# Hobbitses Were Real! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 19, 2008, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hobbitses-were-real/477864 "2008-12-19T04:42:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Bam\_Boo\_Gut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8c91f0/32.png) [@Bam\_Boo\_Gut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bam_Boo_Gut)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2008, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hobbitses-were-real/477864/21 "2008-12-19T23:11:41Z")
Coming from Brill it turns out I’m part Hobbit myself - I suggest they do some DNA on the “people” of the Thames Valley. We groom our toeses when we leave the shire) > **[Bree, Middle-earth](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bree_(Middle-earth))** > > Bree is a fictional village in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth, east of the Shire. Bree-land, which contains Bree and a few other villages, is the only place where Hobbits and Men lived side by side. It was inspired by the name of the Buckinghamshire village of Brill, meaning "hill-hill", which Tolkien visited regularly in his early years at the University of Oxford, and informed by his passion for linguistics. > In Bree is The Prancing Pony inn, where the wizard Gandalf meets the Dwarf Thorin... > **[Bree, Middle-earth](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bree_(Middle-earth))** > > Bree is a fictional village in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth, east of the Shire. Bree-land, which contains Bree and a few other villages, is the only place where Hobbits and Men lived side by side. It was inspired by the name of the Buckinghamshire village of Brill, meaning "hill-hill", which Tolkien visited regularly in his early years at the University of Oxford, and informed by his passion for linguistics. > In Bree is The Prancing Pony inn, where the wizard Gandalf meets the Dwarf Thorin... Link doesn’t want to behave - look at Wiki “Bree (Middle-earth)” ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2008, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hobbitses-were-real/477864/22 "2008-12-19T23:18:52Z")
> [@Bam\_Boo\_Gut](#): > > Coming from Brill it turns out I’m part Hobbit myself - I suggest they do some DNA on the “people” of the Thames Valley. We groom our toeses when we leave the shire) > > [Bree (Middle-earth) - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bree_(Middle-earth)) > > [Bree (Middle-earth) - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bree_(Middle-earth)) > > Link doesn’t want to behave - look at Wiki “Bree (Middle-earth)” > **[Bree (Middle-earth)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bree_(Middle-earth))** > > Bree is a fictional village in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth, east of the Shire. Bree-land, which contains Bree and a few other villages, is the only place where Hobbits and Men lived side by side. It was inspired by the name of the Buckinghamshire village of Brill, meaning "hill-hill", which Tolkien visited regularly in his early years at the University of Oxford, and informed by his passion for linguistics. > In Bree is The Prancing Pony inn, where the wizard Gandalf meets the Dwarf Thorin... You had the ) after the from the link. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2008, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hobbitses-were-real/477864/23 "2008-12-19T23:21:40Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > I sure hope not. That ring is suppose to be good and gone via sacrificial Sméagol. Actually someone may have popped in via Burroughs-Libby continua device (and hidden by Jemhadar personal cloaking tech) and swiped it at the last second. Not that I’d know anything about that. ---
**Author:** ![Mtgman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@Mtgman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mtgman)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2008, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hobbitses-were-real/477864/24 "2008-12-19T23:30:15Z")
Fool of a Took! If the ring survived, then why did Barad-Dur fall? If the ring survived, why did the powers of the three begin to fade? There’s just no way to reconcile the ring’s survival with the observed effects as documented in the Red Book of Westmarch. Enjoy, Steven ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2008, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hobbitses-were-real/477864/25 "2008-12-19T23:39:35Z")
> [@Mtgman](#): > > Fool of a Took! If the ring survived, then why did Barad-Dur fall? If the ring survived, why did the powers of the three begin to fade? There’s just no way to reconcile the ring’s survival with the observed effects as documented in the Red Book of Westmarch. > > Enjoy, > Steven Obviously because removing it from its Reality of Origin qualifies as destroying it even more so than dropping it into the fires of Orodruin. Both broke the mystical connection between Sauron & the Ring, not to mention the Ring & the Morgoth Element of Arda. In additional, the Burroughs-Libby method reduces the total mass of the RoO by a measurable (albeit insignficant) amount, thus setting in motion a chain of events that ultimately causes said reality to undergo heat death about :: checks figures :: two billion years sooner than was planned. Also, **I** do the “Fool of a Took” lines, thankyouverymuch. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2008, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hobbitses-were-real/477864/26 "2008-12-20T03:13:55Z")
And if it didn’t survive, then why has Halliburton started buying up every volcano in Indonesia since the hobbit remains were found? ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2008, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hobbitses-were-real/477864/27 "2008-12-20T13:36:28Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > And if it didn’t survive, then why has Halliburton started buying up every volcano in Indonesia since the hobbit remains were found? Well it is Haliburton, as per Cheney’s standing orders they just like to keep tabs on any possibilities for more evil and corruptions. They’re still looking for Fafnir’s Ring\*, the Monkey’s Paw, The Dark Ibis and even the Maltese Falcon and that last one doesn’t even make sense. However, they are thorough in their evil. They have 3 copies of the Elucidarium Necromanticum Petri de Abano and the even have 91% of the Necronomicon[sup]1[/sup]. - Also known as the Ring of the Nibelungs. [sup]1[/sup] Long Story but in summary it turns out this is not fictional but as Skald well knows, they were only able to recover most of the book but not the all important back cover and final pages. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2008, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hobbitses-were-real/477864/28 "2008-12-20T15:42:27Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > Well it is Haliburton, as per Cheney’s standing orders they just like to keep tabs on any possibilities for more evil and corruptions. They’re still looking for Fafnir’s Ring\*, the Monkey’s Paw, The Dark Ibis and even the Maltese Falcon and that last one doesn’t even make sense. However, they are thorough in their evil. > > They have 3 copies of the Elucidarium Necromanticum Petri de Abano and the even have 91% of the Necronomicon[sup]1[/sup]. > > - Also known as the Ring of the Nibelungs. > > [sup]1[/sup] Long Story but in summary it turns out this is not fictional but as Skald well knows, they were only able to recover most of the book but not the all important back cover and final pages. Dude! How many times do I have to tell you NOT to talk about stuff like that when the Justice League is around! Everybody knows Sampiro is actually Aquaman! ---
**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2008, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hobbitses-were-real/477864/29 "2008-12-22T15:58:38Z")
> [@robardin](#): > > Does the One Ring have an extra oomph to it that the Nine do not? Wasn’t it forged to rule them? ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2008, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hobbitses-were-real/477864/30 "2008-12-22T16:13:22Z")
> [@Sailboat](#): > > Wasn’t it forged to rule them? I think **robardin** was asking what made the One Ring so mojoistic that it could rule the 3, 7, & 9. ---
**Author:** ![ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2008, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hobbitses-were-real/477864/31 "2008-12-22T16:21:00Z")
Perhaps Haliburton is looking for Thetans in the volcanoes. Maybe the Thetans already have the ring! ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2008, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hobbitses-were-real/477864/32 "2008-12-22T16:24:59Z")
> [@ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](#): > > Perhaps Haliburton is looking for Thetans in the volcanoes. > > Maybe the Thetans already have the ring! They store it in Elrond’s Cupboard I presume? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hobbitses-were-real/477864.md?page=1)