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      <description>I see here that Guillermo del Toro has been signed up to direct the two upcoming prequels to Peter Jackson&amp;#8217;s...</description>
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         <title>Bilbo Begins -- comment #1 from Iain Coleman</title>
         <description>comment from Iain Coleman on 31.Jan.08</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>Mr Bilbo: Or, How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love the Ring</em></p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted January 31, 2008  8:35 PM by Iain Coleman&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>Bilbo Begins -- comment #2 from Zvi</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hobbit II: Back Again<br />
Smeagol Strikes Back<br />
The Dwarfs Done Gone<br />
Hobbit II: The Wrath of Lobelia Sackville-Baggins</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted January 31, 2008  8:39 PM by Zvi&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>Bilbo Begins -- comment #3 from Serge</title>
         <description>comment from Serge on 31.Jan.08</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Coming soon, Whoopee Goldberg in <b>Back in the Hobbit...</b></p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted January 31, 2008  8:40 PM by Serge&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>Bilbo Begins -- comment #4 from Serge</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Elmer Fudd in <b>That Wascally Hobbit</b>...</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted January 31, 2008  8:41 PM by Serge&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>Bilbo Begins -- comment #5 from Serge</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>G&eacute;rard Depardieu in <b>Le Hobbit ne fait pas le moine</b>...</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted January 31, 2008  8:42 PM by Serge&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>Bilbo Begins -- comment #6 from Julie L.</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>Mirkwood</i>, the inspiring yet tragic story of Thrain's attempt to expose the Necromancer's unsafe working conditions to the White Council.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted January 31, 2008  8:43 PM by Julie L.&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>Bilbo Begins -- comment #7 from Cynthia Wood</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Bringing up Frodo</p>

<p>Eat, Drink, Hobbit, Hobbit</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted January 31, 2008  8:43 PM by Cynthia Wood&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>Bilbo Begins -- comment #8 from Serge</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Coming Soon... <b>M'hobbit Dick</b>...</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted January 31, 2008  8:44 PM by Serge&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>Bilbo Begins -- comment #9 from Serge</title>
         <description>comment from Serge on 31.Jan.08</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Barry Bostwick in <b>The Delta Force of Hobbit</b>...</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted January 31, 2008  8:45 PM by Serge&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>Bilbo Begins -- comment #10 from Julie L.</title>
         <description>comment from Julie L. on 31.Jan.08</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Serge @5: How about Depardieu in <i>Le Retour de Bilbo Baggins</i>?</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted January 31, 2008  8:46 PM by Julie L.&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>Bilbo Begins -- comment #11 from Joel Polowin</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>Valley of the Trolls</i>, or, <i>Rocky Bilboa</i>.</p>

<p>(Okay, partially lifted from <i>Bored of the Rings</i>.)<br />
</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted January 31, 2008  8:48 PM by Joel Polowin&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>Bilbo Begins -- comment #12 from Serge</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Cheech & Chong in <b>Up in Smaug</b>...</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted January 31, 2008  8:49 PM by Serge&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>Bilbo Begins -- comment #13 from Bill Higgins-- Beam Jockey</title>
         <description>comment from Bill Higgins-- Beam Jockey on 31.Jan.08</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>The Hobfather</i>.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted January 31, 2008  8:50 PM by Bill Higgins-- Beam Jockey&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>Bilbo Begins -- comment #14 from Serge</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Julie L @ 10... Or G&eacute;rard in the new Piaf biopic, <b>Non, je ne regrette ring</b>...</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted January 31, 2008  8:51 PM by Serge&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>Bilbo Begins -- comment #15 from NelC</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><b>Under Mirkwood.</b> After smoking entirely too much of a particularly strong crop of pipeweed, Gandalf, Bilbo, and others dream....</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted January 31, 2008  8:56 PM by NelC&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>Bilbo Begins -- comment #16 from Fragano Ledgister</title>
         <description>comment from Fragano Ledgister on 31.Jan.08</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I note with interest the <i>Hellboy II</i> advert accompanying this thread.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted January 31, 2008  9:00 PM by Fragano Ledgister&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>Bilbo Begins -- comment #17 from Serge</title>
         <description>comment from Serge on 31.Jan.08</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>James Bond will be back in <b>Gollumfinger</b>...</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted January 31, 2008  9:01 PM by Serge&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>Bilbo Begins -- comment #18 from Stace</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>The Hobbits</strong>.  To be followed up with <strong>The Hobbit^3</strong> and <strong>The Hobbit Resurrection.</strong></p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted January 31, 2008  9:02 PM by Stace&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>Bilbo Begins -- comment #19 from John Mark Ockerbloom</title>
         <description>comment from John Mark Ockerbloom on 31.Jan.08</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>_Hobbit 2: Judgment Day_:  Two Maiar are sent back in time, one to wrest the Ring from Gollum before Bilbo can acquire it and set it on the path to destruction, and the other to ensure that the Ring takes its destined path.  The latter eventually succeeds, but not without making some significant changes to the time-stream in the process, most notably Bilbo finding the Ring on the ground instead of being given it by Gollum, and the introduction of multiple Eagles-ex-machina escapes from various complications introduced by the evil Maiar-800.</p>

<p>Fans of the first and second movies bitterly argue about the continuity disruptions ever after...</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted January 31, 2008  9:02 PM by John Mark Ockerbloom&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>Bilbo Begins -- comment #20 from Carrie V.</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>**forehead slap**</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted January 31, 2008  9:07 PM by Carrie V.&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>Bilbo Begins -- comment #21 from Jen Roth</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Peter Sellers in <b>A Bagshot in the Dark</b></p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted January 31, 2008  9:11 PM by Jen Roth&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>Bilbo Begins -- comment #22 from Alan Bostick</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You people (heh) seem to be forgetting that there is more than one prequel to <i>Lord of the Rings</i> in print.</p>

