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.

[RosieCotton]

We get bad headaches from dry sinuses if we don't keep some moisture in the house!

Yeah, this is something I really struggle with in the winter. I can take care of it at home, but at work...not much I can do other than taking Aleve. (Just one or two, 2J! I promise!)

[Overtaxed]

Hot (as in until steam rises) Dr. Pepper and lemon.

[SuziQ]

Move to Florida, moisture in the air is NO problem down here. ;^)

Yeah, I know. I'm orginally from MS, and you'd have to wring yourself dry after spending any time outside during the summer!

[ksen]

Maybe I should pass the time talking about lembas with Kevin?

*sounds of crickets chirping* *chirp* *chirp*

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Oh alright! But just because you are in distress.

Lembas are vanilla wafery, light corn-bready with crispy edges type of cookies.

Lembas were invented by a one Galadhlas, chef to Thingol. You see, since Thingol was one of the original Elves to awaken at Cuivienin. He fell in love with Melian the Maiar and eventually settled in the forest realm of Doriath. Thingol was father to Luthien, of Beren & Luthien fame, and since he loved Luthien so much Thingol demanded that Beren fetch a Silmaril for him as the price of his daughter's hand in marriage.

Beren won the Silmaril and brought it back to Thingol. Thingol then requisitioned the Dwarves from the Blue Mountains to set the Silmaril in a necklace for him. The dwarves demanded their payment, which was a certain amount of gold.

Here is where tragedy struck. The dwarves asked for their gold, but in that dwarvish dialect the word for gold was Lambis. As everyone knows that is awfully close to Lembas which means "golden cake". So Thingol had his chef come up with a recipe for this new type of food which eventually became known as Lembas.

Anyway, when Thingol delivered what he thought was the asking price, 5,000 cakes of Lembas, the dwarves flew into such a rage that they slew Thingol and kept the Silmaril for themselves.

That is the sad, sad history for the beginning of Lembas bread. That's why I avoid any talk of it, in order to avoid stirring up old wounds between the Dwarves and the Elves.

[RosieCotton]

I picked up the VeggieTales' version of Jonah last night. I like that one alot too. ;^)

I need to rent that one of these days. Still haven't seen it, and I love the regular Veggie Tales...even if the songs DO get horribly, inextricably stuck in my head.

[Overtaxed]

when Thingol delivered what he thought was the asking price, 5,000 cakes of Lembas, the dwarves flew into such a rage that they slew Thingol and kept the Silmaril for themselves.

So did the Dwarves eat the Lembas?

[RosieCotton]

We just LOVE that movie! Patrick Warburton was great as Cronk talking to the squirrels, "Squeak squeaker, squeak squeakum"!

I like the part where he does his own theme music, too. And when he just takes over at the diner and starts cooking. LOL!

[SuziQ]

Just remember to 'ground' yourself before pumping gas!

I always slap the side of the door when getting out of the car. After opening the door, then sliding over to get out, you can get a shock when you touch the door to close it that would stop (or start, if need be) your heart!

[HairOfTheDog]

light corn-bready

Grin!

[ksen]

Try Brandy!

And 3 or 4 Aleve!

[HairOfTheDog]

Singing vegetables?

[HairOfTheDog]

Try Brandy!

And 3 or 4 Aleve!

GRIN!

[SuziQ]

I've had no voice since Monday. So, I could use some prayers that I can talk by 11:30 tomorrow.

I'll be praying for ya, but in the meantime, gargle with warm salt water as often as you can, fix yourself a couple of Hot Toddies tonight and get to bed early!!

[ksen]

So did the Dwarves eat the Lembas?

That is one of the questions that have haunted historians down through the ages. Up until the last few decades it was thought that the primitive Lembas were destroyed in carnage caused by the murder of Thingol. But there has been some new scholarship speculating that a cake or two of Lembas made it back to the Blue Mountains where the dwarves reverse-engineered them and came up with their own cakey type food called Cram.

[Corin Stormhands]

Oh wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeere is my hairbrush?

[Corin Stormhands]

Singing vegetables?

Oh ye of little faith...

[Wneighbor]

I think Lembas looks like flat cornbread.

But I think the cornbread has to have cheese and jalapenos in it.

[Wneighbor]

Try Brandy!

I was thinking that even though I don't drink alcohol anymore, I might require a shot of tequila for tomorrow's breakfast - for medicinal purposes of course. Think Ruthy can include that for me?

[HairOfTheDog]

I don't think tequila would help your throat the way Brandy would!

[Wneighbor]

I've been boycotting Dr. Pepper since their company spokesman said that "under God" is not relavant to today's USA.

That was a big one for me. I was a Pepper-holic. My waistline has improved from the boycott.