BreakfastwithTolkien

I haven‘t had much actual reading time lately, so I caught up yesterday on audio while I took my beagle Luthien for a long rambling walk. “Of the Flight of the Noldor” is heartbreaking to me every time, but it‘s also an amazing story.

This morning I read “Of the Sindar” with breakfast. Here we learn more about Thingol & Melian and meet their daughter Luthien.

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JazzFeathers You are so far ahead of me. But these are short chapters. I still hope to catch up 😜 1mo

JazzFeathers Also, the Flight of the Noldor must be one of the best stories ever written! 1mo

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The Silmarillion | J.R.R. Tolkien

Happy Sunday Littens! I‘m so looking forward to rereading this again with a group of readers here. It‘s sometimes a tough read, but I get more out of every reread.

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Daisey As always, we welcome more readers to join us! Let me know if you want to be added or removed from the tag list. 2mo

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Andrea313 Please remove me this time around; I hope to tag in on the next one. Enjoy! 2mo

mabell I won‘t be reading along with this one, if you would like to remove me 😊 2mo

Daisey @Andrea313 @mabell ✅ 2mo

mabell PS - Yummy looking breakfast! 2mo

CatLass007 I‘m listening to the audiobook narrated by Derek Jacobi. It doesn‘t have the forward and preface. Should I be concerned about missing something? 2mo

CatLass007 Actually, it‘s not Derek Jacobi. 2mo

Daisey @CatLass007 The main part of the preface is excerpts from a letter that Tolkien wrote to Milton Waldman. You can read about the letter here: https://www.teawithtolkien.com/blog/Letter131 2mo

CatLass007 Thank you. 2mo

JazzFeathers I'm so excited too. It's been some time since last we read it 🤩 2mo

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Tales from the Perilous Realm | J.R.R. Tolkien

Saturday morning #BreakfastWithTolkien!
I caught up on a few days of poetry reading this morning. It‘s hard to choose which pages to share because these illustrations by Alan Lee are all so amazing! I‘m always amused reading the fun poems supposedly written by hobbits.

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AllDebooks I'm starting today 3mo

BarbaraJean 😍Thank you for sharing some of the illustrations when you post! I‘m sad I‘m not reading it in print this time around—alas for the need of a digital version while traveling! 3mo

JazzFeathers There are so many great illustration, but this one in the picture, for some reason, is one of my favourite. 3mo

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Letters From Father Christmas | J.R.R. Tolkien

Sunday morning breakfast and reading this weekend‘s letters from Father Christmas. We‘re getting more into the longer story letters, and I love it. These letters introduce the trouble making goblins for the first time, and there are all kinds of illustrations.

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AnnR I love how the stories become more sophisticated with the polar bear and the troublesome goblins. It makes for better illustrations too. 4mo

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AllDebooks This might be my new favourite Christmas book 😍 4mo

Cortg Just got caught up! I love the hieroglyphics. This must have been such a magical letter for these kids 🎅🏼 4mo

BethM The pictures are gorgeous! 4mo

JazzFeathers The middle of the book is simply fantastic. That was the same time Tolkien was telling Bilbo's stories to his children and he was clearly on a roll 😜 4mo

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The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings | J.R.R. Tolkien

Sunday morning book and breakfast with Tolkien!

I read Book 6 Chapter 7 “Homeward Bound” with breakfast this morning. After several reads, this chapter actually makes me a bit anxious as I just want them to keep moving and get to the Shire. At the same time, I love their visit to Bree and Butterbur‘s reaction to Strider as king.

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BarbaraJean I felt similarly anxious reading “Many Partings” last night, especially when they encounter Saruman on the road. It‘s foreshadowing, guys! Get a move on! 5mo

Daisey @BarbaraJean Exactly! Saruman talking about the Shire is not a good sign. 5mo

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The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings | J.R.R. Tolkien

Sunday morning book and breakfast

I‘ve barely ready any of The Two Towers this week and I don‘t have much time this morning. Hoping I can squeeze in a few chapters through the day today.

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LiteraryinLawrence Such a pretty reading spot! 7mo

Daisey @LiteraryinLawrence It is! I love reading in my backyard. 7mo

JazzFeathers It's been a tough week for mee too 🙁 How did yours go, in the end? I'm with Faramirvst the moment 😁 6mo

Daisey @JazzFeathers I‘ve been all kinds of busy and stressed, so I haven‘t finished. I‘ve still got 3 chapters. 6mo

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

I had lots going on this past week, so I got a bit behind. By the time I finished breakfast this morning, I‘d reached the point where Strider and the hobbits left Bree for Weathertop. I hope to finish Book 1 later today and flip through the notes in my Reader‘s Companion. One interesting note from my previous reading of HoME, the character that became Strider originally appeared as a hobbit named Trotter.

