@ImperfectCJ I meant, with everything in me, to email you as soon as I got to school Monday to tell you my schedule. It has been a crazy week, finalizing grades, parent/teacher conferences that lasted late. Please forgive me and my forgetfulness.
So, before we start our new reads with the #FellowshipOfTolkien l want to try and finish at least the Silmarillion and The Lord of the Rings. With both books, I'm not so far from the end, so...
And soon, the #DraculaDaily will pick up again where l left off last year, and I'd like to finish that too.
It's disgracefully hot here in Italy. Let's see what l manage.
Here we are!!! 😁
@Daisey and l have been thinking what to read next with the #FellowshipOfTolkien.
There are a few option we'd like to explore.
Here is what we have come up with for a Fall reading.
1. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
2. The Fall of Numenor
3. Tolkien and the Great War
These are really three different path we might thread.
1. Tolkien's medieval work (so much to read!)
2. New publications
3. Books about Tolkien
What you fancy?😁
#FellowshipOfTolkien
I did write a short blog to celebrate Tolkien's birthday. I'm late as usual, but here it is 😁
https://theoldshelter.com/conquering-sauron-with-the-ring-jrr-tolkiens-birthday-...
Here‘s the first in a set of 6 reading challenges I created for my library system. Each book is related to a fact about the author. As an extra challenge, discover the facts! #ReadingChallenge #ReadingChallenge2024
#HobbitWeek - Day 2 - Entish: Middle-earth Landscape
I love Tolkien's relationship with nature. I think his is more than just respect. He relates to Nature as with an equal. He doesn't just worship her, but he tries to understan her and act in her same way.
He treats herime a beloved friend, not like a goddess.
I love this attitude.
It was such a busy week that l almost forgot about the #HobbitWeek but today l finally got abou it.
Day 1 - Adunaic - Kingdoms of Man
I loved the Akallabeth since the first time l read it. It's such a tragic, and still beautiful story. And with so many incredible character, for a relatively short story.
I'm also quite impressed that Tolkien created a language for them many years after working to his Elvish languages.
#LotRChapterADay #FellowshipOfTolkien
Another find on Instagram and couldn't resist sharing.
It's so perfect for our readalong 🤩
Happy Hobbit Day, everyone!
This is one of my favourite days of the year!
I love celebrating Bilbo and Frodo's birthdays with fellow Tolkien fans from around the world. It's almost like getting around the Party Tree in a place that exists in our hearts, if not in the real world.
I wish a fantastic Hobbit Day to everyone. Do something hobbit today!
Do something hobbit every day! I think our lives would be better if we did.
#FellowsjipOfTolkien
Errrr.... The app tells me l've been away for over one month. I really didn't realise it. I've been so busy with work, and the blog and a possible new business - it just swallowed me up.
But hey! Here l am on Tolkien Reading Day.
Couldn't miss this one 😜
Aur Onnad Meren! #OnThisDay in 1892 J.R.R Tolkien was born in Bloemfontein, South Africa. He grew up to write a few books you may have heard of, create a few languages, cause a resurgence in the high fantasy genre, and inspire the names of moons, mountains, fossils, bugs, and more. Classic under-achiever. #HistoryGetsLIT
Happy birthday, Professor Tolkien!
Today is Tolkien 130th birthday.
I've celebrated it with a little homage 😊
https://t.co/pDf1jpjXtV
#FellowshipOfTolkien
More little books about Tolkien from Luna Press 😁
Yesterday was such a great - and busy - Tolkien Reading Day... And l can't believe l didn't post anything here!
But l'm not missing this chance to to it just now! 😜
#FellowshipOfTolkien
I can't believe l posted my celebration of Tolkien's birthday everywhere but here, the home of my #FellowshipOfTolkien 😭
Well, let's right that out!
https://medium.com/middle-earth-literary-gazette/hope-and-tolkiens-activism-a-tr...
All Tolkien fans:
Along with my Litsy reading, I recently started getting involved with the Tolkien Society of Kansas City. On October 10, they are hosting a virtual Tolkien conference called MiddleMoot with Signum University. The event is $30 but all sessions will also be recorded and available to registrants. If you might be interested, see https://signumuniversity.org/event/middlemoot-2020/
#FellowshipofTolkien #JRRTolkien
Our Tolkien reading group has been reading together for three years! We‘ve been through some changes, from #LotRChapterADay to #YearOfTolkien to now #FellowshipOfTolkien with many different people joining in for a time. The main square shows the books we‘ve read together from beginning to now, the lower left is our current read, and the others around the outside are books I‘ve read alongside. The column on the right are all nonfiction.
