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]

LOL! I thought no such thing! Silly dwarf!

[Sam Cree]

Hi 2J.

Well at least the kitchen floor got a good washing.

[RMDupree]

G'Morning one and all!

Lemme see here...hmmmm....OK, let's do fried eggs and T-bone steaks this morning. Let me know how you like em! :)

Coffee, tea and juice and set to serve and I've got a mountain of bacon strips and sauteed mushrooms on the hot plate. ENJOY!

[RosieCotton]

You can tell breakfast is good...we're all too busy munching to talk...

[RMDupree]

Hehehehe...I thought I went overboard with the onions this morning!

[Pippin]

A MOUNTIAN OF BACON AND FRIED MUSHROOMS?

LOOK OUT I'M COMING!

[2Jedismom]

Mmmm! Steak and eggs!

[Corin Stormhands]

Hehehehe...I thought I went overboard with the onions this morning!

There's no such thing...

[RosieCotton]

Mmmm...sauteed mushrooms, onions and bacon...that be gooood!

[RMDupree]

Especially fried onions!

Especially especially when they are fried in the steak grease!

[Corin Stormhands]

I think the onions killed the thread...

[Wneighbor]

Morning all.

Onions? What onions? Just got here. Will go catch up now.

[RMDupree]

[HairOfTheDog]

Me and 2J and Rosie are over on the Biotoxin in Tacoma Mail Distribution Facility thread. (and LilFreeper who gave me a hard time!) I used to work for a Civil Engineering firm that is directly across the street from that place. In fact, the architect I worked for designed the building. Small world!

New report of stuff found in an air cargo facility in Florida.

If there is a widespread mail scare or event right now all I can say is.... Thank God I haven't got around to mailing Frodo yet!

[RosieCotton]

I wonder how long it'll take to figure out what's really going on...and if they'll tell us if they do!

[Wneighbor]

Not to worry about the mint Rosie. Those roots will take off when they're even half dead if given soil and even a little water. Any leaves that get below ground will also put out root shoots. I forgot to tell you that.

Did it smell good?

[HairOfTheDog]

Oh they'll tell us as soon as anyone knows!

[ksen]

Ok guys and gals, hobbits and hobbitesses, dwarves and, uh, dwarves, elves and elven maidens!

Here is a little Tolkien quiz. All questions for this first quiz are from FOTR, the written works.

Here we go:

1. What was the number of guests picked for Bilbo and Frodo’s party, or the part in the private pavilion, and how was it chosen?

2. Of who was Frodo afraid when he was a child?

3. In which wing and story of the Prancing Pony were the Hobbit rooms located?

4. What did Tom Bombadil take from the Barrow Wight’s treasure for himself, and what did he give each of the Hobbits?

5. Out of Gandalf, Elrond, and Glorfindel; who is the shortest?

6. What were the two famous weapons Elrond mentioned during the Council while discussing the Last Alliance and who were their bearers?

7. What did Gandalf allow the company to have on Caradhras and how much was each member to have?

8. Of whom did Legolas sing shortly after leaving Moria?

9. What was Galadriel’s gift to each member of the Fellowship?

10. What are the names of the two hills near Tol Brandir?

Answers will be posted later.... ;^)

[RMDupree]

OOPS!!! I meant to post this...

[Sam Cree]

Hi Kevin, you are back from the beach. Hope it was nice?