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BarbaraJean 😂 A hobbit named Trotter would certainly have lent a very different feel to the narrative! 8mo

Vansa I wonder why he changed the character to Aragorn? I guess to include a man among the Middle Earth races! 8mo

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dabbe I'm glad Tolkien turned him into Aragorn; otherwise, I wouldn't have been able to drool over Viggo Mortensen in the movies! 🤩🤩🤩 8mo

JazzFeathers @dabbe 😂😂😂 @Vansa @BarbaraJean But Trotter was a lovely character. I became very attached to him. In fact, up to Rivendell, all the characters were hobbits in the first drafts. In Bree, only.hobbitscas well. 8mo

Daisey @BarbaraJean @Vansa @dabbe @JazzFeathers It was one of the most interesting things to me in reading about the early drafts of the early part of the story. He just appeared and worked himself into the story. I tend to think it started all hobbits as Tolkien was attempting a sequel, and then the characters grew and changed as it became more and more a story of this world he had already written about. 8mo

BarbaraJean @JazzFeathers @Daisey It is so fascinating to think about this whole section being just hobbits. That goes right along with the idea that there‘s far more to hobbits than meets the eye, to have them make their own way to Rivendell without assistance from Aragorn. But I don‘t know if I could get past the name “Trotter”! 8mo

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

I read the Prologue this morning with breakfast and am so ready to get into this story again! I know we have lots of rereaders and some who have started but not finished all of LotR. Do we have any completely first time readers? If so, don‘t be surprised if this prologue is a rough start since it delves into some serious history before the action of the story.

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Born.A.Reader I'd like to say I've actually read these before, but honestly I don't think I have. I am excited to see what the movies (fantastic though they were) left out! 8mo

Jari-chan I wish my reading schedule wouldn't be so tight, so I could read along... But I'll guess I do a reread later😊 8mo

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BethM This prologue is tough! And I‘ve read these first ones before. I feel like I have no idea what they‘re talking about half the time lol! 8mo

Roary47 I don‘t think I have read any of the rest all the way through. I have seen the movies though. 8mo

Daisey @Jari-chan I wish you could join us, but I also understand. I‘m always wishing I could fit in another readalong. 8mo

Daisey @Born.A.Reader @Roary47 @BethM All good to know! So looking forward to hearing what you think as we read together. 8mo

TheAromaofBooks I've read these, but probably 20-25 years ago and honestly don't remember anything. I'm not a big movie watcher, so I've never seen the movies all the way through. I'm working through the prologue right now!! 8mo

Clare-Dragonfly I‘ve read the books a couple times but I‘ve seen the movies several more times so that‘s always what is in my head 😅 8mo

gossamerchild I've read the first 2 books at least 3 times :-) And then for some reason I never finish the series. In any case, I'm trying to do a re-read of Fellowship once a year, so I'm looking forward to this!

And yes, the prologue was definitely tough the first time I read this. Took me a couple of times, and many years, to actually pick it back up. Helped that I had read The Hobbit in the intervening years. 8mo

JazzFeathers I always suggest to first-time readers to just skip the prologue. They will won't to go back to it once the book is over 😜 8mo

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The Hobbit | J.R.R. Tolkien

Good morning and happy Sunday! This is my favorite kind of book and breakfast, a little bit of quiet time to myself before church and a book by Tolkien. I‘m a couple chapters behind our daily readalong but hoping to catch up today. The dwarves and Bilbo have finally made it to the mountain!

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Clare-Dragonfly That looks and sounds lovely! I no longer have any idea whether I‘m behind or not 😂 9mo

wordslinger42 I'm catching up today, too 😊 9mo

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BethM That breakfast looks awesome! I have to read yesterdays and todays ! 9mo

Daisey @Clare-Dragonfly Technically, today is chapter 13, but we‘re all over the place and very chill. 9mo

Daisey @wordslinger42 @BethM Breakfast was delicious, but I‘m still one chapter behind. Maybe tomorrow . . . 9mo

JazzFeathers I'm se eral chapter behind 😭 9mo

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Recipes from the World of Tolkien: Inspired by the Legends | Robert Tuesley Anderson

A late start for school this morning means I finally made time to bake muffins from this #cookbook a friend gave me for Christmas.

Confession: I find it nearly impossible to follow a recipe exactly as written. I used frozen cranberries instead of dried and apples instead of pears. I substituted in a tiny bit of wheat bran (Hobbit muffins should be hearty) and threw in a dash of cloves and allspice.

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Daisey @JazzFeathers I tried my first recipe, and they‘re delicious! 1y

Tamra Sounds scrumptious! 1y

Daisey @Tamra They were! 1y

Knitmaths It‘s always more fun changing the recipe! 1y

Daisey @Knitmaths So true! That is, until someone asks me to share and I realize just how much I adapted the original. 1y

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