The Hobbit Hole XVIII - Though we pass them by today...

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Though we pass them by today...

• 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...
• Seventeenth Thread: The Hobbit Hole XVII - A new road or a secret gate...

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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[SuziQ]

Fruitcake anyone?

Thanks, but I only like my Golden Fruitcake

[SuziQ]

I've been dropping hints every chance I get, but no-one's "getting" it!

Well, you won't know for sure until Saturday, will you? ;o)

[Corin Stormhands]

Thanks, but I only like my Golden Fruitcake

Do we want to know what that is?

[SuziQ]

I always thought Gandalf looked a bit like Santa CLAUS! :O)

The very first in my St. Nick collection is a wooden Father Christmas cutout painted with a blue robe. The face reminds me a LOT of the Gandalf from "The Hobbit" animated movie. I'll have to take a pic so you can see it!

[Pippin]

UGH!

[SuziQ]

Its hard to make an old person look young.

Bilbo wasn't young in "The Hobbit"! He was in his late 60's or so, wasn't he? At the time of "Fellowship", Gandalf noted in the movie that he hadn't aged a day since he returned to Hobbiton from the Lonely Mountains all those years before, even though it was now his Eleventy-First birthday! Of course this was the influence of having the One Ring in his possession. Ian Holm could play him perfectly well!

[Pippin]

LOL!

No, I guess I have saomething to look forward too! :o)

[Pippin]

NEET!

[Pippin]

Bilbo was 50 in the Hobbit.

[SuziQ]

Golden Fruitcake is most yummy! It's like a pound cake with brandy, apricots, golden raisins, and pecans in it.

[Pippin]

I remember watching and then later helping mom make two kinds of fruitcake, one of them was the golden raisin fruitcake, you guys are bringing back some really deliscious memories! :o)

[Darksheare]

Thankfully, I did eventually get to my destination!
(I did NOT type "thnakfully"! I did not! Honest!)

[SuziQ]

Bilbo was 50 in the Hobbit.

There ya go! In the prologue to Fellowship, they showed a bit of Bilbo finding the Ring in Gollum's cave. Ian Holm looked fine there, so he could definitely do it!! It would be a fitting close to the series to have him play that part. I don't know if it would be good for any of the others, except for maybe Ian McKellan and the Elves, since they're immortal, to be in it as well. Might be disconcerting to see the folks we know so well in their LOTR parts to be playing in "The Hobbit" unless they're made up to be older people and relatives of their LOTR characters.

[SuziQ]

I can't remember where I got this Golden Fruitcake recipe. I'll look for it and post it here. My family doesn't like fruitcake, so I have to bake this to give it away. *sniff*

[Alkhin]

The way I concieve of Bilbo's maturity at age 50 is that he was probably in the prime of life...no longer carrying "baby-fat" but still looking young and healthy and full of vim and vigor. Age 50 would probably place him in his late 30s/early 40s for human years, which is pretty much the apex of life. Its why I really didnt have much of a problem with Frodo looking like Elijah Wood, because at the time he inherited the ring, at the age of 33 "the coming of age" he would probably be the equivalent of a new college grad. Pippin would probably be the equivalent of a 17 yr/18 yr old.

But then I am going by modern standards. Maybe I am not charitable, but something I have noticed about British/Europeans is that they often look much older than they are, as if their childhoods weren't as healthy as they should be and the alcohol has taken its toll. But that could just be me.

sorry for the delay in answer...got called away by three telephone calls and a package delivery and the insect-spray man. *whew!* never rains but pours around here....

[Pippin]

I wonder if Elijah Wood; Sean Astin; Billy Boyd and Dominic Monohan (sp?) would make good dwarves?

[Pippin]

Ya done did good! :o)

[SuziQ]

We're slowly cleaning up the Living room and making space for the tree. I think I've gotten all my shopping done with the exception of two things Paul told me about last night, that he hadn't mentioned before! I think I can find both things locally, though, so I've got time. Have to get the driveway plowed first, so I can get out of it! The boys have to figure out how to use the snowthrower because it snowed about 4 inches after SSQ left for work!

[Pippin]

They just don't know what they are missing!

[SuziQ]

I wonder if Elijah Wood; Sean Astin; Billy Boyd and Dominic Monohan (sp?) would make good dwarves?

It would be fun to have them in parts where they are so made up, it's hard to figure out who they are!