Not all who wander are #lost…
Some are just along for the ride.
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Not all who wander are #lost…
Some are just along for the ride.
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I listened to the original American National Public Radio broadcast and I loved it. An ensemble cast really brought the story to life. Coming in at 3 hours, I know it‘s abridged, so I won‘t be counting it toward my 1,001 books journey until I read it in full. This was just such a nice listen while I crocheted. ☺️
We finally finished this one! My husband and I started listening to this last July and will only listen to it during road trips.
Andy Serkis did a fantastic job but it's not easy to listen to this in a long sitting. We found ourselves constantly drifting with this one, which is not good for those who are driving. It was best to listen little by little.
This was a re-read for me but the hubby's first.
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Happy Tolkien Reading Day! The Tolkien Society chose to focus on Service & Sacrifice as a theme this year. With that in mind, I‘m sharing this quote that I love about the small deeds of simple people being important in the matters of the world.
Additionally, today is Annunciation Day, recognized by the Catholic Church, and Lady Day, for a long time considered the beginning of the new year in England.
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"I want to see mountains again, Gandalf, mountains, and then find somewhere where I can rest..."
I've been so stressed with work lately. I've honestly been quoting this quote to my hubby almost every night. Today, he surprised me with a quick trip to the mountains so we can get some nature therapy and play in the snow.
Plus, we continued listening to the tagged book, which we started last year. It's taking us a while but that's okay.
My first #bookcrush #luckyinlove #Strider
After exactly seven years I'm rereading LotR, how fitting is that? And even though now I realise how male dominated the story is, I still loved every step I took with the Hobbits. Once again. It was the same feeling I had when I first read it. The narrator does a great job and I think his voice fits the story very well. Merry and Pippin are still my favorites, I can't help myself 😄 Already preordered the next audio book. Obviously.
Finished this in what felt like no time, even though I took care to read every word. I don‘t know what it is with these books. I have read them so many times but I still can‘t wait to read more to know what happens next.
I bought this “LOTR” game for my husband, and it‘s taking an hour just to understand the directions on how to play 😅I read the reviews on it, and a lot of people say it‘s really fun once you get the hang of it. Here goes nothing! 🧙🏻♂️⚔️
Some books discussed on our latest episode
It‘s time. It‘s been four years since I last read this. But a couple of weeks ago, I felt the urge creep up on me and suddenly no other book felt interesting enough anymore. So here we are again. With my old friend. I am looking forward to it.
The traditional anniversary gift for year 11 is steel…my guy got me a sword!!!
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Will l day that l loved it?
Doesn't seem as l need to. If you scroll down my feed, you'll find a few places where l have already said so 😂
Rather, l'd sped two words on the new Italian translation.
I'm sorry to say, l didn't enjoy it 🙁
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I love Boromir's episode. It's so strong and complex. And l love that Sam starts to come into his own here.
I'm posting late, but l finished on time.
Now l have to catch up on The Two Towers and #HobbitWeek and all of your comments and posts. I'll do my best tomorrow.
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Well, one could think, not a very eventful chapter, just people rowing in some boats. And yet so much happens here. Gollum.is revealed: Sam, Frodo and Aragorn knew it. the orcs, the Nazgul, the Argonath. Frodo trying to make a decision. Aragorn trying to make a decision. Boromir brooding.
It's just incredible.
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There's so much packed in this quiet chapter.
And - what can l do. I find Galadriel and Gimli's dialogue so touching and endearing.
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It always annoys me when readers say there are too few women in Tolkien's work. That's simply not true. And anyway, if there were only Galadriel, l'd be more than satisfied. She's that good of a character.
In this chapter, we see both her power and her vulnerability, her wisdom and her ambition. All the phenomenal complexity of a very human and yet extremely ethereal being.
I had just plowed through “The Hobbit,” but I had no money for a book, so I had to start negotiating. My mother and I agreed that I would read a book of her choosing and then I would get my mass market paperback with an alarmed Elijah Wood on the cover. I just had to read… “Pride and Prejudice.”
I was reminiscing after playing catch-up for #lotrchapteraday #bookjournal
Time for a cozy evening of reading 😊📚🍁
Finished on ebook in my tree stand! Just in time for tomorrow. Loved it- it‘s like I‘ve never read it before. Now I‘ll be able to catch up on #readingwesteros before bed hopefully! #fellowshipoftolkien #lotrchapteraday
That‘s ominous. Sometimes I swear it‘s like im reading these for the first time😂 Hoping to finish tonight- hubs made me take a nap today so it threw me off. #fellowshipoftolkien #lotrchapteraday
Family update- yesterday was hard to see my stoic dad so emotional. Mom‘s backsliding some and has contracted MRSA on top of everything else. Her release was supposed to be tomorrow which is now looking doubtful.
@JazzFeathers @Daisey - I have to thank you both for hosting the buddy read that not only has given me the motivation I needed to reread these amazing books for the first time in 20ish years, but also gave me the excuse I needed to purchase these gorgeous naked hardcover editions that I've been side-eying for a while 😂
This book was an even more amazing journey than I remember it being. I enjoyed every page, even the poems 😆 and am stoked ⬇
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Since a lot of readers are finishing up the section in Mória now, this might be an interesting video, if you haven't seen it already!
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I loved this reread. And Andy Serkis is a brilliant narrator. 🩶🩶🩶🩶🩶🩶🩶🩶🩶🩶🩶🩶🩶🩶🩶🩶🩶🩶🩶🩶🩶
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There's such a sweetly sad atmosphere in Lorien. It's so characteristic of it.
