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The Hobbit Hole XIX - Tomorrow we may come this way...
The Freeper Hobbit Hole ^

Posted on 01/27/2005 9:59:05 AM PST by ecurbh

Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!

Tomorrow we may come this way...

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: Alkhin; HairOfTheDog; JenB

I need a whiskey.


2,881 posted on 02/10/2005 5:22:42 PM PST by 2Jedismom (http://kimsbug.blogspot.com/)
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To: 2Jedismom

You'll need more than that if you get sucked into the world of fanfiction... in-character background stories are the gateway drug, next thing you know you'll be up to your neck in crossovers, Mary Sues, and sex scenes written by twelve year old girls.


2,882 posted on 02/10/2005 5:24:07 PM PST by JenB
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To: 2Jedismom

LOL!

Now yer gonna revive the bar vs pub argument...


2,883 posted on 02/10/2005 5:24:21 PM PST by RosieCotton (A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it. - GK Chesterton)
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To: JenB

*shudder*


2,884 posted on 02/10/2005 5:24:40 PM PST by RosieCotton (A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it. - GK Chesterton)
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To: JenB
*sits in front of JenB like an obedient student*

'Splain, please.

hentai? yaoi? yuri? eichi?

No really, I consider fanfic to be mere forms of entertainment, the kind of thing one indulges in like those bodice-ripper books I used to sneak away from my mother's bookshelf because I was so utterly bored with what I had already. Nothing deep, nothing demanding, just fun stuff. Out of anyone who likes fanfic, I am probably pretty severe in my dismissal of it EXCEPT when its a piece that plots itself solidly within the original story...the best way i can explain this is to use an archaeological term : in situ. If the story is written so that I could very well believe that it is in situ of the original work, then I pay it closer attention.

This one beats em all that i have read, imho.

2,885 posted on 02/10/2005 5:24:44 PM PST by Alkhin ("Ah-ah," admonished Pippin. "Head, blade, dead." ~ The Falcon)
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To: JenB
this isnt back ground...more an EXTENSION.

Look I was one of those happy campers when Lucas finally allowed an author to pen an extension of the SW universe of Luke, Han and Leia. What I WASNT happy with ultimately is that once that happened...all the Star TREK writers who were bored with making hay with Kirk, Spock and McCoy were allowed to make dreck of the Star Wars universe. One could easily call THAT fanfiction. Still entertaining if the writing was done well enough. Sadly, after Zahn and a couple of other writers, SW was shot to hell.

2,886 posted on 02/10/2005 5:28:24 PM PST by Alkhin ("Ah-ah," admonished Pippin. "Head, blade, dead." ~ The Falcon)
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To: Alkhin

You must not hang out around fanfiction sites run by 15 year old girls. They have adopted a series of Japanese words to explain story content. (This holds for every genre I've ever been acquanted with. Even Star Trek. The terms spread quickly.)

Hentai is a generic word meaning "perverted". Nasty stuff you don't want kids to read. Yaoi is homosexual romance. Yuri is lesbian romance. Eichi means mildly squicky - ie, just a little perverted.

I don't like bodice rippers... but some fanfiction is better than that. I consider fanfiction worthwhile if the author has taken care to preserve the characters as they are in the original. For instance, my favorite piece of fanfiction, back in the day, was a "Harry Potter" story that really only focused on one minor character and used the world. It worked really, really well. (Even if it was slightly eichi)

But LotR fanfic crosses some inner line, for me. It's kind of like Bible fanfic, or "Iliad" fanfic. Or Shakespeare fanfic.


2,887 posted on 02/10/2005 5:30:13 PM PST by JenB
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To: JenB

Uh... uh... riiiiight. [sip]

Okey dokey then. Evenin' folk. :-)


2,888 posted on 02/10/2005 5:32:57 PM PST by Ramius (Gregoirovich Nyet!)
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To: Ramius

I'm trying to protect 2J from the horrors ;-)

Heh, it was fun for me for a while but as a writer I had to cut off fanfic cold. It's too easy.


