

I'm hittin' the shower. Back in a few minutes.
5,003 posted on 04/25/2004 2:25:21 PM PDT by Wneighbor (Texas. Land of opportunity! No restrictor plates here!)
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To: Fedora
Or you have to read really boring fiction. I mean, Hemingway may or may not be a great author, but I find his stuff boring and boring and boring....
5,004 posted on 04/25/2004 2:25:48 PM PDT by JenB (Zettai!)
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To: Overtaxed
It fits--and notice how Celeborn stays behind the scenes and lets everyone else do all the dirty work.
5,005 posted on 04/25/2004 2:27:24 PM PDT by Fedora
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To: Wneighbor
Fans are throwing debris on the track. They're not too happy over on the NASCAR thread.

Time to do some dishes.
5,006 posted on 04/25/2004 2:28:36 PM PDT by Overtaxed (No lembas for oil.)
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To: Fedora
Yeah....all the while appearing rather feeble-minded.
5,007 posted on 04/25/2004 2:29:30 PM PDT by Overtaxed (No lembas for oil.)
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To: JenB
I like studying Hemingway's writing style, which I find useful to emulate; but not his actual stories, if that makes sense. In other words I don't like his subject matter but I think his style works well with more interesting subject matter.
5,008 posted on 04/25/2004 2:30:07 PM PDT by Fedora
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To: Overtaxed
..kinda like "The Chin" from the Genovese family.
5,009 posted on 04/25/2004 2:31:42 PM PDT by Overtaxed (No lembas for oil.)
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To: Overtaxed
Maybe that means there was someone smarter pulling the strings and he was just a front man himself. What a tangled web we weave in the forests of Mirkwood. . .Incidentally, notice that when Mirkwood was under Thranduil's command, Dol Guldur became Sauron's secret command center. Elvish covert op?
5,010 posted on 04/25/2004 2:33:51 PM PDT by Fedora
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To: Fedora
Hemingway's style is most of what turns me off. I hate his choppy sentence structure. He always seemed to me to have this attitude of "I am a Great Writer" behind his composition.

All right, so his subject matter is boring too. At least, all the Hemingway I've read has been dreadful.
5,011 posted on 04/25/2004 2:34:42 PM PDT by JenB (Zettai!)
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To: Overtaxed
No lembas for oil! Hey, hey, L-RON-D! How many dwarves did you kill today?
5,012 posted on 04/25/2004 2:35:44 PM PDT by Fedora
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To: Fedora
Hmmmm....after all, orcs and elves have a history.....
5,013 posted on 04/25/2004 2:36:16 PM PDT by Overtaxed (No lembas for oil.)
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To: JenB
The choppy sentence structure can be overdone and I wouldn't use it exclusively for a whole book, but it can come in handy in description and dialogue. Stephen King uses a modification of it that works well; but he comines it with some other stuff rather than using it exclusively.
5,014 posted on 04/25/2004 2:39:17 PM PDT by Fedora
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To: Overtaxed
They're practically related--in fact they are related! I bet there never really were any Elf-Orc wars--they just faked it while secretly combining forces to get the Dwarves' treasure. It's all about mithral!
5,015 posted on 04/25/2004 2:41:21 PM PDT by Fedora
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To: Fedora
I can see that it could work, modified. I just have a innate loathing of so called 'great' writers. Not all great writers; I'm very fond of most of them, but especially in the 20th century, critics were too eager to praise, say, Hemingway, while dissing Tolkien...
5,016 posted on 04/25/2004 2:42:00 PM PDT by JenB (Zettai!)
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To: Overtaxed
They're not too happy over on the NASCAR thread.

Or on the Hobbit Hole thread. Out to do something outside now.

5,017 posted on 04/25/2004 2:42:57 PM PDT by Wneighbor (Texas. Land of opportunity! No restrictor plates here!)
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To: Fedora
Yeah....trying to cheat the Dwarves....

That being said....what's the link between the elves and Orthanc? Saruman and Celeborn plant the Balrog in Moria to drive the Dwarves out and plunder the mithril?
5,018 posted on 04/25/2004 2:49:10 PM PDT by Overtaxed (No lembas for oil.)
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To: Overtaxed
Forgot to change my tagline.
5,019 posted on 04/25/2004 2:51:53 PM PDT by Overtaxed (No lembas for mithril.)
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To: Wneighbor
Kitty just had some fun....chased a pigeon off the balcony.
5,020 posted on 04/25/2004 2:54:22 PM PDT by Overtaxed (No lembas for mithril.)
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