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   From: le@lekno.ws   
      
   Every municipality throughout the Suza in the times recorded   
   in the Red Book was a town of hobbits.   
      
   So why was the particular settlement beneath the Hill   
   and across the Water from Bywater known as "Hobbiton"?   
   It's like naming some arbitrary place in human-inhabited   
   lands Mantown.   
      
   My only theory is that it is the first place that Marcho   
   and Blanco and their followers,having entered across the   
   Bridge of Stonebows,decided to stop and build a settlement,   
   and things then fanned out from there.   
   (Something like Brigham Young,on reaching the   
   Great Salt Lake Valley,declaring "This is the right place".)   
      
   -=-=-   
   The World Trade Center towers MUST rise again,   
   at least as tall as before...or terror has triumphed.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)