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Okay, we’ve all seen these before. Simply reblog and replace my answers with your own. We all get to talk about Tolkien (which is awesome), and we all get to learn a bit about each other (which is awesome.)
HISTORY
  • First Tolkien Book: lord of the rings
  • Age at First Reading: thirteen or fourteen
  • Who/What Introduced You?: parent
  • First Favorite Character: bilbo
CURRENT EVENTS
  • Currently Reading (By Tolkien): going to reread fellowship shortly!
  • Fan of the Movies?: meh. i can enjoy jackson's lotr but don't even get me started on his hobbit trilogy
  • Plan to Read Next: see above
FAVORITES
 (lmao how am i supposed to even choose some of these)
  • Story: narn i chîn húrin.
  • Race/Culture: secondborn
  • Male Character: túrin, gwindor, húrin, orodreth.
  • Female Character: morwen, finduilas, nienor, aerin.
  • Romantic Relationship: túrin and níniel, in its gloriously tragic context. túrin and finduilas. morwen and húrin, finduilas and gwindor. finduilas and nienor for something less canonically based. ;)
  • Friendship: túrin and gwindor. túrin and sador. aerin and morwen -- any friendship between women! as well as any of those in the above category.
  • Location: the shire, dorthonion.
  • Battle: pelennor fields.
  • Song: a elbereth gilthoniel.
  • Of the Trilogy: return of the king.
  • Member of the Fellowship: peregrin took.
  • Villain: glaurung.
  • Elf: finduilas, gwindor.
  • Dwarf: mîm.
  • Man/Woman: ...húrin's family. ha
  • Hobbit: pippin. belladonna took, in her offscreen glory.
  • Valar/Maiar: uinen.
  • Other: huan! ents are pretty cool too.
BOLD WHAT YOU’VE READ
The Hobbit, The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, The Return of the King, The Silmarillion, The Unfinished TalesThe Children of Hurin, The Histories of Middle Earth (volumes 1, 2, 310, 11, 12), The Book of Lost Tales, Leaf by Niggle, Farmer Giles of Ham, On Fairy Stories, The Adventures of Tom Bombadil, The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien, The Atlas of Middle Earth
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"An Unexpected Journey" Thoughts

I'm not calling it a review, as it isn't cohesive and organized enough to be called one in bullet-point format.

My feelings are rather mixed. I purposely didn't re-read the book recently, as I wanted to judge it first and foremost as a film without complaining about too many adaptational changes. I'll read the book before I go again in a few weeks.

Spoilers follow below!

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Tolkien's Imaginary Languages

12 April 2012 - Professor Ed Vajda

I know some followers expressed interest in this, so I thought I'd share the notes I took. (I know I have a couple other write-ups to complete, but I'd like to get this one done while it's fresh in my mind, lest I am unable to read my sloppy notes.)

I'm presenting some of the details slightly out of order from when they were discussed, simply because it's easier to synthesize my notes in an organized manner by doing so.

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