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The Hobbit Hole XVIII - Though we pass them by today...
The Freeper Hobbit Hole ^

Posted on 12/20/2004 9:01:36 AM PST by ecurbh

Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!

Though we pass them by today...

New verse:

Upon the hearth the fire is red,
Beneath the roof there is a bed;
But not yet weary are our feet,
Still round the corner we may meet
A sudden tree or standing stone
That none have seen but we alone.
Tree and flower and leaf and grass,
Let them pass! Let them pass!
Hill and water under sky,
Pass them by! Pass them by!

Still round the corner there may wait
A new road or a secret gate,
And though we pass them by today,
Tomorrow we may come this way
And take the hidden paths that run
Towards the Moon or to the Sun.
Apple, thorn, and nut and sloe,
Let them go! Let them go!
Sand and stone and pool and dell,
Fare you well! Fare you well!

Home is behind, the world ahead,
And there are many paths to tread
Through shadows to the edge of night,
Until the stars are all alight.
Then world behind and home ahead,
We’ll wander back to home and bed.
Mist and twilight, cloud and shade,
Away shall fade! Away shall fade!
Fire and lamp, and meat and bread,
And then to bed! And then to bed!

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To: HairOfTheDog
Fruitcake anyone?

Thanks, but I only like my Golden Fruitcake

81 posted on 12/20/2004 11:21:03 AM PST by SuziQ (W: STILL the President)
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To: Pippin
I've been dropping hints every chance I get, but no-one's "getting" it!

Well, you won't know for sure until Saturday, will you? ;o)

82 posted on 12/20/2004 11:23:19 AM PST by SuziQ (W: STILL the President)
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To: SuziQ; HairOfTheDog
Thanks, but I only like my Golden Fruitcake

Do we want to know what that is?

83 posted on 12/20/2004 11:24:20 AM PST by Corin Stormhands (CHRISTmas: One season. One reason.)
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To: Pippin
I always thought Gandalf looked a bit like Santa CLAUS! :O)

The very first in my St. Nick collection is a wooden Father Christmas cutout painted with a blue robe. The face reminds me a LOT of the Gandalf from "The Hobbit" animated movie. I'll have to take a pic so you can see it!

84 posted on 12/20/2004 11:25:10 AM PST by SuziQ (W: STILL the President)
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To: Darksheare

UGH!


85 posted on 12/20/2004 11:31:13 AM PST by Pippin (HAPPY BIRTHDAY JESUS!)
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To: Alkhin
Its hard to make an old person look young.

Bilbo wasn't young in "The Hobbit"! He was in his late 60's or so, wasn't he? At the time of "Fellowship", Gandalf noted in the movie that he hadn't aged a day since he returned to Hobbiton from the Lonely Mountains all those years before, even though it was now his Eleventy-First birthday! Of course this was the influence of having the One Ring in his possession. Ian Holm could play him perfectly well!

86 posted on 12/20/2004 11:32:24 AM PST by SuziQ (W: STILL the President)
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To: SuziQ
LOL!

No, I guess I have saomething to look forward too! :o)

87 posted on 12/20/2004 11:32:52 AM PST by Pippin (HAPPY BIRTHDAY JESUS!)
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To: SuziQ

NEET!


88 posted on 12/20/2004 11:33:21 AM PST by Pippin (HAPPY BIRTHDAY JESUS!)
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To: SuziQ; Alkhin

Bilbo was 50 in the Hobbit.


89 posted on 12/20/2004 11:34:21 AM PST by Pippin (HAPPY BIRTHDAY JESUS!)
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To: Corin Stormhands

Golden Fruitcake is most yummy! It's like a pound cake with brandy, apricots, golden raisins, and pecans in it.


