What do you "assign" to the Shire?

[Valier]

I assign laughter to the Shire. Not just laughter, but the full out belly laughs that make your sides hurt.

I also assign the people or things that make you laugh like this.

[Oddwen]

We dug up the nest of a laying snapping turtle one year, and hatched a batch of babies in a fishtank. Then we released them all in the sinkhole next to our house.

I assign the joy of never seeing one of them again.

[Kath]

The ability to listen to two totally disparate things at one time. When you've just been yelled at by a parent for not concentrating on what they were saying because you were totally engrossed in the television at the time, being able to repeat what they have just said back to them word for word is such a satisfying feeling.

[Lalwendë]

Originally Posted by Kath

The ability to listen to two totally disparate things at one time. When you've just been yelled at by a parent for not concentrating on what they were saying because you were totally engrossed in the television at the time, being able to repeat what they have just said back to them word for word is such a satisfying feeling.

I used to have this super power, usually in German lessons where my poor teacher would interrupt my conversation with the boys who sat behind me to ask me to repeat what he had just said, and I would be able to repeat it word for word. Sadly as you get older the ability to concentrate on even one thing at one time becomes more and more difficult.

I'm assigning to the Shire those books you get with lists of "the best..." because they're so absorbing. We've got one - 1001 Books to Read Before you Die - and yes, it includes LotR (I wouldn't have bought it otherwise ). I got one the other day called 1001 Albums to Hear Before You Die which has kept me absorbed for a good while and left me with a long list of CDs to go and get, and has also had me ranting a bit about what was and what was not included, though said books are refreshingly unpretentious.

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

Perching upon a half-submerged and salt-encrusted rock, clad in bikinis given the ocean setting, and lazily watching the sun set as the tide comes in around us. Beaches make me happy. Even though hobbits don't like them.