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]

[Sam Cree]

"Like "Yes! We're cooking with gas now!"

Yeah, I do find the movies very inspiring, especially in light of the dark forces that have arisen in our own world.

I was in Air Force ROTC about 1970, they gave me a medical discharge for asthma after 2 weeks, that was my military career. But those who have served should be proud.

[2Jedismom]

I like it! That's just the mantle for me!!

Faramir on the other hand, needs longer hair so their hair can mingle...

And so they stood on the walls of the City of Gondor, and a great wind rose and blew, and their hair, raven and golden, streamed out mingling in the air. And the Shadow departed, and the Sun was unveiled, and light leaped forth; and the waters of Anduin shone like silver, and in all the houses of the City men sang for the joy that welled up in their hearts from what source they could not tell.

Oh, isn't that going to be beautiful????

[Overtaxed]

The movie Faramir is going to need longer hair.

[RosieCotton]

...but then that would mean that I have 2 sharp whistles.

No, it just means that some people with Clarkes play flat when you play those whistles.

[HairOfTheDog]

The movie Faramir is going to need longer hair.

He certainly will, if PJ thinks the "hair mingling" is important. Fran and Phillipa might push for it.

[2Jedismom]

Yeah...but it was pretty long...if they stand close together, it could happen.

It's awfully light, though...I always thought Faramir had black hair. But it's ok...it doesn't have to be exact! LOL

[Overtaxed]

I think it's a relative pitch thing anyway.

[Overtaxed]

if they stand close together, it could happen.

....and had a brisk wind that day.

[HairOfTheDog]

I thought about joing the military too! - They were just starting to let women fly fighter jets!

My dad told me I was too obstinate to be in the military.

He said I would spend my whole tour scrubbing bathrooms with a toothbrush. He was a drill sargent, I guess he would know! HA!

Maybe I was obstinate as a teen, but I have talked to lots of mouthy opinionated vets here at FR! - and they made it through!

[Sam Cree]

"read The Hobbit once, many years ago, but I was too old for it"

I like LOTR alot better than "The Hobbit," as LOTR was meant, unlike "The Hobbit," for adults, and so has lots more depth and subtlety, not to mention that it actually feels like history with the beautiful story.

[Overtaxed]

I read them backwards....LOTR before The Hobbit

At least I read LOTR in order!

[2Jedismom]

SPOILER!!

‘The realm of Sauron is ended!’ said Gandalf. ‘The Ring-bearer has fulfilled his Quest.’ And as the Captains gazed south to the Land of Mordor, it seemed to them that, black against the pall of cloud, there rose a huge shape of shadow, impenetrable, lightning-crowned, filling all the sky. Enormous it reared above the world, and stretched out towards them a vast threatening hand, terrible but impotent: for even as it leaned over them, a great wind took it, and it was all blown away, and passed; and then a hush fell.

[HairOfTheDog]

I think PJ can paint that picture for us!

[ksen]

PJ did say something about giving us a glimpse of Sauron at the end. He said that he didn't feel he could justify taking people through three movies and then not give them a glimpse of the bad guy at the end.

[Overtaxed]

Faramir still needs longer hair!

[Sam Cree]

"what I am hearing from PJ and Elijah, though, that RotK will just bowl us all away"

Yeah, more battle scenes, probably.

I bet the Grey Havens will be reasonably emotional, too.

[Wneighbor]

You can read backwards?

Like you have eyes in the back of your head?

Or you start on the last page of the book and read forward?

Or you hold the book behind you and use a mirror?

Or maybe you hold the book in front of the mirror and read the backward text? Are you dyslexic?

[Sam Cree]

Morning g'nad, glad you are still here.

[Overtaxed]

Hehehe....I just have a tendency to read books out of order.