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Pervinca Took · 05-08-2019, 04:52 PM

BRANDY HALL: Sing a song of Tolkien: strong’s the spirit here!
CRICKHOLLOW: Pain in neck and empty? Nomenclature is queer.
BYWATER: By this may you live, since it’s not by bread alone –
???O???: And here’s a place where (fancifully) hob-nobs could be grown.
???T???: Here’s the way that you must serve a tennis ball,
???T???: Here dwelt one whose stories, (many thought), were tall.
???L???: Here have fun and paddle, but do not prick your toes -
???E???: And here big grins abound, they say, and none are lachrymose!

THEME: SHIRE LOCATIONS

Yes - you get a CRICK in your neck, and HOLLOW means empty.

You're right about the 'tall' (but not really) stories being Bilbo's, but Bag End does not have a T.

05-08-2019, 04:52 PM	#5416
Pervinca Took Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: The Treetops, C/O Great Smials Posts: 5,035	BRANDY HALL: Sing a song of Tolkien: strong’s the spirit here! CRICKHOLLOW: Pain in neck and empty? Nomenclature is queer. BYWATER: By this may you live, since it’s not by bread alone – ???O???: And here’s a place where (fancifully) hob-nobs could be grown. ???T???: Here’s the way that you must serve a tennis ball, ???T???: Here dwelt one whose stories, (many thought), were tall. ???L???: Here have fun and paddle, but do not prick your toes - ???E???: And here big grins abound, they say, and none are lachrymose! THEME: SHIRE LOCATIONS Yes - you get a CRICK in your neck, and HOLLOW means empty. You're right about the 'tall' (but not really) stories being Bilbo's, but Bag End does not have a T. __________________ "Sit by the firelight's glow; tell us an old tale we know. Tell of adventures strange and rare; never to change, ever to share! Stories we tell will cast their spell, now and for always."