The Hobbit Hole IX - A sudden tree or standing stone

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[HairOfTheDog]

Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!

A sudden tree or standing stone

• 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...
• Sixth Thread: The Hobbit Hole VI - And Whither Then? I Cannot Say...
• Seventh Thread: The Hobbit Hole VII - But not yet weary are our feet...
• Eighth Thread: The Hobbit Hole VIII - 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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[Fedora]

Oh yeah....I forgot to mention yesterday that Friar Tuck in that Daffy Duck cartoon was skivvieless.

That he was :) Shudder!

[Fedora]

Hi! Nice to meet you! Thanks for dropping in!

[Overtaxed]

...as we trip along merrily
o'er the greensward so gracefully....

[Darksheare]

DIFFICULT!
I could get to the trolls, get the sword, I could get to Elrond, Got to the goblins, even got teh ring once, but beyond that.. They stuck stuff you needed in places you wouldn't go if you followed the book.
Like, a golden key was way off the side of one of the mountains heading to the goblin cave.
And Thorin's backdoor key was off someplace else.
Got myself stuck in Thranduil's dungeons without the ring or the sword, no don't know how.
Gandalf and Thorin wandered freely in the dungeon and were no help at all.
Gandalf didn't do much in the game, nor did Thorin.
It was possible to hit the spiders before finding Beorn or entering the goblin's cave.
The spiders didn't even seem to be in Mirkwood at all.

And all the while, the SAME MUSIC PLAYED.
Unless you died.
Then it was a bass version of the SAME TUNE.
(Boop doot doot boop doot-deet-doot-deet-doot boop doot deet doot deet dooot(pause) doot. Dooot boop doot boop booopdeetbooop deet booop doot Repeat)

But the game was frustrating and didn't seem to follow the book at all.
To beat the trolls, you had to wander to where they were, and walk away, one screen forward, one screen back, repeat.
Eventually, they'd fight, and then turn to stone.
Sometimes Bill would drop his key, sometimes not.
When he didn't, you had to start the game over.

Never did beat that game.
It was a text adventure with screen images.
And sometimes it did not make sense at all.

[Fedora]

Classic comedy alert: AMC is showing Mel Brooks' History of the World Part 1 right now :)

[Fedora]

Singing Trip Along Merrily

[RMDupree]

And Porky's is on FX as well! *grin*

Hello everyone!

[Ramius]

Hullo Ruthee!!! Hullo Evellybody!!!

Wassssuuuuupppp???

[Fedora]

Well. . .at least it sounds like it was more interesting than Atari's old fantasy game with the castle and the dragon--what was that called again? :)

[Fedora]

Hi! You know I never actually saw Porky's, believe it or not.

[Fedora]

Hi Ramius! What's new in Orcaville? :)

[RMDupree]

Hey sweetie!!

I'm so bored! Times like these I really wish we Hobbit Holers all lived closer together so we could all meet up at a local pub or something. Or even just pick a house to watch LOTR at!

[Fedora]

Hi Ramius! What's new in Orcaville? :)

[Fedora]

And then there was. . .

[Darksheare]

Dragonfire?
Where you ran across a bridge while avoiding fireballs?
And once in the room with the dragon, you hid in a basket, ran out to get the goodies, and then hid again so that you didn't get toasted?

[Darksheare]

PONG!

[Fedora]

I'm so bored! Times like these I really wish we Hobbit Holers all lived closer together so we could all meet up at a local pub or something. Or even just pick a house to watch LOTR at!

Hey, then I could bring my Bakshi tape over all the time. . .

[RMDupree]

I know that one! With the 3 dragons and castles and you had to have the key....what's it called....?

Hang on....

OK, got it...Adventure

Remember the way cool graphics? LOL!!

[Darksheare]

*foaming at the mouth, babbling incoherently*
Baaack-sheeeee...

[RMDupree]

I could not bear the pain....or the rotoscoping!