What do you "assign" to the Shire? - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Orominuialwen · 06-20-2007, 11:08 AM

Graduation!

Graduation parties. They're lots of fun, and I never realized quite how many people feel the need to give you presents when you hold one.

Lovely summer evenings when there's nothing more enjoyable to do than sit out on the deck and read, and then eat dinner with your family.

Finduilas · 06-20-2007, 12:01 PM

I assign the fresh deep green that first appears late spring, often after a rain. Oh, and also every other beautiful green...

Also the quiet summer twilights, when everything is starting to cool down, and the whole world is a soft blue.

Feanor of the Peredhil · 06-22-2007, 08:22 AM

It takes dirt roads to get there. The air has been heavy for days; you're beginning to think it's raining when it's not: your eyes play tricks, moving the opaque moisture in the air into imaginary sheets of slate and silver. It doesn't rain, it just is, and the pressure is intense. The corner of your eye catches ghost motions. Everything is green and shadow.

A high deck, looking out over fields and forests, ending in mountains that jag into the horizon. The sky above you was blue ten minutes ago; you see the last of the clearness fading away toward the mountains. Darkness envelopes you, and lightening flickers absently behind you. Thunder echoes faintly through the countours of the land. Ten year old boys throw balls in the grass below you. An old dog, wet from a recent frolic in the creek, naps on the hot wood. You watch the blue sky recede. You feel the energy in the air.

Without warning, the sky opens; you remember your book, your electronics; you remember that you forgot a change of clothes. You regretfully retreat indoors.

You stand, in a darkened room, in an open door, watching the sky fall, listening to a redwing blackbird berate the wind from the safety of an overhang.

Fresh coffee, the first you've had in a week, made just for you, is pressed into your hand. As you watch the violent storm break calmly from the dry indoors, you smell steam and feel the faint warm glow inside your chest that comes from your favorite indulgence.

Summer storms. I adore summer storms.

the guy who be short · 06-27-2007, 07:58 AM

Doctors. They do an inspiring job...

Orominuialwen · 06-27-2007, 12:14 PM

Home-grown raspberries. I love that they grow so fast, you end up picking tons every day or two.

Fireflies. They're beautiful on summer evenings

Feanor of the Peredhil · 06-27-2007, 12:19 PM

The temperature soars to 96 humid degrees. The sun is roasting. It rained for just long enough to saturate the air and fill it with the smell of steam on pavement. The early afternoon has been spent laying on the floor under a lazily spinning ceiling fan watching Optimus Prime die surrounded by his beloved Autobots after battling Megatron and the Decepticons for one last heart-wrenching time... This is about to sound like an advertisement.

Dunkin Donuts. Because they're air conditioned, they have really good coffee that's just as good iced, and they're across the road from a gas station that's only charging $3.02 per gallon. Hecks yes for cheap[er] gas and cold coffee.

Elmo · 06-27-2007, 02:04 PM

lying in my garden, listening to Neil Young on my ipod, watching the clouds go by

Feanor of the Peredhil · 06-28-2007, 03:04 PM

Finding a used book store you've never been in. Realizing it's your dream store, at the end of a long driveway surrounded by untended rose and lily beds, with flourishing peonies and weeds, with cats wandering through the towering shelves of books that reach far over your head. Three stories in a renovated barn, with labyrinthine aisles and steep staircases with rickety railings. The smell of must and books that haven't been opened during your lifetime, being sold for a dollar a piece.

Spontaneous sushi lunch outings.

A Superman t-shirt that cost less than a gallon of gas.

Cooler weather than yesterday.

Oddwen · 07-03-2007, 10:19 PM

I assign going to a movie with a sibling - when the movie is actually good.

Our timing was just right, we gasped and breathed "Oh, cool!" at the same moments, laughed at the horrible dialogue together, sighed at the lame dialogue together, looked away and didn't laugh at the inappropriate dialogue together, and made up our own sequel happenings while we were walking out of the theater.

And the SFX in Transformers too. Wow. Cool. Mind-blazingly cool, I mean it.

TheGreatElvenWarrior · 08-02-2007, 01:45 PM

ale,
bag-end,
the green dragon,
hobbit holes,
trees,
peace,
and you can't forget Hobbits!

piosenniel · 08-05-2007, 12:48 PM

A long, leisurely Sunday breakfast shared with a good friend at the local diner.

