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dernwyn
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Nov 10 2012, 12:33am
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All the best to him! What kind of work is he doing now, the same as before?
Yes, the change in daily routine does mess up one's schedule!  Has your garden been "put to bed" for the winter?
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Radhruin
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Nov 10 2012, 5:00am
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A certain black and white bird
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Told me that there would be goings on today, and although I'm late I did arrive while it was still Friday, in my time zone anyway.
I'll help myself to a Hendrick's gin and tonic with cucumber. Yeah yeah, I've been told that gin and tonics are a summer drink. Hmphh. I'll have my Hendrick's whenever I please thank you very much.
My life is busy as ever, trying to keep the family business afloat in difficult times, board meetings for two non-profit arts organizations, finding time to practice the cello for my newly re-started lessons (and finding the dollars to pay for said lessons and gas to get to them), and keeping the cat from going crazy with the mice getting into the house escaping an upcoming Minnesota winter. Last winter wasn't even a winter, which was fine with me, but I am looking forward to some snow this year. Brown gets old. Oh, and I am calling body shops to get quotes on fixing my car after my fifth collision with a deer in as many years last week. Yep, that is getting old too.
Reminiscing about the excitement of ten years ago in the midst of LotR movies. Wondering why I am not as excited about The Hobbit, chalking that up to being ten years older, not being as interested in the story, and the whole new "sphere" of commentary that is the internet, which just ends up being overload on information. I liked "looking" for information ten years ago. ; ) Oh, I will be seeing it, I just may wait a few days.
Cheers to the founders of TORn, the folks that make it work every day, and the wonderful folks I have met here in the last twelve years!
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Alcarcalime
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Nov 10 2012, 10:24am
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I'm willing to share, but no Texas weather, please! //
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Alcarcalime
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Nov 10 2012, 10:27am
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He is doing drafting for a home designer, but with a different program. It is part time, but better than nothing. We only find out at the end of the week what the next week's schedule is!
We put our garden to bed at the beginning of September. With the rabbits, racoons, slugs, and drought, there wasn't much left!
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Rosie-with-the-ribbons
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Nov 10 2012, 12:11pm
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I was planning on coming online yesterday evening, but the day had been so busy.
Good thing I look into the boards today, otherwise I would have missed Homecoming.
What a year it has been with all the news, blogs, trailers and what more.
And for me, finished first year of school, so just three more years to go (well, at this moment only 2 and 3/4 years (sounds a lot better than 3).
And even better, in a week and a half I'll be flying to NZ to be there for the premiere, I can't wait.
Now off to read the other posts.
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Tintallė
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Nov 10 2012, 4:38pm
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As I so often do, I read through the thread but never posted. I've been here since the beginning but I've been staying away from all things Hobbit so as to be completely blown away in every respect by the movie. Discovering the Air New Zealand safety video a week after everyone else is just one proof that I am pretty much the last stop on the information highway these days, at least on this site. I suppose I should dabble around the other boards a bit!
I look at the folks I grew up with here and realize they're all half-elven or immortal. Guess I missed the boat!
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Magpie
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Nov 10 2012, 5:27pm
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Okay, this was a Fiesta I meant to attend
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although I'm usually home on Fridays, I often get too busy with other things to remember... or I feel like my life is too boring to share. But I thought, Magpie... you should do the Homecoming one. Especially since I prodded a handful of oldbies to come join us.
Then I had to work. Which isn't a bad thing since it's the first time I've worked 5 days in row in years!
My life is still too boring to share.
We painted the living room and kitchen.
I found this 1992 biography of Tolkien, J.R.R. Tolkien: Master of Fantasy, written for young readers at the thrift store for 69 cents. I'm even more thrilled that it was a school library book and has one of those library check out cards in the back. It looks like only one person had checked it out. :-(
I became immortal.
See, I told you it was boring. :-D
I'll pour myself a cup of hot coffee, add a spoonful of hot chocolate mix in it and grab a biscotti from the jar. Then mingle by reading the rest of the thread.
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Magpie
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Nov 10 2012, 5:32pm
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maybe that premiere (or some encore of it) could make its way to YouTube, hun? I would love to hear it.
And if you find time to share some thoughts about your Tolkien class, it would be great. (just give me a heads up if it's in the Reading Room. I never go there.)
I wasn't sure what you meant when you wrote: "And for our final project, we're allowed to design our own!"
Your own what?
