Per Mr. Greenbow:
[quote]Stacey, I can't believe you are letting Sam spend all your money, They must be very good seeds![QUOTE]
LOL--well, they were just your "garden variety" (pardon the pun, couldn't resist), but he was right, they WERE a good price (and a very SMALL fraction of the money I had, really. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img])

Nope. Nor is it a church building. Though people certianly do shun those, don't they? [img]smilies/frown.gif[/img]

OH! OH! *Jumps up and down, raising hand in the air* The answer to Starbreezes' is NINE!

Well done Samwise! I was beginning to wonder if anyone would get it, I personally thought it was too easy for people of your caliber...oh well, seems I was mistaken. [img]smilies/tongue.gif[/img] [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

Brain Teasers, Riddles...something of the same thing, when you think about it. Good one, Starbreeze!

Starbreeze - d'oh. That's me, always taking the complicated way round and failing to notice the straight way just in front of me.

Samwise - string, or nothing!! Are you going to tell us the answer if nobody gets it after a few more days? [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]. And speaking of church buildings - happy Easter! (It's a few hours early, but I'm going to an Easter vigil in a bit so technically this should be OK).

Hooray, at long last I'm a shade! [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

And a very happy Easter to you, too, Kalimac!
Yes, if no one gets it after a few days, I'll tell you folks.
(I just can't believe my little brain thought up one to stump you guys, though... [img]smilies/eek.gif[/img] ).
Let's see, clue #2...
(which may or may not be a giveaway)
The folks who shun this usually do so on a Friday.

Oh, and congrats, Kalimac! [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

Samwise - meat! Is it meat?

Samwise, do you have someone with you adding to your posts, are you schtizophrenic or is your name Stacy? You are confusing the heck out of me! [img]smilies/eek.gif[/img]

Sorry, Kalimac, no.
LOL, Rae--sorry. Yes, my name is Stacey. Talking back and forth between myself and my character was a habit I developed on another board...oddly enough, the character was Sam.

Sam: Character?? And what do you mean by that?

Stacey: [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img]

ooOOOoohh, so you ARE schitzophrenic! [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

Clue #3: The answer has to do with some events that happened after ROTK ends....at least, I don't think think they happen 'til after ROTK ends...and I'm not going to spoil it and look, 'cause I'm only barely done with FOTR.

Well, I'm never gonna get Samwise's riddle, so maybe it's time we had another .

What force and strength cannot get through
I with a gentle touch can do.
And many in the street would stand
were I not a friend at hand.

Stacey:LOL, Rae....I believe the term is "split personality".

Sam: Split? *looks at her* Miss Stacey, y' look 's whole 's anything to me..."

Stacey: *Well, at least he's a cute little thing...* [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img] *I've got to be nice to him, too, 'cause we just read the part where he lost Bill and he got all weepy....* [img]smilies/frown.gif[/img]

You're reading the Trilogy for the first time?

Oh, well. I'll tell you folks on Monday.

No Fair! No Fair! I'm going on vacation Monday! Booo Hooo Hooo! [img]smilies/frown.gif[/img]

I'll miss you Samwise! In fact, I'll miss everybody! and will probably suffer withdrawal from lack of Barrow-downs exposure! [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

No, Rae, the second. The first time I read it, though, was roughly 19 years ago, and I'm finding I remember VERY little. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

We must be close to the same age. The first time I read it was 22 years ago.

Did you get your Sam statue you ordered?

Oh.....when are you coming back?

Thursday

Hm...well, maybe I can save the answer 'til then....no one here knows were I live. [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]
No, It's not supposed to come (be shipped?) 'til April, which isn't too far away, fortunately.... [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

I'm 31. I first read LOTR in Jr. High.

Gee Wiz Samwise, that was your 600th post!

(Raefindel orders fireworks for the occasion)

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Wow! I wasn't even watching!

Wow! You are quick with those quotes! do you have the whole trilogy marked with a highlighter like your Bible?

[ March 30, 2002: Message edited by: Raefindel ]

LOL! Actually, as I read, I've written them down, and I have a file full of them. Your post led me to dig up that one. You can kind of tell how far I am in the book from my latest quote.
Well, I take that back. They're sort of mixed up, and some are off this board from places I haven't read to yet. Okay, scratch that.

.....and actually, I don't think I've ever used a highlighter in my Bible--at least, not my newer one. My thing is to mark little notes in the margins everywhere.

Well, Everyone, Have a Wonderful Easter. God Bless!

Raefindel, is the answer to yours a key?

Samwise, I was almost expecting you to tell me "the answer isn't a kettle boiling over" because I'm *really* trying to figure that one out and can't come up with anything that fits perfectly [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]. I'll stick with "string, or nothing!"

And I'm starting to feel embarrassingly young; I first read LOTR 12 years ago, and I was still young enough then that my father was reading it aloud to me and two of my brothers for a bedtime story (well I remember when we finished the "Flight to the Ford" chapter where at the end Frodo sees the Nazgul starting across the ford and then collapses into unconsciousness. My dad then closed the book: "OK, time to go to sleep." We protested loudly until he consented to read the first page of the next chapter, so we could see that Frodo was not, in fact, captured by Ringwraiths).

And the same to you, Rae!

Thank You! [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

LOL, Kalimac! Boy, I'm beginning to feel embarassingly old.... [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

Wait a sec.....LOTR for a bedtime story!?!? Yike--I hope your dad didn't read you the part about the Dead Marshes before you went to sleep.... [img]smilies/eek.gif[/img]

Give that Elf a cigar! (I doubt she'd take one) Good job Kalimac! A key it is!

Wait a sec.....LOTR for a bedtime story!?!? Yike--I hope your dad didn't read you the part about the Dead Marshes before you went to sleep.... [img]smilies/eek.gif[/img]

Oh, you're a hobbit aren't you? Sorry about that! Your turn.

ok , just so we keep within the spirit of the thread, let's all tell our ages as a math riddle...lol