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The Hobbit Hole XXVI - Home is behind, the world ahead
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Posted on 12/11/2005 8:37:40 AM PST by HairOfTheDog

Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!

Home is behind, the world ahead

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: HairOfTheDog

4,061 posted on 01/03/2006 7:37:07 PM PST by Corin Stormhands
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To: Corin Stormhands

Good night moon.


4,062 posted on 01/03/2006 7:38:29 PM PST by HairOfTheDog (Join the Hobbit Hole Troop Support - http://freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net/ 1,000 knives and counting!)
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To: ExGeeEye

Handsome groomsmen and groom, beautiful bride, cute kids, what else could one ask for for Christmas!! Welcome back, XGI, we missed you. LSA


4,063 posted on 01/03/2006 7:46:29 PM PST by osagebowman ("I'm just trying to be a better person, my name is...")
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To: HairOfTheDog; RosieCotton; TalonDJ

I just want to say that dominoes are really quite innocent and much less intense than backgammon but hopefully have an equally nice outcome. So there ;-p


4,064 posted on 01/03/2006 7:57:16 PM PST by JenB
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To: Lucius Cornelius Sulla
She won't like Florida in August!

Heh, she knows that, but also knows that she'll be duly compensated with the delightful weather in the winter! We lived in FL for four years while SirKit got his PhD at FSU. I remember that April/May and Sept./Oct were still brutal, and she'll be at school during those times, but she'll be home in MA for the summer, when it's not quite as bad here. ;o)

4,065 posted on 01/03/2006 7:59:41 PM PST by SuziQ
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To: JenB

I don't think dominoes is innocent at all... after all, isn't the point to get the dominoes to touch each other?


4,066 posted on 01/03/2006 8:02:52 PM PST by HairOfTheDog (Join the Hobbit Hole Troop Support - http://freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net/ 1,000 knives and counting!)
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To: Corin Stormhands

Very cute! I like it!


4,067 posted on 01/03/2006 8:03:50 PM PST by RosieCotton
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On that note... I'm hittin' the couch for some South Park on tape from the marathon the other night...


4,068 posted on 01/03/2006 8:04:26 PM PST by HairOfTheDog (Join the Hobbit Hole Troop Support - http://freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net/ 1,000 knives and counting!)
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To: JenB
I just want to say that dominoes are really quite innocent

Uh-huh...

And what about Apples to Apples? Next you'll be telling us that *that* is a nice innocent little game.

4,069 posted on 01/03/2006 8:04:52 PM PST by RosieCotton
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To: HairOfTheDog

The dominoes may have been but we sure weren't! Hmmm, we haven't played dominoes in a long while either. Probably because phone calls are better.


4,070 posted on 01/03/2006 8:05:20 PM PST by JenB
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To: RosieCotton

Since we played it with my family, well, I hope it is.


4,071 posted on 01/03/2006 8:06:22 PM PST by JenB
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To: Corin Stormhands
If'n I weren't over 40, I'd make somebody a good wife...

*snark* I realized, at my Mama's funeral, just who it is you remind me of. Alan was a good friend in college, about whom my Daddy used to say the same thing. "You know, Alan will make somebody a good wife! Actually, Alan married, and got himself a nice wife.

At Mama's funeral, it had been almost 20 years since I'd seen him. He came and stood next to me, and I was in my 'gracious family' mode and just glanced at him and smiled. He remained there, and when I looked back at him, he said "Don't recognize me, do you?" As soon as he spoke, I knew who he was, and we chatted and caught up for quite a while. I realized later, when you made some funny comment on the thread, that you and he have such similar personalities and sense of humor that it is uncanny sometimes.

4,072 posted on 01/03/2006 8:06:39 PM PST by SuziQ
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To: ExGeeEye

Hmmm. Tell us more!!


4,073 posted on 01/03/2006 8:08:36 PM PST by SuziQ
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To: Darksheare

Hey, howdy! Seen you in various locales around FR!


4,074 posted on 01/03/2006 8:09:28 PM PST by SuziQ
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To: SuziQ

Hi!
Saw you around and about in forum as well.
Been wandering, as is usual for me.


4,075 posted on 01/03/2006 8:10:25 PM PST by Darksheare (Bezerky Jerky the funky Turkey jerky strips! Yum!)
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To: HairOfTheDog
I met up with Penny while FoTR was still running in Seattle.

Have you heard from her lately?? I miss some of the original HH inhabitants (not that there is anything wrong with the current crowd!!)

Maybe we could have some sort of Tolkien related project [he proposes after being away for most of the time for more than 3 years!!] Not in the HH of course, but in the HH topic.

I remember my first posting in FR regarding the LOTR, which was, as I remember, about 2 years before FOTR was released, under my old screen name. I was perhaps a little overly optimistic about the power of the LOTR project to improve our moral climate! Considering the continuing general decline in society's values,perhaps we could put in our little bit to help.

4,076 posted on 01/03/2006 8:10:36 PM PST by Lucius Cornelius Sulla
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To: RMDupree; ExGeeEye
When do you plan on introducing her to us?

Well, if she didn't run screaming after THAT, she'd prolly be just fine.

4,077 posted on 01/03/2006 8:12:07 PM PST by SuziQ
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To: Corin Stormhands

WooHoo! You gots a future in country music, boy!


4,078 posted on 01/03/2006 8:16:44 PM PST by SuziQ
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To: ExGeeEye

Now you KNOW you can't get away with saying only that. We demand details!


4,079 posted on 01/03/2006 8:21:06 PM PST by TalonDJ
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To: Corin Stormhands; ecurbh; RosieCotton
does anyone else remember at least ~thinking~ that the first time we talked about mooting anywhere?

Clare and I met ecurbh in June of 2003. He was up here to visit family, and we dragged him to a Boy Scout picnic that I was 'hosting', then went to see TTT at the cheap theater. We met Rosie and some of her sibs in October of that year, I think it was, when I took Clare up to VT for a homeschool camp. IIRC, they were the only two I'd met before Entmoot.

4,080 posted on 01/03/2006 8:22:12 PM PST by SuziQ
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