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The New Hobbit Hole
Posted on 03/14/2002 5:07:26 AM PST by HairOfTheDog
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To: JenB
And the fact is, LotR is probably more popular at the starry-eyed space dreamers than it is with the weird eco-freak Greenies. Some people just can't forget the hippies used to like Tolkien - but they certainly didn't get his message!And the most appreciative group to "get it" are military people who are introduced to Tolkien. If you can get them to read past the first five or six chapters, they realize that Tolkien had "seen the elephant" (to use a Civil War phrase) himself, and knew how to express what they had gone through, too.
I don't know which group is more rewarding to "hook" on to Tolkien: the young and impressionable, or the old and experienced. Getting someone else to read LotR usually brings sincere thanks from a new fan.
To: Bear_in_RoseBear
hehe, like I said, clean hands are one of her pet peeves. Well, they were for Lady MacBeth too....
To: Corin Stormhands
Hmmm, looks like the honest dwarf is here all alone. He'll not make a shameless run like that other dwarf...
To: Corin Stormhands
What to do, what to do?
If the dwarf hangs around for 17 more posts, then grabs the precious, he'll look like a loser with nothing to do on Saturday afternoon...
...or maybe he already does.
To: Corin Stormhands
Slowly I turned...
To: Corin Stormhands
...step by step..
To: Overtaxed
Ah, we are not alone...
To: Overtaxed
...inch by inch....
To: Overtaxed
Any takers?
To: Overtaxed
any at all?
To: Overtaxed
Stop! Sneak!
To: Overtaxed
I'm trying to figure out when I can see FOTR at our cheap theater...
To: Overtaxed
Don't make me do all the work.
To: Overtaxed
At least we're more original than the last sneak
To: Overtaxed
Some marine...
To: Corin Stormhands
I can say that cause he's not here...
To: Overtaxed
t's hard to snea when your eyboard stcs.
To: Overtaxed
Are you here?
To: Overtaxed
Sneak
To: Corin Stormhands
Mine
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