Pancakes, eggs, sausage, crispy bacon, hashbrowns, biscuits covered in gravy, and bottomless cups of coffee with cream and sugar to wash it all down. Pleasant company, good conversation.....

Life is good, eh?

Mithalwen · 08-06-2007, 05:37 AM

I second long breakfasts and the company of friends but (and I know it means something different that side of the pond) but biscuits covered in gravy still sounds incredibly revolting ..... at best it is something you might give a dog... but hten I'd quite happily eat Toad-in-the-hole

Lhunardawen · 08-06-2007, 10:36 AM

Sleep.

Really, you cannot fully appreciate something you're used to until you stop getting enough of it.

Finduilas · 08-11-2007, 04:46 PM

Rain. We so need it.

Coming home from a two week vacation. Don't get me wrong, I had a wonderful vacation, but home, ah, well it's home.

the guy who be short · 08-13-2007, 04:55 AM

Having one eye that is perfectly fine. Preferably two.

Feanor of the Peredhil · 08-14-2007, 12:36 PM

Unsolicited backrubs.

Finduilas · 08-14-2007, 02:31 PM

If you were around, I'd give you one, but I have to disagree on it anyway. I find them painfull. They do releive headaches though

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Folwren · 08-14-2007, 02:49 PM

I second sleep!

I also nominate good, fluffy, home-made biscuits with lots of butter and home-made peach-butter.

Feanor of the Peredhil · 08-14-2007, 05:40 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Finduilas

If you were around, I'd give you one, but I have to disagree on it anyway. I find them painfull.

I recommend the Raiders of the Lost Ark approach. "Well, goddamnit Indy, where doesn't it hurt??"

the guy who be short · 08-15-2007, 07:02 AM

I assign Freedom.

*waves small green, white, orange and blue flag*

smeagollives · 08-19-2007, 01:17 PM

i assign parties to the shire.
lots of good food, meeting in the morning for breakfast, having lunch and tea together at the same day
beer and cider
dancing a lot
all the people work in crafts and make fun of people who read to much
strawberries
a very very blue sky
rain outside a cup of tea inside
fiddles

uhm... and actually i assign chavs to the shire. i just imagine some of the hobbits to be like chavs. i have always thought pippin would have been a chav if he was born today.

Kath · 08-22-2007, 10:15 AM

Going shopping and finding exactly what you're looking for in the first shop you go in. Makes things so much easier.

Plus spending the day with friends, especially when you haven't seen them in a while.

Finally, the Simpsons Movie, 'cause I have now seen it 3 times and it made me laugh as much on the third viewing as it did on the first. Spider pig is gold.

Rikae · 08-22-2007, 10:44 PM

The first cool days at the end of summer.

Lalwendë · 08-23-2007, 07:36 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rikae

The first cool days at the end of summer.

You aren't in Britain then?

I assign cold, wet summers. Not only has it been much more comfortable than I expected/feared, but the Honeysuckle is covered in flowers because the constant rain has beaten the greenfly into submission. And Honeysuckle belongs in The Shire because it smells soooo good! Kind of like a mixture of warm cowsheds and sugar.

Finduilas · 08-23-2007, 09:39 AM

Ducklings. They are so adorable. (Don't tell me it's the wrong time for this, it's my ducks fault, not mine.)

06-20-2007, 11:08 AM	#1
Orominuialwen Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: May 2003 Location: Umbar, but before the corsairs took over. (Ave Maria University, FL, USA) Posts: 632	Graduation! Graduation parties. They're lots of fun, and I never realized quite how many people feel the need to give you presents when you hold one. Lovely summer evenings when there's nothing more enjoyable to do than sit out on the deck and read, and then eat dinner with your family. __________________ Gone for lentSeeyou at Easter! (And on Sundays too, maybe.)

06-20-2007, 12:01 PM	#2
Finduilas Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Home. Where rolling green hills and clear rivers are practically my backyard. Posts: 595	I assign the fresh deep green that first appears late spring, often after a rain. Oh, and also every other beautiful green... Also the quiet summer twilights, when everything is starting to cool down, and the whole world is a soft blue. __________________ One (1) book of rules and traffic regulations, which may not be bent or broken. ~ The Phantom Tollbooth

