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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.

8,181 posted on 06/08/2002 11:17:34 AM PDT by 300winmag
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To: Bear_in_RoseBear
hehe, like I said, clean hands are one of her pet peeves.

Well, they were for Lady MacBeth too....

8,182 posted on 06/08/2002 1:06:22 PM PDT by Corin Stormhands
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To: Corin Stormhands
Hmmm, looks like the honest dwarf is here all alone. He'll not make a shameless run like that other dwarf...
8,183 posted on 06/08/2002 1:09:57 PM PDT by Corin Stormhands
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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.

8,184 posted on 06/08/2002 1:27:50 PM PDT by Corin Stormhands
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To: Corin Stormhands
Slowly I turned...
8,185 posted on 06/08/2002 2:14:18 PM PDT by Corin Stormhands
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To: Corin Stormhands
...step by step..
8,186 posted on 06/08/2002 2:19:57 PM PDT by Overtaxed
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To: Overtaxed
Ah, we are not alone...
8,187 posted on 06/08/2002 2:21:37 PM PDT by Corin Stormhands
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To: Overtaxed
...inch by inch....
8,188 posted on 06/08/2002 2:21:44 PM PDT by Overtaxed
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To: Overtaxed
Any takers?
8,189 posted on 06/08/2002 2:23:00 PM PDT by Overtaxed
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To: Overtaxed
any at all?
8,190 posted on 06/08/2002 2:23:32 PM PDT by Overtaxed
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To: Overtaxed
Stop! Sneak!
8,191 posted on 06/08/2002 2:24:15 PM PDT by Corin Stormhands
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To: Overtaxed
I'm trying to figure out when I can see FOTR at our cheap theater...
8,192 posted on 06/08/2002 2:24:51 PM PDT by Corin Stormhands
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To: Overtaxed
Don't make me do all the work.
8,193 posted on 06/08/2002 2:25:26 PM PDT by Corin Stormhands
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To: Overtaxed
At least we're more original than the last sneak
8,194 posted on 06/08/2002 2:25:28 PM PDT by Overtaxed
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To: Overtaxed
Some marine...
8,195 posted on 06/08/2002 2:25:59 PM PDT by Corin Stormhands
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To: Corin Stormhands
I can say that cause he's not here...
8,196 posted on 06/08/2002 2:26:56 PM PDT by Corin Stormhands
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To: Overtaxed
t's hard to snea when your eyboard stcs.
8,197 posted on 06/08/2002 2:27:00 PM PDT by Overtaxed
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To: Overtaxed
Are you here?
8,198 posted on 06/08/2002 2:27:22 PM PDT by Corin Stormhands
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To: Overtaxed
Sneak
8,199 posted on 06/08/2002 2:27:55 PM PDT by Overtaxed
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To: Corin Stormhands
Mine
8,200 posted on 06/08/2002 2:28:15 PM PDT by Corin Stormhands
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