<p><i>Gondolin with the Wind</i></p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted January 31, 2008  9:16 PM by Alan Bostick&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>Bilbo Begins -- comment #23 from James D. Macdonald</title>
         <description>comment from James D. Macdonald on 31.Jan.08</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>Fear and Loathing in Lothlorien</i></p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted January 31, 2008  9:24 PM by James D. Macdonald&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>Bilbo Begins -- comment #24 from Will &quot;scifantasy&quot; Frank</title>
         <description>comment from Will "scifantasy" Frank on 31.Jan.08</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In all seriousness, I think the two movies should be called:</p>

<p><i>The Hobbit: There</i><br />
and<br />
<i>The Hobbit: Back Again</i>.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted January 31, 2008  9:26 PM by Will &quot;scifantasy&quot; Frank&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>Bilbo Begins -- comment #25 from Fragano Ledgister</title>
         <description>comment from Fragano Ledgister on 31.Jan.08</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>Kratakoa: East of Númenor</i></p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted January 31, 2008  9:30 PM by Fragano Ledgister&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>Bilbo Begins -- comment #26 from Fragano Ledgister</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>I am Hobbit: Blue</i></p>

<p><i>I am Hobbit: Yellow</i></p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted January 31, 2008  9:34 PM by Fragano Ledgister&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>Bilbo Begins -- comment #27 from Kip W</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hobbit and Hobbiter.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted January 31, 2008  9:45 PM by Kip W&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>Bilbo Begins -- comment #28 from Kip W</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>ps: "To" help matters along... (etc)</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted January 31, 2008  9:46 PM by Kip W&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>Bilbo Begins -- comment #29 from Scott Taylor</title>
         <description>comment from Scott Taylor on 31.Jan.08</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Some <strike>rings</strike> things you shouldn't develop a fondness for...<br />
<em>Warwick Davis</em> is a <b><i>Bad Hobbit</i></b></p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted January 31, 2008  9:52 PM by Scott Taylor&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>Bilbo Begins -- comment #30 from Clifton Royston</title>
         <description>comment from Clifton Royston on 31.Jan.08</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Oh hell, he should just make <i>Bored of the Rings</i>.  I thought Jackson should have done that in the first place as he had all the sets and props together, and he certainly has the sensibility for it. (Cf. <i>Meet the Feebles</i>, <i>Dead Alive</i>, et al.)</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted January 31, 2008  9:55 PM by Clifton Royston&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>Bilbo Begins -- comment #31 from Steve C.</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>Brokebag End</em></p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted January 31, 2008 10:08 PM by Steve C.&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>Bilbo Begins -- comment #32 from Jon Meltzer</title>
         <description>comment from Jon Meltzer on 31.Jan.08</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>#18: <i>Hobbits vs. Predator</i>. </p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted January 31, 2008 10:42 PM by Jon Meltzer&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>Bilbo Begins -- comment #33 from ethan</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>And then, of course, <em>Hobbits vs. Predator: Requiem</em>.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted January 31, 2008 10:50 PM by ethan&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>Bilbo Begins -- comment #34 from Serge</title>
         <description>comment from Serge on 31.Jan.08</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>The Saruman Always Rings Twice</i>...</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted January 31, 2008 10:55 PM by Serge&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It occurs to me that <i>The Hobbit</i> is even more lacking in visibly female characters than <i>LotR</i> was.  How will the story be changed to make it more acceptable to modern audiences, with a proper balance of characters -- make Fili and Kili Thorin's nieces?</p>

<p>Bilbo needs a wise-cracking animal sidekick, too.</p>

<p>Hmm.  <i>Hobbit Trek: The Next Generation</i>.  <i>Hobbit Trek: Deep Forest Nine</i>.<br />
</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted January 31, 2008 11:01 PM by Joel Polowin&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>Bilbo Begins -- comment #36 from oliviacw</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>Forbidden Hobbit</em><br />
<em>Waiting for Hobbit</em><br />
<em>A Hobbit Called Bilbo</em></p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted January 31, 2008 11:10 PM by oliviacw&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Will "scifantasy" Frank @ #24: <i>The Hobbit: Back Again</i></p>

<p>With my executive bunny hat on, I say that that's not snappy enough, and suggest that it be changed to <i>The Hobbit Returns</i>. (To be followed, of course, by either <i>The Hobbit Forever</i> or <i>The Scorpion Ring</i>.)</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted January 31, 2008 11:14 PM by Paul A.&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The musical sensation of the year, Elvish Presley, in <em>Change of Hobbit.</em></p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted January 31, 2008 11:32 PM by Steve C.&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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	 &lt;p&gt;Posted January 31, 2008 11:36 PM by Jon Meltzer&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Peter Jackson can combine two of his interests by making</p>

<p><i>Son of Hobbit</i></p>

<p>followed by</p>

<p><i>Mighty Joe Baggins</i></p>

<p>The comic book should sell well, too ... </p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted January 31, 2008 11:42 PM by Jon Meltzer&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>Bilbo Begins -- comment #41 from Lindra</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>Eternal Breakfast of the Hobbit Mind.</em></p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted January 31, 2008 11:46 PM by Lindra&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>Bilbo Begins -- comment #42 from Tehanu</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>Hobbit Gump</i><br />
<i>Bag End Confidential</i><br />
<i>David Hobbitfield</i><br />
</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted February  1, 2008 12:03 AM by Tehanu&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>Bilbo Begins -- comment #43 from LMB MacAlister</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>"Call Me Mister Baggins"</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted February  1, 2008 12:19 AM by LMB MacAlister&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>Bilbo Begins -- comment #44 from James D. Macdonald</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>The Wizard Always Magic Rings Twice</i></p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted February  1, 2008 12:43 AM by James D. Macdonald&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>Bilbo Begins -- comment #45 from Earl Cooley III</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>My Dinner With Bilbo</em></p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted February  1, 2008 12:59 AM by Earl Cooley III&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>Bilbo Begins -- comment #46 from Bruce Cohen (SpeakerToManagers)</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ceci n'est pas une pipeweed</p>

<p>Backdwarf - Putting out the Dragonfire</p>

<p>Not quite appropriate for a prequel, but:<br />
Khazad-dûm and Khazad-dûmmer</p>

<p>Six Hairy Feet Under</p>

<p>Full Mithral Jacket<br />
</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted February  1, 2008  1:21 AM by Bruce Cohen (SpeakerToManagers)&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>Bilbo Begins -- comment #47 from Andrew Willett</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Hobbit</i></p>

