The Hobbit Hole XXV - Fare you well! Fare you well!

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[HairOfTheDog]

Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!

Fare you well! Fare you well!

• 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...
• Eighteenth Thread: The Hobbit Hole XVIII - Though we pass them by today...
• Nineteenth Thread: The Hobbit Hole XIX - Tomorrow we may come this way...
• Twentieth Thread: The Hobbit Hole XX - And take the hidden paths that run...
• Twenty-first Thread: The Hobbit Hole XXI - ...Towards the Moon or to the Sun.
• Twenty-second Thread: The Hobbit Hole XXII - ...Apple, thorn, and nut and sloe
• Twenty-third Thread: The Hobbit Hole XXIII - Let them go! Let them go!
• Twenty-Fourth Thread: The Hobbit Hole XXIV - Sand and Stone and Pool and Dell...

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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[RosieCotton]

Heh...I did that, too...but still didn't get hobbit.

Life just isn't fair!

Good afternoon!

[RosieCotton]

I'm just having trouble getting this thing really moving.

And now that Bob's met The Toaster...I dunno what I should do next. I guess I could have the family lawyer visit (he's the one that send the "scam" e-mail) and blather a bunch of stuff.

[Lil'freeper]

You can always introduce a new character who is seemingly unrelated to the main plot until the very end....

[Overtaxed]

Rober Jordan's got nothing on me in the way of aimless, irrelevant exposition.

I think someone might start reciting Beowulf here in a moment.

[RosieCotton]

I already have too many characters.

That does remind me, though...I need to introduce the princess soon. Also she needs a name. So does her Dad.

I think she's going to have a sort of silly flower name, like Marigold. I have no clue what to call the deposed king. Something slightly quirky and old fashioned, I think.

[RosieCotton]

Considering nothing actually really HAPPENED in my sister's story until about the 35k point, I'm doing pretty well this year...

Beowulf, huh? Maybe they could recite it in the original Old English, and then in regular, and then explain the differences and all the metaphors in it and such.

[Lil'freeper]

Hmmm....

Petunia?

[Overtaxed]

Perhaps if they recited it backwards in original Old English it would dispel the evil demon.

'Course with my luck, the evil demon doesn't understand Old English.

[RosieCotton]

Well...then they could try other languages. It'd be good for wordcount...

[JenB]

Ugh, Robert Jordan is like a NaNo novel gone bad. Er, worse.

[Overtaxed]

Got a mailer from the Science Fiction Book Club. His new book is out. Oh joy. Oh joy.

[JenB]

Yeah, B&N have literal piles of Jordan scattered around the store.

Hmmm. "Piles of Jordan" sounds like a euphimism...

[Lil'freeper]

I have yet to read one.

I need to finish the J.D. Robb "In Death" series first.

[Overtaxed]

Hmmm....I wonder if I can parlay braid jerking and skirt smoothing into a whole page.

[SuziQ]

Larkspur? Camelia?

[g'nad]

gotta be wrong... tho I prefer the Riddermark to the Gondorian girlie-men...

Rohirrim

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[RosieCotton]

Something like that. I'm not really too worried about coming up with a good name for her. It's the king I'm not sure about.

[RosieCotton]

And Igor is getting on my nerves.

[Overtaxed]

That's "Eye-gore."

[RosieCotton]

But I thought it was the Gondorians that went commando style...