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Gandalf: So do all who live to see such times, but that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.
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#ScribesAndMakers 3.6 — Tell us about a book you go back and read over and over. What do you love about it?
(I broke something on my bookshelf just to retrieve these two books, so I hope this post is worth the strife. Crystals and glass went everywhere.)
Let me preface this by saying that I am a huge fan of Tolkien as both a human being and as a writer. My library has an entire section for Tolkien's Legendarium. It's overflowing at this point.
On the left we have my own copy of The Silmarillion, and on the right is my father's. He took that book across the country, while backpacking and later while living in his VW bus. It's special to me. The book, as a whole, was what drew me to writing in the first place. As a child, my dad first read The Hobbit to me before bed, and then The Lord of the Rings after. It was off to the races from that point on. The Lost Tales and The Unfinished Tales followed. When I got my hands on The Silmarillion, it sealed the deal for me. This is a comfort book for me, even though I cry buckets at the myths and tales within. That's okay, though.
It's World Book Day (in the UK)! This is where a lifelong love of reading, and by extension literacy, began... #WorldBookDay #StarWars #TheHobbit #Book #Books
The copy I'm reading is actually a slightly battered film edition, but this Dutch edition I also have is much nicer. I remembered the book mostly as a quest story, but I was pleasantly surprised by the humour. Especially the "good morning" scene in the beginning is such a fun way of showing how British people can be quite indirect sometimes.
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𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄: 𝗘𝗮𝗿𝗹𝘆 𝗟𝗼𝗿𝗱 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗥𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀 𝗖𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗶𝘀𝗺 𝗕𝗼𝗼𝗸𝘀 -
Early critical reviews and writings on Tolkien range from safe takes on the new fantasy form to vapid praise, and from hyper-focused examinations of the name Bifur to broader post-structuralist analyses. Here's a few from my shelf and their value today.
Ori: Maybe we should work more on our fighting skills and less on this super fast bowl and plate cleaning technique we developed.
Kili: Are you serious?! Did you see how evenly we stacked the bowls?
Bofur: Yeah, this is going to be amazing once we’ve nailed it down.
Haven't done a #FromTheInspirationFolder post in a while so I thought I'd share some of Peter Kľúčik's (b. 1953) amazing 1989 illustrations for The Hobbit.
These never saw print as the publisher lost the rights to the book.
McSweeney's lays out the story of an undecided Hobbit trying to choose whether to give his vote to "A dark lord who promises an age of chaos or an elf queen whom I just wish I knew more about." https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/im-an-undecided-hobbit-torn-between-a-dark-lord-who-promises-an-age-of-chaos-and-an-elf-queen-whom-i-just-wish-i-knew-more-about
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Happy birthday of Bilbo and Frodo Baggins!
A random question popped up in my head as these questions are wont to do:
Do Hobbits of the Shire in the Third Age get saltwater fish?
Today's marathon is The Hobbit movies. Taking more than one movie for a single novel is a good idea. Most feature film adaptations have to cut so much to fit the time allotted.
It's a shame that Jackson took all that extra time and inserted his own fan fic, but the visuals and acting are close enough to the Lord Of The Rings movies that I still enjoy them.