The Hobbit | 
Tea, The Hobbit, & Christmas lights ☕📚🎄 Is there any better combination? Though I have to admit, I'm not a huge fan of the spider chapter 🤣
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Absolutely loving this read through. Every night I look forward to a chapter. ❤️
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Ah Gandalf, such a great fare-thee-well send-off.
Note to self: don‘t ever invite him for motivational speeches! 😂
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Cross Fandom Side Note: “Never Tell Me the Odds!”
I‘m with our honest little hobbit here, that sounds wonderful... lots better than the days he‘s been having lately! 😂
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Excited to join the #ThereAndBackAgain read-along! Besides a few false starts, I‘m a Tolkien new-by, but have always wanted to change that. Thanks for welcoming me into the fold, @Daisey! #FellowshipOfTolkien
Thought I‘d share this adorable gingerbread hobbit hole I saw at Festival of Trees the other day. 😍
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Is Riddles in the Dark the best chapter in the book?
For me, it might easily be. There's mystery, and adventure, and danger. There's an ancient and sacred game. There's a magic item and a reluctant hero coming into his self.
It's fantastic.
l'll admit that after reading the Histories, l can see how this chapter (that was heavily revised after the publication of LotR) differafrom the rest of this story.
🎄tagged book for #thereandbackagain read along,
and The Huntress by Kate Quinn
🎄The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden
🎄I was fortunate enough to have two lunch dates with two long-time, very dear friends. 💕
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Chapter 6 in the #ThereandBackAgain Hobbit read-a-long! It's fun to see our little burglar coming into his own 💚
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I can't believe l'm already behind!
I so wished there were more about the stone-giants. They somehow seem alike to Ents. They are the personification of nature, and it's not clear whether they are good or evil.
Maybe they don't care about these things.
Possibly my favorite part as a kid, right up there with the initial meeting with Smaug.
Also possibly the part that scared me the most!
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All caught up. Poor Bilbo lost and no dwarves:( I am really enjoying the buddy read!
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“Even the good plans of wise wizards like Gandalf and of good friends like Elrond go astray sometimes when you are off on dangerous adventures over the Edge of the Wild; and Gandalf was a wise enough wizard to know it.”
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We took a few days off from tramping and visited Hobbiton!
Probably one of my favorite quotes in the whole book 💚
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I had forgotten that this edition has Tolkien's illustrations 🗻 Loved reading about the misadventures with the goblins!
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With my trusty book sleeve, I'm ready for all manner of adventures 📚 🧙🏼♂️ Including chapter 4 of the #ThereandBackAgain read-a-long! It's not too late to join in if you'd like to read The Hobbit with a group of lovely Littens!
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Finally getting around to my daily #FellowshipOfTolkien #ThereAndBackAgain reading today. I usually get it in during babes‘ early morning feeding but today has been busy. It‘s almost Friday! 😃
As exhausted as I am today (still fatigued by my bout with whatever illness is going around my workplace), I could really do with a short rest in Rivendell myself...
Tolkien‘s watercolor of Rivendell that appeared in some editions of The Hobbit.
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“An early conception of the view of Rivendell looking east towards the Misty Mountains than the watercolor” (which I‘ll post next).
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“Bilbo never forgot the way they slithered and slipped in the dusk down the steep zig-zag path into the secret valley of Rivendell.”
Unfinished crayon sketch of Rivendell from Pictures by JRR Tolkien
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I really enjoyed reading about Elrond, and after having read The History of the Hobbit l can almost see the different stages to which sentence belongs.
I wonder whether it wasn't Elrond who -in the end - brought The Hobbit into the legendarium.
I would love an adverb attached to that final “said Thorin.” #ThereAndBackAgain #FellowshipOfTolkien
“Bilbo was sadly reflecting that adventures are not all pony-rides in May-sunshine”
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* Photo from Pictures by JRR Tolkien
Afraid I'm going to pull a Gandalf on my fellow adventurers and disappear from the party temporarily. Limited time for the next week or so - I was ahead, soon I'll be behind, but I'll catch up again! I'll do my best to catch up on your posts as well.
