The Hobbit Hole XIV - Hill and Water Under Sky

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[HairOfTheDog]

Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!

...Hill and water under sky

• 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
• Tenth Thread: The Hobbit Hole X - That none have seen but we alone.
      Eleventh Thread: Wedding Edition: The Hobbit Hole XI - No One Admitted Except on Wedding Business!
• Twelfth Thread: The Hobbit Hole XII - Tree and flower and leaf and grass
• Thirteenth Thread: The Hobbit Hole XIII - Let them pass! Let them pass!

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]

No I missed that.

[Fedora]

Hi! Glad you made it through okay :)

[TalonDJ]

I could generate one off the top of my head... There are a few floating around the internet since that is a popular series. I use to do some Macross roleplaying a few years back. Robotech was made up of three unrelated anime series that were stuck together and dubbed and edited into one complete time line. The first season of it was basically all of the original Macross TV series. The movie 'Macross: Do You Remember Love?' is a retelling of that TV series only compressed into a movie size. A number of details are different but the highlight events and the characters are the same. Animeigo released a remaster set of DVD's of the tv series a couple years ago which are very worth watching if you can borrow, buy, or rent copies.
Macross takes place in 2009. The short short version is that a alien ship crashed on earth in 1999 and 10 years later an alien fleet comes looking for it. In that time us earth types have rebuilt it and created some nifty transforming fighters using the technology. There is another very very recent series that takes place in the intervening years called Macross Zero (5 eps OVA, http://animesuki.com/series.php/16.html ). In the macross TV series... well a bunch of stuff happens... I don't want to spoil it before you watch it. Macross Plus takes place I think 20 years after the original tv series (or DYRL movie) and Macross 7 is apparently a few years after that.

The main female lead in Macross 7 is the youngest daughter of two supporting characters in the original Macross. If you want spoiler details let me know.

[JenB]

This Yankee couldn't care less about Nascar, honestly... give me a nice baseball game, any day.

Do I lose Yankee-status at some point? I mean, I do live out West now...

Hi all. Boring day at work, so I left early. So did everyone else. We aren't busy until Friday when the somewhat final class rolls arrive and we start making accounts.

Took the bus. Boring. Fortunately I'm re-reading Harry Turtledove's "The Guns of the South", so that helped. I think I'm going to take a walk now.

[Corin Stormhands]

Do I lose Yankee-status at some point? I mean, I do live out West now...

You don't unnerstand...Everything outside of "Dixie" is "yankee."

It's quite simple, really.

[Alkhin]

Well, I bought the "Idiots Guide to Writing Comics" from B&N...had to place an order for the DC Guide. dont know when that will come in. Also found this article that has provoked some thoughts I will email you on later...some thoughts I had originally about the theme of the story, but am not too sure it will go over.

[Alkhin]

Of course, being a Texan, even some Dixie people are Yanks, thanks to the ten years we were a Republic.

Yeehaw!

[JenB]

Does it annoy you that to a lot of the rest of the world, you guys are yankees, too?

*Whistling* Yankee Doodle went to town, riding on a pony...

[Fedora]

"Well, I bought the "Idiots Guide to Writing Comics" from B&N..."

I haven't read that one--let me know how it is!

What'd you get out of the article?

[Corin Stormhands]

*ahem* don't make me turn this thread around...and may I remind you...

Sam Houston - born in Virginia

Stephen Austin - born in Virginia

At least eleven of the defenders of the Alamo - born in Virginia.

Y'all are welcome.

[Corin Stormhands]

Does it annoy you that to a lot of the rest of the world, you guys are yankees, too?

Well, then you get into distinction between yankees and damnyankees. So no, it doesn't annoy me.

[JenB]

Now, I know no Southern gentleman would imply a lady is a damnyankee, so I must be misunderstanding your point ;-p

I'm going to go enjoy some of this lovely day!

[Corin Stormhands]

Perhaps it is best said that within the boundaries of the U.S., if yer outside of Dixie, yer a yankee. But when we're fightin' fer our country, it's okay to be a yank.

'zat make more sense?

[Fedora]

"But when we're fightin' fer our country, it's okay to be a yank."

As in "The Yanks are coming. . ." :) In contrast to the other definition, illustrated by the episode of Bugs Bunny where Yosemite Sam hears the Yankees are in Chatanooga, so he rushes off to Chatanooga, and the next shot shows him holding a gun on a bunch of baseball players yelling, "The next one of you Yankees steps out of that dugout gets his head blasted off!" :)

[Corin Stormhands]

Yeah, that's purty much it...

[RosieCotton]

You know, I know you're mostly (not entirely, I think) joking about this, and I know I'm being overly defensive, but I have known southerners who seriously consider anyone born outside of a few states to be an inferior class of American. I served with some in the military. It drove me nuts - I was working right alongside them, but to them, I could never be as good as they were. I have seen NOTHING to compare to that kind of snobbery up here, regardless of the fact that usually they called ME a snob just for being born (or rather, having grown up) in the Northeast.

Pride in where you're from is one thing. Arrogance to the point where one feels the need to put down every other place is another.

So yes, this subject DOES rankle me, and I jump to the bait each time. Silly me.

[RosieCotton]

Just to clarify...I'm angry at the sentiment...not at you personally.

[Corin Stormhands]

It's no more fair to call you a snob for being born in (and living in) the Northeast than it is to label all southerners as stupid rednecks (and let me be clear that I know you don't do that). There's a natural prejudice against strong southern accents. Just as there is a natural prejudice against say strong New York accents.

It's not right. It's not fair. It's not true.

And it really pi$$e$ off us stupid southern rednecks.

;-)

[Fedora]

Is this one of them Civil War re-enactments I've heard about? :)

[Lil'freeper]

Hi