The Hobbit Hole XVII - A new road or a secret gate...

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[HairOfTheDog]

Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!

A new road or a secret gate...

• 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!
• Fourteenth thread: The Hobbit Hole XIV - Hill and Water Under Sky
• Fifteenth thread: The Hobbit Hole XV - Pass them by! Pass them by!
• Sixteenth Thread: The Hobbit Hole XVI - Still round the corner there may wait...

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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[JenB]

Oh, who knows. I might, but I thought I'd hear back Saturday night. If it's not too late after I get home and go pick up my hard drive, I'll stop at Best Buy and ask 'em.

[Pippin]

Oh, Okay, I'll just be more careful and review before hitting post.

[Pippin]

Good afternoon!

[Pippin]

Nope!

Didn't seem nasty to mee! :o)

[Pippin]

Hi, HOTD!

[Pippin]

Hi, ecurbh!

8 is not too young for The Hobbit IMO.

[Pippin]

Too old?

Nah!

I'm older than you and I still read The Hobbit :0)

[JenB]

Suzi has a funkle rival!

[RosieCotton]

I'm older than that now! But I was mostly just jokin'...twisting his question the other way. ;-)

I still have copies of LOTS of the books I liked when I was little, and I still read them on occasion.

[RosieCotton]

Well...if it makes you feel any better, I think several of us are rather behind at the moment. We'll just have to do some cheering each other on, I guess!

[Pippin]

Oh really? ;0)

[Pippin]

;0)

[JenB]

But... if the restoration doesn't work, I lose all my music, my half-completed novel that might have actually been workable... the NaNo story is almost the least of it.

[Corin Stormhands]

[RosieCotton]

It's the least we can do, though!

I really do hope it all comes through for ya.

[Pippin]

Look at 714

I think Corin is trying to tell us something! LOL!

[RosieCotton]

Heh...I wish I had more of those! I really don't have many little kid books...most of those were destroyed completely and utterly, and are hard to find in print anymore.

But I do have copies of the chapter books I liked. Not the originals...but then we got a lot from the library anyway and I didn't even have them back then.

I'd love to find copies of some of those little kid books, though. Not necessarily golden books. Some of them were pretty obscure, like "The Pumpkin Giant" - that was awesome! I also liked books like Tiki Tiki Tembo that ARE still in print. One day I'll pick 'em up again...

[JenB]

So do I. But I'm not going to let a major disaster stop me from doing NaNo!

[JenB]

I like little-kid books too... Especially "Tiki Tiki Tembo". Listening to it for, what, 15 years does that to you. And the little guy still likes it... but they're growing up... middle bothers are about to the science fiction stage. Too bad the Heinlein collection moved to Colorado with me.

[RosieCotton]

Not to make light of a serious situation, but...

Wanna borrow a fountain pen? ;-)

I'm still doing a good portion of my writing by hand first and then transcribing. It's handy sometimes...but if I had a really, really lightweight and rugged option with plenty o' battery life that let me type, I'd be in heaven. I'd probably still do a lot of writing just because I like to...but it isn't nearly as fast, no matter how you look at it.

Unfortunately, usually you have to pick one or two options to the detriment of others, and I can't afford anything at all anyway...but someday, maybe.