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Post by Lady Margaret on Mar 10, 2017 13:44:32 GMT -5
looking like a great weekend!
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Post by stvalentine on Mar 10, 2017 15:18:01 GMT -5
Perfect, you gotta love those corn cobs!  |
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Post by Motto on Mar 10, 2017 15:50:29 GMT -5
All good stuff, I may be able to try some Amphora soon :-)
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Post by Lady Margaret on Mar 10, 2017 15:57:10 GMT -5
broke in my cobwarden -- it's the "Shire" got it because the bowl is acorn shaped but I'm gonna have to get the "Elf" one too  |
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Post by simnettpratt on Mar 10, 2017 21:30:37 GMT -5
Margaret liketh the cobs. Great smokers, as American as it gets, and I always said they made me feel like Tom Sawyer, then MM came out with the Mark Twain line, so apparently they agreed. However, as the world's biggest Tolkien fan, which are BOOKS, not so down with the Elf pipe. Elves would be above that Hobbit invention, as was Legolas when he called the Fellowship strange folk for wreathing themselves in smoke. Last year I searched through an entire pdf of all of Tolkien's works for every mention of the word pipe. There are eight pipe shapes specifically mentioned, everything from Gandalf's short clay-pipe to the two pipes the Elves made for Bilbo, with pearl mouth-pieces and bound with fine-wrought silver. Here's the link to my old thread from last year: Every pipe shape mentioned by Tolkien |
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Post by Lady Margaret on Mar 10, 2017 22:11:33 GMT -5
very cool. i don't like them for the "Hobbit" names or whatever, just like them because they are cobwardens. a cob churchwarden is really cool. I actually have never seen the Hobbit movies. However, the research you did is an interesting read |
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Post by simnettpratt on Mar 11, 2017 0:07:43 GMT -5
The Hobbit is one of the best books ever written. The three hobbit movies are disgusting and disrespectful - the middle one doesn't have a single scene that was in the book. Might as well have made a movie about a biker that solves crimes in his spare time and called it, 'Shakespeare's Macbeth'.
If you dig reading at all, even if you don't like fiction, as I don't, I can heartily recommend The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings. Those books are what got me into pipe smoking. Here's an example from Tolkien's notes about the history of Middle Earth, which he didn't even consider good enough to publish. It's when Beren sees Luthien for the first time.
Blue was her raiment as the unclouded heaven, but her eyes were grey as the starlit evening; her mantle was sewn with golden flowers, but her hair was dark as the shadows of twilight. As the light upon the leaves of trees, as the voice of clear waters, as the stars above the mists of the world, such was her glory and her loveliness; and in her face was a shining light.
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Post by jitterbugdude on Mar 11, 2017 4:24:57 GMT -5
The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings. Those books are what got me into pipe smoking. GREAT!... now the FDA is going to start banning books.. for the children of course. |
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Post by Lady Margaret on Mar 11, 2017 7:31:50 GMT -5
The Hobbit is one of the best books ever written. The three hobbit movies are disgusting and disrespectful - the middle one doesn't have a single scene that was in the book. Might as well have made a movie about a biker that solves crimes in his spare time and called it, 'Shakespeare's Macbeth'. If you dig reading at all, even if you don't like fiction, as I don't, I can heartily recommend The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings. Those books are what got me into pipe smoking. Here's an example from Tolkien's notes about the history of Middle Earth, which he didn't even consider good enough to publish. It's when Beren sees Luthien for the first time. Blue was her raiment as the unclouded heaven, but her eyes were grey as the starlit evening; her mantle was sewn with golden flowers, but her hair was dark as the shadows of twilight. As the light upon the leaves of trees, as the voice of clear waters, as the stars above the mists of the world, such was her glory and her loveliness; and in her face was a shining light.
wow
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Post by simnettpratt on Mar 11, 2017 11:09:08 GMT -5
They'll ban us here first...
And that, M'Lady, was the appropriate response. Didn't consider that good enough to publish; his son published his notes after his death, in a book of Middle Earth's history he called the Silmarillion. The hobbits would definitely have smoked cobs.
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Post by Lady Margaret on Mar 11, 2017 11:21:50 GMT -5
They'll ban us here first... And that, M'Lady, was the appropriate response. Didn't consider that good enough to publish; his son published his notes after his death, in a book of Middle Earth's history he called the Silmarillion. The hobbits would definitely have smoked cobs.
AHA! I saw the title "Silmarillion" just a bit ago and it didn't ring a bell. Interesting!
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