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  • Lounge, The Re: The "I'm Back" Thread

    Um, most or rather all of you may not remember me as I hardly posted anything on this site. But anyways I'll introduce myself again if that's necessary. I'm Natalie ...

    Dec 10, 2005
  • Official Polls Re: What was your first story about?

    I wrote my first story when I just turned five and it was about a mouse that came to some house, ate too much cheese and died, then a girl ...

    Oct 28, 2005


It had a perfectly round door like a porthole, painted green, with a shiny yellow brass knob in the exact middle. The door opened on to a tube-shaped hall like a tunnel: a very comfortable tunnel without smoke, with panelled walls, and floors tiled and carpeted, provided with polished chairs, and lots and lots of pegs for hats and coats—the hobbit was fond of visitors. The tunnel wound on and on, going fairly but not quite straight into the side of the hill —The Hill, as all the people for many miles round called it—and many little round doors opened out of it, first on one side and then on another.
— JRR Tolkien