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Chapter One: An Unexpected Party
#tolkien #tolkienreadingday #thehobbit
#ScribesAndMakers 3.6 — Tell us about a book you go back and read over and over. What do you love about it?
(I broke something on my bookshelf just to retrieve these two books, so I hope this post is worth the strife. Crystals and glass went everywhere.)
Let me preface this by saying that I am a huge fan of Tolkien as both a human being and as a writer. My library has an entire section for Tolkien's Legendarium. It's overflowing at this point.
On the left we have my own copy of The Silmarillion, and on the right is my father's. He took that book across the country, while backpacking and later while living in his VW bus. It's special to me. The book, as a whole, was what drew me to writing in the first place. As a child, my dad first read The Hobbit to me before bed, and then The Lord of the Rings after. It was off to the races from that point on. The Lost Tales and The Unfinished Tales followed. When I got my hands on The Silmarillion, it sealed the deal for me. This is a comfort book for me, even though I cry buckets at the myths and tales within. That's okay, though.
It's World Book Day (in the UK)! This is where a lifelong love of reading, and by extension literacy, began... #WorldBookDay #StarWars #TheHobbit #Book #Books
I'll escape to #MiddleEarth tonight.
4 hours fan-edit by Dustin Lee of #TheHobbit trilogy.
And for afters, his 1hour excerpt on Durins Folk And The Hill Of Sorcery. There's a download button below the movie: https://vimeo.com/130716015
In case you don't know the Hobbit fan-edit, Lee's website has a few download links http://www.maple-films.com/downloads.html
10 to 15 GB in size.
I remembered the book mostly as a quest story, but I was pleasantly surprised by the humour. Especially the "good morning" scene in the beginning is such a fun way of showing how British people can be quite indirect sometimes.
#TheHobbit #Tolkien #Fantasy #Books #FantasyBooks #Reading @bookstodon@a.gup.pe #Boeken #Lezen #DeHobbit
To be honest, I'm one of those who came to #tolkien with the #lotr movies. I saw the first one and bought and read the books prior to the second movie. 
I understand that for longtime fans of the books the movies are ambivalent. Even in #lotr there were many changes beside leaving out the whole Tom Bombadil arc, replacing Glorfindel with Arwen etc. For #theHobbit the first movie covers 110 pages. 
On the other hand, the movies set off a wave of new fantasy novels I would miss.
Regarding my last post; I’m currently reading #TheHobbit by J.R.R. #tolkien.
Last time I read it was prior to the movies an God, are these movies bad. So much unnecessary stuff in them.
However, my book version is quite nice, as it comes with illustrations by Alan Lee, the concept artist of #TheLordofTheRings movies.
It’s my first time #reading this book in English as well. I tried The Lord of the Rings like 15 years ago in English, but I was simply not good enough back then.
Meme "creatively acquired" from Facebook.
His Lord’s voice was deep, like a glance into the ocean, and Octar felt shivers run down his spine. - https://thesilmarilchick.wordpress.com/2025/01/17/the-war-of-the-dead-chapter-19-the-warlord/ #thehobbit #lordoftherings #fanart #fanfiction
Happy birthday, Professor Tolkien! Thank you for still taking us there and back again.
#tolkien #middleearth #thehobbit #lordoftherings #silmarillion #handdrawn #noai
Ori: Maybe we should work more on our fighting skills and less on this super fast bowl and plate cleaning technique we developed.
Kili: Are you serious?! Did you see how evenly we stacked the bowls?
Bofur: Yeah, this is going to be amazing once we’ve nailed it down.
Something festive but different! #Nightwish’s version of #WalkingInTheAir accompanying a mash-up of #TheHobbit.
Link to #YouTube :
Started reading #thehobbit and found a reoccurring theme that does not come off quite like that in the movies:
Bilbo is from a very rich family and therefore falls in the same category as #harrypotter (who grows up as an abused orphan but then finds out that his famous parents left him riches).
Although this will probably set off a lot of folks but I think its important to point out that our most successful and impactful stories reinforce the class warfare.
We need more underdog stories imo.
Time for the annual reading of #thehobbit, followed by the extended versions of the #lotr trilogy. It’s the most wonderful time of the year. #bookstodon
Spectrum Computing user Mort has just scanned 'Playing the Hobbit', an useful guide by David Elkan to play Melbourne House's classic adventure:
https://archive.org/details/playing-the-hobbit-v-1-book-templesoft-david-elkin-v1
A limited run of 1000 copies of The Hobbit by the Folio Society and the illustrator Alan Lee went on sale today at 16:00 for £600 each.
They are sold out. In this economy!
https://www.foliosociety.com/the-hobbit-limited-edition.html
I didn’t try to get one. First, £600 - sod off. Second, £600 - fuck off.
I’d have paid £600 for the Folio Society Dune. I think it was £100. I bought it. Plus Dune Messiah and Children of Dune at £80 each.
The Dune books: https://www.foliosociety.com/uk/the-dune-collection.html