<p><i>Bob and Carol and Ted and Bilbo</i></p>

<p><i>I Know Who You Shot With a Black Arrow Last Summer</i></p>

<p><i>The Thrush Always Knocks Twice</i></p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted February  1, 2008  1:28 AM by Andrew Willett&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>How Gandalf Got His Groove Back</p>

<p>Bringing Up Bilbo</p>

<p>Dirty Hobbit</p>

<p>Gojira tai Hedorâ aka "Godzilla vs. the Smaug Monster"</p>

<p>Smaugma</p>

<p>Red Dwarf: The Hairy Edge</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted February  1, 2008  2:11 AM by Bruce Cohen (SpeakerToManagers)&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A spinoff: <em>Beorn Free</em></p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted February  1, 2008  3:26 AM by Debbie&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>Bilbo Begins -- comment #50 from Paul Herzberg</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Hobbit 2: A Hard Hobbit To Break<br />
Hobbit's Feast<br />
Elrond: The Smartest Guy In The Room</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted February  1, 2008  4:57 AM by Paul Herzberg&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>Like Ent-draught for Lembas</em></p>

<p>(couldn't find a Tolkienian analogue for chocolate)</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted February  1, 2008  5:07 AM by Earl Cooley III&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>Stoned Trolls Gather Moss</em></p>

<p>On second thought....Nah. Not enough action.</p>

<p><em>Bilbo: Riddler on the Loose</em></p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted February  1, 2008  5:51 AM by Debbie&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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	 &lt;p&gt;Posted February  1, 2008  6:09 AM by Connie H.&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>The Gloin Supremacy</i></p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted February  1, 2008  7:01 AM by Emil&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>Bilbo Begins -- comment #55 from Francis D</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Something from the Silmarillion probably.  Possibly something like the Tale of Aragorn and Arwen.  Yes, I know.  I'm no fun.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted February  1, 2008  7:13 AM by Francis D&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>Bilbo Begins -- comment #56 from meteorplum</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>debbie@49:<br />
Of course, the Beornings should get their own series:</p>

<p>The Beorn Identity<br />
The Beorn Supremacy<br />
Little House on the Carrock</p>

<p><br />
@Avram</p>

<p>I Still Known What You Did Sixty Years Ago</p>

<p>The Orc Who Shot Bilbo Baggins</p>

<p>South Farthing: Shorter, Stouter & Unstealthy</p>

<p>Lobelia<br />
(featuring Radagast Radagast and a young Lobelia S-B)</p>

<p>About Bilbo</p>

<p>Bree Hill, 90210</p>

<p>Citizen Saruman</p>

<p>The Infernoing Tower (UK title: Faulty Tower)</p>

<p>Dragon Tales</p>

<p>An Inconvenient Ret-Con</p>

<p>Zarderiand</p>

<p>All Quiet on the Southron Front</p>

<p>J.R.R. Tolkien's Beren+Luthien</p>

<p>Sam & Frodo: The Early Years</p>

<p>(please shoot me now)</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted February  1, 2008  7:30 AM by meteorplum&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Horror: <i>At The Misty Mountains Of Madness</i></p>

<p>Viking Action: <i>The Thirteenth Burglar</i></p>

<p>Western: <i>Barrelriders In The Sky</i></p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted February  1, 2008  7:38 AM by Josh Jasper&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>Bilbo Begins -- comment #58 from Hilary Hertzoff</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>No one's suggested:</p>

<p><b>The Hobbit 2: Kicking the Hobbit</b>?  What is this world coming to?</p>

<p>On a note more in keeping with the thread:</p>

<p><b>Bilbo Baggins and the Chamber of Secrets</b><br />
<b>Bilbo Baggins and the Prisoners of Mordor</b><br />
<b>Bilbo Baggins and the Mountain of Fire</b><br />
<b>Bilbo Baggins and the Order of the Rangers</b><br />
<b>Bilbo Baggins and the Half-Blood Elf</b><br />
<b>Bilbo Baggins and the Deathly Riders</b></p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted February  1, 2008  8:10 AM by Hilary Hertzoff&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>Bilbo Begins -- comment #59 from Paula Lieberman</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Bilbo Baggins in Love<br />
Smoking Mountain</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted February  1, 2008  9:29 AM by Paula Lieberman&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>Bilbo Begins -- comment #60 from Paul Duncanson</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>The Orthanc Redemption</i><br />
</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted February  1, 2008  9:49 AM by Paul Duncanson&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>Bilbo Begins -- comment #61 from Joel Polowin</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Jon Meltzer @ 39: That was why I specified "<i>visibly</i> female".  But the modern audience would need to <i>know</i> that they were female.  Y'know, have them wearing makeup, frilly chain mail, small ladylike axes, kind of thing.</p>

<p><i>Bride of the Hobbit</i><br />
<i>Son of Baggins</i><br />
<i>The Hobbit Conquers the Martians</i></p>

<p><i>The Hobbit Episode I: The Dwarvish Menace</i><br />
<i>The Hobbit Episode II: Attack of the Orcs</i><br />
<i>The Hobbit Episode III: Revenge of the Wargs</i><br />
(these are supposed to be prequels for the <i>LotR</i> movies, right?)<br />
</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted February  1, 2008 10:20 AM by Joel Polowin&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>Bilbo Begins -- comment #62 from Paul Duncanson</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>Dial M For Mordor</i></p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted February  1, 2008 10:40 AM by Paul Duncanson&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>Bilbo Begins -- comment #63 from rea</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>Y'know, have them wearing makeup, frilly chain mail, small ladylike axes, kind of thing.</i></p>

