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Reiki
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08-12-2000
| Friday, March 12, 2004 - 8:47 pm
This is the area to discuss Chapter 9 of The Hobbit, Barrels Out of Bond
The Huts of the Raft-elves by JRR Tolkien
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Reiki
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08-12-2000
| Friday, March 12, 2004 - 8:53 pm
The picture above is on the cover of the paperback Hobbit that I just bought. Its the edition I first read and this picture is a familiar old friend. The title of this chapter gives too much away, IMO. We don't know how yet, but we know that Thorin at least is rescued from the elves dungeon. LOTR note here: Legolas, everyones favorite elf from LOTRs, is the son of the king of elves here. Hard to believe I know.
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Ocean_islands
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09-07-2000
| Saturday, March 13, 2004 - 6:54 am
Its hard to imagine how they could breathe in those barrels. This is a great chapter, though, with lots of exciting things happening and even some humor thrown in.
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Reiki
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08-12-2000
| Wednesday, March 17, 2004 - 10:13 pm
When I was younger and read this book some of the songs and poems in it bored me and I skipped over many of them. Reading now, I enjoyed the song the elves sing when sending the barrels back down the river. It has the whimsy that these elves exhibit, but it seems more substantial than some of the other poems in this book. Bilbo here is far from the hobbit he once was. He steals food without thinking twice about it and has known hunger, something rare in hobbits. He is doing what he has to do to survive under extreme circumstances. The dwarves are just tools for Bilbo's growth. I have to chuckle thinking about the invisable sneezer. Can you imagine hearing a sneeze out of thin air?
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Reiki
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08-12-2000
| Wednesday, March 17, 2004 - 10:26 pm
Nothing I have read indicates when Legolas was born, but he would have been living and presumably with his father in Mirkwood at the time this story takes place. Maybe he was at the party. Timeline for this Chapter: August 24 2941 Third Age - At dusk the dwarves are captured by Wood-elves and taken to the Elvenking's Halls. September 21 - The company escapes the Elvenking in the afternoon and reaches the huts of the Raft-men at dusk.
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