90 posted on 12/20/2004 11:34:48 AM PST by SuziQ (W: STILL the President)
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To: SuziQ; Corin Stormhands

I remember watching and then later helping mom make two kinds of fruitcake, one of them was the golden raisin fruitcake, you guys are bringing back some really deliscious memories! :o)


91 posted on 12/20/2004 11:37:10 AM PST by Pippin (HAPPY BIRTHDAY JESUS!)
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To: Pippin

Thankfully, I did eventually get to my destination!
(I did NOT type "thnakfully"! I did not! Honest!)


92 posted on 12/20/2004 11:38:57 AM PST by Darksheare ("His heart went dead underneath her gaze" - The Book of Foreshadowed Sorrows.)
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To: Pippin; Alkhin
Bilbo was 50 in the Hobbit.

There ya go! In the prologue to Fellowship, they showed a bit of Bilbo finding the Ring in Gollum's cave. Ian Holm looked fine there, so he could definitely do it!! It would be a fitting close to the series to have him play that part. I don't know if it would be good for any of the others, except for maybe Ian McKellan and the Elves, since they're immortal, to be in it as well. Might be disconcerting to see the folks we know so well in their LOTR parts to be playing in "The Hobbit" unless they're made up to be older people and relatives of their LOTR characters.

93 posted on 12/20/2004 11:39:05 AM PST by SuziQ (W: STILL the President)
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To: Pippin

I can't remember where I got this Golden Fruitcake recipe. I'll look for it and post it here. My family doesn't like fruitcake, so I have to bake this to give it away. *sniff*


94 posted on 12/20/2004 11:40:12 AM PST by SuziQ (W: STILL the President)
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To: SuziQ
The way I concieve of Bilbo's maturity at age 50 is that he was probably in the prime of life...no longer carrying "baby-fat" but still looking young and healthy and full of vim and vigor. Age 50 would probably place him in his late 30s/early 40s for human years, which is pretty much the apex of life. Its why I really didnt have much of a problem with Frodo looking like Elijah Wood, because at the time he inherited the ring, at the age of 33 "the coming of age" he would probably be the equivalent of a new college grad. Pippin would probably be the equivalent of a 17 yr/18 yr old.

But then I am going by modern standards. Maybe I am not charitable, but something I have noticed about British/Europeans is that they often look much older than they are, as if their childhoods weren't as healthy as they should be and the alcohol has taken its toll. But that could just be me.

sorry for the delay in answer...got called away by three telephone calls and a package delivery and the insect-spray man. *whew!* never rains but pours around here....

95 posted on 12/20/2004 11:41:20 AM PST by Alkhin (Which she will be ready when she's ready.)
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To: SuziQ; Alkhin; Corin Stormhands

I wonder if Elijah Wood; Sean Astin; Billy Boyd and Dominic Monohan (sp?) would make good dwarves?


96 posted on 12/20/2004 11:41:54 AM PST by Pippin (HAPPY BIRTHDAY JESUS!)
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To: Darksheare

Ya done did good! :o)


97 posted on 12/20/2004 11:42:23 AM PST by Pippin (HAPPY BIRTHDAY JESUS!)
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To: HairOfTheDog

We're slowly cleaning up the Living room and making space for the tree. I think I've gotten all my shopping done with the exception of two things Paul told me about last night, that he hadn't mentioned before! I think I can find both things locally, though, so I've got time. Have to get the driveway plowed first, so I can get out of it! The boys have to figure out how to use the snowthrower because it snowed about 4 inches after SSQ left for work!


98 posted on 12/20/2004 11:42:48 AM PST by SuziQ (W: STILL the President)
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To: SuziQ

They just don't know what they are missing!


99 posted on 12/20/2004 11:43:12 AM PST by Pippin (HAPPY BIRTHDAY JESUS!)
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To: Pippin
I wonder if Elijah Wood; Sean Astin; Billy Boyd and Dominic Monohan (sp?) would make good dwarves?

It would be fun to have them in parts where they are so made up, it's hard to figure out who they are!

100 posted on 12/20/2004 11:43:41 AM PST by SuziQ (W: STILL the President)
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