The Hobbit Hole IV – The Road Goes Ever On…

[HairOfTheDog]

Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!

The Road Goes Ever On…

• First thread: New Zealander builds Hobbit hole
• Second thread: The New Hobbit Hole
• Third thread: The Hobbit Hole III - Journey to the Cross-roads! (Congratulations, we filled it up!)

The Road goes ever on and on
Down from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the Road has gone,
And I must follow, if I can,
Pursuing it with eager feet,
Until it joins some larger way
Where many paths and errands meet.
And whither then? I cannot say.

[HairOfTheDog]

Sometimes a new road is welcome, and sometimes it is the sudden un-looked for appearance of a new road that makes us finally go where we really wanted to go all along.

[ksen]

Here's what seems to be a good article by a guy named Michael Martinez over at Suite101.com.

Seeking the Wayward Children of Numenor

[Wneighbor]

*applause*

High approval has gone your way this day.

[proud_2_B_texasgal]

well, your surgeons are getting younger and younger. and at some point they were the student's of which we speak.

O - MI - GOSH!! {{double shudder}} and eeeeeeeeeek!

[My back yard]

Thanks. It was something I wrote after watching a Titanic special. And I thought of the leftover hull as a Scarlet O'Hara of the ocean-like. lol

I could call it 'Gone with the Berg' maybe.

[Wneighbor]

Yeah, from over here too. Faith healing is - oh, so much more comforting.

[Alkhin]

You have a twisted sense of humor.

...I like it!

[Bear_in_RoseBear]

did the Dunedain exist before Gondor, or did they come out of Gondor?

Suddenly Bilbo looked up. 'Ah, there you are at last, Dúnadan!' he cried.

`Strider!' said Frodo. `You seem to have a lot of names.'

`Well, Strider is one that I haven't heard before, anyway,' said Bilbo. `What do you call him that for?'

`They call me that in Bree,' said Strider laughing, 'and that is how I was introduced to him.'

`And why do you call him Dúnadan?' asked Frodo.

`The Dúnadan,' said Bilbo. `He is often called that here. But I thought you knew enough Elvish at least to know dún-udan: Man of the West, Númenorean. But this is not the time for lessons!' He turned to Strider.

"Dunedain" was both a generic term for the Men of Westernesse (Numenor) and a specific term for the Rangers of the North after the fall of Arnor. For more info on the founding of Gondor and Arnor, read the Akallabeth in The Silmarillion. It was Tolkien's version of the Atlantis myth. :)

[proud_2_B_texasgal]

[ItsOurTimeNow]

So, is the question officially "answered"? lol

I think we came to it in a sort of round-about way.

[Alkhin]

Oh yeah! Michael Martinez has written some excellent material...he wrote another one about thegns and kings...which is how I got my idea for my Pippin fanfic...which remains unfinished, alas...Ive had too much to think about...counter that with my extreme disappointment wiht Jackson's rendition of Two Towers, and I havent had much heart for total LOTR fandom...

[RosieCotton]

Well...he did say good morning to me of his own accord and using my name, and opened the door for me. That's positive, right?

It's hard to get fluttery about long distance things when there's someone who is here at least some of the time that gets me that way...

[My back yard]

Is that the gladiator guy? I like him. (Forget his name right now.) Is that a new movie of his?

[Wordsmith]

Wow, Capt. Aubrey!!! What is this clip from? It looks like an old shot of Russell Crowe. I had no idea that the O'Brian books had been filmed. I've gotten hooked on them recently, am currently on "Desolation Island" (book 5, I think?)

[RosieCotton]

Russell Crowe...yep.

I haven't seen Gladiator, though. Was that any good?

[Wneighbor]

I'm afraid if I was sent to a surgeon that young. I would walk out the door. No prob.

[Wneighbor]

Questions of this sort are a delight to me. I like digging for the answers. Alas, I am at work, in my office - without books!!!

[RosieCotton]

Just my luck...none of the Sam pictures show up for me.

Not that I mind looking at the others, of course.

[Wneighbor]

NOW is a good time Rosie.

To see what may happen.

If not now when.

I will call the man if you'd like.

But, since you wouldn't like, then you may be a little more forward and friendly with him.

However, do not do as Hair would advise and throw yourself groveling at his feet.

[Wneighbor]

Sam pics didn't work here either it's not just you.