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

Posted on 12/17/2002 7:32:02 AM PST by 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.


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To: Corin Stormhands
Yes...hopefully with half his guts hanging out...
24,701 posted on 04/09/2003 8:17:53 AM PDT by 2Jedismom ('The commitment of our fathers is now the calling of our time')
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To: Corin Stormhands
Sheesh! Somebody on the other thread just said Katie Colonic called it a "desecration."

Probably with tears in her eyes...

24,702 posted on 04/09/2003 8:18:19 AM PDT by Corin Stormhands (HHD, FRM, RFA)
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To: Overtaxed
I meant to ping you to 24699! GRRR!
24,703 posted on 04/09/2003 8:18:52 AM PDT by Pippin (Warrior Hobbit on duty)
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To: Corin Stormhands
What a great image when that thing falls.

I started the VCR running when the Iraqis first climbed up on the statue and started hitting it with their shoes! LOL! It was awesome to watch them when the body of the statue finally hit the ground! Their Iraqis started jumping up and down on it! Brit Hume said that Al Jazeera was following it LIVE. I wonder what the 'Arab street' thinks of THAT sight?

Homeschool this morning has consisted of 'World History Current Events' cause that's what the 'Principal' wants to do!

24,704 posted on 04/09/2003 8:20:13 AM PDT by SuziQ
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To: Corin Stormhands
They are gorgeous buildings.

I have often marvelled that the architecture and craftsmanship of old, and wondered why the architecture of relatively primitive cultures and times was so much more intricately detailed and beautiful, back when everything from cutting the materials to transporting it to finishing it was all manually crafted on site. When it all had to be done by hand, they spent a lot of time doing the extra... Just think even of the fancy mouldings and porch details of houses here 100 years ago. Now that everything is easier to make, with power tools and the ability to mass produce those details, our architecture is plain and ordinary and anything custom or special 'costs a fortune'. Why is that?
24,705 posted on 04/09/2003 8:21:58 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog (May it be a light for you in dark places, when all other lights go out.)
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To: Corin Stormhands
Please God. Let him be alive to see it. Amen.

Hehehe...then he'll stick his ugly head out of whatever hole he's hiding in.

24,706 posted on 04/09/2003 8:22:56 AM PDT by Overtaxed
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To: HairOfTheDog; yall
TEA PARTY IN BAGHDAD!
24,707 posted on 04/09/2003 8:23:21 AM PDT by Pippin (Warrior Hobbit on duty)
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To: HairOfTheDog
We've given up form for function, culture for cost.

Reminds me of a friend who works at a Bible college in Germany. The "new" building is the one built in the 1600s...
24,708 posted on 04/09/2003 8:25:50 AM PDT by Corin Stormhands (HHD, FRM, RFA)
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To: Overtaxed
I love whack-a-mole!
24,709 posted on 04/09/2003 8:26:09 AM PDT by Corin Stormhands (HHD, FRM, RFA)
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To: Corin Stormhands; Dawntreader; Wneighbor; ecurbh; RosieCotton; RMDupree; 2Jedismom; HairOfTheDog; ..
Thanks for the Birthday wishes everyone! I figure every day above ground ....well...you get the idea.
24,710 posted on 04/09/2003 8:28:32 AM PDT by Overtaxed (Nahh...I'm not that old! :))
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To: 2Jedismom
I think they are called "Wankers".

Did you see the two Iraqi men walking around the circle earlier with a banner that the human shields had used? Above and below the printed "Human Shields" some one had scrawled messages so that it NOW read GO HOME, HUMAN SHIELDS, you US WANKERS! It was hilarious! About that time, the camera showed a group of 4 or 5 folks, apparently some of the human shields yelling at one of our soldiers! I was hoping those Iraqi men would meet up with them and let them know what the Iraqis REALLY thought of their stupidity!!

24,711 posted on 04/09/2003 8:28:49 AM PDT by SuziQ
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To: HairOfTheDog
"Why is that?"

Maybe because the average guy needs 5 hours a day to watch TV shows.

24,712 posted on 04/09/2003 8:28:54 AM PDT by Sam Cree (liberals are the axis of evil)
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To: Corin Stormhands
I love whack-a-mole!

Which reminds me...have you seen this?


24,713 posted on 04/09/2003 8:30:15 AM PDT by Overtaxed
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To: Overtaxed
ROFL
24,714 posted on 04/09/2003 8:31:53 AM PDT by Corin Stormhands (HHD, FRM, RFA)
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To: Overtaxed
Hi, ((OT))!

