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Texreader
The Hobbit | J.R.R. Tolkien
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I didn‘t do so well! Some I read to the kiddos, some I read recently, and the rest I had to rely on a faulty memory!!

Faves: A Wrinkle in Time, The Graveyard Book, and The Hobbit (& Lion Witch and the Wardrobe, The Lord of the Rings, & The Gruffalo)

I‘d add: The Borrowers, The Guardians of Ga‘Hoole, The Unwanteds

#TLT #ThreeListThursday @dabbe

Butterfinger I thought the Borrowers should have been on the list. I loved that series. 5mo
dabbe @Butterfinger Agree 💯 re: THE BORROWERS! @Texreader: so many I had never even heard of! Thanks for playing and sharing. 🩶🖤🩶 5mo
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Cuilin
Villains: Novellas | Rhiannon Paille
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#TLT @dabbe

This was fun!! The bottom three are villains that frightened the life out of me as a child!! I‘m sure they meant the singular man in Bambi, I‘m using it to mean mankind. Also, if you‘re playing a fascist/Nazi automatic villain!! Missing from the list are my two favorite villains, Moriarty from Sherlock and Loki. (if you get redemption arc, are you still a villain?)

Care to play?

lil1inblue Loki! 😍 😍 😍 10mo
dabbe I bet if AFI updated the list, it would include SHERLOCK's Moriarty. “Miss me?“ 😱 And excellent question. I'd have to say yes because Darth Vader got redemption, right? Though most of these on the list were evil all the way to the end. Thanks for playing and sharing! 🩶🧡🩶 10mo
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GatheringBooks
Poems from The Hobbit | J R R Tolkien
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#SummerSouls Day 2: #mountains reminded me of a Poetry Friday feature Iphigene once shared on GatheringBooks with the ballad Far Over the Misty Mountain here: https://wp.me/pDlzr-8PY

Eggs So dreamy 🩵🏔️🩵 13mo
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Chrys
The Hobbit | J.R.R. Tolkien
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As promised, the other side of my Lego set, the Unexpected Party. I enjoyed this reread, though I was not very good at posting, apologies for that. One thing that made this one extra fun for me is my son, who is 20 & has a reading disability so doesn‘t usually read novels. We are currently training to walk a 1/2 marathon so go on training walks several nights a week. Each evening I tell him what has happened in the book since last time & we ⬇️

Chrys Discuss the events, character development, and what he thought would happen. He was not very familiar with the story before this, and has not seen the movies. So thank you for hosting this, it has led to fun conversations while walking trails through the woods #LOTRchapteraday (edited) 2y
dabbe Your story just gave me goosebumps. 💙🖤🩵 2y
hannah-leeloo Love this! 2y
JazzFeathers This is so beautiful 😍 2y
Daisey This is great! 2y
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Daisey
The Hobbit | J.R.R. Tolkien
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Quote from chapter 12 “Inside Information”
One of the many things I love about Tolkien‘s writing is his emphasis on the strength and determination of simple characters that aren‘t seen as heroic by the wider world, or at least not until after their adventures. Bilbo demonstrates so much courage when going to find Smaug all alone, and it‘s acknowledged clearly in the story.

#FellowshipOfTolkien #LotRChapterADay #KindleQuotes

Vansa This is so true. A theme running through Lord of the rings as well- the beating heart of the stories is the incredible courage shown by ordinary people thrown into circumstances completely out of the normal 2y
mabell Many instances of not allowing fear to paralyze him ❤️ 2y
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Roary47 Love this! That is sooo true. 💛 2y
Daisey @Vansa Absolutely! This theme is such an important part of his work. 2y
Suet624 💕💕💕😳💕💕💕 2y
TheAromaofBooks I love also how the emphasis here is on this “small“ moment alone - not in the heat of battle, but a time where he had to make his own personal decision as to what he was going to do and what kind of person he was going to be. So fantastic! 2y
BethM Both your point and @TheAromaofBooks are really good. I didn‘t think of it that way. 2y
JazzFeathers That's one of my favourite quotes in the book, and in Tolkien's work in general 🤩 2y
JazzFeathers @TheAromaofBooks True, eh? Personal choices are always extremely important in all of Tolkien's stories 2y
BarbaraJean I love this moment so much. @Vansa @TheAromaofBooks I love how you both put it! It's so telling of Bilbo's character that it's THIS moment that determines the path he will take. Not a moment where anyone else is expecting anything of him or pressuring him to act in a certain way, but a moment where he draws on his own courage to move forward. 2y
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Fortifiedbybooks
The Annotated Hobbit | John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, Douglas A. Anderson
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I'm so behind in the #FellowshipOfTolkien reading of The Hobbit, as well as the other books I've been reading that I'm joining #20in4 with a goal of reading for 20 hours this weekend. I don't have to work tomorrow, so I should be able to pull it off.

Andrew65 Best of luck 😁 2y
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JazzFeathers
The Hobbit | J.R.R. Tolkien
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#LotRChapterADay #FellowshipOfTolkien

I never get tired of Beorn's chapter. I love the humour at the beginning. Beorn always makes me chuckle. "This is the first time l hear that 10 people are a dozen". "When l need your service, l'll ask for it." ???

