Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

Also: It's JRR Tolkien's birthday today!

Thread here: Tolkien’s Birthday: Raise a glass!

1 posted on 01/03/2008 6:36:04 PM PST by HairOfTheDog
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies ]


To: HairOfTheDog

Hooray! New digs! With a lovely couple come to visit!

And on the good professor’s birthday - very fitting indeed!

~sip~


2 posted on 01/03/2008 6:40:41 PM PST by RosieCotton ("Anything worth doing is worth doing badly." -- G.K. Chesterton)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: HairOfTheDog

Happy Birthday, J.R.R.!


3 posted on 01/03/2008 6:41:43 PM PST by Rocko ( "Where's the global warming? It's freezing in here." -- Bob Dylan)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: HairOfTheDog
Well, I guess JRRT's birthday is as good a day as any to start a new thread...
4 posted on 01/03/2008 6:42:30 PM PST by Bear_in_RoseBear (Loot it while it lasts)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: Lucius Cornelius Sulla; Rose in RoseBear; Overtaxed; osagebowman; LSAggie; 2Jedismom; 300winmag; ...

Ping to new thread... Welcome especially ExGeeEye and his new MissusGeeEye :~)


5 posted on 01/03/2008 6:43:05 PM PST by HairOfTheDog
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: HairOfTheDog
Hi, all!
6 posted on 01/03/2008 6:43:10 PM PST by Rose in RoseBear (HHD [Didja have a merry Christmas? Are ya havin' a Happy New Year so far?])
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: HairOfTheDog

In before 10, something ain’t right!


7 posted on 01/03/2008 6:45:16 PM PST by Rb ver. 2.0 (Global warming is the new Marxism.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: HairOfTheDog

Er, that’s an interesting title.


9 posted on 01/03/2008 6:45:57 PM PST by JenB
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: HairOfTheDog
Somewhere in one of my innumerable boxes of stuff, I have a vinyl album - remember those? - that has Tolkien reading poems and singing songs (including this one) on the front, and on the back he reads "Riddles in the Dark."



Some dude is selling this one on eBay - it's the only image I could find, so I guess I'll pimp his auction in return for yoinking his pic.
19 posted on 01/03/2008 6:58:01 PM PST by Xenalyte (Can you count, suckas? I say the future is ours . . . if you can count.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: HairOfTheDog

Hello new thread!


22 posted on 01/03/2008 7:01:58 PM PST by Lil'freeper (Don't taze me, bro!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: HairOfTheDog
Good Evening, fellow Middle-Earth Denizens!

I had posted a birthday post here tonight, but more than happy to visit the Hole, as well!

So, let's have a drink - after all, it comes in pints...


25 posted on 01/03/2008 7:06:31 PM PST by Old Sarge (This tagline in memory of FReeper 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: HairOfTheDog

Why didn’t they wear Hobbitses’ costums?


28 posted on 01/03/2008 7:12:02 PM PST by paudio (Rose: I loath and despise money! Father: You also spend it!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: HairOfTheDog
I'll have to wait until next month to toast the good professor. Can't drink with my meds. ;o)

What a great picture to use for the new thread!

39 posted on 01/03/2008 8:09:16 PM PST by SuziQ
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: HairOfTheDog; Bear_in_RoseBear; osagebowman

Well, I’m here.

Just finished watching Virginia Tech lose to Kansas. At least, contrary to what Mike Huckabee said, it wasn’t boring.


40 posted on 01/03/2008 8:58:57 PM PST by Corin Stormhands (Is it 2012 yet?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: HairOfTheDog

Good morning!...and there we are!


55 posted on 01/04/2008 2:25:10 AM PST by ExGeeEye (NIE or no NIE, I've been waiting since 11/04/79 to do something about Iran.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: HairOfTheDog
is Water Hot that smokes and steams.

That depends on the pressure. And what you consider "hot."

64 posted on 01/04/2008 5:13:45 AM PST by SoothingDave
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: HairOfTheDog; ecurbh; All

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYBODY!!!!!


93 posted on 01/04/2008 10:53:06 AM PST by Pippin (Thompson '08)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: HairOfTheDog

I’m a bit late to the party but cheers to Old JRR and all his friends. This is my first post at Free Republic and when I saw a Hobbit Hole with a Saturday Night Gun Thread I knew I’d found home. Hello to all!


228 posted on 01/06/2008 7:56:23 AM PST by Porter Rockwell
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: HairOfTheDog
I don't follow the threads, but did you guys post the link for the Battle of the Pellanor fields...in gingerbread and gummi bears? LINK
779 posted on 01/11/2008 3:55:05 PM PST by LadyDoc (liberals only love politically correct poor people)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson