“The strangest strangers turn out to know it and we talk about Gandalf and mad Gollum and the bridge of Khazad-dûm while the party or classroom or the train rattled along unheard. Old friends rediscover it, as I do-to browse through any book of the Ring trilogy is to get hooked once more into the whole legend-and we talk of it at once as though we had read just read it for the first time“ -Peter S Beagle,the forward.❤️YES❤️#lordoftherings #tolkien
#GratefulReads #memoir (Day 24).
A few of my favorite memoirs: H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald, Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy, and Surprised by Joy by C.S. Lewis. Can you guess which one I don't own?
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @OriginalCyn620
I've had the pocket edition of "Bilbo's Last Song" for a while, and it's one of my favourite entries in the Middle-earth canon. The original full-size edition I bought the other day to enjoy Baynes's artwork the better. First discovery is that the full title is "Bilbo's Last Song (At the Grey Havens)", the second that there is a middle register of paintings of Bilbo in various attitudes of reverie removed from the pocket edition. ??
On Being Human, C. S. Lewis (excerpt)
#lavish
#poetrymatters
@TheSpineView
#humannature
#movember
@Cinfhen
pickRead along with The Literary Life podcast. Good stuff!
Thank you so much @FantasyChick for my #AllHallowsReadSwap gifts! I love everything. 🖤 I can't decide what to dig into first. Hopefully yours arrives soon!
@MaleficentBookDragon 🎃📚
And so it's over. After seven months of journey (we started on 5 April and finished on 27 October) The History of the Lord of the Rings is over 😭
#LOTRHistory
It was such an incredible, enriching, emotional, insightful journey. And all the more fantastic thanks to my awesome #FellowshipOfTolkien travel buddies.
Now let me curle up in a corner and mourne for a little while 😢
Fortunatly, we'll go on another #MiddleEarth adventure soon 😊
Don‘t #CountMeOut of this group, but I am not a Tolkien fan. I read The Hobbit years ago, and it was such a struggle. Lord of the Rings holds no fascination for me. I‘m glad there is a huge fan base, but he‘s just not for me. 🤷🏻♀️ #SoaringScores
Image of Tolkien from Wikipedia
I have this habit of keeping old calendars because I think I will do something with the images that I like, but more often than not I don‘t end up doing anything. This is my office calendar from last year, which is still sitting in my office wasting space. But at least it‘s good fodder for today‘s #October prompt!
#chillingphotochallenge #teamstoker #scarathlon
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