To: ecurbh
2 posted on
07/09/2008 7:28:28 AM PDT by
BibChr
("...behold, they have rejected the word of the LORD, so what wisdom is in them?" [Jer. 8:9])
To: xsmommy; Buckhead
To: martin_fierro
If he thinks he can get $250k for the postcard, why are they tearing the house down? Seems like the house would be worth tons more.
4 posted on
07/09/2008 7:31:48 AM PDT by
mysterio
To: martin_fierro
Addressed to Tolkien? Sounds like he wanted to burn it and missed. Anyone could write to him. I know he kept my correspondence in a book. :^)
6 posted on
07/09/2008 7:33:39 AM PDT by
Samwise
("Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.")
To: Peanut Gallery
Perhaps we need a second fireplace?
To: martin_fierro
hopes to sell it for a small fortune. My Preciousssssssssss. . . .
To: martin_fierro
Stephen Malton, who runs Prodem Demolition in Bournemouth on the south English coast, was working in the house in the nearby town of Poole before it was bulldozed to make way for a new construction project. "Before we demolish a house we do an internal strip out," Malton said Tuesday.
Vulture.
13 posted on
07/09/2008 8:13:07 AM PDT by
LongElegantLegs
(We are all humans, and humans poo.)
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14 posted on
07/09/2008 8:27:08 AM PDT by
ecurbh
(Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man.)
To: martin_fierro
17 posted on
07/09/2008 9:23:13 AM PDT by
TBP
To: martin_fierro
Let me check, and see if it was worth reading this thread..............Nope. Never get those 3 minutes back!
18 posted on
07/09/2008 9:44:07 AM PDT by
weeder
To: martin_fierro
A demolition man stripping a fireplace from the former home of "The Lord of the Rings" author J.R.R. Tolkien stumbled across a postcard to the writer dated 1968, and hopes to sell it for a small fortune. Stephen Malton, who runs Prodem Demolition in Bournemouth on the south English coast, was working in the house in the nearby town of Poole before it was bulldozed to make way for a new construction project. "Before we demolish a house we do an internal strip out," Malton said Tuesday.
Gee, why not just spray the whole works with petrol and set fire to it?
19 posted on
07/09/2008 10:01:31 AM PDT by
SunkenCiv
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To: martin_fierro
Builder discovers "priceless" Tolkien postcard "To tie in both the fireplace and the postcard, we are talking about a price of around $500,000 for the combined pair..."
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
21 posted on
07/09/2008 2:06:21 PM PDT by
LexBaird
(Behold, thou hast drinken of the Aide of Kool, and are lost unto Men.)
To: martin_fierro
Thanks for the ping! I love these threads.
24 posted on
07/09/2008 3:03:46 PM PDT by
SkyPilot
("I wasn't in church during the time when the statements were made.")
To: martin_fierro
Hmm...for something he thinks is “priceless” the feller sure seems to have had no hesitation in putting a hefty price on it. But I can go him one better - I have in my possession a postcard written to William Shakespeare by an adoring fan named Drill or somebody that I’d be happy to let go for a mere quarter-million buckadingdongs...just as soon as the ink dries...
To: martin_fierro
During this time period Tolkien was beginning to cash in on his celebrity - as well he should.
I remember seeing many posters and artworks with his image and images from his book - The Hobbit - popping up in the 'Head shops' of the era.
I had a rather large poster of him sitting on some very gnarly tree roots. Quite stunning actually. Wish I still had it...but that was long ago and far away...in a land that time has passed by....(cur Hobbit music)...
29 posted on
07/09/2008 6:46:57 PM PDT by
Tainan
(Talk is cheap. Silence is golden. All I got is brass...lotsa brass.)
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