And that closing line! It always steels my heart.
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One would think that after reading this book several time, l would read leisurely.
I read this chapter from the edge of my seat!
Such great action, with a lot of urgency and progression. I almost panted at the end like for a long run.
Losing Gandalf is always hard.
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Ah, Moria!
These are among my absolute favourite chapters in the book! And you know? Somehow l didn't remember how packed full of important event it is.
It's a very dense chapter, full of action, mystery, expectation and foreshadowing.
I love it!
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I enjoyed this chapter because we see here the fellowship taking shape. And also l liked the way the mountain becomes a character, similar to what happens in The Hobbit.
And l find it interesting that it's pointed out how there are forces that don't belong to any part (like Tom, too), because it's easy to think that in such epic battle, everyone must take a stand. It is not so. The world is bigger that that.
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Sunny afternoon. Kitty purring.
Let's read about Khazad-dûm 😜
I was running a few days behind, so I‘m feeling grateful for our little catch ups keeping this chunkster feeling low key. Read the last chapter of The Fellowship of The Rings today, and I just love the way this book ends! It‘s rare that an author manages to end an installment on a cliffhanger, but with a closing image that leaves me with a warm, sweet, satisfied feeling. #LotRChapterADay #FellowshipOfTolkien @Daisey @JazzFeathers
Book 1 Chapter 2 “The Shadow of the Past”
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I have been listening to some Tolkien-focused podcasts and is it just me or is the worst fate for anything in Middle-earth to “fade.” Elves that don‘t return to Valinor: fade. Bilbo and Gollum spending too much quality time with the ring: fade.
I am going to try to play catch-up with #LotRChapteraDay because seeing all the posts have pulled me back in to Middle Earth.
Book 1 Chapter 1 “A Long-Expected Party”
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I think I shared this before, but hearing about the backup at the Panama Canal made be think of it again. Meanwhile, FOTR is the second book I‘ve finished this month. #LotRChapterADay #SummerEndReadathon
Finished the book today. This was, way back in olden times, when I was young, my entry into Fantasy. I still love it.
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I came home this evening and read the last chapter of Book 2 of The Fellowship of the Ring with Gandalf & Luthien. The final chapter is not so much an ending as a transition to a new phase of the journey. These are often published as three books, but really it‘s one long story. At the moment, I‘m just sad to be waiting a few days to continue this epic journey with these characters.
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4✨ How do you sum up a book that had so much happen? We have hobbits that set out on a journey, met an unexpected leader, lost a good friend and guide, as well as run into a lot of other characters… as well as bad guys. All this because an evil force is after a powerful object. On to the second book to continue the journey. #FellowshipofTolkien #LotRChapteraDay @Daisey @JazzFeathers #catsoflitsy
“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.”
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All caught up with #readingwesteros #gotchapteraday, #lmpbc, and #cbbc #coffeebeanbookclub - now on to catching up with #fellowshipoftolkien #lotrchapteraday- that Elrond chapter is soooo long and threw me off my game! I‘ll read and participate in all the posts as soon as I‘m caught up- which may be a minute yet lol.
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I love the Council of Elrond. Every. Single. Time.
I know that many find it long and difficult, but to me, it's like a bonus in the story. It's a chapter in the book that contains many different stories, all connected. I mean: you're reading this book and you get to enjoy all these other stories.
It's fantastic!
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What unbelievably vivid writing. I feel like I'm seeing all of these myself
So moving. I'm practically in tears at the elegiac tone of this.
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I sit beside the fire & think
of how the world will be
when winter comes without a spring
that I shall never see.
For there are still so many things
that I have never seen:
in every wood in every spring
there is a different green.
I sit beside the fire & think
of people long ago,
and people who will see a world
that I shall never know.
Bu all the while I sit & think
of times there were before,
I listen for returning feet
and voices at the door.
Just finished #LotRChapteraDay #FellowshipofTolkien Chapter VI Lothlorien. Gimli is a good sport even though he is met with injustice because he is a dwarf in an elves world. I‘m glad that they came to an agreement finally that several other elves can vouch for him. @Daisey @JazzFeathers
The fellowship has reached Lothlorien. Here they find a few days of peace, beauty, and rest. I always love the description of the elves‘ homes in the trees, but like the hobbits, I‘d rather not climb ladders to flets with no walls or railings. Also, we begin to see the development of the friendship between Legolas & Gimli.
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In so many way, this chapter mark the passage from 'the sequel to The Hobbit' to 'the Lord of the Rings'.
In the first drafts, Tolkien took a very long pause, almost one year long, more or less at the point of the dialogue between Frodo (who became Frodo in this chapter) and Gloin.
So many mentions from The Hobbit, and so many foundations for what will come next.
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In comparison, this sounds more like a chapter of passage, thought it would be worth just for Offendel's appearance.
I was fascinated to learn this is the same Glorfindel that appears in the Silmarillion and falls fighting a balrog while trying to protect Earendil and his people. Earendil was Elrond's father. Glorfindel reincarnated to help Elrond as a way to sort of finish his tasks.
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I believe this to be one of the most underrated chapters in the book... And it's actually fantastic!
Firstly, here's were Aragorn appears at his more complex because he shows different parts of his personality: the ranger, the experienced man, the scholar, the traveler, the friend, the lover, the fighter and the strategist. There is so much more to him than even such a long book as this can show. ⬇️