The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
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Would you go on the adventure?




Modi wrote: "If I went, I'd be sure to pack extra pairs of hiking shoes and an M-4 assault rifle with lots of extra magazines and ammo. There's no way I'm going to fight orcs, wargs, giant spiders and whatever ..."
That takes the fun out of the adventure! :) I would so fight a dragon with a sword! But maybe not a giant spider... I see a tiney one and I wish I had a gun on me... :)
That takes the fun out of the adventure! :) I would so fight a dragon with a sword! But maybe not a giant spider... I see a tiney one and I wish I had a gun on me... :)

Dear, dear Emma. White water rafting or deep sea diving is an adventure. Fighting with bladed swords in orc infested caverns or squaring off against a dragon who can spew a jet stream of fire out of it's mouth from a hundred yards away is certain death. So I'll take the M-4 and all its accessories and leave the sword hanging over my fire place. And yeah, spiders are gross. For that matter, anything with more than four legs has absolutely no right to live.
I compleatly agree about the no more than four legs thing :). And now that I think about what you said, I think you are compleatly right! I'm now going to take a rifle gun! :)


Only Twelve Dwarves and a wizard cannot convince me to go with them.
A Thirteen dwarf is required.
Modi wrote: "Amen, Emma. Insects suck! Although I do appreciate bees because they make honey which I REALLY love. But against Smaug I'm not sure even an assault rifle would be much use. For that matter, I think..."
Haha! Though I disagree about the bees. :)
Haha! Though I disagree about the bees. :)

Well, granted, bees do sting, but what's a cup of hot green tea on a cold winter day without some honey?
Modi wrote: "Emma wrote: "Modi wrote: "Amen, Emma. Insects suck! Although I do appreciate bees because they make honey which I REALLY love. But against Smaug I'm not sure even an assault rifle would be much use..."
I don't have honey in my green tea so I guess I wouldn't know
I don't have honey in my green tea so I guess I wouldn't know

Try it some time. A little honey goes a long way. And it's something your body is naturally evolved to digest, which is more than can be said for the usual sweeteners found in our food, whether saccharin or high fructose corn syrup.

William wrote: "I would want to go on this adventur because its like something out of the ordinary, something you wouldent see in real life propably because of all the creatures such as dwarfs and wizards. But bei..."
Side question: would you take a rifle? Because someone thinks going on the adventure without an M-4 rifle gun is cirten death. Side side question: what's your opinion on bugs?
Side question: would you take a rifle? Because someone thinks going on the adventure without an M-4 rifle gun is cirten death. Side side question: what's your opinion on bugs?

LOL!
I love it.
I'd probably hide in my hobbit-hole shaking from head-to-toe. And if the wizard pulled me out by my ears, I'd follow along, terrified, and of no use at all. The first I hear of trolls, I'd probably faint, and be eaten: never mind the dragon.
So yes, I'd love to go on an adventure. I dream about it all the time. But if I got the chance, I'm pretty sure I'd be dead before it had even started, not like Bilbo:)
Haha!!! I just had to kill a spider, and it took me about thirty minutes to do it. I was terrified! Shoes weren't good enough for me so I ended up using some sort of cleaner in a spray bottle... So now I think I wold have to take a rifle AND a spray bottle full of chemically cleaner on the adventure, otherwise I will stay in my little SPIDER FREE hobbit hole.

I guess I forgot how big the mirkwood spiders were...

Yeah... I doubt any bleach would kill those spiders.... They will be in the next hobbit movie (I think the trailer comes out today...) and what I guessed was that an "attercop" was what the spiders were called, but I could be wrong. It's been a while since I read the book too :)
It ended looking into smags (I know I spelled it wrong, im just tooo lazy to spell it right) dragon lair. The spiders I'm guessing will come in between the beginning and the middle of the next movie. I don't know for sure. Maybe closer to the middle of the movie...
Umm... Do you mean when the movie ended?

Thanks Emma. If I'm feeling particularly masochistic and my local library ever has it so I can borrow it without charge, I might see it. But then you'll be reading about me getting arrested for throwing stones at Peter Jackson probably.
Haha!! I would probably do the same :)



They're coming in the second Hobbit film, I believe, with Mirkwood: we've seen spoilers :) Can't wait.
As for attercop:
The word is Old English, from attor, poison + cop, the head. (Cop, or coppa, was also used by itself to mean a spider, so cobweb ought really to be spelled copweb.) The name was given to spiders in the mistaken belief that they were all poisonous to humans. By the sixteenth century it had begun to be applied to a cross-grained, ill-natured, figuratively venomous person.



Niice :)


couldn't agree more :)

However if, like Bilbo, seeing a dwarf or wizard would not completely blow my mind alone, and I enjoyed my quiet life in my Hobbit Hole, and knowing danger was inevitable, I must admit it's likely I would decline!

and then probably do the same thing Bilbo did...chicken out and then jump in at the last minute :D
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I would so go! All you have to say is adventure and i'm already gone.