The New Hobbit Hole

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

Diameter of table-legs they were!... Still smarts.

Probably the best exit scene in the story. Gandalf's was more spectacular, but we know it wasn't really an exit scene (SPOILER ALERT!)

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

but I wrote it while I was in HIgh School.

Nice work, Luis, but I still wish Chavez had bought the farm in Venezuela.

[Luis Gonzalez]

It's part of a Rock Opera that I wrote one boring summer between my Junior and Senior years in HS.

I found a bunch of my old stuff in a box at my parents house a few weeks back.

Like Fidel, Hugo Chavez now can boast that Venezuela IS his farm.

[HairOfTheDog]

I think it is great! - Nicely done indeed! Thanks for sharing it!

[Luis Gonzalez]

...and no, I didn't read all 4000+ post of the previous thread, and only about two hundred of this one.

I'll have to learn as I go.

:-)

[HairOfTheDog]

hehehe - I don't blame you a bit... much of it is rambling... and the really good conversations are repeated at least once a month, so maybe you will catch them the next time around.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

How about the 200+ LOTR threads before the original Hobbit Hole?

[2Jedismom]

we really must relace our 30-plus year old set of books;

I'm hoping for the Houghton Mifflin paperback set for Mother's Day. The Ballantine ones are terrible and I'll start to rant about the maps if I don't watch out and it's late...I don't need to get worked up before bed! ;-)

[Luis Gonzalez]

I had a few buddies (all musicians) who also worked on it that summer.

We actually got a whole lot done.

We would write the music according to the characters, while envisioning who we would like to play the parts.

We ended up with David Bowie playing Golum

"Riddles In The Dark."

It was a lot of fun.

[Luis Gonzalez]

I gave up after a while.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

the really good conversations are repeated at least once a month

Yes, but 2Jedismom doesn't fix coney stew that often!

[HairOfTheDog]

No but she is about to have the "I hate the maps in the Ballantine Books" discussion again, and maybe MozartLover and Luis will catch it this time!

[HairOfTheDog]

Sounds like a lot of fun... and I guess it is better than The Beatles doing it!

[2Jedismom]

No, I won't do it again...liable to give myself a stroke or something. If I start on the maps again, you have my permission to spray me with the hose.

Here are the books I want.

[2Jedismom]

Now I swear I'm going to bed! Good night everyone...see you in the morning!

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

and maybe MozartLover and Luis will catch it this time!

I have an idea! When we want to repeat a discussion, why don't we just refer to the post numbers of the old posts, sort of like they do in the British Parliament! 'Mister Speaker, I refer to post #3672 in the original thread!'

[HairOfTheDog]

That Musings of Viggo site ML pointed out is a reall cool place.

I especially like his Section Title "Addictive Hobbity Wrongness" with the cutest little .gif that says "Pervy Hobbit Fancier" (Protected, won't let me link to it)

I think it is a riot. Lots of good Elijah pics... (I hope I have the dream again tonight) And I know Viggo is a photographer, so he probably took many of them.

Also like this quote from the "Cuddly Fellowship Quotes" section:

October 4 2000

“Hungover...very funny: at lunch we were all wearing black and sunglasses. Rang Mum and Liv when I got in. Viggo left a long message on my machine. He leaves these kind of stream-of-consciousness messages on your machine like "Yeah, this is Viggo, I'm eating chicken, I'm wearing blue trousers, the sun is shining..." I always save the messages.“

-DOM (from his diary, excerpt from Mademoiselle, Oct 2001)

OK going back there now... I may be awhile.

[HairOfTheDog]

...Mister Speaker, I refer to post #3672 in the original thread!

But then people would start holding us to the opinions we had the first time around... start comparing "inconsistant prior testimony" and such... could be very ugly.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

could be very ugly

Well, maybe they could generate an index to all of the LOTR threads, let the computer generate compilations of all of our posts, then supply them to some of the anti-Hobbit posters, to print some of the stuff we put here in the middle of some esoteric arguments we are making about public policy. The mind boggles!

[HairOfTheDog]

Yeah, it is a little hard to be taken seriously on a good 2nd Ammendment thread when I am identified as one of "them hobbits". hehehehe