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Susanita
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It was a particularly stinky week IRL but there was still joy to be found.
1. While walking in the woods, I ran into someone I knew, and we noticed this sweet little flower next to the path.
2. The library held Tolkien Reading Day event with the editor of the tagged book.
3. The PetSmart cashier and I were both singing along with Bruno Mars on the PA.
4. I had shepherd‘s pie with Impossible “meat,” and it was delicious. ⬇️
#5joysfriday

Susanita 5. The result was NOT what I wanted, but it was still a joy to attend Opening Day. 2d
Bookwormjillk Gore was so good. I‘m holding on to that and ignoring the ending. 2d
Aims42 It was indeed a stinky week for me too. Glad it‘s Friday!! 💛🧡🩷 2d
TheBookHippie This week was ROUGH. Love your lists! 2d
dabbe @Susanita We attended ours, too, with the same results. ♥️⚾️🖤 2d
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Daisey
Lays of Beleriand | J R R Tolkien
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lissom: thin, supple, and graceful (adjective)

#WeirdWords #WeirdWordWednesday #FellowshipOfTolkien

CBee Lovely! 3d
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Daisey
Lays of Beleriand | J R R Tolkien
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Happy Tolkien Reading Day! After recently reading Tolkien‘s work on The Fall of Arthur I decided to revisit a bit more of his poetry today in the tagged book with supper tonight. I love the story of Beren and Luthien, and the parts that were written as poetry are especially wonderful.

Anyone else reading a little extra Tolkien today?

#TolkienReadingDay #JRRTolkien #FellowshipOfTolkien #ReadAndEat

BarbaraJean I had forgotten Tolkien Reading Day—thanks for the reminder! I have a tiny gift edition of Tolkien‘s poetry, and I‘ll have to read through it this evening! 4d
BooksandCoffee4Me Missed this because I had a total knee replacement surgery but thanks for the tag! 💛 I‘m in and have two new books (new to me) to read - Tolkien‘s Beowulf and his short tales! 3d
Daisey @BooksandCoffee4Me The Beowulf is one I want to read soon! 3d
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JazzFeathers
The Fall of Arthur | J.R.R. Tolkien
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Pickpick

#MedievalTolkien #FellowshipOfTolkien

I loved it! I loved the story and it was so frustrating to leave it as it was just beginning. All the characters were so intriguing.

I loved Christopher's commentary, though it was in places a bit too granular for my understanding.

I lived the chapters about the Silmarillion. It wasn't what l was expecting, because l noticed other, different relationships with Tolkien's work. I wanted more! ⬇️

JazzFeathers But maybe what l loved the most were Tolkien's own words about the alliterative text and the storie expressed in that metric. We know and love Tolkien for his imaginative stories, and we often forget he was a very passionate scholar too. I'm always impressed by the depth, and the passion of his scholarly work, few as we have the chance to read. I wish l had the education to understand more of his scholarly work. 5d
Daisey I very much agree with your review as well. I‘ve come to appreciate this style of poetry so much through reading his work and find that description incredibly interesting. 4d
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Texreader
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Daisey Thanks for the tag! I hope to fit in some Tolkien later today! 5d
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BarbaraJean
The Fall of Arthur | J.R.R. Tolkien
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I enjoyed this unfinished piece of Arthurian poetry by Tolkien, along with the accompanying essays by Christopher Tolkien (that make up most of the book). Overall, though, it was a bit unsatisfying—I wanted a little bit more from all of it (but that‘s my own issue, not an actual problem with the book). “The Poem in Arthurian Tradition” made me want to study the poem in the context of an Arthurian Literature course, to go deeper into the sources ⤵️

BarbaraJean (Cont‘d) …Tolkien drew from. With “The Unwritten Poem & its Relation to The Silmarillion,” I wanted more analysis of the connections & parallels (and character comparisons) not only with the Silmarillion, but also the rest of Tolkien‘s work. (I realize literary interpretation/analysis wasn‘t Christopher Tolkien‘s purpose, and I understand why, but that‘s what I wanted!) My favorite part of the book, though, was the appendix on Old English Verse.⤵️ (edited) 1w
BarbaraJean (Cont‘d) I loved reading more about the alliterative form—it enriched my reading of the poem to go back and examine the form Tolkien was using, and it made me wish even more for a completed version of the poem. I‘m glad I read this #MedievalTolkien pick with the #FellowshipofTolkien! 1w
kspenmoll Wonderful review! 1w
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Daisey Great review and I completely agree! I also really enjoyed the section on the verse form. 1w
JazzFeathers What a great review, Barbara 🤩 l found it more difficult than others we read, but l still enjoyed it a lot. Especially the chapter about the Silmarillion, though l, too, would have liked a lot more from it. 'Cause I'm sure there's more, there. 5d
BarbaraJean @kspenmoll @Daisey Thank you! @JazzFeathers I agree, I found the essays in this one more difficult than some of our other reading—especially when Christopher Tolkien got so detailed about the various drafts of the poem. I wanted less of that and more analysis—I understand why CT‘s focus is where it is, but I guess my preference/interest is sometimes different than his goals! 5d
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Bookwomble
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This is a lovely little book, covering Kilby's stay with the Tolkiens in the summer of 1965, invited by JRRT to give him "editorial and critical assistance", and an impetus to focus on his authorial task at a time when age and the distractions of a fame to which he was ambivalent combined with a natural dilatoriness and a tendency for his interests to be "Like butter that has been scraped over too much bread". His personal impressions of ?

Bookwomble ... Tolkien's character are fascinating.
He goes onto a sketch of the composition of the Silmarillion, something that Christopher Tolkien later greatly expanded upon, then a consideration of how Tolkien's Christianity is embedded in his work, not as deliberately as that of C.S. Lewis but as a natural effect of his deep belief, and rounds up with a consideration of the three major Inklings, JRRT, Lewis and Charles Williams.
Lovely! 😊
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Leoslittlebooklife What a lovely cover! 2w
Bookwomble @Leoslittlebooklife It's vibrantly coloured, isn't it, which is what struck my eye as I took it off the shop's bookshelf 😍 2w
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Bookwomble
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Next up, a memoir of Kilby's summer assisting JRRT with his Silmarillion materials, after which he was asked to read the manuscript prior to publication. Kilby's book was published 1976, the year before The Silmarillion, so his impressions will be personal & unaffected by its general & critical reception.
Kilby was an Inkling scholar, with several academic books about Tolkien, Lewis and the others, so I'm also expecting it to be well-considered.

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Daisey
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Chiasmus: a figure of speech in which the grammar of two parallel phrases is inverted

#WeirdWordWednesday #WeirdWords #FellowshipOfTolkien #MedievalTolkien

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Daisey
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From “Speech and Silence in The Lord of the Rings: Medieval Romance and the Transitions of Eowyn”

#FellowshipOfTolkien #MedievalTolkien

BarbaraJean I hadn't heard of this book--and it sounds fabulous! I've just discovered I can check it out on Hoopla. (Adding it to the reading list now!) 3w
Daisey @BarbaraJean It‘s been on my list for a while now. I don‘t know that I‘ll do more than read an essay randomly, but I‘m so glad to have finally started it! 3w
JazzFeathers I'm always interested in reading about Tolkien's female characters. I think there's so much more to them than so many readers give them credit to. 3w
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