The Hobbit Hole IV – The Road Goes Ever On…

[HairOfTheDog]

Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!

The Road Goes Ever On…

• First thread: New Zealander builds Hobbit hole
• Second thread: The New Hobbit Hole
• Third thread: The Hobbit Hole III - Journey to the Cross-roads! (Congratulations, we filled it up!)

The Road goes ever on and on
Down from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the Road has gone,
And I must follow, if I can,
Pursuing it with eager feet,
Until it joins some larger way
Where many paths and errands meet.
And whither then? I cannot say.

[ksen]

Ha! That report from Mexico was great! Well done MBY. ;^)

I think when ecurbh gets this posted you should contact TORN. We don't want Flat Frodo to get lost in the flurry of activity that is sure to surround the TT DVD release.

Just my $0.02.

[HairOfTheDog]

I agree! - Were were just waiting for SuziQ and MBY's reports to flush out the site.....

(Man we know how to nag today!)

[ksen]

Enter to win tickets to 12/1/03 World Premiere of ROTK in Wellington HERE.

[RosieCotton]

To put it mildly. :^)

Why do I get the feeling that were Nero Wolfe mysteries set in modern times (heaven forbid!) "cool" is a word Wolfe would have detested...and therefore Archie would have used it frequently?

[RosieCotton]

I was going to start them again one day soon, having just re-read my Bertie Wooster/Jeeves books by P. G. Wodehouse,

Oooh! I like those, too! Haven't read as many as I'd like, though. They're hard to find here.

Jen and Scott...didn't I remember you guys were Wodehouse fans?

[RosieCotton]

I love it...though I'm wondering who the Gandalf guy is...

[Wneighbor]

Anybody got a link real fast to the entmoot castle? I'm at my office now and don't have it here.

[ecurbh]

Its on the entmoot page: http://freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net/entmoot.htm

[Argh]

P. G. Wodehouse's quasi continuing story (it helps to read them in order but isn't strictly necessary) of Bertie Wooster and Jeeves are the funniest books I've ever read. (Ring for Jeeves is not typical and is dull, Bertie doesn't show up, and the very first short story "Extricating Young Gussie" was written before Wodehouse had defined the characters, you hardly notice Jeeves.) Some are collections of short stories, others are novels. Wodehouse's many other books are not nearly as hilarious. Bertie is a rich upper class twit type who gets into unlikely scrapes, and is helped out by his stiff gentlemen's personal gentleman Jeeves. (A valet, if you insist, and definitely NOT a butler, although as Bertie says in one book, Jeeves can buttle with the best of them). The characters and times are generally described as "Edwardian", but Wodehouse said this wasn't accurate, and Orwell pointed out in an essay that Bertie's type of frivolous young wastrel had ceased to exist in England by about 1915 (the books and stories were written from 1917 to 1974). The verbal virtuosity is astounding, as well as hilarious, and although the stories seem quite similar to each other and aren't exactly earth-shaking, the plot are often somewhat convoluted, and the use of words and the humour are priceless.

There was a 5 volume omnibus out of all the Bertie-Jeeves books and stories, but I think it may have been deleted. You might check with Amazon. You might be safer reading just one Bertie/Jeeves book before leaping in with both feet. The Code of the Woosters and Joy in the Morning, both from roughly the middle of the oeuvre, are generally considered two of the best. You're in for a rare treat if you have at these.

I'm in for the rare treat of being unemployed if I don't get at it.

[RosieCotton]

The Sombrero and the Gandalf costume are great! (MBY's husband and son were very good sports!)

Ah...that answers my question, I think.

[Argh]

Great job, MBY!! I'm still chortling at the sombrero.

[Argh]

Archie would have only used it occasionally, but particularly when he though Wolfe was being especially puerile. :^)

[Argh]

See my enormous, time-consuming essay at # 1,169. :^) See you!

WHOA! Here's a list from my hard disk of the books (and a few of these are individual stories):

Suggested Order to Read Jeeves books and stories:

1917 Extricating Young Gussie (story)
1923 The Inimitable Jeeves
1925 Carry On Jeeves
1930 Very Good, Jeeves
1934 Thank You Jeeves
1934 Right Ho, Jeeves
1937 The Code of the Woosters
1947 Joy in the Morning
1949 The Mating Season
1953 Ring For Jeeves (not like the others, worth skipping)
1954 Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit
1959 Jeeves Makes An Omelette (story)
1960 Jeeves in the Offing
1963 Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves
1966 Jeeves And The Greasy Bird (story)
1971 Much Obliged, Jeeves
1974 Aunts Aren't Gentlemen

[HairOfTheDog]

I want you all to notice that Gandalf in the roadside picture has a real Glamdring in his belt.

[Argh]

Sheesh, forgive that last sentence in the first paragraph of # 1169, yikes!

One more note: Rex Stout and Wodehouse admired each other's work very much. A couple of the later Bertie books have brief references to Archie, Wolfe, and the gang.

[ksen]

"The word 'genius' isn't applicable in football. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein." - Joe Theismann, NFL football quarterback & sports analyst

[My back yard]

I want you all to notice that Gandalf in the roadside picture has a real Glamdring in his belt

Yes, he does! My birthday present. And note we didn't take it across into Mexico with us.

The guys were such good sports. I had to pay my son 5 bucks, and my husband went on the Mexico trip for me mostly because I reminded him he could pick-up his cigars at the time. But, they played along with my little idea very well.. Except for the last market place pic. I couldn't get them to don the Gandalf there, either one of them.

The people in the cantina thought it was a riot. Most didn't know what we were doing. But some did.

And the 'Texican' was kinda hard, asking the man who owned that little taqueria to stand for the picture. Nice gentleman he was. :)

It was a lot of fun.

[HairOfTheDog]

I love it.

I can't get over the sombrero. And I think it is funny that you paid your son five bucks....

What is the translation of the thing they are supposed to say at the border?

[Alkhin]

That is HILARIOUS...I am wondering if I might nto be able to get a few astronauts down at NASA to welcome him.

I love seeing him with a sombrero! Hijole! Wonder how Pippin would look?

[HairOfTheDog]

Wonder how Pippin would look?

One track mind..... ;~D