The Hobbit Hole X - That none have seen but we alone.

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[HairOfTheDog]

Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!

...That none have seen but we alone.

• 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!)
• Fourth Thread: The Hobbit Hole IV - The Road Goes Ever On...
• Fifth Thread: The Hobbit Hole V - Where Many Paths and Errands Meet...
• Sixth Thread: The Hobbit Hole VI - And Whither Then? I Cannot Say...
• Seventh Thread: The Hobbit Hole VII - But not yet weary are our feet...
• Eighth Thread: The Hobbit Hole VIII - Still round the corner we may meet...
• Ninth Thread: The Hobbit Hole IX - A sudden tree or standing stone

New verse:

Upon the hearth the fire is red, Beneath the roof there is a bed; But not yet weary are our feet, Still round the corner we may meet A sudden tree or standing stone That none have seen but we alone. Tree and flower and leaf and grass, Let them pass! Let them pass! Hill and water under sky, Pass them by! Pass them by!

Still round the corner there may wait A new road or a secret gate, And though we pass them by today, Tomorrow we may come this way And take the hidden paths that run Towards the Moon or to the Sun. Apple, thorn, and nut and sloe, Let them go! Let them go! Sand and stone and pool and dell, Fare you well! Fare you well!

Home is behind, the world ahead, And there are many paths to tread Through shadows to the edge of night, Until the stars are all alight. Then world behind and home ahead, We’ll wander back to home and bed. Mist and twilight, cloud and shade, Away shall fade! Away shall fade! Fire and lamp, and meat and bread, And then to bed! And then to bed!

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[Corin Stormhands]

I've had the Breyer's with Splenda. It's not bad.

[RosieCotton]

I'm trying not to eat as many sweets anyway, so I'm not using all that much Splenda. Haven't even bought the granulated kind yet. The packet kind, I bought a big box (100 packets, I think?) and I've had it for over a month...it's a lot sweeter than sugar, and after eating no sugar for so long, it takes less sweetener to taste sweet anyway.

I want a baby, too! But...that kinda takes two...

[Fedora]

We'll go opening night... but for us, this is almost the equivalent of an LotR premiere. My sibs and I were the first set of costumed weirdos to get our books last time, in Borders at midnight.

We ran out chanting "We got Potter" (to applause, I might add) and only my mother was able to force us to go to bed...

Jen, you had talked me into reading Potter, but now you're scaring me. . . :)

[msdrby]

I imagine adding a couple of tablespoons of flour would soak up the extra liquid. The recipe I used last night called for two tbsp of flour, 3/4 c sugar, 1/4 tsp salt, slowly mixed w/ 2 c milk. cook it till thickened. then add the beaten eggses and the tsp of vanilla. chill it, then add the pint of whipping cream (I used half-n-half). Next, pour it into the freezer and let it churn till frozen. Once frozen, must taste. Beware of brain freeze with eating one spoonful.

[RosieCotton]

In another five pounds...I may hafta buy a carton. I miss ice cream, and I've been pretty good!

As I recall, they had some nice flavors, too. Rocky road and butter pecan, I think.

[JenB]

I haven't had Breyers. Edy's, though, is really lousy. Doesn't taste like ice cream at all.

[JenB]

Sigh... true confession time... I Was a Teenage Potter-Freak...

Is it odd to say a large part of my current fandom is nostalgia? And memories of the best summer of my life so far?

[RosieCotton]

'Cept...especially for the Atkineers...no can do flour. But probably there's an alternative. 2J uses something else as a thickener for gravies and such...xanthan gum?

[msdrby]

He us almost 6. I wasn't going to let him see ROTK, but we rented it this last weekend, and he loved it. I was afraid it would be too scary for him, but oh well, he watched it twice.

[Wneighbor]

Whoa! Gone for a minute and ya'll done up and moved on me!

I'm gonna get this hint in a hundred years or so!

[HairOfTheDog]

We are hoping for warm, but the weather can do anything here!

[RosieCotton]

Even with Shelob? *shudder*

Heh...my little sister was OK with the scary stuff in the movies, mostly because we were all so interested in the making of the movies that she'd already seen much of what went into the CGI and makeup and all that, so she knew exactly what it REALLY was.

But gosh...that music they play during the whole Shelob sequence just shakes me up! Eeek!

[JenB]

Right... if he's ok with LotR, he'll probably be ok. There are, however, werewolves, dog attacks, talk about murder, and Dementors - nasty things that look like Nazgul and are really quite scary - in HP3, so if any of that might bother him...

Also don't go opening weekend, there will be fangirls everywhere squealing madly.

[msdrby]

yeah, and he is absolutely terrified of spiders. No nightmare, though.

[msdrby]

Also don't go opening weekend, there will be fangirls everywhere squealing madly.

LOL, too true.

the dementors *might* get to him.... we will have to see. He wasn't really phased at all by the nazgul. He was more curious than anything.

godmother (funny story 'bout that too) took him to see shrek2 when it came out. now, after having seen it once, he is quoting it all the time.

[Wneighbor]

Abigail is always hungry.

Sounds like she's a hobbit! :-) A nice little hobbit lass! How sweet! :-)

Homemade ice cream sounds really good. Wish I had some!

[Fedora]

Sigh... true confession time... I Was a Teenage Potter-Freak...

LOL! Well, I confess I was a Teenage Tolkien/D&D/Spiderman/X-Men/Bruce Lee Freak, so I guess that's approximately equivalent for male geeks :)

Is it odd to say a large part of my current fandom is nostalgia? And memories of the best summer of my life so far?

I imagine nostalgia accounts for a lot of fandom. I think for example that's true of Star Wars: I have huge nostalgia for that movie, but I've talked to older SF fans who can't understand what the fuss is. I suspect that probably also accounts for why I don't mind Rankin-Bass and Bakshi as much as some :) For me they're associated with nostalgia from when I first discovered Tolkien.

[RMDupree]

I made it! Not for the first page of posts I'm sure, but better late than never!!

*grin*

[HairOfTheDog]

Gardening is very dangerous! I went over where the red ferns grow to this little platform thingy where I feed the squirrels and birdses, and I got swarmed by bees! I thought there were aggressive bees around there yesterday, but I didn't look ~up~ to see where they were coming from! They had a hive inside this old birdhouse!

Here is ecurbh slooshing the heck out of it. We don't have any poison.

[Wneighbor]

Gotta go miracle grow the 'maters....

Is this a new code phrase?