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Staying committed to this while I figure out where else my time and energy should go as a result of current events going on in the world over the last week.
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Thanks for the tag @TheSpineView
1- Apples 🍎
2- The Hobbit
I tag @MaleficentBookDragon @Captivatedbybooks @KT1432
#Two4Tuesday

I read one of my favorite stories again for a couple of reasons this month! It was my #bookspin but I am also pregnant!!! My mom read to me throughout her whole pregnancy, and I want to carry on that tradition! What better book to start with than this?! My hubby and I are so excited to welcome our little hobbit next May!! 😊🥳💜

#Two4Tuesday

1. I think the oldest thing I own is a book about Chicago published in 1880. It talks about the city‘s history, interesting stories, and sites to see when visiting. Beautiful illustrations throughout. It‘s a really cool little book.

2. I would love for The Hobbit, or a book like it, to still be relevant in 100 years. It‘s what got me into reading and I hope it holds the same magic for future generations too.

@TheSpineView

Happy hobbit day!

Happy Hobbit Day!!!! #FellowsipOfTolkien

I celebrate today with this quote because it resonates so deeply with my life in this moment.

Tolkien's words, as usual, guide and comfort me.

3.75/5 🌕🌕🌕🌖🌑

“Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?”

#fantasy #classics #thelordoftherings

I really enjoyed seeing Bilbo's personal growth along the way. Events out of his control conspire to throw him far outside of his comfort zone, and he rises to the challenge. It did run me through all the emotions though. It has suspense, fear, wonder, joy and sadly even heartbreak. I am currently traveling home myself and also very much identify with Bilbo in wanting to be back in my very own comfortable hobbit hole.

This is a long overdue re-read.

Look it‘s just a really magical story isn‘t it? Perhaps the only thing more magical than reading it yourself for the first time, is reading it to someone else for their first time (even if they‘re a bit too little to remember it). Already looking forward to reading this together again.

#audiobook #longdrive

🎧 📖 : our road trip read - The Hobbit by J.R.R.Tolkien. Brilliant performance by Andy Serkis! He did voices that sounded remarkably like the actors‘ from the movie and in general was such an engaging narrator.
Our only complaint is that the sound mixing is weird -the loud parts are blaring and the quiet parts are so very quiet. We constantly had to adjust the volume. In the car and headphones - same issue.

I loved listening to this book!!! It was Andy Serkis as the narrator. Who is Gollum in the movies. I rated this book a 5 out of 5 stars.

"Surely you don't disbelieve the prophecies, because you had a hand in bringing them about yourself?" - Gandalf to Bilbo

I brought this with my on my recent trip to New Zealand and it was so much fun to read it while traipsing through Peter Jackson's reimagined Middle Earth. ❤️

Terrible glare, but it‘s read Tolkien day!

#ItTakesAllKinds Day13 With Map
Thorin Oakenshield's map from The Hobbit.

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs

#ItTakesAllKinds Day8 #Shelfie
We have way too many bookshelves spread across the house so I decided to snap a few pics of my fave bookish pieces. From the top we have my husband's kindle cover that is Thorin's map from the Hobbit and then the first booknook I ever made. Bottom left is our Mortal Kombat bookends. Bottom right is our fancy Horrorish books and Cthullu booknook.
@eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

5 ⭐️s
A reread for me. The last time I read it I was in middle school. I was shocked at how much of my memory of it had been hijacked by the films. I‘m curious to see how much I misremember from the following trilogy. 😅 This will always be a very nostalgic story for me. I felt a profound connection to the young woman I was when I first read it and fell in love with Tolkien‘s world. ❤️
This was part of my February #Roll100

I took Kili to the vet this morning for his checkup, and I had to settle a discussion about his name. The vet thought it must be short for Kilimanjaro, but the tech knew it was one of the dwarfs from The Hobbit. “You know, Kili and Fili, the hot ones.”

#holidaylaughs

#TeamEvergreen
@Clwojick @TEArificbooks @Larkken @Lizpixie @Jadams1776 @PathfinderNicole @Skygoddess1

#Two4Tuesday

1. Yes! But not for a long time…I might have to rectify that soon. Blanket fort reading is always spectacular.

2. The tagged book because when I was little there was one winter when every weekend my mom would read a chapter of The Hobbit to my sisters & I. She read from the illustrated edition (based on the animated movie), almost always in front of the fire, & it was perfect. One of my most vivid childhood memories.

@TheSpineView

Late lunch #CoffeeAndABook - pumpkin cold brew and breakfast melt sandwich plus more Hobbit after (nearly) completing my Christmas shopping 🛍️ 🎄

“Now they all pushed together, and slowly a part of the rock-wall gave way. Long straight cracks appeared and widened. A door five feet high and three broad was outlined, and slowly without a sound swung inwards.”

“The only person thoroughly unhappy was Bilbo.”

Left work a little early, so I could have lunchtime #CoffeeAndABook before my therapy appointment - cold brew (it‘s warm out! over 50 degrees! 😆) and a caprese egg sandwich while Bilbo, Gandalf, and the dwarves try to get out of yet another dangerous situation

Actually starting this reread today! Time for #coffeeandabook - mocha with an extra shot and an egg and cheddar biscuit 📖 ☕️ 😋

Just waiting to meet up with my mom. Might as well start my re-read of The Hobbit with my iced white mocha (with raspberry cold foam and an extra shot) while I wait #coffeeandabook

I DNF these books in the past but after many moons, I enjoyed it. I‘m so glad I gave it another chance. There are so many psychological aspects in this story. The audiobook is amazing. 4 ⭐️
I‘m not officially in the group but I read it because of #FellowshipOfTolkien group @JazzFeathers It gave me an opportunity to read this series. I hope I can read the 2nd book next month.