06-22-2007, 08:22 AM	#3
Feanor of the Peredhil La Belle Dame sans Merci Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: perpetual uncertainty Posts: 5,517	It takes dirt roads to get there. The air has been heavy for days; you're beginning to think it's raining when it's not: your eyes play tricks, moving the opaque moisture in the air into imaginary sheets of slate and silver. It doesn't rain, it just is, and the pressure is intense. The corner of your eye catches ghost motions. Everything is green and shadow. A high deck, looking out over fields and forests, ending in mountains that jag into the horizon. The sky above you was blue ten minutes ago; you see the last of the clearness fading away toward the mountains. Darkness envelopes you, and lightening flickers absently behind you. Thunder echoes faintly through the countours of the land. Ten year old boys throw balls in the grass below you. An old dog, wet from a recent frolic in the creek, naps on the hot wood. You watch the blue sky recede. You feel the energy in the air. Without warning, the sky opens; you remember your book, your electronics; you remember that you forgot a change of clothes. You regretfully retreat indoors. You stand, in a darkened room, in an open door, watching the sky fall, listening to a redwing blackbird berate the wind from the safety of an overhang. Fresh coffee, the first you've had in a week, made just for you, is pressed into your hand. As you watch the violent storm break calmly from the dry indoors, you smell steam and feel the faint warm glow inside your chest that comes from your favorite indulgence. Summer storms. I adore summer storms. __________________ peace

06-27-2007, 12:14 PM	#5
Orominuialwen Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: May 2003 Location: Umbar, but before the corsairs took over. (Ave Maria University, FL, USA) Posts: 632	Home-grown raspberries. I love that they grow so fast, you end up picking tons every day or two. Fireflies. They're beautiful on summer evenings __________________ Gone for lentSeeyou at Easter! (And on Sundays too, maybe.)

06-27-2007, 12:19 PM	#6
Feanor of the Peredhil La Belle Dame sans Merci Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: perpetual uncertainty Posts: 5,517	The temperature soars to 96 humid degrees. The sun is roasting. It rained for just long enough to saturate the air and fill it with the smell of steam on pavement. The early afternoon has been spent laying on the floor under a lazily spinning ceiling fan watching Optimus Prime die surrounded by his beloved Autobots after battling Megatron and the Decepticons for one last heart-wrenching time... This is about to sound like an advertisement. Dunkin Donuts. Because they're air conditioned, they have really good coffee that's just as good iced, and they're across the road from a gas station that's only charging $3.02 per gallon. Hecks yes for cheap[er] gas and cold coffee. __________________ peace

06-27-2007, 07:58 AM	#4
the guy who be short Shadowed Prince Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Thulcandra Posts: 2,343	Doctors. They do an inspiring job...

06-27-2007, 02:04 PM	#7
Elmo Pittodrie Poltergeist Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: trying to find that warm and winding lane again Posts: 633	lying in my garden, listening to Neil Young on my ipod, watching the clouds go by __________________ As Beren looked into her eyes within the shadows of her hair, The trembling starlight of the skies he saw there mirrored shimmering.

06-28-2007, 03:04 PM	#8
Feanor of the Peredhil La Belle Dame sans Merci Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: perpetual uncertainty Posts: 5,517	Finding a used book store you've never been in. Realizing it's your dream store, at the end of a long driveway surrounded by untended rose and lily beds, with flourishing peonies and weeds, with cats wandering through the towering shelves of books that reach far over your head. Three stories in a renovated barn, with labyrinthine aisles and steep staircases with rickety railings. The smell of must and books that haven't been opened during your lifetime, being sold for a dollar a piece. Spontaneous sushi lunch outings. A Superman t-shirt that cost less than a gallon of gas. Cooler weather than yesterday. __________________ peace

07-03-2007, 10:19 PM	#9
Oddwen Drummer in the Deep Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Next Sunday A.D. Posts: 2,145	I assign going to a movie with a sibling - when the movie is actually good. Our timing was just right, we gasped and breathed "Oh, cool!" at the same moments, laughed at the horrible dialogue together, sighed at the lame dialogue together, looked away and didn't laugh at the inappropriate dialogue together, and made up our own sequel happenings while we were walking out of the theater. And the SFX in Transformers too. Wow. Cool. Mind-blazingly cool, I mean it. __________________ But all the while I sit and think of times there were before I listen for returning feet and voices at the door

08-02-2007, 01:45 PM	#10
TheGreatElvenWarrior Mighty Quill Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Walking off to look for America Posts: 2,230	ale, bag-end, the green dragon, hobbit holes, trees, peace, and you can't forget Hobbits! __________________ The Party Doesn't Start Until You're Dead. Last edited by TheGreatElvenWarrior; 08-02-2007 at 01:48 PM. Reason: adding

08-05-2007, 12:48 PM	#11
piosenniel Desultory Dwimmerlaik Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Pickin' flowers with Bill the Cat..... Posts: 7,779	A long, leisurely Sunday breakfast shared with a good friend at the local diner. Pancakes, eggs, sausage, crispy bacon, hashbrowns, biscuits covered in gravy, and bottomless cups of coffee with cream and sugar to wash it all down. Pleasant company, good conversation..... Life is good, eh? __________________ Eldest, that’s what I am . . . I knew the dark under the stars when it was fearless - before the Dark Lord came from Outside.

