The Tolkien Coming of Age Club 2

[Snowdog]

A most excellent recipe it is too! I posted a tater recipe I have grown fond of.

How is everyone here in the Club??

[mark12_30]

Snowdog,

I'm quite well today, thanks. The lungs are working! Always a plus. I had a busy weekend, but got a lot done. Broght in lots of firewood, but it's too warm to start a fire! I'll take it.

Thinking hard about "The Hedged Inn", and hoping it can be made into a fun, useful, enjoyable, and Tolkien-focused ... mission... quest... thing.

[Raefindel]

Originally Posted by Snowdog

A most excellent recipe it is too! I posted a tater recipe I have grown fond of.

How is everyone here in the Club??

Thank You for the compliment, Snowdog . The Tater Recipe sounds delicious, too. When I lived in the south (California, it's near Gondor) I did indeed grow coffee, though, when I moved with my people back North it died in the cold.

I had thought of trying to grow a cocoa plant as well, but someone comvinced me it would never bear fruit as it required a specific insect to polinate it, and it was sadly not indiginous to Gondor.

And as to how I am, I am well, thank You. I have many sewing projects sitting on the sidelines waiting till my house is finished before I begin them. How are you?

Helen, girlfriend, I've gotcha pegged! I kinda had ya figured for a green girl, but I wanted to check. Next time you come out here you can take the green cloak home with you if you want it. Not sure if it's what you're looking for or not, but it doesn't fit me and I don't wear green. Not sure why I made it...

[mark12_30]

Originally Posted by Raefindel

Helen, girlfriend, I've gotcha pegged! I kinda had ya figured for a green girl, but I wanted to check. Next time you come out here you can take the green cloak home with you if you want it...

**gasp**

Of COURSE I do. And... well, there it is. Golly!

**Fidgets with delight**

...and just so I can find the coffee next time:

Arda Recipe Book

[Raefindel]

I'm trying to get Cory to burn those CD's I mentioned, the harp & pennywhistle, but he has so little time and so many things waiting for his attention. I'm just not computer savvy enough to do it myself. Perhaps the little gymnast can do it now. He's in advanced computer class.

I see things all the time and think "Helen would like that!" and "when Helen get's here we can do this together!"

[Hilde Bracegirdle]

I think I've passed seven weeks straight.

Ah! I'm so glad to hear that you seem to be improving; we have someone here on week 4! Can't think of what might be causing it, but I'm afraid it might be dragons! Sorry, feeling a bit giddy, I've finally been unchained from my desk!

[Raefindel]

Chained to your desk? What a terrible fate!

Alas, I'm in the mood for a walk but have no walking partner, O Relic of Wandering Days! Helenhobbit comes but once or twice a year and we are always hard-pressed to do all we have planned.

Wouldn't it be nice if we all could walk together? I long for a walking partner. I must confess, my good Hobbits, that in the autumn and winter I have little to do and long for company, even the company of Hobbits,for there are none in these parts. Perhaps the mossy,wet forests and the cold of the mountains keeps them away.

[mark12_30]

Originally Posted by Raefindel

...burn those CD's.... Perhaps the little gymnast can do it now. He's in advanced computer class.

I see things all the time and think "Helen would like that!" and "when Helen get's here we can do this together!"

You are the best elf ever... If the gymnast is able, that's fine-- but no guilt-trips from the east, all right? How are the princess and the harper doing?

I would love to come, and see you, and wander under the firs, and see the mountains-- mountains!-- and see my dear auntie again. She's like my Bilbo-- I never thought of it that way before! She's definitely settled in her Rivendell!!

I've been listening to monkish music a lot. There's a lovely song by JMT that I sing every morning... I've even been doing vocal work again. Next time, we must have a list of songs to sing. You harmonize too well not to.

[Raefindel]

I'm already working on the list! No Elf would pass up the opportunity to sing with a well-tuned Hobbit!

[Hilde Bracegirdle]

Yes, it would be enjoyable to have a nice walk with friends, even if they’re elves. Though I will say that I no sooner wrote that I’d continue on from Rivendell to Mordor (The Walk to Rivendell thread) then I stopped my daily outings! Nothing like the thought of actually reaching the place to give one pause, and a long pause at that! But then again Esty must be near by now. Maybe she can report her findings. (I have visions of very an active Mordor historical society there and possibly one or two dozen lively reenactment groups! Quite chilling!)

As far as there not being many hobbits round you Miss Raefindel, a never heard tell of many of us that made it out to the Blessed Realm out west. Leastways, not yet.

And I do owe an explanation…. These chains are entirely self-made and imposed. I learned the craft as a youngster from a couple of rather indulgent Noldorian elves passing through. They are quite invisible unless you know what to look for, having been specially anodized in a lovely shade of green particularly attractive to employers, and are engraved with all sorts of ruins touting work ethic, loyalty and single-minded determination to carry though on rash and foolish oaths taken by the design department! They are very useful when faced with impossible workloads and when your Tookish side urgently presses for a bit of wandering at inopportune moments.

EDIT: so sorry, it appears that I deleted a necessary word, it has returned now.