Okay, this is going to sound like a joke...... - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Samwise · 07-17-2002, 11:20 PM

...but it's serious (sort of).

A Man, an Elf, and a Hobbit walk into a restaraunt (here in this world) and go to the "Please Wait to be seated" area. You are either an employee (like one who seats folks) or someone already there having dinner. What is your reaction? [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

Quote:

LOTR Haiku V
Frodo and Samwise
travelling to Cracks of Doom
friend must carry friend.

[ July 18, 2002: Message edited by: Samwise ]

Ithaeliel · 07-17-2002, 11:41 PM

Oh geez... considering me, I'd probably go like this, in this order:

[img]smilies/eek.gif[/img] [img]smilies/confused.gif[/img] [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] [img]smilies/evil.gif[/img] [img]smilies/frown.gif[/img]

The sad face at the end is for when they have to leave.

Samwise · 07-17-2002, 11:50 PM

Oi....don't think I want to know what the face to the left of the sad face is for...

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"I met Sam going up the hill and told him to follow me; but plainly he did not do so. he guessed his master's mind and came back here before Frodo had gone. He did not find it easy to leave Sam behind! " ~Aragorn, TTT

gollum*elf*pup · 07-18-2002, 09:02 AM

i'd be very confused. i always am, tho. then i would pretend that i work there and sit them down at a table, take the hobbit into the kitchen and roast him and feed him to the others, pretending it's chicken. [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

[ July 18, 2002: Message edited by: gollum*elf*pup ]

The Fifth · 07-18-2002, 10:28 AM

I would be kind of confused, but then just grin and nod when I gave them their orders. Then I would steal the elf and run off with /her/.

[ July 18, 2002: Message edited by: The Fifth ]

Samwise · 07-18-2002, 11:22 AM

I forgot to mention the Elf was a woman.

Quote:

"So my plan is all spoilt!" said Frodo. "It is no good trying to escape you. But I'm glad, Sam. It is plain that we were meant to go together. "

ElfEarz · 07-18-2002, 11:40 AM

i would first talk to the elf cuz i look like one [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] and then i would grab the hobbit and squeezle it [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] hehehehhe thier just too adorable

piosenniel · 07-18-2002, 11:44 AM

Here's what I would do:

'Welcome! Will it be just the three of you having dinner this evening, or are there more in your party?'

Picks up three menus and the wine and spirits list. 'Would you like a table with a view of the waterfront, or would you prefer to be seated nearer the fireplace.'

Leads them to their preferred table, makes a little small talk, introduces them to their waitperson. Alerts the chef and owner that a special party has come in.

The owner then comes to their table and welcomes them, bringing a bottle of his best wine, and pours each a glass.

Now if I were a diner, I would resist the urge to go over and meet them - just leave them to enjoy their own company and the food. But what a story that would be for friends!!!!!!

Aldagrim Proudfoot · 07-18-2002, 01:42 PM

I would be slightly surprised, but then act like nothing was different.

Kaze · 07-18-2002, 03:40 PM

I think it depends how they were acting. If they thought it was completely normal, then - well, that'd be just odd. I'd probably burst out laughing just because of the strangeness of it [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

Galadrie1 · 07-19-2002, 02:08 PM

Kaze, i love your signature!!! [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

anyway, if that happened to me, i'd just be horribly confused (as usual). i might gather up the courage to go and talk to the Hobbit. not the Elf or Man, though, because i think they'd be much harder to talk to (i'm really shy around grown-ups, and hobbits seem more like kids [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]).

MYyyPreciousSS · 07-20-2002, 02:03 AM

Well first off I'd think to myself, "Yes! I was right, hobbits and elfs DO exsist!"
But I'd try to act normal and hopefully end up "accidently" bumping into them and be able to talk to them.
Maybe even sneak in a camera and get a quick picture of them. THen I would have proof! No one could say I was jus going crazy and hillucinating again.. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