Happy Birthday hug!

24,715 posted on 04/09/2003 8:32:44 AM PDT by Pippin (Warrior Hobbit on duty)
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To: Sam Cree; HairOfTheDog
Maybe because the average guy needs 5 hours a day to watch TV shows.

Well, sure, if you're tryin' to cut down.

24,716 posted on 04/09/2003 8:32:45 AM PDT by Corin Stormhands (HHD, FRM, RFA)
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To: ecurbh; All
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 VOLUME 39 ISSUE 13  AMERICA'S FINEST NEWS SOURCE 9 APRIL 2003
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COMMUNITY VOICES

Don't Come Crying To Me When You Need Someone Who Speaks Elvish
Larry Groznic

Really, Steven. Of all people, I expected more from you.

Until now, I was greatly impressed by your intellectual curiosity. Aren't you, after all, the person with whom I once had a three-hour message-board conversation concerning the story arc of the legendary series Blake's 7? Was it not you who listened attentively to my passionate argument in favor of allowing Commissioner Gordon's daughter Barbara to rise from her wheelchair and walk again? And are you not the same person who, once I guided you to the myriad shifting universes of Roger Zelazny, devoured them with the intellectual curiosity of a young Ender Wiggin?

Such a thirst for knowledge I once saw in you. And yet now, you question whether learning Elvish is "worth the effort." Elvish! At once the cornerstone and most elusive of the great J.R.R. Tolkien's creations!

To be intimidated by the fact that mastery of Elvish takes a lifetime—that I can comprehend. But for you to question its usefulness or intrinsic value, Steven, how could you? I tell you now: Do not come crying to me when you need someone who speaks Elvish.

In all honesty, I do not see why you would shy from this challenge. No, it is not easy, but you had already made some inroads. You recognized the essential difference between the Cirth "runes" of Balin's tomb and the Tengwar "letters" corrupted by Sauron upon the One Ring—so basic and fundamental a difference that many students overlook it, to their later dismay. And, although I feel the high-elven dialect of Quenya would have given you trouble and Valarin, the tongue of the Valar, would likely forever elude your grasp, I thought you certainly capable of one day becoming conversant—if not fluent—in Sindarin. But it was not to be, for you, like Radagast The Brown, have chosen the path of blissful ignorance. In so doing, you turn your back on the riches of the world.

Frankly, Steven, given your current level of engagement, I'd be surprised if you could be bothered to study a crude, simple language like Klingon, with its guttural consonants and inelegant constructions.

You might think this harsh, but need I mention which of us once ran out into a freezing parking lot to obtain the autograph of John de Lancie? I know I'd promised to not bring it up again, but you seem to need reminding.

How long has it been since I lent you my copy of Tolkien's The Lost Road, which contains both his indispensable "Lhammas" and the utterly seminal "Etymologies"? Were these not enough to whet your appetite for Elvish languages? Perhaps I should not have even bothered: If Appendix F of Return Of The King did not light a fire within you, further encouragement was probably a fool's errand. But I will need those back soon (seeing as you seem to have no further use for them), along with my three-CD box set of The Shadow radio broadcasts and Tracy Scoggins workout video, at your earliest convenience.

Oh, and one other thing. As disappointed as I am, I would be crestfallen if I were to find out that the ProtoBaggins77 who's been posting lately on the Final Fantasy X board at GameFAQs is you. If you absolutely must go down that road, my former companion, I wish you would have at least chosen the superior FFVII, if not IV. At least then, I would know you were not beyond all hope.

Farewell, Steven. Perhaps one day, I will be able to greet you by saying "Elen Sila lumenn' omentielvo!" But assuming that doesn't happen, I would ask that you please drop off my stuff at the library's tech-help desk any time I'm not working.


24,717 posted on 04/09/2003 8:33:21 AM PDT by Dawntreader (HHD)
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To: Overtaxed
SGT Schultz, I presume? LOLOLOLOLOL!
24,718 posted on 04/09/2003 8:33:37 AM PDT by Pippin (Warrior Hobbit on duty)
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To: SuziQ
I didn't see that! LMAOOOOOO
24,719 posted on 04/09/2003 8:35:28 AM PDT by Dawntreader (HHD)
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To: Overtaxed
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!

Yes, you can go home now.

and OT, NO DIETS ALLOWED ON BIRTHDAYS!

24,720 posted on 04/09/2003 8:35:35 AM PDT by Wneighbor (US Troops rock!)
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