And seriously, dear child. I can remember when you were just a wee one. I can't believe you're applying for grad school. And it's your last semester at the university that just yesterday, you were so thrilled to get into. SLOW TIME DOWN, someone!
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Magpie
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Nov 10 2012, 5:36pm
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In my job, I find out whether I'm working on a day by day basis. I finally told them I would only reserve Tue, Wed. and Thur. for them. But sometimes I'll find out I'm needed the next day late in the afternoon or even late in the evening (if one manager is tending to business at 9 pm).
My own son who had struggled with finding work for way too long finally found a job a few weeks ago. It's a good one in his field and the co-workers play Magic on their lunch break. I guess it's a good fit for him.
Anyhow, I bet OH is happy to be working again.
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Magpie
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Nov 10 2012, 5:47pm
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Christmas gifts crept into my mind this weekend
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The neighborhood craft fairs are this weekend and last year I tried to buy all local so I did some shopping there. This year, the budget is pretty tight and I'm considering what I can make for the smaller gifts I want to give/send. Whether I shop local or make... I need to get thinking or working seriously.
I think a great deal of what makes up TORn are experiences and memories. So what each of us experience in our connection or interaction with TORn - or what each of us holds in our memories - contributes 'bricks' in the TORn building as much as any webpage or button or tshirt or event. And each brick - whether it was formed in 1999 or 2009 or Nov 2012 - is important to forming the structure. I'd say you've contributed quite a few bricks. :-)
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Magpie
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Nov 10 2012, 5:54pm
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I'm so happy to hear you're checking back in after you've seen the Hobbit. I guess I don't want to be completely surprised. I take a look (and listen) to the kind of 'upper level' promotions - the sort meant to hit the widest base of people. But I don't dig too deep into details or even images.
Maybe the winter this year will be somewhere between the nightmare of 2010-11 and the mild 2011-12 and the MN-sibs can all get together and talk about The Hobbit. It would be so great to catch up with you.
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Magpie
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Nov 10 2012, 6:02pm
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(following up on my reply to Zmulady)
People in town here are reporting a big mice infestation but so far, no signs they have found their way to my house. (we often get one about 2 out of three falls - they are so frickin cute and like to come from behind the door jamb to peek at me when I watch tv... but they can't live in the house! They must, I am sorry to say, die.)
I can't even imagine hitting a deer 5 times. I mean, I can imagine it happening but it must make you a nervous wreck when you drive.
I'm not as excited about The Hobbit as with the last two LOTR movies (the first one slid under my radar). Probably for the same reasons as you. I'm not sure when we'll see it. Possibly on Christmas Day. I'm not overly anxious to see it. And I don't want to fight wild, crazy crowds.
I just suggested to Zmulady that, if the winter lets us... perhaps we could find a time after the new year to meet, chat, and compare Hobbit thoughts. :-)
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Aunt Dora Baggins
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Nov 10 2012, 7:26pm
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I'm so glad you got into the class!
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I know you weren't sure you would. I look forward to hearing all about it.
When my son took humanities, for his project he forged an iron crown. His teacher commented that it looked like something Morgoth would wear :-)
Good luck with grad school!
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Aunt Dora Baggins
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Nov 10 2012, 7:55pm
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Finally getting a chance to stop by :-)
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Yesterday I was grading calculus exams, and determined not to take any home with me over the weekend, so I "fell into a vortex" (as Jo March would say). Luckily, my students did pretty well, which makes the grading go faster, so I was done by 6 (I get to work at 7:30 in the morning.) I was pretty proud of myself grading an exam and five sets of homework papers all in one day.
This morning was writers' group, and this afternoon I was supposed to go to a memorial service for a family friend, the man who was in the car with my folks during the Big Thompson flood. But the service was in the mountains, and the forecast was for snow, and I let my dad decide, since the man was mostly his friend, and he decided we shouldn't go, so we didn't. I'm following the webcam at the place where the service is, and trying to decide if we chose well. I think we did, but I'm still not sure.
Looking back over the last 11 years, there are too many memories of TORn to mention. One of my favorites was the first time I met any TORn folk in person. A woman I haven't seen here over the past decade, poppyroper, had an Oscars party at her house in the spring of 2002, and several of us got together. I met Altaira in the driveway as we were going in, and felt an instant rapport. We knew we were in the right place when we saw the sign on the door: "No admittance except on party business." It was the first time I had ever met people from the Internet in person, kind of scary but it turned out so great.
