The New Hobbit Hole

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

See you when you get back. Like your home page and the 'Go tell the Spartans' quote. Leonidas was a figure who could have fit very well into Lord of the Rings.

[Overtaxed]

I would suggest a bow....

Oh I could do a lot of damage with one of those! Only it's not always certain to whom the damage would be done. :) But I'm pretty good with a BB gun.

[osagebowman]

Even the English Longbow Archers carried secondary weapons, a short sword and commonly a hammer. A bow is just a really nice stick when you run out of arrows. The bowmen would pound a six or eight foot long stake into the ground then sharpen it with the sword or ax. The rows of sharpened stakes provided some safety from the mounted knights. The bodkin point was armor piercing at ranges of 200 yards. The pull on an English War Bow was 120 lbs and up. The average hunting bow nowadays is about fifty to sixty lbs pull. I'll quit before the reader's eyes glaze over. :-) dvp

[2Jedismom]

Ok...it seems to cut in and out, but I could hear it well enough to say it sounds great! I don't know if the trouble is with my connection or the problems you had with yours.

Don't you just love this instrument, though? I carry mine everywhere...keep it in my purse and play it at stoplights!

[Overtaxed]

Of course, in a pinch, a mace will do:

Or Sam Gamgee's weapon of choice:

[Overtaxed]

I usually have a problem with streaming audio when net congestion is bad and I end up downloading the files instead. If you want, I can e-mail them to you.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

I'll quit before the reader's eyes glaze over. :-) dvp

Your description of English longbow techniques was nicely illustrated in Kenneth Branagh's version of Henry V some year's back. It was particularly good at showing the sharpenned stakes, and not just the flights of arrows, like most movies of archery. Of course archery in war is not like the close up stuff they showed in Fellowship of the Ring, I hope they show this properly in The Two Towers.

[Sam Cree]

"Any rightful claim they had "

I think they never did

[JenB]

Dibs on the Frying Pan of Doom!

Hey guys, hi to the new friends! I'm tired and depressed - read a space article this morning and it's been haunting me all day. Feeling a little depressed. I think I'm a star-struck Elf today, or maybe just a Human who's been spending too much time considering the numinous. (Not much else to do when you're scrubbing pots!)

[Bear_in_RoseBear]

Oh, what the heck...

[Bear_in_RoseBear]

... let's start a new page!

[JenB]

Oh, we don't care about 50s. Don't know why, but we don't.

[Bear_in_RoseBear]

Just kicking off a new page for 2JM. :)

[Sam Cree]

Hi, Overtaxed, I managed to log back in...now I need a pint.

Too bad they don't make those nice skillets any more. I've got a couple for frying...They're like heirlooms.

[HairOfTheDog]

Awww... Are you depressed because you don't think you can go to space? - Or because you won't make the NBA?

[Overtaxed]

They don't? I've seen them in the grocery store...they need seasoning, but they're iron.

Iron pans are my utensil of choice! My 12 inch pan does a great pizza crust too.

[JenB]

Heh - I doubt I'll do either, but it's the stars that make me want to cry. We should be there by now, the Moon at least... Luna City, Tycho, Tombaugh Station, they should be there! But they aren't, and at this rate I'll see an Elf before I see Earth from outside.

[Sam Cree]

Those Lodge pans are heavy iron, like the old ones, but are finished much rougher. I'm sure they'd still work fine, once cured, they just don't seem equal to the old ones as far as finish is concerned. I'd be lost without my cast iron skillets.

But I don't envy Sam carrying one all over the place.

[Overtaxed]

I can hear it now:

"You have my sword."
"And my bow..."
"...my axe..."
"and my fry pan!"

[Bear_in_RoseBear]

Turning in early here... hope everyone has a good night...