Posted on 03/14/2002 5:07:26 AM PST by HairOfTheDog
The sun went down. Bag End seemed sad and gloomy and dishevelled. Frodo wandered round the familiar rooms, and saw the light of the sunset fade on the walls, and shadows creep out of the corners. It grew slowly dark indoors. He went out and walked down to the gate at the bottom of the path, and then on a short way down the Hill Road.
Goodbye old Hole.
Awesome news, Rosie!! I would think that they would want someone in place before the students get back to the grind for the Spring Semester. I hope you'll get the job and that they'll have you start right after New Year's so you can have a nice Christmas with your family! That is, unless you just WANT to start earlier :o)
PINGS and wings? Sounds like the Hobbit Hole to me!
Hope you got it all out of your system now! ;)
So to speak!
I'd better get to the New Hole before I start to cry!
The final cut of the third movie is in the can, finished, done, over with. All that's left to do is music and ADR.
Elwood was pulling someone's leg.
Hair, did we leave Paul off the invitation list?
Registered as willing to come at this point are:
ecurbh
HairOfTheDog
htur_75
JenB
Ksen
NewCenturions
Overtaxed
Penny1
RMDupree
SuziQ
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There are lots of regulars notably missing on that list! - Are some of y'all just being lazy? - shy? Unwilling to go on adventures?
It is really early to try and get a head-count, we know, new friends may arrive in the year to come who don't even know they want to go yet! -but it would be good to know if we are talking about a group of 10 or 30.
If you really don't think you can come, there is a place to register that. That way we can beg, plead, and then eventually stop bothering you!
If some of you are not sure what the Yahoo Hobbit Hole is, then you are not a member, but could be if you want to be. It is another place with a chat room that we go sometimes for chat-views, live events, chit-chat, and the like. I am pinging my wider list to this to see if there are any folk who would be interested in joining us in Florida for a view of RoTK, and other FReeper-social activities, Jan 2004.
I just heard on FOX news in Ari Fleischer's daily briefing that at today's speech by the President at the DC youth club where a new mentoring program was being launched, there were a number of celebrities who will be part of his program, among them was SEAN ASTIN!!! Ari said it with a smile saying, you know, Frodo's friend Sam in the LOTR movies.
Is anyone else noticing many phrases filling the President's language these days harken to LOTR? He even referred to the Two Towers instead of the Twin Towers in his speech, and his comments about 'free peoples'?
There is an interesting argument on that subject at the Tolkien Virgin site. After each of the Virgin essays is a section of comments by readers (for those who haven't found it, scroll down.) And the final essay has this discussion about Aragorn's death. ;)
"Aragorn's whole life is overshadowed by the fear of repeating his ancestors mistakes, Isuldur's failure to destoy the ring, Numenor's destruction, etc...."
"..His choice to die gracefully rather than to cling to life until he is feeble and dotard is tied to this in that, Death was a gift to men from Illuvatar. Then Sauron fooled men into thinking it was a curse and should be feared and they should crave immortality. Which was the main reason Numenor was destroyed."
"So, in a way, this is his last test, to die peacably and willingly without fear when it is his time go(lest he start Gondor on Numenor's path). ""
I've been kinda mulling this subject around in my head for a while. Tolkien was curiously a Roman Catholic who would have approved of assisted suicide? You think?
Or was he suggesting only that old kings should turn their kingdoms to younger men before they are senile old fools?
From another post there --
"And Atanamir lived to a great age, clinging to his life beyond the end of all joy; and he was the first of the Numenoreans to do this, refusing to depart until he was witless and unmanned, and denying to his son the kingship at the height of his days. For the Lords of Numenor had been wont to wed late in their long lives and to depart and leave the mastery to their sons when these were come to full stature of body and mind (Akallabeth, top p.266 in my hardcover edition)"
I'm curious where Tolkien was going here, with this?
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