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The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings | J.R.R. Tolkien

I‘m super excited to join in on the Lord of the Rings readalong! 🥰 It‘ll be awesome company as I trudge through Dry (and Broke As Hell) January. 😭 Starting with my favorite prologue of any book 🙃
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JazzFeathers I'm so happy to hear some love for the Prologue 😃 5y

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The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings | J.R.R. Tolkien

Here‘s the daily schedule for the Fellowship of the Ring portion of our chapter a day readalong of The Lord of the Rings.

Anyone is welcome to join! We don‘t have specific discussions, just post as you wish with the hashtag #FellowshipofTolkien.

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Daisey Do we want to add #LotRChapterADay or a different LotR specific hashtag? (edited) 5y

GrilledCheeseSamurai Yaaaaas! Picked out my copy today. It's been a year or so since I've read this so I'm champing at the bit! 🤩 5y

RebaReger I just read this last month! It was so good! I will admit I enjoyed The Hobbit more but I did enjoy Fellowship of the Ring. Looking forward to Two Towers and Return of the King! 5y

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teainthelibrary Ooo I would love to join this as I‘ve missed out on the other Tolkien readalongs! 5y

lumos_flamel I'm in! 5y

JazzFeathers Thanks for the schedule, @Daisey l can't tell you how excited l am to read it again! 5y

BookwormAHN Thanks for making the schedule @Daisey I'm so excited to read this with y'all. When I had just joined Litsy I believe the group was in the middle of The Two Towers and I was too shy to join in. Now however I have chosen which copy I'm going with and I'm ready 😸 5y

wordslinger42 Yay!! Thank you for the schedule! Now to try and focus on work instead of picking up the book! We'll see how successful I am 😅 5y

Daisey @RebaReger I will be curious to hear what you think after reading all of Lord of the Rings, since it‘s really all one story. Enjoy and feel free to join in on our posts any time even if you‘re at a different point in your reading. 5y

Daisey @teainthelibrary @lumos_flamel Wonderful! It‘s always great to have more readers join us. I look forward to seeing your posts. 5y

Daisey @JazzFeathers I‘m pretty sure I can guess, as I probably feel much the same! 😂 @BookwormAHN I‘m so glad you‘re with us this time around! @wordslinger42 I understand! I‘m loving the fact that I have a few more days before going back to work so I could enjoy reading this morning. @GrilledCheeseSamurai Enjoyed seeing your editions of The Hobbit, so I‘ll be interested to see the copy you chose this time. 5y

LaLecture I just came across a post about this and I love the concept! I‘ve been meaning to read The Lord of the Rings for years, but the sheer size has put me off 😅. One chapter a day seems manageable though. 5y

Daisey @LaLecture Yay! We‘ll be so glad to have you join us, and I really enjoy the chapter a day format as well. 5y

Andrew65 Read this one but might join you when you get to book 2. 5y

Daisey @Andrew65 Sounds good! 5y

TheBookDream Ooooh. I think I‘ll have to do this. 5y

Daisey @TheBookDream As in you‘re going to jump in now to join us? We‘re always happy to have more readers to share and discuss! 5y

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The Annotated Hobbit | John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, Douglas A. Anderson

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I finished the last chapter of The Hobbit today, and again I loved this story. It‘s interesting to consider it with more depth after reading The History of the Hobbit and so much of Tolkien‘s writing the last few years. I appreciated the footnotes, but since much of that information was familiar from other reading, my favorite aspect of this edition is the variety of illustrations.

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JazzFeathers Three different edition! 😍 5y

Daisey @JazzFeathers 2 editions of The Hobbit, a Middle-Earth Atlas, and the art book I have. 5y

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The Annotated Hobbit | John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, Douglas A. Anderson

I didn‘t get much reading done last night after working on Christmas decorations, so I‘m catching up on “Riddles in the Dark” with coffee this morning.