08-06-2007, 05:37 AM	#12
Mithalwen Pilgrim Soul Join Date: May 2004 Location: watching the wonga-wonga birds circle... Posts: 9,461	I second long breakfasts and the company of friends but (and I know it means something different that side of the pond) but biscuits covered in gravy still sounds incredibly revolting ..... at best it is something you might give a dog... but hten I'd quite happily eat Toad-in-the-hole __________________ “But Finrod walks with Finarfin his father beneath the trees in Eldamar.” Christopher Tolkien, Requiescat in pace

08-06-2007, 10:36 AM	#13
Lhunardawen Hauntress of the Havens Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: IN it, but not OF it Posts: 2,538	Sleep. Really, you cannot fully appreciate something you're used to until you stop getting enough of it.

08-11-2007, 04:46 PM	#14
Finduilas Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Home. Where rolling green hills and clear rivers are practically my backyard. Posts: 595	Rain. We so need it. Coming home from a two week vacation. Don't get me wrong, I had a wonderful vacation, but home, ah, well it's home. __________________ One (1) book of rules and traffic regulations, which may not be bent or broken. ~ The Phantom Tollbooth

08-13-2007, 04:55 AM	#15
the guy who be short Shadowed Prince Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Thulcandra Posts: 2,343	Having one eye that is perfectly fine. Preferably two.

08-14-2007, 12:36 PM	#16
Feanor of the Peredhil La Belle Dame sans Merci Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: perpetual uncertainty Posts: 5,517	Unsolicited backrubs. __________________ peace

08-14-2007, 02:31 PM	#17
Finduilas Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Home. Where rolling green hills and clear rivers are practically my backyard. Posts: 595	If you were around, I'd give you one, but I have to disagree on it anyway. I find them painfull. They do releive headaches though. __________________ One (1) book of rules and traffic regulations, which may not be bent or broken. ~ The Phantom Tollbooth

08-14-2007, 02:49 PM	#18
Folwren Messenger of Hope Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: In a tiny, insignificant little town in one of the many States. Posts: 5,076	I second sleep! I also nominate good, fluffy, home-made biscuits with lots of butter and home-made peach-butter. __________________ A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. - C.S. Lewis

08-15-2007, 07:02 AM	#20
the guy who be short Shadowed Prince Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Thulcandra Posts: 2,343	I assign Freedom. waves small green, white, orange and blue flag

08-19-2007, 01:17 PM	#21
smeagollives Animated Skeleton Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 41	i assign parties to the shire. lots of good food, meeting in the morning for breakfast, having lunch and tea together at the same day beer and cider dancing a lot all the people work in crafts and make fun of people who read to much strawberries a very very blue sky rain outside a cup of tea inside fiddles uhm... and actually i assign chavs to the shire. i just imagine some of the hobbits to be like chavs. i have always thought pippin would have been a chav if he was born today.

08-22-2007, 10:15 AM	#22
Kath Everlasting Whiteness Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Perusing the laminated book of dreams Posts: 4,533	Going shopping and finding exactly what you're looking for in the first shop you go in. Makes things so much easier. Plus spending the day with friends, especially when you haven't seen them in a while. Finally, the Simpsons Movie, 'cause I have now seen it 3 times and it made me laugh as much on the third viewing as it did on the first. Spider pig is gold. __________________ “If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”

08-22-2007, 10:44 PM	#23
Rikae Mellifluous Maia Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: A glade open to the stars, deep in Nan Elmoth Posts: 3,489	The first cool days at the end of summer.

08-23-2007, 09:39 AM	#25
Finduilas Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Home. Where rolling green hills and clear rivers are practically my backyard. Posts: 595	Ducklings. They are so adorable. (Don't tell me it's the wrong time for this, it's my ducks fault, not mine.) __________________ One (1) book of rules and traffic regulations, which may not be bent or broken. ~ The Phantom Tollbooth