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You know what it's like - you wait for years for a Tolkien vocal post from me and then you get two in a week! Blame Bogwitch - she won't mind. She suggested I should read an Elven bit, and then it's Tolkien Reading Day, today and

read_lotr_aloud suggested doing the readings aloud - with a tree theme...

So, this is from The Fellowship of the Ring, Lothlórien; it is towards the end of the chapter, when the Fellowship have their eyes uncovered, having been blindfolded for most of their way through the woods.

I promise I'll stop spamming you with voice-posts for a while now!

Current Mood: hungry
Current Location: Cerin Amroth

This post is part of the project at

read_lotr_aloud - to do just that - read Lord of the Rings aloud, on LJ. This current round of readings covers the end of Book 2, Chapter 4, A Journey in the Dark, and Book 2, Chapter 5, The Bridge of Khazad-dûm.

This is the first time I have joined in, and my passage is part of Chapter Five, I will put the passage under the cut, so that you can read it along with me if you want to.

( click for the extract in writing )

You would laugh if you could see the incredibly disreputable paper-back version I am reading from - it is over 30 years old, was S2C's before we met, and has pages falling out. I have a much newer copy, but it is upstairs and somehow this is the one I always end up using.

Actually - you can see it - it is in the middle of this pile of books in a picture from my original 365 project