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Tolkien is a master crafter of dialogues. I could read the trolls' episode one hundred times and always enjoy it.
I also love the way Tolkien uses words to create comic effects, even when observing the reality around him.
"He had read of a good many things he had never seen or done."
Reading chapter 1 with Tolkien‘s own illustration of The Hill and Bag End. The meeting between Bilbo and Gandalf is great, and I always enjoy the little history of golf anecdote.
Fun note for today: I happened to log into the web version of Litsy this evening and The Hobbit is a trending book!
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It‘s finally settled down enough that I can curl up in my own little hobbit hole and read today‘s chapter, chapter 1.
I still think this is the best “meet cute” for a non-romantic couple I‘ve ever read....and I‘ve always loved the word play here, and how well Tolkien calls out the way we use one simple greeting phrase to mean SO many different things.
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Chapt 1 in which we meet our burglar......
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1 pt participation
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It really has been awhile... I clearly remember specific turns of phrase (to “wear a sword instead of a walking-stick” as much as the opening line or the songs), but the overall feel of the first chapter is very different now that I‘m older. Or maybe now that I‘ve read more late 1800s/early 1900s British lit.
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“Where did you go, if I may ask?”
“To look ahead,” said he (Gandalf)
“And what brought you back in the nick of time?”
“Looking behind.”
💕Gandalf is the master of enigmatic answers 😂💕
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Now, for the perfect ending to my day ? Gandalf & Bilbo's conversation is some of Tolkien's finest work ? This is my favorite quote: "This is a story of how a Baggins had an adventure, and found himself doing and saying things altogether unexpected. He may have lost the neighbors' respect, but he gained - well, you will see whether he gained anything in the end."
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I'll have never hidden my favour for the Dwarves. They are much more complex characters that many Tolkien's readers seem to give them credit for.
Thorin is the perfect example. He is a noble man, a brave warrior, a fierce ally. And still there is darkness inside him. More powerful than he thinks.
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It may seem easy to think that Gandalf is the quintessential - even the stereotypical wizard. But he is so much his own character. He is so unique. Such a fantastic character.
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I'll admit it, the first chapter is one of the best in the book, in my opinion. Bilbo is such a relatable character from the beginning and l adore how he behaves during the 'dwarf crisis' 😂
Both his Baggings and Took side are immediately clear and you just know that spells 'adventure'.
This is still my favorite opening lines to any book. I loved it as a kid, and I still love it today. I remember meeting Bilbo, Gandalf, and the dwarves for the first time, and I think that I still get just as excited now. 😊
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I think I found my wedding cake 🐉
#FellowshipofTolkien I thought you all would appreciate this 💚 And how appropriate for this to have showed up when we just started reading The Hobbit 😅
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This is for everyone that is reading chapter 1 today for The Hobbit.😀
I haven't read this in a while. It will be nice to share my favorite book with others, a chapter at a time. Thanks @JazzFeathers for organizing this.
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I‘m going on an adventure!!! I‘m so happy to be doing this readalong again with all of you. #FellowshipofTolkien #ThereAndBackAgain
So it begins . . . I‘m so excited to be rereading The Hobbit again and to have so many people joining us!
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The original thought was ‘there isn‘t enough time,‘ but then it is The Hobbit. The next thought was ‘I have a lot of other books to finish before the end of the year,‘ but then it is The Hobbit. The last thought was ‘It is one of my favorite books from childhood and because of that I‘ve read it more than once,‘ but oh my...IT IS THE HOBBIT!
I‘m all in for the buddy read 👉🏽 #ThereAndBackAgain and hanging out with #FellowshipOfTolkien...Yay!
Starting my reread adventure in hobbit-approved fashion: with snacks!
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I‘m just going to continue combining these in 1 weekly graphic.
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Completed 6 books and started 3 new ones.
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📖 The Agony House
📖 I Am Still Alive
🎧 Excellent Women
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📖 So looking forward to starting a reread of The Hobbit this evening with #FellowshipofTolkien! Feel free to join us in #ThereAndBackAgain.
🎧 Waiting on a hold for The Black Dahlia
📚 3 MG/YA options from the library
