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  • Short Story » General, General Re: The Old Man in the Street

    I loved this piece! Your style of writing has given me many new ideas I can work with. I love how you serenely depict, the ocean and then revert to ...

    Jan 2, 2011
  • Short Story » General, General Re: His Name Was Joel

    I loved the theme you chose, the character of Joel is interesting and intriguing. when you started unveiling his thoughts on killing those who deserved to be killed, it sent ...

    Jan 2, 2011


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