<p>Beard perms?</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted February  1, 2008 10:50 AM by rea&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>Bilbo Begins -- comment #64 from Fragano Ledgister</title>
         <description>comment from Fragano Ledgister on  1.Feb.08</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>Black Riders of the Purple Sage</i></p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted February  1, 2008 10:56 AM by Fragano Ledgister&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>Bilbo Begins -- comment #65 from Fragano Ledgister</title>
         <description>comment from Fragano Ledgister on  1.Feb.08</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>A Manwe for All Seasons</i></p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted February  1, 2008 10:58 AM by Fragano Ledgister&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>Bilbo Begins -- comment #66 from Paul Duncanson</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>Jonathan Livingston Nazgûl</i></p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted February  1, 2008 11:18 AM by Paul Duncanson&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>Bilbo Begins -- comment #67 from Paul Duncanson</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Seven Rings For Seven Dwarf-Lords</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted February  1, 2008 11:21 AM by Paul Duncanson&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>Bilbo Begins -- comment #68 from mjfgates</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>Hobbit</i>. "In a hole, no one can hear you scream."<br />
<i>Hobbits</i>. "This time, it's dinner."</p>

<p>Of course they'll jump the shark with <i>Hobbits:3</i> and <i>Hobbit: The Resurrection</i>, but nobody with any sense will watch those.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted February  1, 2008 11:34 AM by mjfgates&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>Bilbo Begins -- comment #69 from Peter Erwin</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>Gollum's Labyrinth</i></p>

<p><i>The Balrog's Backbone</i></p>

<p>(Hey, it's Guillermo del Toro who's supposed to be directing, right?)</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted February  1, 2008 11:39 AM by Peter Erwin&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>Bilbo Begins -- comment #70 from Steve C.</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Gollum GoLightly in <i>Second Breakfast at Tiffanys</i></p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted February  1, 2008 11:43 AM by Steve C.&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>Bilbo Begins -- comment #71 from Peter Erwin</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Josh Jasper @ 57:<br />
<i>Horror: At The Misty Mountains Of Madness</i></p>

<p>Apparently, Guillermo del Toro would actually like to make a movie based on Lovecraft's novel -- <a href="http://moviesblog.mtv.com/2008/01/29/del-toro-to-incite-audiences-to-madness-with-hp-lovecraft-project/" rel="nofollow">he's even written a script for it</a>.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted February  1, 2008 11:50 AM by Peter Erwin&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>Bilbo Begins -- comment #72 from Larry Lennhoff</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Why not prequels to the Hobbit as well:</p>

<p>The Akallabeth: Live Forever or Die Hard<br />
Morgoth and Ungoliant: A Love Story<br />
Ent vs. Entwife<br />
The Simillarion: Ooooh, Shiny!</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted February  1, 2008 11:52 AM by Larry Lennhoff&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>Bilbo Begins -- comment #73 from Leigh Butler</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Lost Hobbit</p>

<p>The Amazing Saruman</p>

<p>The Legend of Baggins Vance</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted February  1, 2008 11:53 AM by Leigh Butler&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>Bilbo Begins -- comment #74 from Smurch</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A Passage to Erebor</p>

<p>With Six You Get Lembas</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted February  1, 2008 12:02 PM by Smurch&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>Bilbo Begins -- comment #75 from Michael Roberts</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is hysterical.</p>

<p>@58 Hillary: <i>Bilbo Baggins and the Half-Blood Elf</i> -- I'd watch it.</p>

<p>I honestly can't believe anybody missed these, but:</p>

<p><b>Kill Bilbo</b><br />
<b>Kill Bilbo II</b></p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted February  1, 2008 12:05 PM by Michael Roberts&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>Bilbo Begins -- comment #76 from Clifton Royston</title>
         <description>comment from Clifton Royston on  1.Feb.08</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Michael @ 75: You win the Internet!<br />
</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted February  1, 2008 12:27 PM by Clifton Royston&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>Bilbo Begins -- comment #77 from Sarah</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Crouching Dragon, Hidden Hobbit</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted February  1, 2008 12:47 PM by Sarah&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>Bilbo Begins -- comment #78 from Marc G.</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Bilbo's adventures inspire a young Proudfoot lass to seek her fortune in "Bend it Like Baggins"</p>

<p>Four dwarves find themselves on the run from the most vengeful Elven house of all in "Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Simarils"</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted February  1, 2008  1:00 PM by Marc G.&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>Bilbo Begins -- comment #79 from Xopher</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>The Gl&oacute;in in Winter</i></p>

<p><i>Fed Again</i></p>

<p><i>Guess Who's Coming to Second Breakfast?</i></p>

<p><i>A T&uacute;rin With the Sun</i></p>

<p><i>N&iacute;rnaeth Arnoediad&mdash;Valinor's Loss of Innocence</i> (a History Channel documentary)</p>

<p><i>Gone with the Windlord</i> </p>

<p><i>A Wighter Shade of Pale</i></p>

<p><i>Pelennor Field of Dreams</i></p>

<p><i>The Wizard of Osgiliath</i></p>

<p><i>The Trouble with H&uacute;rin</i></p>

<p><i>Grey Havens</i> (the story of two elderly Elf women who refuse to go back to Valinor, despite the fact that Imladris is crumbling)</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted February  1, 2008  1:02 PM by Xopher&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>Bilbo Begins -- comment #80 from Joel Polowin</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>When T&uacute;rin Met Nienor</i><br />
</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted February  1, 2008  1:29 PM by Joel Polowin&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>Bilbo Begins -- comment #81 from NelC</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><b>No Country For Old Istari</b></p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted February  1, 2008  1:33 PM by NelC&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>Bilbo Begins -- comment #82 from Serge</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall in <i>To Elf or Elf Not</i>...</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted February  1, 2008  1:35 PM by Serge&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>Bilbo Begins -- comment #83 from Smurch</title>
         <description>comment from Smurch on  1.Feb.08</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Raging Balrog</p>

<p>A Hole with a View</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted February  1, 2008  1:37 PM by Smurch&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>Bilbo Begins -- comment #84 from Olorin</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Creation of a magocratic empire in <em>"Gandalf the Great"</em><br />
Monty Pythons' <em>"Life of Bilbo"</em><br />
A dwarf imprisoned in <em>"Save Private Thrain"</em></p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted February  1, 2008  1:52 PM by Olorin&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>Bilbo Begins -- comment #85 from Joel Polowin</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>Nine and a Halfling Weeks</i><br />
</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted February  1, 2008  2:27 PM by Joel Polowin&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>Bilbo Begins -- comment #86 from Zeke</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Marc G. # 78:<i>"Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Simarils"</i></p>

