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.

[HairOfTheDog]

I have to leave in an hour and I have been distracted now all morning! Getting ready to go now.... Who needs to be prepared? I can wing it!

[RMDupree]

Sorry! I know I didn't help by posting Katie's link!

[ksen]

Do you all smell something?

Was that directed at my post???? *sniff* *sniff*

[RMDupree]

Nope. I answered Corin already. :)

Dwarves wouldn't be sneaky about it and I doubt that a skivvieless Gondorian could get away with an SBD.

[ksen]

when do you want me to post the answers?

Whenever you're ready.

[Corin Stormhands]

Oh, okay, (I still haven't gone over there...). I was just tryin' to figure out why you didn't like ksen's answers...(and why you called him a troll). But now I see you weren't referring to him...

[Alkhin]

1. What famous hobbit is Peregrin Took descended from?
The Old Took - (record for living the longest, the one that Bilbo Baggins beat)

2. What position in the Shire does Pippin's father hold?
Thain

3. What did the people of Minas Tirith call the hobbit that Gandalf dubbed "Fool of a Took."
"Prince of the Halflings"

4. What did Pippin see in the palantir?
Sauron

5. Who is Bergil and how old did he think Pippin was? And what did he threaten to do to Pippin?
Bergil was the son of Beregond, the guard that looked after Pippin as a Knight of Gondor. Bergil thought Pippin was only 10 years old and threatened to stand the hobbit on his head.

6. What did Pippin slay at the Battle of the Black Gate?
Troll.

7. What happened to Pippin in his first meeting with Denethor?
Was made Knight of Gondor in the service of Denethor.

8. What did Pippin do when he realized what Denethor was going to do with Faramir?
Ran for Gandalf.

9. Who did Pippin marry and why?
Diamond of Longcleeve. Diamond descended from Brandobras Took, known as Bullroarer because he was very large for a hobbit, who fought the goblins and invented Golf.

10. What was the name of his first-born son?
Faramir.

[Corin Stormhands]

*sniff* *sniff*

ksen: smells his own...

[RMDupree]

I replied to ksen's post number, not to ksen himself, and I hoped no one would think I was referring to him! YIKES!

No, my comment was directed to the invisible troll.

[RMDupree]

Well, didn't someone say in the 3rd Austin Powers movie that "everyone loves their own brand"?

[carton253]

Okay, that guy over at the pit bull thread is a raving lunatic.

Hair, what he was doing to you... misunderstanding and mispresenting what you were saying is what the anti-semites do on the Israel threads. You can't talk to them or reason with them because they are unreasonable.

Rosie, he was way out of line with his deleted comment. That one almost got me to post, but why bother, he is too buy congratulating himself on his brillance. He doesn't realize that he has been revealed as a jerk.

Finally, my mom breeds dogs (I don't think she is an exploiter at all) and has two. A golden and a mini-dauschand. (sp?)

Across the street, the neighbors have a pit bull. It got out and came across the street and bit right through Hubbell's (the golden) leg. The pit bull wasn't prevoked. Hubbell was in his yard.

What you are saying is right.

But the guy has issues... He needs to visit a shrink not post on Free Republic.

[Corin Stormhands]

Trollfart Threadkiller

[RMDupree]

Almost. But not quite! *wink*

Oh, I found this link on another thread. It's for cat lovers! Click here!

[Wneighbor]

My check ain't in the mail?

Probably not, I think it went out Monday.

I need help.

Who knows anything about refinancing a house?

[Wneighbor]

Don't BearInRoseBear and RoseInRoseBear count as 1 though? You just have 'em listed twice because they're both Hobbit Holers, right?

[Corin Stormhands]

Feel free to contact me if you need to know how not to refinance. We're in the mortgage from hell...

[Wneighbor]

Ahhh, now that's one that I would definitely love to bring home with me! She looks like a fine partner!!! I think if I was to get my fence around here that's the look of what I might start checking the pound for. I know, I know, yours probably isn't a pound puppie. But, there's goodies like that to be found there all the time.

[Lil'freeper]

AAAAAAAAAGH! I just got back from my useless meeting du jour (please pardon my french). Somebody in management decided we needed an hour+ training session on how to swipe an id card through a reader and punch in a pin. Warm, dark theater + power point slides + droning idiot = ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ.

[Wneighbor]

Somebody in management decided we needed an hour+ training session on how to swipe an id card through a reader and punch in a pin. Warm, dark theater + power point slides + droning idiot = ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ.

I went to that meeting in about 1979!!! WOW!!! Except, no power point. Slides.

[Wneighbor]

This is my 3rd house. Oddly enough, with the first 2 there were no mortgages. Just blessed I'm sure but there was money to pay cash and neither of them were over $20,000. So, this is my third house but first mortgage. Loan officers see that you're on your 3rd house and your 45 years old and they think you know the ropes. DAH! Not me. I mean, I'm a whiz at math but I'm having hell figuring out how they're applying it.

So, my interest rate is 7.5%. A friend in ministry also works in Dallas in appraisals. He says REFINANCE! Okay.

So, I've got 3 options so far. And it just seems pretty dumb to me because all 3 times I actually end up refinancing for more than the original loan was for because I don't have closeing costs etc in my savings now.

But, then, I found this other company that is advertising a great rate with much lower closing costs. They emailed me. I am leary of just calling somebody without an office that I can see --- and maybe yell at and strangle if need be.

Then, there's this conventional vs. FHA thing. The loan now is FHA. I can refinance either way. I'm lost.

Help me! This is a part of the leftover choosing of the path in Moria from Sunday.