But l also love that Northern vibe around him. That brooding and the sense of danger.

This is, in my opinion, one of the best chapters in the book.

TheAromaofBooks I was genuinely cracking up over Gandalf sneaking in dwarves and Beorn basically just rolling his eyes and going with it 😂 2y
JazzFeathers @TheAromaofBooks That wizard is cunning 😂 2y
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BarbaraJean I hadn‘t thought about it until just now, but it occurs to me that Gandalf uses similar tactics to sneak dwarves into Bilbo‘s home as well… 2y
JazzFeathers @BarbaraJean Yes, he does that 😂 2y
mabell I loved this chapter! 2y
Riveted_Reader_Melissa Gandalf is a wizard, but I swear 90% of his powers are reading people, and word play cleverness. 2y
JazzFeathers @mabell Me too 😜 2y
JazzFeathers @Riveted_Reader_Melissa l absolutely agree. Not only he's a master in reading people, but also, rather than find the solution for them, he knows how to put them in the position to find a solution and growth as a result. That's his most powerful magic, in my opinion. And l love that his personality would actually be: let me do all myself, these people don't know what they're doing 😂 2y
BarbaraJean @Riveted_Reader_Melissa @JazzFeathers I love that interpretation of Gandalf!! He definitely sends Bilbo on this adventure expressly to bring out and grow the qualities he knows Bilbo has, deep down. 2y
Daisey @Riveted_Reader_Melissa @JazzFeathers @BarbaraJean Gandalf really is so good at putting characters into situations to show their true worth. 2y
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Fortifiedbybooks
The Hobbit | J.R.R. Tolkien
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Those of you who know me know that The Hobbit is one of my all-time favorite books. I've joined the #FellowshipOfTolkien this year and am starting my re-read a couple of months earlier than I usually do. I'm also reading an edition I've not read before. Let the adventure begin! 😁

wordslinger42 The Annotated Hobbit is really cool! Enjoy! 2y
Daisey I love the annotated version! The notes are fantastic and there‘s such an interesting variety of illustrations. 2y
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Larkken
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15 books? And the world is ending? You might as well just tell me that some much-needed reading glasses are broken 😜 @RaeLovesToRead (actual pic of me avoiding this dire thought) #ihavequestions #belovedbooks

Here‘s my list (with commentary!):
1. The Hobbit (⬆️THIS copy and yes I‘ll be mad if it gets scuffed or dinged)
2. The Complete Ivory - Egan (hey, series is contained into one book!)
3. Magic Strikes (the BEST Kate Daniels. Fight me.)
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Larkken 4. Starless Sea (good thing for the apocalypse that my MIL just gave me this)
5. Beauty - Robin McKinley (though maybe Blue Sword instead for the sheer nostalgia? gah)
6. The Wood Wife - Windling
7. Pride and Prejudice
8. Stardust - Gaiman
9. The Princess Bride - Goldman
10. Kushiel‘s Dart. No, wait, Avatar. Gah!
11. Complete Borges short stories (so I can dream of infinite libraries or something 👀)
12. Good Omens
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Larkken 13. Family‘s illustrated Alice and Wonderland
14. Finishing School trilogy by Carriger on audio (when breaking the rules, go big)
15. Moon Called - Briggs (I don‘t have a fav from this series, so this might end up being Whatever One I Grab from series)
Holy nuts I‘d give both my ovaries to have a compilation of the initial Murderbot stories to put on here. Sorry, Pride and Prejudice. Or maybe Good Omens?

I am still working on the #booklet list…
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RaeLovesToRead Love it! Starless sea has come up a few times... I shall purchase it next time I'm in Waterstones! 😁 (Although I still need to read The Night Circus!) I found the booket list easier because there are several books that I ABSOLUTELY NEED TO READ and they just pushed their way to the top.. 😊 2y
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Larkken @RaeLovesToRead This was curtailed severely by needing to be physical books present on my shelves! That made it easier lol 2y
IndoorDame Ooh, yes! I should definitely take Alice 2y
5feet.of.fury So far for best Kate Daniels (I‘m on book 7) I‘m going with 2y
5feet.of.fury Also Kate Daniels series has made me want to read the Princess Bride, but I have not yet. Love your Gaiman choices! Great list! 2y
Larkken @5feet.of.fury oooh is this the one where they FINALLY got together? Agreed, that IS nice 2y
Larkken @IndoorDame looking at my shelves made me realize I‘d have to bring at least a/some books based on nostalgia and unwillingness to lose a family copy ❤️! …and not just on what I‘d want to reread…and reread…lol (edited) 2y
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Daisey
The Annotated Hobbit | John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, Douglas A. Anderson
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Happy Tolkien Reading Day!
I finished listening to The Hobbit last night, and spent some time this morning with the notes and illustrations in my annotated edition. I love this illustration of Smaug, and the lines from Bilbo‘s poem seem a perfect ending to another reread.

#FellowshipOfTolkien #audiobook #quote #reread