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.

[RMDupree]

Nice spoilers!

Finally....some news on ROTK is starting to seep out.

[HairOfTheDog]

Posted over at the Spoiler thread too if folk want to talk about it! (click the link on my home page if you have lost the spoiler thread)

[ksen]

Quiz #47 Bilbo

1. Who were Bilbo’s Parents? – Bungo Baggins and Beladonna Took

2. What was in Bilbo’s nature that he inherited from his mother’s family? – A desire for adventures

3. What did Bilbo call the Elves at Rivendell? – Merry people

4. How old was Bilbo when he adopted Frodo? – Ninety-nine

5. What did Bilbo do at the end of his farewell speech? – He put on the Ring and vanished

6. Where did Bilbo tell Gandalf he had put the One Ring? – In an envelope on the mantlepiece

7. What nice ending did Bilbo think of for his book? – “…and he lived happily ever after to the end of his days”

8. Where did Bilbo go after he left the Shire for the last time? - Rivendell

9. How did Bilbo appear to Frodo as he reached for the One Ring in Rivendell? – As a small wrinkled creature with a hungry face

10. By the time he sailed from the Grey Havens, how old was Bilbo? – 131 years and 8 days old

[2Jedismom]

I got your mail today!

[300winmag]

Yup. And there really is a red sports car in the chariot race.

I heard that's just an urban legend. Is there a screen capture of it?

My own personal movie snaig was in the movie "Zulu", where, in a couple of scenes, the British troops were using Lee Enfields (a rifle from about 40 years in the future), rather than the Martini Henry. I guess they didn't have enough of the proper rifles for all the extras.

The goof appears towards the end of the movie, where you can spot them among the extras in the rear. However, they're quite evident at the last battle scene at the "square", where some are in the foreground. You see troops firing single-shot rifles while some of them are blazing away with bolt action SMLEs.

[ksen]

Quiz #59 Gimli

1. How did gimli happen to be present at the Council of Elrond?

2. What did Haldir tell Gimli when he removed the blindfold from his eyes?

3. What gift did Gimli ask of Galadriel?

4. When Gimli tried to attack Gandalf thinking he was Saruman, what happened to his axe?

5. How many orcs did Gimli kill at the Battle of Helm’s Deep?

6. What did Gimli hope to find in the ruins of Isengard?

7. What was it that Gimli noticed about Merry and Pippen as he saw them again at Isengard?

8. Where did Gimli settle after the War of the Ring?

9. What did he forge for Minas Tirith?

10. After the passing of Elessar, what did Gimli do?

This one’s especially for you Corin……

[Overtaxed]

On the pace lap. In the shot of the track taken over the chariot guys, you can see a dark red convertable going into turn 1.

[Corin Stormhands]

Sheesh! I can't even do this one without the books in front of me. I need to get a set for the office.

[Overtaxed]

I couldn't find a picture in Google but I've seen it in the movie. It's at the beginning of the pace lap going into turn 1 at the top of the screen.

[Corin Stormhands]

Okay, I forget. Who are the Internet game players here?

Jr. wants to play "Everquest." Any thoughts? Is it safe enough for a 14-year-old?

[ksen]

I've never played Everquest but my future brother-in-law does and he says its fun, but it's easy to spend a LOT of time there.

Basically it's a MUD (Multi-User Dungeon) with graphics. If you don't mind Jr. interfacing with people from all over and you keep a handle on the amount of time he spends there it will probably be alright.

[Corin Stormhands]

I'm still debating whether he gets a connection in his room. Right now I'm saying no. But I'm already now competing with the 3-year-old and the wife for computer time...

[HairOfTheDog]

I play on-line games like Unreal Tournament where there isn't really dialogue or a 'relationship' with anyone, we just shoot at each other.

I don't know how everquest works, but I think gamers are just that - gamers... any conversation is about the game, and idle chit-chat might be unwanted, so I don't think it is as 'risky' as a chat site.

[Corin Stormhands]

Thanks. One of his teachers recommended it. But you never know about publik skul recommendations. Maybe we'll check it out.

[Corin Stormhands]

Ruh roh Raggy!

There's a tornado watch on for Central Virginia...

[Wneighbor]

I got your mail today!

Kewl. I still haven't located the others... but then I didn't do much yesterday, it being my first day of vacation and all.

[Wneighbor]

There's a tornado watch on for Central Virginia...

VIRGINIA!!!

don't look now, but this isn't kansas anymore!

i know, that was lame. really lame. but i couldn't resist.

[Corin Stormhands]

but then I didn't do much yesterday, it being my first day of vacation and all.

I don't have to be on vacation to not do much of anything...

[Corin Stormhands]

That's okay, if you hadn't made that joke, I'd have come up with another lame one myself (not that your joke was lame).

Clouds are gathering. Just heard thunder. 2 counties west of us have been upgraded to "warning."

But we don't have the open spaces that the mid-west does. There's not quite as much room for them to pick up speed. Of course one did rip the roof off of a Wal-Mart once...

[Corin Stormhands]

Holy cow piles Batman!

Michael Graham has been talking about the hiker that cut off his arm. He's talking now to a woman caller who cut off her leg at the knee with a pack axe. She's a doctor know and runs marathons with her artificial leg.

I just can't imagine, and I hope I'm never in a situation where I have to find out if I could do that...