The Hobbit Hole IV – The Road Goes Ever On…

To: Lil'freeper; HairOfTheDog

I need to start spamming.

Hair got the #1 this past week, and she never spams...

9,781 posted on 08/25/2003 12:46:19 PM PDT by Bear_in_RoseBear (Archivist to the Hobbit Hole - 5 days to vacation)

You're welcome! :)

It all helps my post ranking... ;)

9,782 posted on 08/25/2003 12:47:29 PM PDT by Bear_in_RoseBear (Archivist to the Hobbit Hole - 5 days to vacation)

To: Bear_in_RoseBear

Hair got the #1 this past week, and she never spams...

She just never stops talking!

9,783 posted on 08/25/2003 12:48:19 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog (And whither then? I cannot say)

To: HairOfTheDog

It's a measure of what is possible, even without spamming. ;)

9,784 posted on 08/25/2003 12:51:17 PM PDT by Bear_in_RoseBear (Archivist to the Hobbit Hole - 5 days to vacation)

Thank you Suzi!

His name is Alfonso Gonzalez.

9,785 posted on 08/25/2003 12:51:23 PM PDT by RMDupree (HHD: Deep roots are not reached by the frost.)

To: HairOfTheDog

A River Runs Through It!!

Love that movie!! Seen it several times.

9,786 posted on 08/25/2003 12:51:40 PM PDT by Soaring Feather

To: proud_2_B_texasgal

It's been a difficult week for me .. won't bore ya with all the details .. would appreciate continued prayer ..

DONE!

9,787 posted on 08/25/2003 12:53:30 PM PDT by RMDupree (HHD: Deep roots are not reached by the frost.)

Coming from one who appreciates fine use of language, I am glad you like it - it reassures me of my own very good taste!

It is a strange and wonderful and embarassing feeling to hold someone in your arms who is trying to detach you from the earth and you aren't good enough to follow... ~A River Runs Through It, Norman Maclean

And Brad's cute, eh?

9,788 posted on 08/25/2003 12:56:29 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog (And whither then? I cannot say)

His name is Alfonso Gonzalez.

He'll be included in the Prayer list in the bulletin this coming Sunday.

9,789 posted on 08/25/2003 1:00:12 PM PDT by SuziQ

To: Bear_in_RoseBear; HairOfTheDog; All

Help Please, anyone with TTT in a "Document" format?

I just finished reading FotR and TTT getting ready for tomorrows TTT release.

On Page 385 of the TTT paperback- second paragraph Sam is recalling something that he said earlier and here's what it says.

"I have something to do before the end. I must se it through, sir, if you understand."

Now here is my request, could one of you that has the TTT in wordprocessing do a "Find" and locate where in the previous book this quote comes in?

Thank you for any help.

9,790 posted on 08/25/2003 1:00:16 PM PDT by LinnieBeth

thanks ruthie .. i've sure missed you guys this weekend and today ..

ya'll are my comic relief .. lol

9,791 posted on 08/25/2003 1:01:12 PM PDT by proud_2_B_texasgal (I move my feet, I go through the motions. He gives purpose to chance....)

To: proud_2_B_texasgal

Nothing earthshattering has happened, and we are predicting continuted lack of anything earthshattering happening in the near future here.... which is at it should be!

Prayers for you in your difficult week. Know that we are here with you!

9,792 posted on 08/25/2003 1:01:14 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog (And whither then? I cannot say)

To: HairOfTheDog

And Brad's cute, eh?

Yeah!! Real cute!!

9,793 posted on 08/25/2003 1:02:24 PM PDT by Soaring Feather

To: HairOfTheDog

thanks, hair .. (you chatterbox, you)

9,794 posted on 08/25/2003 1:02:48 PM PDT by proud_2_B_texasgal (I move my feet, I go through the motions. He gives purpose to chance....)

Easy enough!

It is when they are with the elves at Woodhall in the Shire..... Ch. 4, FoTR.