<p>Or the part with the big dragon-attack on Lake-town could be "Loch, Smaug and Two Smoking Nostrils".</p>

<p>(Sorry.)</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted February  1, 2008  2:31 PM by Zeke&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>Bilbo Begins -- comment #87 from Smurch</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>The Smaug Whisperer</em></p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted February  1, 2008  2:44 PM by Smurch&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>Bilbo Begins -- comment #88 from Smurch</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>The Carpetbagginses</em></p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted February  1, 2008  2:45 PM by Smurch&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>Bilbo Begins -- comment #89 from Jon Meltzer</title>
         <description>comment from Jon Meltzer on  1.Feb.08</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>The Lord of the Rings<br />
The Hobbit<br />
Son of the Lord of the Rings<br />
Wife of the Hobbit<br />
The Lord of the Rings' Drunken Twin Daughters<br />
Daughter of the Hobbit meets McKinsey and Co.<br />
<i></i></i></p>

<p>etc. </p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted February  1, 2008  3:07 PM by Jon Meltzer&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>Bilbo Begins -- comment #90 from Jon Meltzer</title>
         <description>comment from Jon Meltzer on  1.Feb.08</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>#55: when Jackson does the Rivendell scene in <i>The Hobbit</i> I want to see 11-year-old Aragorn staring at the dwarves. </p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted February  1, 2008  3:16 PM by Jon Meltzer&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>Bilbo Begins -- comment #91 from Mike</title>
         <description>comment from Mike on  1.Feb.08</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Color of Mithral</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted February  1, 2008  3:30 PM by Mike&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>Bilbo Begins -- comment #92 from Serge</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>George Clooney in "Ocean's Elven"....</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted February  1, 2008  3:31 PM by Serge&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>Bilbo Begins -- comment #93 from Serge</title>
         <description>comment from Serge on  1.Feb.08</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>"Grima and Punishment"...</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted February  1, 2008  3:34 PM by Serge&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>Bilbo Begins -- comment #94 from abi</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wait.  So Bilbo the quiet hobbit goes off and gets a taste for adventure?</p>

<p>I bet he acquires a geographical nickname and a bullwhip and stars in a whole series of films.</p>

<p>Raiders of the Lost Arkenstone<br />
West Farthing Baggins and the Watchtower of Doom<br />
West Farthing Baggins and the Last Orcish Raid<br />
West Farthing Baggins and the Kingdom of the Palintir*</p>

<p>-----<br />
* Scheduled for release on 22 Thrimidge 2008 (<a href="http://shire-reckoning.com/" rel="nofollow">Shire reckoning</a>)</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted February  1, 2008  3:48 PM by abi&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>Bilbo Begins -- comment #95 from Earl Cooley III</title>
         <description>comment from Earl Cooley III on  1.Feb.08</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>Uruk-hai Yojimbo</em> (with apologies to <a href="http://www.usagiyojimbo.com/" rel="nofollow">Stan Sakai</a>)</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted February  1, 2008  3:48 PM by Earl Cooley III&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>Bilbo Begins -- comment #96 from Smurch</title>
         <description>comment from Smurch on  1.Feb.08</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>Citizen Thrain</em></p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted February  1, 2008  3:56 PM by Smurch&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>Bilbo Begins -- comment #97 from mensley</title>
         <description>comment from mensley on  1.Feb.08</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Maiar of Casterbridge<br />
Looking for Mr. Baggins<br />
Mr. Baggins Goes to Washington<br />
Danielle Steele's The Ring<br />
Merry & Pippin's Wives of Windsor<br />
Arwen: The King and I<br />
The Mordor the Merrier<br />
Gandalf: A Bridge Too Far<br />
The Wonderful Wizard of Orthanc</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted February  1, 2008  4:03 PM by mensley&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Did anyone mention the action/thriller "Bilbo First Blood Part 2"?</p>

<p>In that vein..<br />
"Judge Bilbo"<br />
"Hobbitz"<br />
"Nighthobbits"<br />
"Hobbit Story"<br />
"Farewell, My Elven"<br />
"The Lords of Flatfarthing"</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted February  1, 2008  4:07 PM by Ginger&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>Young Bilbo Jones<br />
Li'l Bilbo<br />
Hannibilbo Rising<br />
</i></p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted February  1, 2008  4:09 PM by Jon Sobel&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>Some Like it Hobbit</i><br />
<i>Frodo Gump</i><br />
and the animated classic, <i>Finding Frodo</i></p>

<p>Paul Duncanson @62: that may be the best yet, in my very humble opinion.</p>

<p>Now I must figure out how to convert "Rear Window" into elvish. </p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted February  1, 2008  4:17 PM by Ginger&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>Bilbo Begins -- comment #101 from Mike</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hobbit &amp; Costello Meet Frankenstein</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted February  1, 2008  4:26 PM by Mike&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>Pelennor Field of Dreams</i></p>

<p><i>Adel Henneth</i> </p>

<p><i>Bravehobbit</i></p>

<p>..and "Band of Brothers" works without needing any translation, doesn't it?</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted February  1, 2008  4:42 PM by Ginger&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>Bilbo Begins -- comment #103 from Smurch</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>That's Ent-ertainment, parts 1, 2 and 3</em></p>

<p>Several centuries in the making... edited down to just a few decades of their greatest production numbers.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted February  1, 2008  5:01 PM by Smurch&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Smurch 103: Featuring the terrific Bollywood dance extravaganza "A-Lalla-Lalla-Rumba-Kamanda-Lind-Or-Bur&uacute;me," also called "'Hill' is a Hasty Sort of Word," which shows, in time-lapse photography, the hill in question from the downfall of N&uacute;menor to the end of the Third Age, with Ents wandering in every now and then and going "hoom."</p>

<p>"The most exciting movie ever produced by Ents!!!" raves Morris Schmetterling.</p>

<p>"Unfortunately I have no doubt that Schmetterling is right," muses Brolph Vetz.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted February  1, 2008  5:20 PM by Xopher&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>Bilbo Begins -- comment #105 from MikeB</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If only Stanley Kubrick were alive</p>

