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The Hobbit Hole XXIII - Let them go! Let them go!

Posted on 07/12/2005 8:11:36 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog

Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!

Let them go! Let them go!

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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To: JenB

Seriesly. Huge soiree on Sunday. I may not have place cards for everyone (it's a b-b-que) but my floors *will* be clean. dangit.


601 posted on 07/14/2005 7:14:33 AM PDT by Lil'freeper
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To: JenB

Rats. I missed. :P


602 posted on 07/14/2005 7:14:47 AM PDT by Lil'freeper
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To: Lil'freeper

You can't have 'em all.

Soiree. Fun. Name cards, no fun.


603 posted on 07/14/2005 7:15:31 AM PDT by JenB (I solemnly swear I am up to no good.)
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To: JenB
Whoo-hoo, tomorrow's the day!

Yep, the day of the HUGH booksale at the library! Yippee!!

At least I have SOMETHING to look forward to. ;-)

604 posted on 07/14/2005 7:15:52 AM PDT by RosieCotton (Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity. - G.K. Chesterton)
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To: JenB

It's all family so it should be fun. 'cept being the hostess is a lot of work.


605 posted on 07/14/2005 7:16:48 AM PDT by Lil'freeper
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To: JenB
oops!

Thanks!

606 posted on 07/14/2005 7:18:12 AM PDT by Pippin ( Those who have evil in their hearts didn't get it from books.)
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To: Lil'freeper

Don't I know! It was my turn to host dinner-and-movies night last night, so I spent all Tuesday cleaning and then fretted about the food for ages. It went over well, even if I crisped the bread a little too much.


607 posted on 07/14/2005 7:20:02 AM PDT by JenB (I solemnly swear I am up to no good.)
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To: All

Mornin'.

~sip~


608 posted on 07/14/2005 7:20:47 AM PDT by RMDupree (HHD: I'm proud of who my friends are.)
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To: RMDupree

Good Morning!


609 posted on 07/14/2005 7:23:05 AM PDT by Pippin ( Those who have evil in their hearts didn't get it from books.)
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To: RMDupree

Morning Ruthy!

Gah, got to get to work before the HP thread EATS MY BRAIN!!!


610 posted on 07/14/2005 7:39:29 AM PDT by JenB (I solemnly swear I am up to no good.)
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To: Pippin
Good mornin!!

I have GOT to stay away from the computer. I come to it with all sorts of good intentions, and before you know it I have wasted time.

NOT that chatting with the HHdwellers is a waste! Not by far. But my mind does love to wander....

611 posted on 07/14/2005 7:49:39 AM PDT by Alkhin ("Oh! Oh!" cried my idiot crew. "It's a ghoul - we are lost!" ~ Jack Aubrey)
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To: Lil'freeper; HairOfTheDog; All
Seriesly. Huge soiree on Sunday. I may not have place cards for everyone (it's a b-b-que) but my floors *will* be clean. dangit.

Okay, I just hafta ask: has anyone actually been to a wedding reception with place cards? I'm thinkin' we don't do such things in the Pac. NW, hicks that we are out here, or maybe it's just me. I would feel like I was in gradeschool again. Not that there's anything wrong with them, I was just curious if in other places people are more inclined to do that sort of thing, or if I just don't travel in those circles (which is probably the case anyway).

PS: 'morning, everyone! :) Rode into work today, and I was SO SLOW! But I feel great!

612 posted on 07/14/2005 7:50:22 AM PDT by Penny1
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To: JenB

I just pinged you to another one...


613 posted on 07/14/2005 7:51:42 AM PDT by Corin Stormhands (Join the Hobbit Hole Troop Support - http://freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net/)
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To: JenB
Mornin' Jen!

Are they still claiming Tolkien/LOTR was just an allegory?

I'm personally so tired of the rants against HP that I find it easier to think about something else. But it really ticks me off when someone keeps coming in to say that LOTR was an allegory. I made up my mind right along with Tolkien himself : allegories are 'icky.' LOL Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia are wonderful, but I don't appreciate them as well as Middle Earth. Its Lewis' other books that I like much much better.

614 posted on 07/14/2005 7:53:19 AM PDT by Alkhin ("Oh! Oh!" cried my idiot crew. "It's a ghoul - we are lost!" ~ Jack Aubrey)
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To: Penny1; Lil'freeper; HairOfTheDog; All
Okay, I just hafta ask: has anyone actually been to a wedding reception with place cards?

Yes. But then, I live in the south.

Wife and I have done a lot of weddings, either providing music or assisting in planning. Wife is playing for one this weekend.

We've seen ~everything~.

What I think it boils down to, and what I think Hair managed to accomplish, is that the wedding day should be exactly what the bride and groom want.

Yes, there's a "proper" way to do things, and you can go that route if you need to. But I reject the thought that there are things you ~must~ do to be "properly married."

615 posted on 07/14/2005 7:56:14 AM PDT by Corin Stormhands (Join the Hobbit Hole Troop Support - http://freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net/)
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To: Penny1
I've been to one - the bride was of the 'country club set.' It was painfully dull event. That being said, I have enough training to not make a fool of my self at such affairs. I know which fork to use and when, I can make small talk.

I'm not good at not looking bored, however.

Informality does not equal hickishness. Formality, when it's a game of form over function, does not equal class.

616 posted on 07/14/2005 7:58:07 AM PDT by Lil'freeper
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To: Corin Stormhands

I saw that thread before... sigh... it's like those anti-wimmin threads Rosie gets herself into, I can't help myself.


617 posted on 07/14/2005 8:08:24 AM PDT by JenB (I solemnly swear I am up to no good.)
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To: Penny1

I haven't. But I've only been two two weddings since I was ten. One of those my whole family was invited to the ceremony, even though other than that they didn't invite kids, because we had a very special connection with the bride. But we weren't at the reception. It could have been that formal, maybe. The wedding was very elegant.

The other was for a pair of my old friends, who were getting married young and on the cheap. Their reception was in the church basement and there were barely tables, let alone place settings. But they're just as married as the other guys


618 posted on 07/14/2005 8:10:30 AM PDT by JenB (I solemnly swear I am up to no good.)
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To: JenB
But they're just as married as the other guys

Oh, *sputter*, but, *tsk tsk* they didn't do it CORRECTLY. ;P

619 posted on 07/14/2005 8:11:36 AM PDT by Lil'freeper
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To: Lil'freeper

Heh. You'd have to take that up with their fathers - hers looked thrilled to be marrying off his lovely daughter, his was the preacher who did the wedding.

It would be incorrect for a poor couple from not-rich families to spend 100k on a wedding, when they could spend 2k and be just as happy.


620 posted on 07/14/2005 8:17:25 AM PDT by JenB (I solemnly swear I am up to no good.)
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