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bibliobliss Love your book tree 😉 5y

JazzFeathers I need to catch up too. And my boss wants a tree of books like that in the bookshop. I know what l'll be doing Monday morning. Bi 5y

JazzFeathers But tonight, Hobbit catch up! 5y

Daisey @Readage Thank you! 5y

Daisey @JazzFeathers I‘ll be curious to see what you come up with at the shop. Enjoy your catch up reading time! 5y

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The Annotated Hobbit | John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, Douglas A. Anderson

I used money from an early Christmas gift this year to purchase The Annotated Hobbit to go along with our current readalong. It arrived today so I‘m playing a bit of catch up on chapters 2 & 3. I‘m excited to see illustrations from other editions (above center is from the 1973 Slovak edition) and to read the annotations, although I doubt I‘ll get to all of them with this reading.

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JazzFeathers The Italian translation of this edition is the very first Tolkien book l ever bought. Nostalgia... 5y

Daisey @JazzFeathers What a wonderful memory! 5y

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The Hobbit | J.R.R. Tolkien

Reading chapter 1 with Tolkien‘s own illustration of The Hill and Bag End. The meeting between Bilbo and Gandalf is great, and I always enjoy the little history of golf anecdote.

Fun note for today: I happened to log into the web version of Litsy this evening and The Hobbit is a trending book!

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JazzFeathers Noooooo! Do you think we made it trendy? 5y

Daisey @JazzFeathers I think we did! If you scroll through recent posts, they are all for our readalong. 💪 😁 5y

Riveted_Reader_Melissa 😂 #BlameItOnTolkien! 5y

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The Hobbit | J.R.R. Tolkien

Our #FellowshipofTolkien is ready for another adventure #ThereAndBackAgain as we reread The Hobbit a chapter a day starting December 1 and start Lord of the Rings on January 3.

We would love to have any other interested readers join us, whether you‘ve read it many times or want to read it for the first time! We‘re an informal readalong group, but we post and discuss with each other regularly so feel free to join in.

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Linsy I‘d love to join! I always meant to read, but somehow always got stuck in the forest chapter. 5y

Daisey @Linsy Fantastic! We‘re only a few chapters in and would love to have you join us. Maybe a group will help you get through. 5y

Linsy Yay!! I just started last night. I‘ll work on catching up :) 5y

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The Hobbit | J.R.R. Tolkien

So, #FellowshipofTolkien friends, do we have a plan going forward? We‘re all caught up on Sauron Defeated, correct? I know we had discussed the possibility of rereading The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings after all the history and drafts we‘ve read. Thoughts? I would be happy to start over the holidays, or if we want a break I‘ll concentrate on some other things. #YearsofTolkien

Also, I now have more books than will fit on my Tolkien shelf. 📚 😃

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Daisey I tagged those I know have been reading recently, but feel free to join in the discussion or tag others. I think I need to go look for some others I may have mentioned this to in the last few months as well. 5y

wordslinger42 I know the feeling, I have multiple Tolkien shelves/stacks 😅 I would love to read the series again whenever it works best for everyone! 5y

Daisey @llwheeler Are you still possibly interested in joining if we start a reread? 5y

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llwheeler Absolutely! I'm good to start any time, whatever works for others 5y

Riveted_Reader_Melissa I‘m ready to go there and back again whenever it is good with everyone. 5y

Daisey @wordslinger42 @llwheeler @Riveted_Reader_Melissa Love these responses! I‘m looking forward to rereading as well after delving into all these other layers. 5y

wordslinger42 @llwheeler @Riveted_Reader_Melissa @Daisey Yay! Any ideas on when we want to start reading? 😊 5y

BookwormAHN I'm good to start whenever 😺 5y

Riveted_Reader_Melissa Really random brainstorming: Reading over the holidays....start on Thanksgiving: give thanks to where we‘ve been and the fellowship we‘ve found. I realize that only works for the American calendar and doesn‘t give us long to publicize on Litsy if anyone wants to join in though. Start after the holidays: January 3: Tolkien‘s birthday 🤷‍♀️ 5y

Riveted_Reader_Melissa Also do we want to do a chapter-a-day again? Or some other format? 5y

Riveted_Reader_Melissa Oops forgot to re-tag everyone! @Daisey @JazzFeathers @wordslinger42 @BookwormAHN @llwheeler @tdrosebud 5y