<p><i>1360 (Third Age): A Hobbit Odyssey</i></p>

<p><i>A Clockwork Hobbit</i></p>

<p><i>Bilbo Lyndon</i></p>

<p><i>One Nazgul Flew Over the Hobbit Hole</i></p>

<p><i>Full Mithril Jacket</i></p>

<p></p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted February  1, 2008  5:33 PM by MikeB&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Followed by the classic Ent comedy "To Leaf or Not to Leaf" (which is admittedly the Hobbitish translation of the title).</p>

<p>Then there's the Ent horror film, "Blazing Sarumans". </p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted February  1, 2008  5:34 PM by Ginger&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Xopher at #104: I just laughed so hard Ent-draught went up my nose!</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted February  1, 2008  5:35 PM by Smurch&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ent or the Dragon</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted February  1, 2008  5:37 PM by mensley&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>Bilbo Begins -- comment #109 from Fragano Ledgister</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Xopher #104: Thou hast won one Internette. Where dost thou want it?</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted February  1, 2008  5:48 PM by Fragano Ledgister&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>TREEBEARD: What do you call this thing we're standing on?</p>

<p>MERRY (or PIPPIN): A hill.</p>

<p>TREEBEARD: A <i>hill.</i> Hoom.  A hill, you say?</p>

<p><i>(music swells)</i></p>

<p>TREEBEARD (sings): Well, 'hill' is a hasty sort of word</p>

<p>HOBBITS (singing backup): Ooo, ooo.</p>

<p>TREEBEARD: For something here since this part of the world<br />
Was shaped.</p>

<p>HOBBITS: Was shaped?</p>

<p>ALL, in harmony: Was sha-a-a-ped!</p>

<p>PIPPIN (or MERRY): So what do YOU call it, anyway?</p>

<p>TREEBEARD: Well, part of what we like to say<br />
Is "a-lalla-lalla-rumba-kamanda-lind-or-buru-ume!"*</p>

<p>HOBBITS: What say?</p>

<p>TREEBEARD: I said,<br />
"A-lalla-lalla-rumba-kamanda-lind-or-buru-ume!"</p>

<p>HOBBITS: Hey hey!</p>

<p>ALL (in harmony, with dancing): A-lalla-lalla-rumba-kamanda-lind-or-buru-ume!</p>

<p>MERRY: I like this word much better!<br />
Treebeard, I'll be your debtor<br />
For teaching me the Entish word!<br />
The Westron one now seems absurd!<br />
When I come upon a hill on my way,<br />
From now on I will say</p>

<p>ALL: "A-lalla-lalla-rumba-kamanda-lind-or-buru-ume!" (repeat)</p>

<p>PIPPIN: Well, I don't know, I kind of like<br />
To call it a hill, like Michael's "Mike."<br />
You can call me hasty and young&mdash;<br />
But the Entish knots my tongue!<br />
At least that's how it seems to me.</p>

<p><i>(Music stops.  TREEBEARD and MERRY glare at PIPPIN. PIPPIN looks down, cowed.  Music comes back up, and PIPPIN sings, very slowly)</i></p>

<p>PIPPIN: I'll just be over here, on the</p>

<p>ALL: A-lalla-lalla-rumba-kamanda-lind-or-buru-ume! </p>

<p>PIPPIN: Okay!</p>

<p>ALL: A-lalla-lalla-rumba-kamanda-lind-or-buru-ume!  (repeat; all exit, dancing)</p>

<p><br />
*Latin dance rhythm, possibly (I ask no forgiveness for this) a rumba.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted February  1, 2008  5:56 PM by Xopher&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I was working on that for a while, and didn't see all the comments to my previous one.  I probably should have left bad enough alone, but what can I say?  I got inspirated.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted February  1, 2008  6:14 PM by Xopher&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>Bilbo Begins -- comment #112 from Mary Aileen</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Xopher, I for one am very glad you didn't leave it alone*. I thoroughly** enjoyed that little snippet.</p>

<p>*Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.<br />
**one of those words that never looks right no matter how I spell it</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted February  1, 2008  6:24 PM by Mary Aileen&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>Bilbo Begins -- comment #113 from Joel Polowin</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>TREEBEARD: Originally, you see, the pines controlled this area, and their name for this... "hill", you say?  Their word for a hill was <i>&uacute;m&euml;</i>; and for a low hill, <i>bur&uacute;m&euml;</i>.  This <i>particular</i> hill they called <i>lind-or-bur&uacute;m&euml;</i>.</p>

<p>Now, when the beeches grew into the region, they had their own word for a hill: <i>kamanda</i>.  But they kept the old name to identify it, so: <i>kamanda-lind-or-bur&uacute;m&euml;</i>.</p>

<p>Then there was a horrible forest fire in which many good trees died.  When we brought in some cedars to recolonize, they in turn had their own word: <i>rumba</i> --</p>

<p>PIPPIN: Can we please get on with the singing and dancing?<br />
</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted February  1, 2008  7:11 PM by Joel Polowin&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>Bilbo Begins -- comment #114 from Fragano Ledgister</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>That's two whole internets for Xopher. </p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted February  1, 2008  7:33 PM by Fragano Ledgister&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>Bilbo Begins -- comment #115 from Earl Cooley III</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>Bombadilisqatsi: The Road Goes Ever On</em>, a song cycle by Philip Glass.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted February  1, 2008  7:34 PM by Earl Cooley III&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>Bilbo Begins -- comment #116 from Jim Henry</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Francis D @55:</p>

<p>Yes, I would like to see one or more of the stories from the Silmarillion as films.  Esp. Beren and Luthien, or the Children of Hurin.</p>

