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The Hobbit Hole IX - A sudden tree or standing stone
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Posted on 05/05/2004 7:57:51 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog

Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!

A sudden tree or standing stone

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: RosieCotton
mine?
2,101 posted on 05/13/2004 9:57:26 AM PDT by Corin Stormhands (To be willing to march into Hell, Boston and Chappauqua for a heavenly cause...)
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To: Corin Stormhands
Denied
2,102 posted on 05/13/2004 9:57:45 AM PDT by RosieCotton (Anything worth doing is worth doing badly. - G. K. Chesterton)
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To: RosieCotton
thief
2,103 posted on 05/13/2004 9:57:58 AM PDT by Corin Stormhands (To be willing to march into Hell, Boston and Chappauqua for a heavenly cause...)
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To: Corin Stormhands; RosieCotton
Well, I knew I was among friends :)

One of my cousins, with a big bad B.S. in English, mentioned having read Beowulf in college; sensing an opportunity, I asked some questions and deduced he was unaware of The Thirteenth Warrior. So I rented it and brought it over. "You might like this," quoth I. Half an hour or so into the thing he almost stood up and shouted "It's Beowulf!"

Fun!

2,104 posted on 05/13/2004 9:58:33 AM PDT by ExGeeEye (Almost every crime against humanity I've seen since 1972 has had the word "Muslim" attached to it.)
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To: ExGeeEye; RosieCotton
My son's middle school English teacher told him she had never read Tolkien.

I said "then she's not a real English teacher."

He told her...(and she still passed him).
2,105 posted on 05/13/2004 10:00:37 AM PDT by Corin Stormhands (To be willing to march into Hell, Boston and Chappauqua for a heavenly cause...)
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To: RosieCotton
That does sound cool! They should get Eowyn to read it.
2,106 posted on 05/13/2004 10:01:11 AM PDT by JenB
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To: Corin Stormhands
I thanked her for her thoughtfulness and threw the stuff away.

*Gasp*

2,107 posted on 05/13/2004 10:02:40 AM PDT by Overtaxed
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To: RosieCotton
"Bealocwealm hafað fréone frecan forth onsended
Giedd sculon singan gléomenn sorgiende on Meduselde
þæt he ma no wære his dryhtne dyrest and mæga deorost"

--Eowyn, adding singing to her list of talents (swordplay, horsemanship, and -ahem- cooking for 87-year-old rangers, in the language of Beowulf).

2,108 posted on 05/13/2004 10:03:32 AM PDT by ExGeeEye (Almost every crime against humanity I've seen since 1972 has had the word "Muslim" attached to it.)
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To: ExGeeEye
he almost stood up and shouted "It's Beowulf!"

well no kiddin'... Great flik... coulduh done without the gratuitous Islamic indoctrination tho'...

2,109 posted on 05/13/2004 10:03:58 AM PDT by g'nad (Islam delende est...)
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To: Corin Stormhands
thief

You trying to take what I've rightfully stolen?

2,110 posted on 05/13/2004 10:04:08 AM PDT by RosieCotton (Anything worth doing is worth doing badly. - G. K. Chesterton)
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To: RosieCotton
Inconcievable.
2,111 posted on 05/13/2004 10:05:23 AM PDT by JenB
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To: Corin Stormhands
My son's middle school English teacher told him she had never read Tolkien.

heretic...

2,112 posted on 05/13/2004 10:05:41 AM PDT by g'nad (Islam delende est...)
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To: RosieCotton
It's mine.
2,113 posted on 05/13/2004 10:05:53 AM PDT by Corin Stormhands (To be willing to march into Hell, Boston and Chappauqua for a heavenly cause...)
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To: JenB
Heh...I wondered who'd catch that. ;-)
2,114 posted on 05/13/2004 10:06:44 AM PDT by RosieCotton (Anything worth doing is worth doing badly. - G. K. Chesterton)
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To: g'nad; Sam Cree
Seriesly. How could you get a degree in English without reading Tolkien?

Mail order?

Maybe it's cuz she graduated from Yoo-Vee-Aye.

2,115 posted on 05/13/2004 10:08:06 AM PDT by Corin Stormhands (To be willing to march into Hell, Boston and Chappauqua for a heavenly cause...)
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To: RosieCotton
I think for Hair'n'ecurbh's wedding, someone ought to get up and give the "mawwaige" speech.
2,116 posted on 05/13/2004 10:08:17 AM PDT by JenB
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To: Darksheare
Yes, it would make a good theme song.

*bad idea alert*

Woo-hoo!--I haven't come up with a good bad idea in a while, glad to hear I've still got the touch! :)

2,117 posted on 05/13/2004 10:11:55 AM PDT by Fedora (I'm Fedora, and I approved this message before I disapproved it)
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To: Corin Stormhands
Maybe it's cuz she graduated from Yoo-Vee-Aye.

well it is the best skool in Virginia...

2,118 posted on 05/13/2004 10:12:59 AM PDT by g'nad (Islam delende est...)
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To: g'nad
well it is the best skool in Virginia...

That's what outstanding alumni like Ted Kennedy and Katie Couric say anyway...

2,119 posted on 05/13/2004 10:21:55 AM PDT by Corin Stormhands (To be willing to march into Hell, Boston and Chappauqua for a heavenly cause...)
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To: g'nad; RMDupree
Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, AC/DC, Motley Crue, Ozzy Osbourne, Accept, Scorpions... torn jeans, sleeveless flannel shirts, dago-Ts... beatin' the crap outta punks wearin' makeup...

Out of those bands AC/DC and Ozzy are okay, as far as 80s neo-metal goes; and you forgot Metallica. But like Ruthy I'll take the classic stuff--Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd.

2,120 posted on 05/13/2004 10:25:17 AM PDT by Fedora (I'm Fedora, and I approved this message before I disapproved it)
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