#FellowshipOfTolkien
Can you believe it's almost our third anniversary? 😱😆
@Daisey @Riveted_Reader_Melissa @wordslinger42 @BookwormAHN
#FellowshipOfTolkien
Tolkien read in progress 😆
Last book of 2019 and first book of 2020.
It's a friend's book addressing Tolkien's own illustrations.
I couldn't be more geeky than I already am: I bought a dress with a print of Tolkien's universe
Some of his quotes are so relevant even today.
#ThereAndBackAgain
#TeamTolkien2ndAnniversary
#TeamTolkien
Today marks the 2 year anniversary of reading Tolkien on an almost daily basis with an amazing group of readers! These are the 24 books completed on my Goodreads Tolkien shelf since joining the #LotRChapterADay readalong on July 18, 2017. 18 are books I read with the group, along with 6 more I read alongside. We‘ve had wonderful sharing and discussion about the work of one of my favorite writers, and I look forward to continuing. #YearofTolkien
The other thing I‘ve found in all of our Tolkien reading, is he is a great writer to read in times of adversity ...Tolkien speaks well in troubling times.
#ThereAndBackAgain
#TeamTolkien2ndAnniversary
#TeamTolkien
Indeed...I stepped out my door one day and decided to join a Hobbit and LOTR Chapter a Day reading group, led by @freyaheart ...and poof here it is 2 years later with a small group that took off from there and I‘m still reading, and still enjoying every turn of phrase and insight!
Here‘s to year 3 of this grand adventure! 🍻
#ThereAndBackAgain
#TeamTolkien2ndAnniversary
#TeamTolkien
IT IS TODAY!!!!!
Today the #YearOfTolkien group celebrate its second year of reading Tolkien (almost) every day!
Two years ago, when l joined the #LotRChapterADay (and l almost didn't, l thought l didn't have time) l never ever ever imagined what journey awaited me. Truly, if we don't keep our feet, there's no telling where we might be sweet off to.
Drop in today. We'll share quotes, thoughts, and a party
#TeamTolkien2ndAnniversary
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#YearOfTolkien
I don't belived it!!! We're almost at out second anniversary! I'm beside myself with excitement!
If this doesn't deserve a celebration, l don't know what does.
So l've been thinking (with help from a friend who's also a Tolkien fun): let's make a party! Let's devise a menu for a particular event in any of Tolkien's stories. Everyone thinks up a menu and everybody else decides what event they would go.
How does this sound?
Knew this was coming as a couple of years ago I was in the cinema waiting for Paddington 2 to come on and the couple sitting next to me and my mum were parents of someone who worked on Paddington 2 and this film!!
http://forreadingaddicts.co.uk/news/first-images-from-tolkien-biopic-revealed/30...
Didn't have the opportunity to post about Tolkien's birthday yesterday, but here's my little tribut to him 😊
https://theoldshelter.com/tolkien-the-importance-of-remembrance-and-a-happy-birt...
#YearOfTolkien
Thanks to @TK-421 for posting such an interesting quote.
I do think fantasy today can never ignore Tolkien, whether it embraces him or refuses him.
#YearOfTolkien #Tolkien #fantasy
#HumpDayPost @mindea
1. Deer in my pasture.
2. Old fashioned southern BBQ with the works.
3. Ride out the remains of the hurricane and read.
4. Tolkien
5. Fall colors
#TuesdayTidBits
1. I love both. But l find historical non-fiction more fascinating
2. I've watched both but l'm not really a fan of either
3. Pizza, l'm ltalian 😆
4. Tolkien. No competition there
5. Everybody consider themselves tagged 😄
Thank you so much @KKimber ! This picture doesn‘t do justice to what a lovely box this was! (Chocolate goodies were hustled to the fridge so there was even more amazing ness!) lots to decorate my shelves and some intriguing Tolkien nonfiction!! #tolkieniteswap
Tolkien's World: Paintings of Middle-earth | 
