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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[Ramius]

Nitey nite...

[ExGeeEye]

Auf Wiederschauen...bis Morgen fruh...

[SuziQ]

Thanks!! I don't think I'd ever seen Alexander's writing before. Looks just like his Dad's(my brother, Gerry)! Thanks so much for sending him the knife! I'll e-mail Gerry and let him know who it is who sent it.

[SuziQ]

Our youngest, Joseph, just got an iPod Nano last week. He LOVES the thing, except he does NOT like the ear-bud headphones. He found them VEY uncomfortable!

He wants one of those funky color silicone sleeves to put the Nano in because he doesn't like the fact that he keeps getting it all smeared with fingerprints! ;o) We'll likely get one for him for Christmas. He's also looking at the iHome, which is a docking port for charging the iPod, and it's an alarm clock, AM/FM radio with a good set of speakers to play the Nano through.

[SuziQ]

"Morph and Windy"

*groan*

[Rose in RoseBear]

A toaster in the first chapter, I promise.

And cheese.

And a Guido.

What other "must-haves" are on the list?

[Ramius]

Nilla wafers. :-)

[SuziQ]

Speak to My Soul

Oh, is that the name of YOUR novel, Rose?

[Rose in RoseBear]

I can do that.

The veterinarian can be addicted to Nilla Wafers ...

Say, Hair! Are Nilla Wafers bad for dogs? Say one or two a night, as a treat?

[HairOfTheDog]

I think one or two would be OK ;~D

[Rose in RoseBear]

Yep ... at least, Speak To My Soul is the working title. Several people in the novel have trouble communicating, in one way or another.

Maybe Speak To Me At Midnight? Nah ... too stilted.

[Ramius]

Soul Tongues...

[Ramius]

...or not.

My little solo chat-view of LOTR continues tonight. Now into disk 2 of TTT. Again... I keep forgetting how great Howard Shore's score was.

How can somebody get the theme's so absolutely dead-on? The Edoras Theme, for example. It simply could not have been better.

[Rose in RoseBear]

<smile>

After my father died, my mother had five dogs, three of them Lab-Shepherd-border collie mixes who had the Lab-Shepherd size, one a Husky mix, and one a border collie mix. My mother was about 5-foot-3 and small-framed ... the four largest dogs were at least as heavy as she, if not heavier.

These dogs ate three times a day. They had boiled chicken and cooked rice every morning --- she would boil the chicken necks and pick the meat off the bone. They had bran cereal for a snack in the afternoons, and dog food in the evenings. They got ice in their water cans on hot days, and every week they got boiled neckbones to chew.

Every night, after they had their dog food, my mother would get the box of Nilla Wafers. She would shake the box, and all five would gather at the back door, prancing eagerly in place. She would stand inside the screen door for a few moments, talking to them in baby talk, and then step out and toss each dog a cookie. They would catch the cookies in mid-air, snap!

Sometimes, she would hand them a cookie. They would take it from her hand, very carefully, and then go back on alert, looking for more.

I think I'll put the Nilla Wafers in Speak To My Soul.

Thanks again, Ramius!

[Ramius]

:-)

I live to serve. :-)

[HairOfTheDog]

Yep... the Rohan music is wonderful. The other great theme is the nature theme that plays when Treebeard finally decides Saruman is a problem ;~D


The weird thing about that nature theme is that he uses it again when the Rohirrim arrive over the rise at Pellanor fields. Not sure why.

[HairOfTheDog]

I think I'll put the Nilla Wafers in Speak To My Soul.

And a lady with some dang happy dogs :~D

[Ramius]

I don't think I've noticed that. I'll look for it.

[JenB]

Ah! Now that I'm home, no one else is!

The problem with doing homework in groups, is that groups attract alcohol and alcohol attracts chatting. And I had been kidnapped so I couldn't get myself home. Now I am home and it's late and I'd better go to bed.

But I did have a little fun gossiping about everyone we know, including ourselves.

[300winmag]

Very cool letterhead that guy's got.

When I emailed him back, the first thing I said was anything with horses and crossed sabres is tops in my book.