2,889 posted on 02/10/2005 5:34:32 PM PST by JenB
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To: Ramius

Hand 2J a drink, will ya?


2,890 posted on 02/10/2005 5:34:46 PM PST by HairOfTheDog (It is no bad thing to celebrate a simple life!)
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To: HairOfTheDog

Evenin' everyone!

2J has overindulged in racy fan-fic I see. *grin*


2,891 posted on 02/10/2005 5:38:36 PM PST by RMDupree (HHD: My resolution? Spend more time with my friends in the Hobbit Hole!)
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To: JenB
Yeah, I know what you mean per the last part of your statement. LOTR is Holy Ground, Sacred. To insert modern and corrupted ideas into that arent respectful of the Original Vision, then the piece itself becomes an ugly mark. And the key words about the bodice-rippers for me are 1) I was a teenager 2) I was a BORED teenager 3) we didnt have the internet or B&N or Amazon...just the Walden books in the mall, and Walden books is STILL pathetic 4) I didnt know any other bookworms. Truely. I didnt know of ANYONE who read as much as I did. Which made me the Weird Geek That Everyone Avoided, especially since she liked "All That Hobbit Crap." So bodice-rippers it was...they were at least historical. That's the only good thing I can say about them.

And agree totally about the perverted stuff that is out there now. I personally wouldnt classify this story as perverted. I think the author handles the adult situations (and there are a couple) VERY tastefully. No graphic descriptions, no awful dialogue, no pornographic moments.

But I understand your feelings on it. They are 99.5% like my own.

I guess I just have a particular weakness when it comes to this character...the same one I had with all my Star Wars stuff. The whole reason I collected the Marvel comics was because I wanted more of the characters. I wasnt just satisfied iwth the three movies, especially when ROTJ was such a lame excuse for a finish.

2,892 posted on 02/10/2005 5:39:07 PM PST by Alkhin ("Ah-ah," admonished Pippin. "Head, blade, dead." ~ The Falcon)
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To: HairOfTheDog; 2Jedismom

Ice cold Turkey shooter... comin' right up.


2,893 posted on 02/10/2005 5:39:13 PM PST by Ramius (Gregoirovich Nyet!)
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To: RMDupree

Evenin! :-)


2,894 posted on 02/10/2005 5:41:01 PM PST by Ramius (Gregoirovich Nyet!)
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To: RMDupree
2J has overindulged in racy fan-fic I see. *grin*

Yeah, she'd have been safer in some seedy bar ;~D

2,895 posted on 02/10/2005 5:41:47 PM PST by HairOfTheDog (It is no bad thing to celebrate a simple life!)
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To: Ramius

Gimme a Rusty Nail


2,896 posted on 02/10/2005 5:41:49 PM PST by Alkhin ("Ah-ah," admonished Pippin. "Head, blade, dead." ~ The Falcon)
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To: Ramius

Heh...FMM indeed.


2,897 posted on 02/10/2005 5:42:06 PM PST by 2Jedismom (http://kimsbug.blogspot.com/)
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To: Alkhin; JenB

Dang... does this mean I should give up on writing "Merry and Pippin's Excellent Adventure"??


2,898 posted on 02/10/2005 5:44:26 PM PST by Ramius (Gregoirovich Nyet!)
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To: Ramius

Depends...how many whiskies are you prepared to buy for 2J?


2,899 posted on 02/10/2005 5:45:32 PM PST by RosieCotton (A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it. - GK Chesterton)
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To: Ramius

ROFL...that wold be a hoot...but then I gave up writing about Ditzguls and the Real Power Behind the Dark Lord : his wife! Couldnt find anyone who would collaborate with me on that.


2,900 posted on 02/10/2005 5:45:45 PM PST by Alkhin ("Ah-ah," admonished Pippin. "Head, blade, dead." ~ The Falcon)
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