The Hobbit Hole III - Journey to the Cross-roads!

[HairOfTheDog]

Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!

Journey to the Cross-roads
The Two Towers Edition

Come on! Come in! -if you would like to have some seedcakes and a pint and relax a while. (If it is a special occasion, we still have a few bottles of the old wineyards left!)

Our first thread ( New Zealander builds Hobbit hole ) reached 4,100 posts, and we thought that was big. Our second thread (The New Hobbit Hole ) held us for over 48,000 posts, and we loved it dearly. We talked about moving to a new thread for the last 38,000 posts, but we are really slow to muster! Finally, the time has come. Tomorrow (at 12:01 am, to be precise!) The Two Towers comes out, and we start a new chapter.

[SuziQ]

my brother threw his friends' cat in the freezer after our dogs had killed it.

My brother did that when my Mama's dog died while she was up visiting us once. He knew she'd probably want to bury Charlie (Brown) at our Fish Camp, where she lived, so he kept him in the freezer until she returned. His wife was a little unnverved when she opened the freezer and realized Charlie was there!

[2Jedismom]

I wish I had a deep freeze. I love a bargain and really you do a good thing when you buy bargains in bulk. Like Steve bought all that butter for 88c a pound...really, it normally never sells for less than $2, so that was a good price. So he bought 18 pounds of it...so what? Eventually, we would have had to have bought 18lbs of butter for one price or another! I won't eat margarine on my popcorn (which I got for $8 for a 50# bag, you know).

Hamburger is my favorite thing to buy in bulk...if it's a good special, I'll really stock up...make the butcher wrap it up in individual little one pound packets and have a pile of them in my cart. We use a lot of hamburger around here.

OJ is another. If they run a special on it, like $1.99 a gallon, I load up and freeze it in it's gallon jugs. It freezes great.

Now I need a pair of sneakers. Do I go out and buy the first pair of fancy Reeboks or Nikes I see? No. I want a pair of Chucks. Why?

1. I think I can get them cheap.
2. I can get a pair made in the USA maybe
3. They aren't flashy disco shoes.
4. I can get them in red.
5. They are (in my opinion) cool.

[RMDupree]

Those are nice!

I used to wear the knock-offs in low top. And I would buy them in different color plaids. :)

[2Jedismom]

See? We're gonna have a great time at Moot!

[Dawntreader]

For future reference and if you are interested:

LOTR Birthdays (Actors)

January
13 Orlando Bloom (1977)
28 Elijah Wood (1981)

February
25 Sean Astin (1971)

March
18 Brad Dourif (1950)

April
4 Hugo Weaving (1960)
17 Sean Bean (1959)
20 Andy Serkis (1964)

May
5 John Rhys-Davies (1944)
14 Cate Blanchett (1969)
25 Ian McKellen (1939)
27 Christopher Lee (1922)

June
7 Karl Urban (1972)

July
1 Liv Tyler (1977)

August
28 Billy Boyd (1968)

September
12 Ian Holm (1931)
21 David Wenham (1965)

October
20 Viggo Mortensen (1958)

November
12 Craig Parker (1970)

December
8 Dominic Monaghan (1976)
16 Miranda Otto (1967)
17 Bernard Hill (1944)

Did I forget anyone?

[2Jedismom]

Frodo was born the year I graduated from high school!!

[RMDupree]

Very cool of you to do that for us, DT!

I've written them down for future reference. :)

[HairOfTheDog]

And Miranda Otto is my age.

I am now fully and completely depressed.

[2Jedismom]

You're just a kid.

I'm between Boromir and Wormtongue.

[HairOfTheDog]

Yeah, but standing next to Miranda would make me feel like bad road.

I am gonna go put on some mascara.

[HairOfTheDog]

Good job on the list!

Nice use of HTML!

[Dawntreader]

No problem :-) And it's not like I have work to do here or anything *cough cough*

[Corin Stormhands]

Viggo's 44. I hope I look that good when I'm that....oh wait.....#$%*&.....

[RosieCotton]

My sister has the same birthday as John Rhys-Davies. (Not the same year, of course!) I'll have to let her know!

Dom is my age. Orlando is too, or pretty close!

[RMDupree]

Sean Astin is only 2 years older than me. *wicked grin*

[Dawntreader]

I'm closest to Dom...I'm one year older than him.

[Dawntreader]

How about birthdays of characters? Are those documented in the books? I found September 22 for Frodo & Bilbo, but that was all.

[RosieCotton]

I'm closer...he's less than two months younger. (Would have been less than a month if I hadn't been in such a hurry!)

[RosieCotton]

In other words...he's the closest to my age, too! Just realizing what you meant.

[Dawntreader]

;-) hehe