[Sam Cree]

Well, I for one will be very sad, if you go.

It helped that I explained to Jeanne that FR is a political site (that just happens to have an LOTR thread on which some of us have made acquaintances) as opposed to an LOTR groupie place. She knows that I am extremely politically motivated and probably appreciates that I now have a place other than the dining room table to rant and rave, which I have pretty much been banned from doing anyway.

But IMO, the friendships that are being formed on this thread, whether they will be fleeting or lasting, are very special. What is happening is kind of awesome in its own way. The mini moots that are suddenly happening are exciting.

I am not religious, as many of us are here, but I can't help feeling that in these evil times, the "Hobbit Hole" is a small, but truly bright spot..."a still, small voice (Kings 19:12)," if I may say so.

[Overtaxed]

The mini moots that are suddenly happening are exciting.

....coming to a moot near you

[rightwingreligiousfanatic]

Thank you very much, Sam. I agree. The HH is a very special place... Made so by all of the special, and, as you like to point out, "estimable", people who inhabit it....

[2Jedismom]

You know, that's what I keep trying to tell Steve...that the people on this particular thread are decent people and good friends. It's hard for him to imagine, and he gets upset with me for wanting to visit here, especially when he's home. But yet he thinks nothing of turning on the TV (all three of them usually) the minute he gets home. To me, it seems more normal to want to interact with others than to sit in front of a box and just have something stuffed in your face, so to speak!

He expects me to just be able to turn you all off just like I turn off the computer or he turns off the TV. He doesn't realize that I've got closer friends here than many in-person relationships and when he insists that I turn off the computer, it sometimes makes me feel isolated and blue.