Bilbo's Last Song

Me and Bilbo wishing everyone a happy weekend. Hope you all are safe and well. Happy reading 📚 🦉📖 @Mishu94 @GondorGirl @TheWolfbehindTheEyes @Yuki_Onna @DaveGreen7777 @Chrissyreadit @Cupcake12 @Buechersuechtling #litsylove #owlsoflitsy

Ruthiella Beautiful photo! ❤️ 3y

hannah-leeloo She refused to move over to crop me out lol. 3y

hannah-leeloo Thank you @Ruthiella she is a beauty 😍🦉 3y

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DaveGreen7777 Awww! @hannah-leeloo I owlways want you and Bilbo to be happy! 😊🦉 (edited) 3y

Chrissyreadit Two beauties! ❤️ happy Friday! 3y

AmyG She is amazing! (Ha, you too) ❤️ 3y

Crazeedi That's a lovely picture 💗💗💗 3y

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Awwww 🦉 ❤️ 3y

GondorGirl What a great photo! You two are so cute! 3y

Cupcake12 Love this photo. ❤️ Hope you have a good weekend too x 3y

IuliaC Wow! Awesome photo! 🤩🦉 3y

hannah-leeloo Thank you everyone 😃❤🦉 3y

Yuki_Onna How beautiful and lovely you two are! 💞 3y

Tera66 Wow!! That's awesome! 3y

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TCLinrow

Bilbo's Last Song | J.R.R. Tolkien

Sorry it's so late! I only just got home to open it 🙃

This book is absolutely beautiful, thank you @kaysworld1 😁 And I love popcorn, so that will be demolished tomorrow 😅

Thank you for organising @bookish_wookish 🥳

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bookish_wookish Pretty cover! 4y

Moony Ohhh salted caramel popcorn ❤️ 4y

kaysworld1 I'm glad I got it right you said you didn't sweet so I improvised 😄 the book looks amazing I'd love to read it myself xx 4y

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Bookwomble

Bilbo's Last Song | J.R.R. Tolkien

"Farewell to Middle-earth at last,
I see the Star above your mast!"

??? Ian Holme ???

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Bookwomble

Bilbo's Last Song | J.R.R. Tolkien

I've had the pocket edition of "Bilbo's Last Song" for a while, and it's one of my favourite entries in the Middle-earth canon. The original full-size edition I bought the other day to enjoy Baynes's artwork the better. First discovery is that the full title is "Bilbo's Last Song (At the Grey Havens)", the second that there is a middle register of paintings of Bilbo in various attitudes of reverie removed from the pocket edition. ??

Bookwomble By juggling the picture elements about, the roundels are printed at about the same size in both editions, but the vignettes in the lower register are larger in the original format. I'm so glad I decided to buy it, despite a slight hesitation about duplicating yet another book! 5y

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Bookwomble

Bilbo's Last Song | J.R.R. Tolkien

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Tolkien's short poem is given two pages per line by his favourite Illustrator, Pauline Baynes.The verso page has the poem line, framed by a different pair of winter trees on each page, capturing Tolkien's theme of leavetaking and endings, the recto page Bayne's interpretation of the stages of Bilbo's final journey to the West, while the bottom of both pages have vignettes of Bilbo's first journey with Thorin and company, as told in "The Hobbit".

Bookwomble A touching and heartwarming end to Bilbo's story. 5y

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Rachbb3

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I'm dusting my shelves, picked this one up and read it. It took 5 minutes. Lol. It made me nostalgic for The Hobbit. 😢

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GripLitGrl

Bilbo's Last Song | J.R.R. Tolkien

#LiteraryLuck #uniquecharacternames
Bilbo Baggins 💖
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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 📚📚 6y

vkois88 Great choice 6y

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Jennymay

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As Bilbo takes his final voyage to the Undying Lands, he must say goodbye to Middle-earth. Poignant and lyrical 👍

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BookishGamer87

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If you want a very quick read with some cute illustrations of Bilbo's adventures, I'd definitely recommend this little book.

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Moray_Reads

Bilbo's Last Song | J.R.R. Tolkien

I love Bilbo's Last Song. The musical version from the 1981 BBC radio adaptation is beautiful #ThereAndBackAgain @JazzFeathers

JazzFeathers I'll have to seek out that program. Some of Tolkien's poems are so sad, don't you find? And some others are so joyful. 6y

Moray_Reads @JazzFeathers He could definitely tap into a deep melancholy, I always find Bilbo's poem "I Sit Beside The Fire and Think" heartbreaking too, I can't help but think it's Tolkien's own sadness at getting old. I very much recommend the BBC adaptation, I think it's very well done and Ian Holm plays Frodo! The song is here https://youtu.be/xO4aaiftLuA 6y

JazzFeathers I think there's more than that. Tolkien belonged to a generazione who lived through two World Wars... l can barely imagine that. He saw an age come down in the fire and ashes of industrial warfare and still like many of his generation believed that a new world would rise from those ashes. Though it took many decades. I always see this in between the lines of all his stories 6y

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JazzFeathers @Moray_Reads Oh, l really liked the song. So atmospheric. Since you mentioned 'l sit beside the fire and think', here's a link to the so good adaptation in ltalian, from some friends of mine. Hope you'll like it https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=E4jsQF8-YII 6y

Moray_Reads @JazzFeathers oh lovely! It sounds very different in Italian but I like it very much 6y

Moray_Reads @JazzFeathers I just noticed that my library has the BBC adaptation available on Overdrive, perhaps yours does too? 6y

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