Daisey Personally, I‘d like to start sooner rather than later, and I think chapter a day works fairly well. I like the Thanksgiving concept, but maybe December 1 to give us a few days to get the info out? @Riveted_Reader_Melissa @wordslinger42 @JazzFeathers @BookwormAHN @llwheeler @tdrosebud 5y

wordslinger42 I am happy to start any time, but I agree with @Daisey that I'd prefer to start sooner! @Riveted_Reader_Melissa I love the Thanksgiving concept 😊 5y

llwheeler Chapter a day works well for me. I'm good to start this week or Dec 1. 5y

BookwormAHN I'm good with either, but if we stretch out the Hobbit through December we could start The Fellowship on Jan. 3rd. @Daisey @Riveted_Reader_Melissa @wordslinger42 @JazzFeathers @llwheeler @tdrosebud 5y

Riveted_Reader_Melissa Ok.. The Hobbit has 19 chapters plus the authors note. So if we start The Hobbit on Dec 1, we could finish by Dec 21, break for Christmas, and then start the Fellowship on Jan 3...sound like a good mix of everybody‘s preferences? @Daisey @JazzFeathers @wordslinger42 @BookwormAHN @llwheeler @tdrosebud 5y

wordslinger42 @Riveted_Reader_Melissa Sounds great to me! 💚 5y

Daisey @Riveted_Reader_Melissa That sounds great to me! I do love the idea of starting one of the books on Tolkien‘s birthday. 5y

BookwormAHN Sounds great to me as well 😸 5y

llwheeler Sounds good! 5y

GrilledCheeseSamurai Ooooooh. Can I join in? I'd totally be down for a Hobbit/LOTR re-read. Especially chapter a day buddy reads! 5y

JazzFeathers That is a great schedule, everyone. Loved it. I just reread the Hobbit in September, but l'm more than happy to reread it with all of you 😀 And l really can't wait to reread The Lord of the Rings. Love the idea to start on Tolkien's birthday. 5y

JazzFeathers Also @Daisey did you really mention Tolkien and shelf space in the same sentence? 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 5y

Daisey @GrilledCheeseSamurai Of course we would love to have you join us! The more the merrier! 5y

Daisey @JazzFeathers Well, until the last couple of years, I have very slowly added to my collection. So it is only rather recently that it overfilled its space. I also recently decided to specifically shelve my Tolkien books in the living room instead of my less visible shelves. 5y

JazzFeathers @Daisey A couple of years ago, l bought two new shelves to add to my already existing two Tolkien shelves. I thought it would last me for years. Errrr.... 😶 5y

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Sauron Defeated | John R. R. Tolkien

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I didn‘t enjoy this as much as other History of Middle-Earth books we‘ve read, and some sections required real effort to read. Yet, overall it is a pick because I truly enjoyed the final history of LotR and the Drowning of Anadune. The other sections give me a great appreciation for the time, effort, and thought put into all of Tolkien‘s creative process. “Delight lay in the creation itself . . .”

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JazzFeathers I totally agree with this review. Although l think that with a more focused mind, l could get a lot more even from the harder section. One day... 5y

Daisey @JazzFeathers I also hope to read it again someday. I think just a second chance to absorb as well as possibly less distraction while reading would help me get more from it as well. 5y

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Sauron Defeated | John R. R. Tolkien

One of the things I find most interesting in these evolving versions of the Fall of Numenor is the discussion of the world as flat or round. Was it always round or was it changed due to this cataclysmic event? Was this concept of a flat world true at some point or just belief based on falsehood? It‘s amazing to me the thought that went into the continuous development of this world over so many years.

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BookwormAHN That's one of the things I love about Tolkien, he was creating a world not just some books 💙 5y

Daisey @BookwormAHN Same here! It was so much more than just a story. 5y

JazzFeathers @BookwormAHN @Daisey What l liked the most about this section is seeing that he was always willing to experiment. His legendarium had been laid out in its main points for almost 20 years at this point, and still he considered changing everything for the sake of the story. That's the mark of a true storyteller. 5y

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