<p>I once sketched out an alternate history story where Tolkien's submission of the Silmarillion material to Allen & Unwin in 1937 got more of a favorable review from the first reader, and he was asked to expand some of those stories into novels rather than asked for Hobbit sequel.  I didn't get very far with it, though.<br />
</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted February  1, 2008  7:36 PM by Jim Henry&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>Bilbo Begins -- comment #117 from Paula Lieberman</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dildo Baggings and the Engine of Doom<br />
Dildo Baggings in There and Out Again</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted February  1, 2008  9:06 PM by Paula Lieberman&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>Bilbo Begins -- comment #118 from Jack Ruttan</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dr. Strangegrove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Tom Bombadil. </p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted February  1, 2008 10:53 PM by Jack Ruttan&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>Bilbo Begins -- comment #119 from Serge</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><b>Paula Lieberman</b>... And of course there were the throbbits in <i>Lord of the G-string</i>.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted February  1, 2008 11:03 PM by Serge&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>Bilbo Begins -- comment #120 from Soon Lee</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>A Quenya of Solace</i></p>

<p>The backstory of Galadriel.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted February  1, 2008 11:07 PM by Soon Lee&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>Bilbo Begins -- comment #121 from Bruce Cohen (SpeakerToManagers)</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><b>MikeB @ 105</b></p>

<p><i>Full Mithril Jacket</i></p>

<p>Prior publication at 48, though I did mispell it.</p>

<p>But while we're on Kubrick:</p>

<p>All-Seeing Eye Wide Shut.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted February  1, 2008 11:15 PM by Bruce Cohen (SpeakerToManagers)&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>Bilbo Begins -- comment #122 from dido</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This thread is one of the funniest damn things I've ever read. </p>

<p>I wish I could give a shout out to all my favorites, but there are way, way, way too many.</p>

<p>Serge @ 119 gets a (dis?)honorable mention.</p>

<p>LOVE ALL.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted February  2, 2008 12:04 AM by dido&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><b>dido</b> @ 122... I am honored, but I must decline. You see, there really is a movie called <i>Lord of the G-string</i>.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted February  2, 2008  1:10 AM by Serge&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>Bilbo Begins -- comment #124 from dido</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Serge:<br />
Nuh-uh.</p>

<p>(Any documentary evidence will be resolutely ignored. Also it was the "throbbits" that pushed me over the edge.)</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted February  2, 2008  1:13 AM by dido&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <description>comment from Serge on  2.Feb.08</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><b>dido</b> @ 124... All documentary evidence willbe ignored, even imdb.com's entry for <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0323108/" rel="nofollow">The Lord of the G-Strings: The Femaleship of the String</a>? It stars Erin Brown as Dildo Saggins. "... A diminutive and seductive Throbbit has been entrusted with the task of destroying the all-powerful G-String that can grant its possessor untold powers..."</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted February  2, 2008  1:29 AM by Serge&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I just can't picture a female hobbit in stileto heels. Maybe extra-wide ruby slippers? (Or the latest in fashion, fuzzitoes.)</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted February  2, 2008  9:21 AM by Faren Miller&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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	 &lt;p&gt;Posted February  2, 2008  9:34 AM by Serge&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wife's suggestion:<br />
<em>StingRunner</em></p>

<p>-cajun<br />
</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted February  2, 2008  2:50 PM by cajunfj40&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>Gollum's Way: Rise to Power</i></p>

<p><i>Mordor by Numbers</i></p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted February  2, 2008  3:52 PM by Robert L&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strike>The Sting</strike><br />
<strike>Into the Woods</strike><br />
<strike>The Accidental Tourist</strike></p>

<p>Dang.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted February  2, 2008  4:02 PM by Debbie&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>Bilbo Begins -- comment #131 from Constance Ash</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>Déagol's Fatal Attraction</i>.</p>

<p>Love, C.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted February  2, 2008  7:17 PM by Constance Ash&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>Bilbo Begins -- comment #132 from Michael Roberts</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Serge @125 - yes, even that.<br />
</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted February  2, 2008 10:43 PM by Michael Roberts&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>Bilbo Begins -- comment #133 from Paula Helm Murray</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Paula L et al.  I can see some of these titles in my mind's eye, as an vaudeville act in our local adult relaxacon's camp show.... (last year a group from Yard Dog Press finished off any respectful listening of the musical Oklahoma, the year before it was doing in The Sound of Music...they came up with excellent, but skating-on-the-edge-of obscenity redoings of the songs/storylines.)</p>

<p>Yikes.  Just yikes.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted February  2, 2008 11:04 PM by Paula Helm Murray&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>Bilbo Begins -- comment #134 from oliviacw</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When the ancient wizard finds the young Bilbo Baggins and helps him pull the ring from the stone...oh, what was that one?  Yes....</p>

<p><em>The Once and Future Ring</em></p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted February  2, 2008 11:30 PM by oliviacw&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><b>Michael Roberts</b> @ 132... Not even that? And what if I said that Mike Ford himself had reviewed it on this site, and concluded, if I remember correctly, that it was actually funny?</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted February  2, 2008 11:57 PM by Serge&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>For a Few Rings More</i></p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted February  2, 2008 11:57 PM by Robert L&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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	 &lt;p&gt;Posted February  3, 2008 12:03 AM by Robert L&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>Bilbo Begins -- comment #138 from Avram</title>
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	 &lt;p&gt;Posted February  3, 2008  1:45 AM by Avram&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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	 &lt;p&gt;Posted February  3, 2008  2:11 AM by Serge&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Unbearable Lightness of Sauron</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted February  3, 2008  8:48 AM by David&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>Bilbo Begins -- comment #141 from James D. Macdonald</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A Fistful of Simarils</p>

<p>For a Few Simarils More</p>

<p>The Good, the Bad, and the Dwarven</p>

<p>Once Upon A Time In the Greyhavens<br />
</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted February  3, 2008  9:06 AM by James D. Macdonald&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>Bilbo Begins -- comment #142 from Erik Nelson</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Battlefield Middle Earth<br />
Based on a book by Elrond Hubbard</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted February  3, 2008  4:46 PM by Erik Nelson&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>Bilbo Begins -- comment #143 from James D. Macdonald</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Strangers on a Wain</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted February  3, 2008  6:19 PM by James D. Macdonald&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>Bilbo Begins -- comment #144 from TexAnne</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Pelennor Beanfields War</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted February  3, 2008  6:22 PM by TexAnne&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>Bilbo Begins -- comment #145 from Ginger</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>The Treasure of the Sierra Morgul</i><br />
<i>Dances with Wargs</i><br />
<i>The Wizard of Osgiliath</i></p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted February  3, 2008 10:09 PM by Ginger&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>Bilbo Begins -- comment #146 from James D. Macdonald</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Guess Who's Coming To Second Breakfast</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted February  3, 2008 11:15 PM by James D. Macdonald&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>Bilbo Begins -- comment #147 from elise</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Serge, yep, Mike did watch Lord of the G-String. All the way through.  Making MST3K commentary at times.</p>