Melephelwen · 07-20-2002, 03:13 AM

I would be like...
look very confused at them, with my mouth open and everything. [img]smilies/confused.gif[/img]
After 10 minutes I would realize my mouth was open, close and smile in that way "I didn't look at you, there's absolutely nothing wrong, I'm just tired etc."
I would stare at them for the next half an hour, and when I realized they were preparing to leave i would either be like "darn! I should've talked to them" or walk over to them and start babling, so they wouldn't have a chance to go anywhere. Then I would try to find out what the h*ck they were doing there and follow them (not sneaking, while I talked to them) [img]smilies/evil.gif[/img]
I would try to get an adress, phone number or whatever, and finally, after 3 hours, I would probably let them go. If they came from ME they would go right back there and ask someone to curse me. [img]smilies/evil.gif[/img]

Oh, how I wish something like that could actually happen... [img]smilies/frown.gif[/img]

Melephelwen · 07-20-2002, 03:15 AM

Not that they would get me cursed, but the rest of it... [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img] oh well, maybe a little curse could be fun [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

Samwise · 07-20-2002, 04:11 PM

Well, all, this "event" will happen tomorrow night, if all goes well. [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] I'll tell you if anyone reacts...LOL [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

Quote:

"But I am going to Mordor."
"I know that well enough, Mr. Frodo. Of course you are. And I'm coming with you. "

Anna Licumo · 07-21-2002, 02:19 PM

Samwise, if you do not tell me what you're planning, I'm going to...um... do something evil. Argh! I have to know!

Samwise · 07-21-2002, 03:14 PM

LOL---to tell the truth, Anna it wasn't my plan, it was Raefindel's. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] I've been hinting all over the place (see "I Met A Fellow BDer!" thread) but no one's taken the hint, nor evidently read any of my more obvious posts.

Tonight, Raefindel the Red-haired Elf, her husband (the man) and me (the Hobbit) are meeting at Carrow's restaraunt after I get out of church, see? Simple. [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] Actually, I've been trying to get ahold of her on her cel phone, but it's BUSY!!! [img]smilies/frown.gif[/img]

Quote:

LOTR (Movie) Moment (III) (Second Breakfast)
Pippin stops to cook
Aragorn says there's no time
Apple hits a head.

Copyright 2002 S. Uffelman

Arwen Imladris · 07-21-2002, 05:52 PM

Just one question, how would you know that they were an elf or a hobbit? Have you ever seen a real one? Don't they look very much like people? I think that I would just think that they were very strange people. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

Raefindel · 07-23-2002, 09:19 AM

I think the waitress DID think we were wierd after we didn't leave 2 hours after they cleared the table!

Samwise met me with a boquet of roses from the garden at her church(she tends the garden). I had a small gift for her, too.

Samwise is taller than I expected. I spoke with her on the phone before I left Washington, and I found her voice to be so pleasant.

My kids were there too, just until they finished dinner, then my husband took them swimming at the hotel and let me and Samwise talk.

She filled me in on all the things gooing on here at the Downs while I've been gone. (and BTW I've missed you all.)

It was too dark to see Samwise's Garden or the one she planted at her church so we sat in her driveway and talked some more for another 20 minutes.

I think she must cry at supermarket-openings because she cried when I had to leave(don't be embarassed, Samwise, it's sweet).

It was a really great time. I'd do it again in a heartbeat. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

Lindolirian · 07-23-2002, 10:33 PM

My reaction would be much like that of Dr. Grant's in Jurassic Park when he first sees the dinosaurs.

Lady_Báin · 07-24-2002, 04:54 AM

well though it is after the fact I would rush up to them all gooingly and ask for pictures and autographs all round, then I would ask "were's gimli?" [img]smilies/frown.gif[/img] [img]smilies/frown.gif[/img]

Samwise · 07-25-2002, 07:32 PM

I think the waitress DID think we were wierd after we didn't leave 2 hours after they cleared the table...I had a small gift for her, too.
LOL--y' think she thought so? Nah...then, maybe she let us sit there 'cause she knows Elves are good with bows...j/k

Samwise is taller than I expected.
LOL, Miss Rae! Well, I'm a 20th century Hobbit, that's my only explanation. [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

I spoke with her on the phone before I left Washington, and I found her voice to be so pleasant.
Awww...well, I found you to be pretty darn pleasant, too--and your hubby, and your sweet kidlets...is Jessica adopted? No offense meant, ma'am, but she seemed to have some very Hobbit-like tendencies... [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

It was too dark to see Samwise's Garden or the one she planted at her church so we sat in her driveway and talked some more for another 20 minutes.
It was only 20 minutes? Sigh. Seemed like longer or shorter depending....

