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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.


TOPICS: The Hobbit Hole
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To: 2Jedismom
What a steal!!!!!!!
41,301 posted on 06/04/2003 1:50:13 PM PDT by RMDupree (HHD: Deep roots are not reached by the frost..)
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To: Corin Stormhands
Amen.
41,302 posted on 06/04/2003 1:50:35 PM PDT by Corin Stormhands (http://wardsmythe.crimsonblog.com)
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To: Corin Stormhands
EEEEKKK!!!
41,303 posted on 06/04/2003 1:50:52 PM PDT by RMDupree (HHD: Deep roots are not reached by the frost..)
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To: RMDupree
I'm sure I don't know what you are talking about... ;-) Seriously, I was all involved in this house business and wasn't even paying attention.
41,304 posted on 06/04/2003 1:51:07 PM PDT by 2Jedismom (HHD FMM)
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To: 2Jedismom
I'd love to move there. Just think, I could get some chickens too! *grin*
41,305 posted on 06/04/2003 1:51:31 PM PDT by RMDupree (HHD: Deep roots are not reached by the frost..)
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To: Corin Stormhands
oops. shoula preyed with my eyes open (that is not a typo)
41,306 posted on 06/04/2003 1:51:42 PM PDT by Corin Stormhands (http://wardsmythe.crimsonblog.com)
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To: RMDupree
Come on, Ruthy...please move next door to me? PUH-LEEEZE???

I want someone that won't harrass me about homeschooling. Just watch, we'll get some school official in there with a grudge.
41,307 posted on 06/04/2003 1:52:31 PM PDT by 2Jedismom (HHD FMM)
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To: 2Jedismom; Corin Stormhands; PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain; All
I've got to get home everyone!

Wait until I tell my mom about the home prices in Oklahoma!

Bye for now!

41,308 posted on 06/04/2003 1:53:07 PM PDT by RMDupree (HHD: Deep roots are not reached by the frost..)
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To: RMDupree
Bye!!
41,309 posted on 06/04/2003 1:53:31 PM PDT by 2Jedismom (HHD FMM)
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To: RMDupree; All
Bye Ruthy! I gotta get goin' too.

Later folks.
41,310 posted on 06/04/2003 1:56:16 PM PDT by Corin Stormhands (http://wardsmythe.crimsonblog.com)
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To: 2Jedismom; RMDupree
Man, That sounds like alot too me. We figure our place would sell for $150,000. I guess you pay for the convience of living in town.

Becky
41,311 posted on 06/04/2003 1:58:05 PM PDT by PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain
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To: RMDupree
I always buy the Original, IMO, it's about like a mild salsa. I have heard the hot is really hot.

Becky
41,312 posted on 06/04/2003 1:59:46 PM PDT by PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain
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To: RosieCotton
Okay. I can play it on the C whistle and I only have to half-hole one note....well one note three times.
41,313 posted on 06/04/2003 2:33:35 PM PDT by Overtaxed
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To: Corin Stormhands
You know, Corin, Calvinist jokes aren't often funny... because the punch line's already been predestined...
41,314 posted on 06/04/2003 2:34:48 PM PDT by JenB
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To: RMDupree; ecurbh; Wneighbor; Overtaxed
OK so I am goofin' off today.

OK so who are the graphic artists in here who want to take on something?

I thought it might be cute to incorporate a little map in the Flat Frodo journey.... that indicates where he has been.

And I thought it would be good to incorporate a little Middle Earth 'feel' to the map.

So a quick search found this map to start with:

To which I added just a couple of middle earth topographical elements: (I think the river is too bright a blue, but you get the idea)

What do you think of the idea? AND

How do we find cool "X marks the spot" graphics to mark where he has been? One little one I was considering is the green jewel there above the map, but I was hoping for one that stands out even more.

And.... Is there anyone who wants to add more elements? - I have only very basic skill.... I would be happy if there is someone who could do a more professional job, either starting with this one (I can email the more high-res-version..... york limits size) or starting from scratch with even better art.

I stole the elements I used from this map: Annals of Arda, Gondor

41,315 posted on 06/04/2003 2:37:14 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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To: HairOfTheDog

(Better river?)

41,316 posted on 06/04/2003 2:56:32 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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To: HairOfTheDog
You have kind of flooded Lake Pontchartrain.

Cute map, though.
41,317 posted on 06/04/2003 2:57:06 PM PDT by Sam Cree (Democrats are herd animals)
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To: Sam Cree
Heh..... ooops! I don't know where that is! See? - I need help.

I have never been south of the Mason/Dixon line, and I don't know where the river at the Texoma border starts either.

IT WAS JUST A TEST of the idea! ;~D
41,318 posted on 06/04/2003 3:00:54 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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To: HairOfTheDog
No, it is a cool map, the mountains look very Tolkienesque.

Ponchartrain is the lake in Louisiana, right next to New Orleans, where a fork from the Mississippi goes. Funny, when you drive accross it, Lake Ponchartrain doesn't seem all that big, yet it is always apparent on maps of the U.S.

N.O. is a beautiful and fun, if somewhat filthy and corrupt, city, btw.

I was just thinking how nice this whole Hobbit Hole thing has been, and is.
41,319 posted on 06/04/2003 3:08:11 PM PDT by Sam Cree (Democrats are herd animals)
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To: Sam Cree
Well, I ran the Rocky Mountains through all of Utah too, so there isn't room for Salt Lake either.
41,320 posted on 06/04/2003 3:13:49 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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