‘You still mean to come with me?’
‘I do.’
‘It is going to be very dangerous, Sam. ‘It is already dangerous. Most likely neither of us will come back.’
‘If you don’t come back, sir, then I shan’t, that’s certain,’ said Sam. ‘Don’t you leave him! they said to me. Leave him! I said. I never mean to. I am going with him, if he climbs to the Moon, and if any of those Black Rulers try to stop him, they’ll have Sam Gamgee to reckon with, I said. They laughed.’
‘Who are they, and what are you talking about?’
‘The Elves, sir. We had some talk last night; and they seemed to know you were going away, so I didn’t see the use of denying it. Wonderful folk, Elves, sir! Wonderful!’
‘They are,’ said Frodo. ‘Do you like them still, now you have had a closer view?’
‘They seem a bit above my likes and dislikes, so to speak,’ answered Sam slowly. ‘It don’t seem to matter what I think about them. They are quite different from what I expected - so old and young, and so gay and sad, as it were.’
Frodo looked at Sam rather startled, half expecting to see some outward sign of the odd change that seemed to have come over him. It did not sound like the voice of the old Sam Gamgee that he thought he knew. But it looked like the old Sam Gamgee sitting there, except that his face was unusually thoughtful.
‘Do you feel any need to leave the Shire now - now that your wish to see them has come true already?’ he asked.
‘Yes, sir. I don’t know how to say it, but after last night I feel different. I seem to see ahead, in a kind of way. I know we are going to take a very long road, into darkness; but I know I can’t turn back. It isn’t to see Elves now, nor dragons, nor mountains, that I want - I don’t rightly know what I want: but I have something to do before the end, and it lies ahead, not in the Shire. I must see it through, sir, if you understand me.’
‘I don’t altogether. But I understand that Gandalf chose me a good companion. I am content. We will go together.’

~A shortcut to mushrooms....

9,795 posted on 08/25/2003 1:05:13 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog (And whither then? I cannot say)

To: HairOfTheDog; My back yard; Wneighbor; Samwise; *all

My thoughts today as every day turn to you
wildly rolling in the wind
falling into soft clouds
feathering my mind with softness
staying the woman I am

when others talk of war war
I hate this damn war
It will happen
I guess I am feeling
it will change me into a hard shell

I am not hard... once yes.. I was...
the iron spine is still in place
softened by age and days when I am old
I run from that and to you
to your softness, tender words
I have never heard from another...

In gratitude I sing for you, to you, about you,
you are the chemist whose elixir decants
into a troubled mind...with one word...

does your magic work...one spoken word...
Is that magic? Oh yes, it's magic...

you are my Merlin...
and I am soft with you...
feather clouds and midnight blue love

02/19/03

9,796 posted on 08/25/2003 1:06:12 PM PDT by Soaring Feather

To: Prof Engineer; Corin Stormhands

9,797 posted on 08/25/2003 1:06:43 PM PDT by Prof Engineer (HHD - There are only 10 kinds of people: Those in the Hobbit Hole, and those who want to be.)

locate where in the previous book this quote comes in?

It's near the start of FOTR Chap. 4, "A Short Cut to Mushrooms". Frodo, Sam, and Pippin are discussing their night with the travelling Elves.

‘Do you feel any need to leave the Shire now - now that your wish to see them has come true already?’ he asked.
‘Yes, sir. I don’t know how to say it, but after last night I feel different. I seem to see ahead, in a kind of way. I know we are going to take a very long road, into darkness; but I know I can’t turn back. It isn’t to see Elves now, nor dragons, nor mountains, that I want - I don’t rightly know what I want: but I have something to do before the end, and it lies ahead, not in the Shire. I must see it through, sir, if you understand me.’

9,798 posted on 08/25/2003 1:06:44 PM PDT by Bear_in_RoseBear (Archivist to the Hobbit Hole - 5 days to vacation)

To: Prof Engineer

9,799 posted on 08/25/2003 1:07:08 PM PDT by Prof Engineer (HHD - There are only 10 kinds of people: Those in the Hobbit Hole, and those who want to be.)

To: HairOfTheDog

Awwww, you beat me to it.

No wonder you're always #1.

9,800 posted on 08/25/2003 1:07:22 PM PDT by Bear_in_RoseBear (Archivist to the Hobbit Hole - 5 days to vacation)

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