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Marileangorifurnimaluim · 08-14-2002, 10:43 PM

Hobbit croquet, complete with flamingos - wait, wrong book.

I think we don't see much of sports because of Frodo's quiet, bookish nature. If the book had followed Pippin on the other hand...

I see the Shire Hobbits playing various games of skill, that old-fashioned hoop-rolling... and cricket. Ah yes! Of course! None of this soccer stuff, these Hobbits really are more the elegant-if-odd cricket-types. Think of it, it's perfect: miasmic rules that only a fanatic can follow, plenty of time out to do something other than think about the game, no clock or schedule or clue when it was going to end, or begin for that matter... the genteel attitude. Ideal for that upper-crusty Hobbiton lad.

Across the Brandywine they'd have soccer, naturally. Or football, as they so crudely call it. [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] Maril

[ August 15, 2002: Message edited by: Marileangorifurnimaluim ]

08-14-2002, 10:43 PM	#15
Marileangorifurnimaluim Eerie Forest Spectre Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Buried in scrolls of fanfiction Posts: 798	Hobbit croquet, complete with flamingos - wait, wrong book. I think we don't see much of sports because of Frodo's quiet, bookish nature. If the book had followed Pippin on the other hand... I see the Shire Hobbits playing various games of skill, that old-fashioned hoop-rolling... and cricket. Ah yes! Of course! None of this soccer stuff, these Hobbits really are more the elegant-if-odd cricket-types. Think of it, it's perfect: miasmic rules that only a fanatic can follow, plenty of time out to do something other than think about the game, no clock or schedule or clue when it was going to end, or begin for that matter... the genteel attitude. Ideal for that upper-crusty Hobbiton lad. Across the Brandywine they'd have soccer, naturally. Or football, as they so crudely call it. [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] Maril [ August 15, 2002: Message edited by: Marileangorifurnimaluim ] __________________ Deserves death! I daresay he does... And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them?