I think she must cry at supermarket-openings because she cried when I had to leave(don't be embarassed, Samwise, it's sweet).
LOL, Miss Rae! No offense taken, but that would be bookstores more likely than supermarkets...

It was a really great time. I'd do it again in a heartbeat.
Me, three. If any of you get to Washington State, look this lady up. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

[ July 25, 2002: Message edited by: Samwise ]

Samwise_Gamgee · 09-04-2002, 04:17 PM

I would look at the other hobbit, then I would go back to eating cheese and drinking ale [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] I ain't been droppin no eaves sir, honest! - Samwise Gamgee/Sean Astin

the guy who be short · 05-26-2003, 06:00 AM

id walk past their table, leaving the dwarf a note saying "meet me outside in 5 mins, about the elf"
we'd meet and plot to kill the elf. NEVER TRUST AN ELF! THEYRE SO EVIL! [img]smilies/evil.gif[/img]
after kiling the elf, i would kidnap the hobbit and force him to show me where the shire was. then the dwarf and i would go there in force and take over. and if the hobbits dare resist... [img]smilies/evil.gif[/img]

Meela · 05-26-2003, 10:27 AM

freeze, squeal, shake, squeal some more, faint.

07-17-2002, 11:41 PM	#2
Ithaeliel Cornus Caliga Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Five-hundred-twenty-five thousand, six hundred minutes from here Posts: 710	Oh geez... considering me, I'd probably go like this, in this order: [img]smilies/eek.gif[/img] [img]smilies/confused.gif[/img] [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] [img]smilies/evil.gif[/img] [img]smilies/frown.gif[/img] The sad face at the end is for when they have to leave. __________________ That best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love. .................William Wordsworth

07-18-2002, 09:02 AM	#4
gollumelfpup Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: big...scary...castle... Posts: 277	i'd be very confused. i always am, tho. then i would pretend that i work there and sit them down at a table, take the hobbit into the kitchen and roast him and feed him to the others, pretending it's chicken. [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] [ July 18, 2002: Message edited by: gollumelfpup ] __________________ ~elfpup~ PI's evil family dog!!! I have found the chicken who is not a chicken!

07-18-2002, 10:28 AM	#5
The Fifth Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: May 2002 Location: Mordor Posts: 427	I would be kind of confused, but then just grin and nod when I gave them their orders. Then I would steal the elf and run off with /her/. [ July 18, 2002: Message edited by: The Fifth ] __________________ - Ringwraith #5, Servant of the Eye

07-18-2002, 11:40 AM	#7
ElfEarz Animated Skeleton Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Mirkwood Posts: 50	i would first talk to the elf cuz i look like one [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] and then i would grab the hobbit and squeezle it [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] hehehehhe thier just too adorable __________________ -ash nazg durbatukuj,ash nazg gimbatul,ash nazg thrakatuluk agh burzum-ishi krimpatul.

07-18-2002, 11:44 AM	#8
piosenniel Desultory Dwimmerlaik Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Pickin' flowers with Bill the Cat..... Posts: 7,779	Here's what I would do: 'Welcome! Will it be just the three of you having dinner this evening, or are there more in your party?' Picks up three menus and the wine and spirits list. 'Would you like a table with a view of the waterfront, or would you prefer to be seated nearer the fireplace.' Leads them to their preferred table, makes a little small talk, introduces them to their waitperson. Alerts the chef and owner that a special party has come in. The owner then comes to their table and welcomes them, bringing a bottle of his best wine, and pours each a glass. Now if I were a diner, I would resist the urge to go over and meet them - just leave them to enjoy their own company and the food. But what a story that would be for friends!!!!!! __________________ Eldest, that’s what I am . . . I knew the dark under the stars when it was fearless - before the Dark Lord came from Outside.

07-18-2002, 01:42 PM	#9
Aldagrim Proudfoot Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Hobbiton Posts: 328	I would be slightly surprised, but then act like nothing was different. __________________ I do not suffer from insanity. I enjoy every minute of it!

