Posted on 01/27/2002 6:18:35 PM PST by John Farson
| New Zealander builds Hobbit hole A New Zealand man has built a Hobbit house. Carl Gifford, a stonemason from Wellington, says he used a 10-tonne digger to make the hole. He's put rocks either side of the front door and plans to install a chimney and lantern on top. He told the Evening Post he was embarrassed as he was constructing the home. He said: "I must admit I was hiding as the cars were driving past. I thought, 'These people think I'm an idiot'." The house is part of a series of stonework mounds, designs and sculptures dotted around his land. "I'm just having a bit of fun. Things that were built by those ancient people like caves have always fascinated me." |
Five hundred posts! I'm not going to make any remarks about hobbit-forming...
Hm...which makes me think...
Do you suppose they'll show Entwives in TTT? I'm hoping they leave in at least SOME of Treebeard's talk, in which case, just maybe, they'll show them. I hope, I hope, I hope, I hope!
And, sadly enough, it wasn't even LOTR related. I'm so ASHAMED! :-(
However, I can still celebrate, with quiet dignity, the fact that what started as a laugh about some wacko in New Zealand has mutated and grown into a multifaceted discussion of the art, literature, and philosophy that is Tolkien.
And now that I've managed to write the most pompous sentence of my entire life, I agree, Rosie, that I hope to see Entwives; I'm curious what they look like. I've got a very good picture of Ents, but the Wives are a little less clear.
No one knows exactly when potatoes were first planted in European soil but, in 1573, records of a Spanish hospital in Seville show that sacks of potatoes were ordered for provisions.
The potato is a more reliable crop than wheat.
European immigrants introduced potatoes to North America several times throughout the 1600s, but they were not widely grown for almost a century. They were first grown on a large scale in 1719 in Londonderry, New Hampshire.
Now, we are ready for the potato category on Jeopardy!
Lets hear a repeat of that pompous sentence!
It may, from another perspective, simply be a illustration of the wacky obsessiveness of all of us, including our friend in New Zealand.
So I've heard, and I think he'll do really well. I like him a lot as an actor. Any other "Sliders" fans here? I used to watch that show religiously, until he left. After that...well, he made the show for me, so I didn't watch it much anymore.
Dan
That's the only way I would want to see them...changing the story just to add more female characters would (of course) be sacrilege!
-penny
Gollum looked at them. A strange expression passed over hs lean hungry face. The gleam faded from his eyes, and they were dim and grey, old and tired. A spasm of pain seemd to twist him,and he turned away, peering back up towards the pass, shaking his head, as if engaged in some interior debate. Then he came back, and slowly putting out a trembling hand, very cautiously he touched Frodo's knee - but almost the touch was a caress. For a fleeting moment, could one of the sleepers have seen him, they would have thought that they beheld an old weary hobbit, shrunken by the years that had carried him far beyond his time, beyond friends and kin, and the fields and streams of youth, an old starved pitiable thing.
Sam wakes up and mistakes what Gollum is doing. Sam thinks Gollum is "pawing" at Frodo. Sam speaks sharply to Gollum.
"I daresay," said Sam. "But where have you been to - sneaking off and sneaking back, you old villian."
Gollum's expression changed... the moment was gone never to come back.
"Sneaking, sneaking!" he hissed. "Hobbits always so polite, yes. O nice hobbits! Smeagol brings them up the secret ways that nobody else could find. Tired he is, thirsty he is, yes thirsty; and he guides them and he searches for paths, and they say sneak, sneak. Very nice friends. O yes my precious, very nice.
Sam apologizes and explains that he is more mad at himself for falling asleep. He asks Gollum where he had gone.
"Sneaking," said Gollum, and the green glint did not leave his eyes.
Sam asks Gollum the time.
"It's tomorrow," said Gollum, "or this was tomorrow when hobbits went to sleep. Very foolish, very dangerous -- if poor Smeagol wasn't sneaking all about to watch."
"I think I shall get tired of that word soon," said Sam.
Sam wakes up Frodo who asks Gollum what he has been up to.
"No food, no rest, nothing for Smeagol," said Gollum. "He's a sneak."
Frodo tells Gollum not to call himself names.
Smeagol has to take what's given him," answered Gollum. "He was given that name by kind Master Samwise, the hobbit that knows so much."
Dan
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