<p>One of the top three movie dates with Mike evar. </p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted February  3, 2008 11:35 PM by elise&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>Bilbo Begins -- comment #148 from Sherbrooke</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Bilbo Baggins and the Traiders of the Lost ring<br />
Bilbo Baggins and the Temple of Khazad-Doom<br />
(Couldn't do the Last Crusade - anyone wanna try)</p>

<p>Play Misty Mountains for me</p>

<p>Dragons on a plain</p>

<p>The silence of the lembas</p>

<p>To kill a Nazgul</p>

<p>Bridge on the River Branduin</p>

<p>Life of Beren</p>

<p>A few good hobbits</p>

<p>Wild Wild West Farthing<br />
</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted February  5, 2008  1:58 AM by Sherbrooke&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>Bilbo Begins -- comment #149 from Megan Messinger</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>Kindergarten Attercop</i></p>

<p>Also, I'm late to the game because the top row of my keyboard stopped working...I discovered this when I went to google something and saw that the first hit was a disemvowled comment on Making Light.  ;0)</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted February  5, 2008  4:08 PM by Megan Messinger&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>Bilbo Begins -- comment #150 from Xopher</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>James 146: <a href="http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/009893.html#246210" rel="nofollow">already said</a>.</p>

<p>Ginger 145, one of yours too, same post.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted February  5, 2008  4:16 PM by Xopher&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Xopher: Drat! Well, great minds and all that. ;-)</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted February  5, 2008  4:27 PM by Ginger&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>Bilbo Begins -- comment #152 from FungiFromYuggoth</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This thread makes me insides explode with delight.</p>

<p>The only true sequel to <i>the Hobbit</i> would, of course, be <i>Bilbo Baggins Against the Middle-Earth Crime League</i></p>

<p>I do see a lot of potential for prequels, including:<br />
<i>Thorin's Run</i><br />
<i>Reservoir Dwarves</i><br />
<i>Sleepy Hobbit</i></p>

<p>For safety reasons, of course, under no circumstances should anyone attempt to film <i>The Dunwich Hobbit</i>.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted February  5, 2008  5:21 PM by FungiFromYuggoth&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>Bilbo Begins -- comment #153 from Marilee</title>
         <description>comment from Marilee on  6.Feb.08</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Anybody read Pat Murphy's <a href="http://www.amazon.com/There-Back-Again-Pat-Murphy/dp/0812541723/ref=ed_oe_p" rel="nofollow">There and Back Again</a>?  Excellent retelling of the Hobbit in space.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted February  6, 2008  1:50 AM by Marilee&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>Bilbo Begins -- comment #154 from Jamie</title>
         <description>comment from Jamie on 13.Feb.08</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Lawrence of Harad<br />
The Baggins Identity<br />
The Baggins Supremacy<br />
The Baggins Ultimatum<br />
Little Miss Vása[2]<br />
The Mûmakil Man</p>

<p>OK, I'm done.<br />
 </p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted February 13, 2008  5:24 PM by Jamie&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>Bilbo Begins -- comment #155 from Jamie</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ignore the [2] there, I was going to add a couple  footnotes but decided you'd all be geeky enough to find out the meaning of anything you didn't know then neglected to remove one of them.</p>

<p>[2] Vása - A Nordor word for Sun</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted February 13, 2008  5:27 PM by Jamie&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>Bilbo Begins -- comment #156 from Mark Reed</title>
         <description>comment from Mark Reed on 23.Feb.08</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Third Age of Innocence<br />
The Heart of a Lonely Mountain<br />
Durin One Night<br />
Rune<br />
Ringing in the Dain</p>

<p>I really like "The Beorn Identity" series.  "Borin" also works...</p>

<p>Just for pure geek factor:<br />
Eredor Dwarf: Smaug Ups</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted February 23, 2008  6:39 PM by Mark Reed&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>Bilbo Begins -- comment #157 from Caroline sees GIANT SPAM HIT</title>
         <description>comment from Caroline sees GIANT SPAM HIT on 24.Nov.09</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Big spam hit in the last several comments on various threads, this one included.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted November 24, 2009  7:24 PM by Caroline sees GIANT SPAM HIT&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
         <link>https://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/009893.html#384457</link>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:24:44 -0500</pubDate>
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         <title>Bilbo Begins -- comment #158 from Karen Anderson</title>
         <description>comment from Karen Anderson on  8.Nov.10</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It<a href="http://www.photoark.com" rel="nofollow">'</a>s like Lord of the rings all over again.:)</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted November  8, 2010  9:50 PM by Karen Anderson&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
         <link>https://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/009893.html#494327</link>
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         <pubDate>Mon, 08 Nov 2010 21:50:23 -0500</pubDate>
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         <title>Bilbo Begins -- comment #159 from Tom Whitmore sees lackluster spam</title>
         <description>comment from Tom Whitmore sees lackluster spam on 14.Mar.11</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Not even trying, are they?</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted March 14, 2011  4:49 PM by Tom Whitmore sees lackluster spam&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
         <link>https://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/009893.html#534010</link>
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         <pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2011 16:49:48 -0500</pubDate>
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         <title>Bilbo Begins -- comment #160 from Janet Brennan Croft</title>
         <description>comment from Janet Brennan Croft on 14.Mar.11</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>See, the nice thing about spam is that I get to go back and read threads I unaccountably missed. And I don't know how I missed this one. Classics, all of them.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted March 14, 2011  8:02 PM by Janet Brennan Croft&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
         <link>https://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/009893.html#534039</link>
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         <pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2011 20:02:26 -0500</pubDate>
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