07-18-2002, 03:40 PM	#10
Kaze Haunting Spirit Join Date: Jun 2002 Posts: 54	I think it depends how they were acting. If they thought it was completely normal, then - well, that'd be just odd. I'd probably burst out laughing just because of the strangeness of it [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] __________________ Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.

07-19-2002, 02:08 PM	#11
Galadrie1 Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: The wrong place at the wrong time. Posts: 385	Kaze, i love your signature!!! [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] anyway, if that happened to me, i'd just be horribly confused (as usual). i might gather up the courage to go and talk to the Hobbit. not the Elf or Man, though, because i think they'd be much harder to talk to (i'm really shy around grown-ups, and hobbits seem more like kids [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]). __________________ "For this is what your folk would call magic, I believe; though I do not understand clearly what they mean; and they seem to use the same word of the deceits of the Enemy. But this, if you will, is the magic of Galadriel."

07-20-2002, 02:03 AM	#12
MYyyPreciousSS Wight Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: the Here and Now Posts: 113	Well first off I'd think to myself, "Yes! I was right, hobbits and elfs DO exsist!" But I'd try to act normal and hopefully end up "accidently" bumping into them and be able to talk to them. Maybe even sneak in a camera and get a quick picture of them. THen I would have proof! No one could say I was jus going crazy and hillucinating again.. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] __________________ Then the heart of Éowyn changed, or else at last she understood it. And suddenly her winter passed, and the sun shone on her. "My Preciousss" - the line that started the obsession.

07-20-2002, 03:13 AM	#13
Melephelwen Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: May 2002 Location: the Middle of Nowhere Posts: 291	I would be like... look very confused at them, with my mouth open and everything. [img]smilies/confused.gif[/img] After 10 minutes I would realize my mouth was open, close and smile in that way "I didn't look at you, there's absolutely nothing wrong, I'm just tired etc." I would stare at them for the next half an hour, and when I realized they were preparing to leave i would either be like "darn! I should've talked to them" or walk over to them and start babling, so they wouldn't have a chance to go anywhere. Then I would try to find out what the hck they were doing there and follow them (not sneaking, while I talked to them) [img]smilies/evil.gif[/img] I would try to get an adress, phone number or whatever, and finally, after 3 hours, I would probably let them go. If they came from ME they would go right back there and ask someone to curse me. [img]smilies/evil.gif[/img] Oh, how I wish something like that could* actually happen... [img]smilies/frown.gif[/img] __________________ We're all following a strange melody We're all summoned by a tune We're following the piper And we dance beneath the moon

07-20-2002, 03:15 AM	#14
Melephelwen Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: May 2002 Location: the Middle of Nowhere Posts: 291	Not that they would get me cursed, but the rest of it... [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img] oh well, maybe a little curse could be fun [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] __________________ We're all following a strange melody We're all summoned by a tune We're following the piper And we dance beneath the moon

07-21-2002, 02:19 PM	#16
Anna Licumo Haunting Spirit Join Date: May 2002 Location: Eryn Lasgalen... okay, KS actually. ::sigh:: Posts: 78	Samwise, if you do not tell me what you're planning, I'm going to...um... do something evil. Argh! I have to know! __________________ Rock-a-bye Nazgul, on Weathertop, when the Ring calls, the horses will run. And when Sauron calls, the Nazgul will go, and down will come evil, Ringwraiths and all!

07-21-2002, 05:52 PM	#18
Arwen Imladris Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: In a box with a fox Posts: 1,347	Just one question, how would you know that they were an elf or a hobbit? Have you ever seen a real one? Don't they look very much like people? I think that I would just think that they were very strange people. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] __________________ "Wake up! Wake up! Wake up, sleepies, we must go, yes, we must go at once."

