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.

[Corin Stormhands]

I knew a man with a wooden leg named Smith.

[Scott from the Left Coast]

THX

[osagebowman]

Hair; I believe you're right, I think Mel Gibson had a two hand sword in Bravehart. I do recall an article in Military History (years ago) about sword fighting with and without shields, the forensic and archival evidence indicated that legs were a real popular target with low swing and low cut moves.

[osagebowman]

Scott; best of luck tomorrow with the interview.

[Sam Cree]

"Now the boy was gone and the kitten had grown into an old cat and had outlived the boy. The way he and Boise felt now, he thought, neither one wanted to outlive the other. I don't know how many people and animals have been in love before, he thought. It probably is a very comic situation. But I don't find it comic at all."

A passage about Boise.

[Sam Cree]

The cat was free, of course, he got it in a cafeteria in Cuba.

[Scott from the Left Coast]

Thank you.

[Scott from the Left Coast]

He must have named it...I doubt the word "Boise" was ever heard of in Cuba.

[Sam Cree]

True, I'm not sure I can even pronounce it myself.

[Scott from the Left Coast]

Boy-see

[Corin Stormhands]

Had an intern once when I was working for a legislative group. Called the state house in Idaho and pronounced it "Bwah"

[Sam Cree]

Boy-see

Here's another passage about the cats, from "Islands in the Stream," like the other one:

“.. The cats were very odd about catnip. Boise, Willy, Goats, Friendless’s Brother, Furhouse, and Taskforce were all addicts. Princessa, which was the name the servants had given Baby, the blue Persian, would never touch catnip; nether would Uncle Woolfie, the gray Persian. With Uncle Woolfie, who was as stupid as he was beautiful, it could have been stupidity or insularity. Uncle Woolfie would never try anything new and would sniff cautiously at any new food until the other cats had taken it all and he was left with nothing. But Princessa, who was the grandmother of all the cats and was intelligent, delicate, high-principled, aristocratic, and most loving, was afraid of the odor of catnip and fled from as though it were a vice. Princessa was such a delicate and aristocratic cat, smoke gray, with golden eyes and beautiful manners, and such a great dignity that her periods of being in heat were like an introduction to, and explanation and finally exposition of, all the scandals of royal house. Since he had seen Princessa in heat, not the first tragic time, but after she was grown and beautiful, and so suddenly changed from all her dignity poise into wantonness, Thomas Hudson knew that he did not want to die without having made love to a princess as lovely as Princessa...”

[Sam Cree]

Here is an actual descendent of one of those cats. I believe the descendents may actually be for sale in Key West.

[Scott from the Left Coast]

Where you pickin' up French interns???

[Scott from the Left Coast]

Looks like my [former] feral cat Jemima (classic black & white shorthair). She was a wild thing, couldn't be a house cat. She would've lived forever but she got eaten by a Coyote when she was nine.

[Sam Cree]

Shouldn't she have said "bwahzz?"

[HairOfTheDog]

and so suddenly changed from all her dignity poise into wantonness, Thomas Hudson knew that he did not want to die without having made love to a princess as lovely as Princessa

The man needs to go to town perhaps a little more often! ;~D

[Scott from the Left Coast]

Think I saw some fellows like this Thomas Hudson at the Fremont Freakfest a couple of Saturdays ago.

Sam, you really don't want to know what the Fremont Freakfest is. Trust me.

[HairOfTheDog]

I have been to MayDay in a former life, I think, in Fremont.... where they have the naked parade.

[Corin Stormhands]

Not me. I din't hire her. I was barely more than an intern myself back then.