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]

give the boy a kick in the @ss fer me and tell him to get back in the game...

He's actually made quite a bit of progress since Christmas. We're going back to my alma mater next week (I'm on the college alumni board) and we're taking him along. They college has an incredible media/communications department and he's interested in video production.

I think it's helped that we've been encouraging him to focus on his interests.

Maybe you weren't around for the episode when he brought his Playstation2, his games, his new video camera and his new guitar that he'd gotten for Christmas down and said he didn't want them anymore...scared the bejeebers out of us...

[My back yard]

We have TTT playstation 2 game. It is kinda neat too. They flash between real movie scenes and then all of a sudden you are Gimli whacking orcs. Much fun! I like to play it as Gimli, for as he says in the game "When I hit 'em, they stay down" or something like that.

[Corin Stormhands]

Any parsley, sage or rosemary?

[RMDupree]

I need to spend a bit of time with my old zulu, she isn't doing very well tonight.

How is she this morning? Has she got arthritis flaring up cuz of the cold?

I use a blowdryer to warm up my Scruffy's joints on cool days if I notice him hobbling a bit

[Overtaxed]

Sage and rosemary....out of parsley.

But I have lots and lots of basil

[HairOfTheDog]

Items from the New Line Auction

Prancing Pony Beer Mug from The Lord of the Rings

Current Bid
$703.00

Number of Bids
26

Auction Ends
1/31/2003 7:00 PM

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Prancing Pony Hourglass-Shaped Mug from The Lord of the Rings

Current Bid
$453.00
Number of Bids
26
Auction Ends
2/3/2003 7:00 PM

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4-Foot by 6-Foot Bus Shelter Poster of Frodo from The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

Current Bid
$93.00

Number of Bids
17

Auction Ends
1/27/2003 7:00 PM

[g'nad]

Maybe you weren't around for the episode...

DUDE! Missed that... I'da been on alert...

[RMDupree]

Miami, this Saturday......

I see you told her before I did! LOL!

52 HOURS UNTIL FLORIDA MINI-MOOT!!!!!!!!!!!!

Woooo-hoooo! I wanted to make the reservations for Saturday at 12:30PM at the restaurant, but the lady there said it's first come, first serve.

[2Jedismom]

They don't have a party room you could reserve?

Now someone is planning on taking pictures, right?

[RMDupree]

Hope everyone has a great day!

You too Penny! See you around!

You need to get a job like mine where the boss travels over 50% of the time!

[HairOfTheDog]

Well, yur too old for that stuff anyhow... heh...

[RMDupree]

Frodo just made me smile again! Not a bad thing to see in the morning!

*smiling*

So, any more Nazgul problems? Hehehe.

[RMDupree]

Hullo! I am here and racing back to see if I can catch up before Ruthy does...

Hey! No fair!

I didn't know there was a race until just now!

< seinfeld > *No soup for you!* < /seinfeld >

[2Jedismom]

LOL

[Corin Stormhands]

I had an uncle Basil.

[Corin Stormhands]

I'da been on alert...

Yeah, homework seemed pretty insignificant after that.

[300winmag]

Thanks for reminding me how out-of-reach those props are becoming. [sigh]

But at least I'm caught up on reading here!

[HairOfTheDog]

How is she this morning? [Zulu}

Better! - She just has these episodes that are hard to read. She has been doing really well, gained a lot of weight, and been acting kinda peppy!

But then she will have a time like last night, where she just paces around the loop of the house, through the kitchen and back around... over and over again. Can't tell what she wants, and everywhere she tries to lay down she can't get comfortable. Sometimes she will just stand in the middle of the room with a kindof glower on her face and not move. I can't tell if she is in pain, or is just forgetting where she was going. Hard to read.

[Sam Cree]

Hi, Corin.

I have to admit, at Christmas time, we had inlaw problems that were unpleasant enough to make me start rethinking what I might do with the rest of my life. I can see that things won't be quite as I thought. Kind of disheartening.

It won't matter, because my wife, my kids and I love each other and we'll be fine. Makes me really appreciate that we have each other.

[RMDupree]

We just seem like such an odd place to lurk.... escpecially since the entrance standards are so low!

It could be that they haven't read the books yet and are afraid to post something silly or worse yet, have one of respond with "Oh everybody knows that!" You know what I mean? No one likes to feel dumb.

Attention Lurkers! No one in here will make fun you or make you feel stupid! At least, until we've known you a while! *wink*

Or maybe it's similar to what happened to me. I was just intimidated in joining a thread where everyone had such a tight-knit group already. I was afraid of being kind of "unwelcomed", if you take my meaning. There some "other" folks on FR that seem to delight on acting haughty and I've been burned before.

But I am so very happy I found this place and made such AWESOME friends! I can't imagine where I'd be without my Hobbit Hole "therapy". *grin*