SADDAM CAPTURED IN HOBBIT HOLE

Self | 12/14/2003 | Self

[Tijeras_Slim]

In his first interview with interrogators, former Iraqui dictator Saddam Hussein has admitted to hiding in the Hobbit Hole for months.

"I thought it would be the last place anyone looked for me," he said. "Like my hometown of Tikrit it's closed, insular. The inhabitants spend all their time talking to each other about Hobbits, Orcs, Gandalf, and Frodo. Sort of like the Camel market, only stranger. With my new beard, I figured I'd blend right in."

Military officials admit that the thought of wading through tens of thousands of posts and replies in search of the tyrant was a daunting task. "It was assisted greatly by the turn over from thread IV to V," Major B. Baggins was quoted as saying, "We probably caught him right as he prepared to flee to either the Laci Peterson threads, or Michael Jackson threads."

[Tijeras_Slim]

ping :)

[Tijeras_Slim]

Pssst.... :)

[HairOfTheDog]

***AHEM***

I ~know~ Hobbit Holes, and that was no Hobbit Hole!

In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.

It had a perfectly round door like a porthole, painted green, with a shiny yellow brass knob in the exact middle. The door opened on to a tube-shaped hall like a tunnel: a very comfortable tunnel without smoke, with panelled walls, and floors tiled and carpeted, provided with polished chairs, and lots and lots of pegs for hats and coats - the hobbit was fond of visitors. The tunnel wound on and on, going fairly but not quite straight into the side of the hill - The Hill, as all the people for many miles round called it - and many little round doors opened out of it, first on one side and then on another. No going upstairs for the hobbit: bedrooms, bathrooms, cellars, pantries (lots of these), wardrobes (he had whole rooms devoted to clothes), kitchens, dining-rooms, all were on the same floor, and indeed on the same passage. The best rooms were all on the left-hand side (going in), for these were the only ones to have windows, deep-set round windows looking over his garden and meadows beyond, sloping down to the river.

[HairOfTheDog]

Apparently, our friend thinks Saddam has been hiding at our place...

Maybe on a Peterson thread.... But he was ~not~ in our thread!

[Paul Atreides]

Saddam was hiding in a 'fraidy hole.

[Tijeras_Slim]

I think he hears the Dimensional Door opening behind him about now... :)

[HairOfTheDog]

'xactly!

Not even a fireplace or a kitchen in that hole! and no place to keep the pints and old winyards.

[Overtaxed]

Hmmmmm......maybe he was in the Sackville-Baggins Hole? They don't keep their Hole up to our high standards. :)

[Scott from the Left Coast]

I have it on good authority that he was in Shelob's hole.

[g'nad]

if'n he were in our Hobbit Hole, I'duh buried muh axe in his nervous system...

[martin_fierro]

SADDAM CAPTURED IN HOBBIT HOLE

But he was praying that it was a Dimensional Doorway.

[martin_fierro]

Oh. You already said so. Smartypants.

[JenB]

I have it on good authority that he was in Shelob's hole.

ecurbh, still have that picture of Hillary-as-Shelob?

[Corin Stormhands]

I dunno guys. Think about the recent appearance/disappearance in the Hobbit Hole and related threads.

Do we really know what Saddam thinks of Viggo?

[Wneighbor]

Now it is all clear! He who shall remain nameless, the troll from last week, mayhap he was saddam?

[Professional Engineer]

Rabblerouser

[Argh]

Saddam's Word For The Day is "screwed".

[Darksheare]

Nopers.
No Dimensional Doors behind him.
I would NEVER let Saddam through one in a single piece.

[LadyDoc]

http://captained.blogs.com/captains_quarters/2003/12/a_silly_lord_of.html

From the blog "captain's quarters":

Sunday, December 14, 2003
A Silly Lord of the Rings Analogy for Today
Today's capture reminded me of a scene from Tolkien, although it's not the Lord of the Rings, it's from The Silmarillion. I suppose it may be a bit silly to use this as a reference to Saddam Hussein, but it sounds oddly familiar to his capture. This passage comes from the chapter titled Of The Voyage of Earendil and describes the capture of Morgoth, who was Sauron's leader during the First Age of Middle Earth:

... and all of the pits of Morgoth were broken and unroofed, and the might of the Valar descended into the deeps of the earth. There Morgoth stood at last at bay, and yet unvaliant. He fled into the deepest of his mines, and sued for peace and pardon; but his feet were hewn from under him, and he was hurled upon his face. Then he was bound with the chain Angainor which he had worn aforetime, and his iron crown was beaten into a collar for his neck, and his head was bowed upon his knees.

Unvaliant, indeed ... his sons died fighting, a tactically stupid thing to do but a mistake that only hastened their eventual fate. Saddam, who had vowed never to be taken alive, did not even draw the pistol he carried when he was caught, and instead surrendered meekly. The Valar thrust Morgoth "through the Door of Night beyond the Walls of the World, and into the Timeless Void"; I suspect the Iraqis have something similar in mind, if less literary and more literal.