07-23-2002, 09:19 AM	#19
Raefindel Sword of the Spirit Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Washington State Posts: 1,313	I think the waitress DID think we were wierd after we didn't leave 2 hours after they cleared the table! Samwise met me with a boquet of roses from the garden at her church(she tends the garden). I had a small gift for her, too. Samwise is taller than I expected. I spoke with her on the phone before I left Washington, and I found her voice to be so pleasant. My kids were there too, just until they finished dinner, then my husband took them swimming at the hotel and let me and Samwise talk. She filled me in on all the things gooing on here at the Downs while I've been gone. (and BTW I've missed you all.) It was too dark to see Samwise's Garden or the one she planted at her church so we sat in her driveway and talked some more for another 20 minutes. I think she must cry at supermarket-openings because she cried when I had to leave(don't be embarassed, Samwise, it's sweet). It was a really great time. I'd do it again in a heartbeat. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] __________________ Blessed be the Lord my Strength, Who trained my hands for war and my fingers to fight. Psallm 144:1

07-23-2002, 10:33 PM	#20
Lindolirian World's Tallest Hobbit Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Where the view is long Posts: 2,117	My reaction would be much like that of Dr. Grant's in Jurassic Park when he first sees the dinosaurs. __________________ 'They say that the One will himself enter into Arda, and heal Men and all the Marring from the beginning to the end."

07-24-2002, 04:54 AM	#21
Lady_Báin Wight Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Peterborough, England Posts: 250	well though it is after the fact I would rush up to them all gooingly and ask for pictures and autographs all round, then I would ask "were's gimli?" [img]smilies/frown.gif[/img] [img]smilies/frown.gif[/img] __________________ pæling.

07-25-2002, 07:32 PM	#22
Samwise Faithful Spirit Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: #3 Bagshot Row, Petaluma, Ca Posts: 2,299	I think the waitress DID think we were wierd after we didn't leave 2 hours after they cleared the table...I had a small gift for her, too. LOL--y' think she thought so? Nah...then, maybe she let us sit there 'cause she knows Elves are good with bows...j/k Samwise is taller than I expected. LOL, Miss Rae! Well, I'm a 20th century Hobbit, that's my only explanation. [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] I spoke with her on the phone before I left Washington, and I found her voice to be so pleasant. Awww...well, I found you to be pretty darn pleasant, too--and your hubby, and your sweet kidlets...is Jessica adopted? No offense meant, ma'am, but she seemed to have some very Hobbit-like tendencies... [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] It was too dark to see Samwise's Garden or the one she planted at her church so we sat in her driveway and talked some more for another 20 minutes. It was only 20 minutes? Sigh. Seemed like longer or shorter depending.... I think she must cry at supermarket-openings because she cried when I had to leave(don't be embarassed, Samwise, it's sweet). *LOL, Miss Rae! No offense taken, but that would be bookstores* more likely than supermarkets... It was a really great time. I'd do it again in a heartbeat. Me, three. If any of you get to Washington State, look this lady up.** [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] [ July 25, 2002: Message edited by: Samwise ] __________________ Giving thanks unto the Father...In whom we have redemption through His blood, even the forgiveness of sins.~Colossians1:12a,14 * * * * * * * I am Samwise son of Hamfast, if by hoe or trowel I can get these weeds out of your garden, I will.You have my shears!;)

09-04-2002, 04:17 PM	#23
Samwise_Gamgee Haunting Spirit Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Middle-Earth Posts: 68	I would look at the other hobbit, then I would go back to eating cheese and drinking ale [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] I ain't been droppin no eaves sir, honest! - Samwise Gamgee/Sean Astin __________________ "Your bodygaurd?" "His Gardner"

05-26-2003, 06:00 AM	#24
the guy who be short Shadowed Prince Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Thulcandra Posts: 2,343	id walk past their table, leaving the dwarf a note saying "meet me outside in 5 mins, about the elf" we'd meet and plot to kill the elf. NEVER TRUST AN ELF! THEYRE SO EVIL! [img]smilies/evil.gif[/img] after kiling the elf, i would kidnap the hobbit and force him to show me where the shire was. then the dwarf and i would go there in force and take over. and if the hobbits dare resist... [img]smilies/evil.gif[/img]

05-26-2003, 10:27 AM	#25
Meela Denethor's True Love Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Mirkwood. With Thranduil... swoon Posts: 2,049	freeze, squeal, shake, squeal some more, faint. __________________ 'The Hobbit' 1st impressions: 1. Thorin is hot... Oh god, I fancy a dwarf. 2. Thranduil is hotter. 3. Is that... Figwit! 4. Does Elijah Wood never age? 2nd: It's all about Fili & Kili, really. 3rd: BARD! OMG, Bard.