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This is an absolute must read for any big fans of Tolkien and Lewis. It‘s the story of their friendship told as a graphic novel with excursions into the creation of the fantasy genre and more. It‘s part biography, part fantastical tale, and part choose your own adventure. I love that it explores the friendship, but it also gives info about both men‘s childhoods, marriage, and time as soldiers. It‘s wonderfully done.

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Texreader
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My purchases yesterday from FireLight bookstore in Blowing Rock, NC

AnnCrystal 🤩📚💝. 4d
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dabbe
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#haikuhive
#haikuaday
#phonaesthetics
#jrrtolkien

Two words: cellar door.
Beautiful purely in their
sounds ... without meaning.

The background picture above: the entrance of the “hobbit hole“, which Tolkien devised, is a type of “cellar door“, the idea of whose phonetic beauty he popularized in a 1955 lecture on the English and Welsh language.

TheSpineView 💛🐝💛 1mo
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bellabella Beautiful 😍 1mo
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JenlovesJT47 Ooh I love this! 💛🐝🖤 1mo
dabbe @TheSpineView 💛🐝🖤 1mo
dabbe @TheBookHippie 💛🐝🖤 1mo
dabbe @bellabella 💛🐝🖤 1mo
dabbe @JenlovesJT47 💛🐝🖤 1mo
lil1inblue Love. 💛🐝💛 1mo
Kristy_K Love this! 💛💛 1mo
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AnnCrystal Perfect reading location 😍👏🏼🐝👍🏼🪄🐝💝. 1mo
julieclair Ahhh…. my grandparents had a cellar door… 💙 1mo
julieclair So to me they are beautiful words, WITH meaning. 😘 1mo
tpixie Very interesting 1mo
BooksandCoffee4Me Love this! Tolkien‘s love of language inspires me, and now your haiku is prompting me to think of “two words.” 😊💛💛💛 1mo
CBee I very much want a hobbit hole 😊 1mo
Eggs Well described 👏🏻👏🏻 There‘s something so magical about a dwelling like this✨ 1mo
Reggie Funny, I only know this from Donnie Darko who probably got it from Tolkien. 1mo
dabbe @AnnCrystal IKR? 💛🐝🖤 1mo
dabbe @julieclair 💛🐝🖤 1mo
dabbe @julieclair It could be a woman's name in poem by Poe: “Selidor.“ 😍 1mo
dabbe @tpixie 🙌🏻 1mo
dabbe @BooksandCoffee4Me 💛🐝🖤 In his lecture he said that those two words were the most beautiful-sounding words in the English language. 1mo
dabbe @CBee It could be our reading getaway room! 😍 1mo
dabbe @Eggs IKR? 💛🐝🖤 1mo
dabbe @Reggie You are correct! And I don't even think Tolkien was the first one! 🤣 1mo
DebinHawaii In my soul I am a hobbit & “cellar door” just speaks to me! 💛🐝💛 1mo
dabbe @DebinHawaii IKR? And to live in the shire ... 💚💚💚 1mo
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ARTDJG
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Pickpick

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MaureenMc
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Pickpick

I loved this gorgeous graphic novel exploring the friendship between C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien and how they influenced each other creatively. Hendrix also delves into the meaning of myth and other types of stories. Beautifully, brilliantly done.

tpixie This sounds great! 2mo
Daisey This sounds fascinating! Stacked! 1mo
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MaureenMc @tpixie @Daisey I hope you enjoy it! 😊 1mo
mabell We saw the play, Christmas with C. S. Lewis, this December. It covered their friendship - very interesting! 1mo
MaureenMc @mabell That play sounds amazing! 1mo
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StaceGhost
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Finished the LotR trilogy, starting the Silmarillion & v excited for the critical theory I‘ve chosen to pair with it. Also mad about not having all the books I want to read on audiobook ho hum

This book was lovely— a lot of excellent moral readings BUT I wanted more nuance. Still, delightful. Looking for a close reading involving Tolkien‘s other works & specifically an analysis of “the scouring of the shire”

#freeluigi #feanorno

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Butterfinger
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@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.

ImperfectCJ No worries at all! I know you have a lot going on lately. Next time I'm in WNC, we'll connect :-) 3mo
BooksandCoffee4Me Oh, he wrote such beautiful lines. 3mo
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Susanita
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It was a particularly stinky week IRL but there was still joy to be found.
1. While walking in the woods, I ran into someone I knew, and we noticed this sweet little flower next to the path.
2. The library held Tolkien Reading Day event with the editor of the tagged book.
3. The PetSmart cashier and I were both singing along with Bruno Mars on the PA.
4. I had shepherd‘s pie with Impossible “meat,” and it was delicious. ⬇️
#5joysfriday

Susanita 5. The result was NOT what I wanted, but it was still a joy to attend Opening Day. 3mo
Bookwormjillk Gore was so good. I‘m holding on to that and ignoring the ending. 3mo
Aims42 It was indeed a stinky week for me too. Glad it‘s Friday!! 💛🧡🩷 3mo
TheBookHippie This week was ROUGH. Love your lists! 3mo
dabbe @Susanita We attended ours, too, with the same results. ♥️⚾️🖤 3mo
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Daisey
Lays of Beleriand | J R R Tolkien
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lissom: thin, supple, and graceful (adjective)

#WeirdWords #WeirdWordWednesday #FellowshipOfTolkien

CBee Lovely! 3mo
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Daisey
Lays of Beleriand | J R R Tolkien
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Happy Tolkien Reading Day! After recently reading Tolkien‘s work on The Fall of Arthur I decided to revisit a bit more of his poetry today in the tagged book with supper tonight. I love the story of Beren and Luthien, and the parts that were written as poetry are especially wonderful.

Anyone else reading a little extra Tolkien today?

#TolkienReadingDay #JRRTolkien #FellowshipOfTolkien #ReadAndEat

BarbaraJean I had forgotten Tolkien Reading Day—thanks for the reminder! I have a tiny gift edition of Tolkien‘s poetry, and I‘ll have to read through it this evening! 3mo
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BooksandCoffee4Me Missed this because I had a total knee replacement surgery but thanks for the tag! 💛 I‘m in and have two new books (new to me) to read - Tolkien‘s Beowulf and his short tales! 3mo
Daisey @BooksandCoffee4Me The Beowulf is one I want to read soon! 3mo
Riveted_Reader_Melissa I have been watching Tolkien. I finished all 3 extended versions of the Hobbit Trilogy and am almost halfway through the LOTR extended versions. 3mo
Daisey @Riveted_Reader_Melissa That sounds great! I should make some time to watch them all again. 3mo
Riveted_Reader_Melissa @Daisey honestly…the real world is a mess, but Tolkien (whether he meant it to or not) drew from his own life experience living in “interesting times” as they say & funneled into his work so much of the times then & now. Of different groups that hate each other because of history reasons, that need to pull it together to fight something bigger. Also how easily corruptible promises of power are & the reminder they never really share power. Plus⤵️ 3mo
Riveted_Reader_Melissa ↪️ of course…. Gold corrupts even the most noble. And coveting wealth over Song & food (and family & friends & people & health & first responders & vets & special education & research & air traffic control, & etc to infinity it seems) never ends well. The gold survived to corrupt again, but lots of pointless dead in the field after the fight 3mo
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