And then a few weeks later we went to see FotR in the theater together, nine of us. We laughed at totally inappropriate places, much to the annoyance of the audience. Like when the horse says "Hi,' and when Gandalf says "I'm known in these parts as a disturber of the peace" and someone whispered "And a pervy hobbit-fancier'.
Then there was the time our school showed RotK on the wall of a building, and Altaira came up to see it with me, and there was a raffle to see who got to sit on a couch instead of on the grass, and she won, so we had great seats. As Aragorn drew Anduril from its scabbard the first time, a meteor streaked across the sky.
I never went to any line parties or cons or anything big, but I've sure enjoyed the "mini-moots' with Altaira and BG and Rosie-lass and Arandiel and Inferno and Greendragon and L.Ron and Lily Fairbairn and GAndyalf and other great sibbies.
The best surprise was when I ran into Ethel Duath on the flank of Longs Peak. She was out for a vacation and we had met at a restaurant the night before, but we didn't know we were both hiking on the same trail or that we would run into each other. And there we were at 11,500 feet on Mills Moraine.
I'm also thinking of the wonderful support I got from TORn folks when I had major surgery in 2004. It was routine, but not for me, and I was pretty scared. I printed out a hard copy of all the well wishes from TORn and took it with me to the hospital, and I think it helped with my swift recovery.
And I'm thinking of the time one of us passed to the West, and someone had the idea that at the same time we should all stand for a moment of silence and look west and think of her. I was in a meeting, so I couldn't stand, but I closed my eyes and thought of all the TORnsibs all over the world who were together in spirit at that moment, and it was very powerful. We really have something amazing here.
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"For DORA BAGGINS in memory of a LONG correspondence, with love from Bilbo; on a large wastebasket. Dora was Drogo's sister, and the eldest surviving female relative of Bilbo and Frodo; she was ninety-nine, and had written reams of good advice for more than half a century."
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Greenwood Hobbit
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Nov 10 2012, 9:25pm
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Head like a sieve I has, Preciouss! Been helping out at my local quilting group's exhibition yesterday and today - a feast of colour, and a delight to the eye. Have eaten too much cake from the excellent cake stall too so, like Gandalf in Bag End, I'll say 'Just tea, thank you!'
Cheers, All!
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Asclepias
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Nov 10 2012, 11:13pm
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Head like a sieve I has, Preciouss! Been helping out at my local quilting group's exhibition yesterday and today - a feast of colour, and a delight to the eye. Have eaten too much cake from the excellent cake stall too so, like Gandalf in Bag End, I'll say 'Just tea, thank you!'
Cheers, All!
Alas, work has taken up enough space in my head and on my computer, and I feel guilty enough checking Internet on my breaks, that something had to give (not to mention I just forgot)!
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Xanaseb
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Nov 11 2012, 1:19am
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--I'm a victim of Bifurcation--
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Xanaseb
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Nov 11 2012, 1:21am
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Late Homecoming post (lol sorry...). Happy homecoming people! and though I haven't been here for that long..
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.. I always love posting! The sense of closeness and friendly atmosphere makes TORn brilliant, and of course I can't resist Tolkien conversations hehe...
It's amazing to think how many posters there have been on the TORn boards over the years... just by looking at this thread...
TORn has had -many- people!! So brilliant 
I hope to be here for many years to come as well!
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Elizabeth
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Nov 11 2012, 7:30am
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Sorry to be late, I'm in the middle of a very intense weekend event, but just wanted to say Hi!
I'm looking forward to my trip to NZ starting New Year's Eve, for almost 4 weeks, roughly evenly divided between North and South Island. Maybe I can see some of you!
Join us NOW in the Reading Room for detailed discussions of The Hobbit, July 9-Nov. 18!
Elizabeth is the TORnsib formerly known as 'erather'
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Alcarcalime
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Nov 11 2012, 12:28pm
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we're happy for him. We certainly know the struggle!
Yes, OhioHobbit is happy to be having an income, but would like to have a full-time job. But, a little is better than nothing.
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Ataahua
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Nov 11 2012, 6:54pm
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Celebrimbor: "Pretty rings..."
Dwarves: "Pretty rings..."
Men: "Pretty rings..."
Sauron: "Mine's better."
"Ah, how ironic, the addictive qualities of Saurons master weapon led to its own destruction. Which just goes to show, kids - if you want two small and noble souls to succeed on a mission of dire importance... send an evil-minded beggar with them too." - Gandalf's Diaries, final par, by Ufthak.
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