I‘m so excited to read this with kiddo! We started this morning and she already likes hobbits because I‘ve told her about their meal schedule. She approves.

#LotRChapterADay #FellowshipOfTolkien

Happy Hobbit Day everyone!

It's been a very busy day and only now, almost at midnight, l manage to post, but l didn't want to miss this!

I'm sorry l didn't post for the #HoobitWeek here as l intended. I did on Instagram, though.
You can read my posts here, if you want 😁

https://www.instagram.com/middleearthliteraygazette/

Anyone else prepping for Hobbit Day!

I saw it on Pinterest and decided this was the holiday I needed. Banana bread for first breakfast in the morning.

This will likely not find favour with Tolkien fans, but if I were to rank the three interrelated pieces of media, the original novel, the films made from this material and the fanfic made as a result of the films, my rating would go: 1) fanfic, 2) films, 3) novel. 1/?

I‘m woefully behind on #FellowshipofTolkien 😅
I found myself unable to read The Hobbit without having it be in my mom‘s voice, and that just wasn‘t working. So I remembered folks talking about Serkis‘ audiobook narration and finally went for it on audible - it‘s great! Total palate cleanser and a wonderful listen while enjoying my coffee with my dog leaning on my feet, watching the early fall rain. Thanks!

Has the person writing the captions for collection containers been reading some baggenshield fanfic?

#LotRChapterADay #FellowshipOfTolkien

This is happening on Instagram, but maybe we can play along too 😜

Trying to read…but someone keeps putting her back foot on my head 😂
#catsoflitsy

I didn‘t finish much this month 😔 but it was good for how much has been on my plate. My rereads were my only 5 stars (with crowns) so hoping for a better September.

Old Instagram post but I do love my fantasy shelf.

And finally, Smaug on an Aubusson tapestry.

As promised, the other side of my Lego set, the Unexpected Party. I enjoyed this reread, though I was not very good at posting, apologies for that. One thing that made this one extra fun for me is my son, who is 20 & has a reading disability so doesn‘t usually read novels. We are currently training to walk a 1/2 marathon so go on training walks several nights a week. Each evening I tell him what has happened in the book since last time & we ⬇️

@Daisey @JazzFeathers Thank you for leading us on this nostalgia filled adventure with Bilbo and his friends! I had a blast following their travels with the group and I‘m really excited to continue the adventure. I‘ve read the beginning, but not the end of the trilogy, so I can‘t wait to see what happens in the parts that are completely new to me! #LotRChapterADay
#FellowshipOfTolkien

This is my favorite version of The Hobbit. Andy Sekis is a brilliant narrator, and he makes the riddle game just so much more fantastic.
I'm so glad we restarted this. I love these rereads 💚 Thanks for hosting @JazzFeathers @Daisey
@FellowshipOfTolkien #LoTRChapterADay
#WickedWords #trolls @AsYouWish

#LotRChapterADay #FellowshipOfTolkien

Pictures are back!!!! 🤩

Sorry for the late post. I finished The Hobbit a couple of days ago and loved it as always. But still more, l loved my travel mates. This has been a fantastic read, with beautiful pics and comment and such a lively group of readers.

I want to thank everyone who took part, and for those that will go on with The Lord of the Rings l say: let's do it again!!!!!! 💪😁

Hoping to finish up the last few chapters today so I‘ll be all set to start The Fellowship on time this weekend. #InvolvesDragon #BookBinge @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Still loved, even after many reads now…and this ending has always struck me as quite a great one.

Little did even the author know just how much this past episode would weave into a bigger trilogy to come, and the part of prophecy here… oh so very important to the future of that world, in ways the author hadn‘t yet quite even dreamed of. 😉. Without those, the wider world would not have faired quite so well. “Roads go ever ever on” indeed!

#LotRChapterADay #FellowshipOfTolkien

Bitter and sweet. Sad and amusing.
Fantastic, as always.

@Daisey @wordslinger42 @BookwormAHN @Riveted_Reader_Melissa @BethM @TheAromaOfBooks @Susanita @Roary47 @Light_of_Aether @TheBookDream @dabbe @Vansa @IndoorDame @Chrys @majkia @Fortifiedbybooks @Lizpixie @BarbaraJean @Born.A.Reader @Larkken @Clare-Dragonfly @mabell @Liatrek @tdrosebud @curiouserandcurioser @Desha

#LotRChapterADay #FellowshipOfTolkien

This would be a transition chapter if not for Thirin's death.
Tolkien originally planned to let him live and really become King Under the Mountain. In a way, l wish he had. But l understand why he didn't.

#LotRChapterADay #FellowshipOfTolkien

I'm always in awe of Tolkien's ability to describe battles without losing the sense of what they mean for the individual.

I also love Thorin's descent into battle.
Just epic!

#LotRChapterADay #FellowshipOfTolkien

Always love this chapter every time l read it.
It's the core of Tolkien's philosophy of the common sense of the people that so often become courage and even bravery.

I also like the mix of 'right' and 'wrong', which also is at the core of Tolkien's philosophy. Sometimes an apparently wrong thing is the only tight thing to do.