kathie ny wrote:Guilty! I skipped the prologue too! I know what I will be doing later today!
Excellent Kathy...we are planning a chapter by chapter book club soon. You will be well prepared.


kathie ny wrote:Guilty! I skipped the prologue too! I know what I will be doing later today!
Mithrandir wrote:I guess to discuss Tolkien, we have no choice but to place him in his time and also react to him based on our own life experiences. I just hope we have no “allegory wars” at MeJ and can accept what each person experiences when reading the text.
Nonetheless, ease and peace had left this people still curiously tough. They were, if it came to it, difficult to daunt or to kill; and they were, perhaps, so unwearyingly fond of good things not least because they could, when put to it, do without them, and could survive rough handling by grief, foe or weather in a way that astonished those who did not know them well and looked no further than their bellies and their well-fed faces.
bruce rerek wrote:But his isn't the power of swords and spells, it is the very human qualities of love. compasion, loyalty that is coupled to a clever wit and quick mind. Above all, this single purposed focus to see through what they have commited themselves to do. I name this a very true form of authentic existence; that what we know we are called to do, what has brought us to a given moment is propelling us along the way of a unique life.
I submit to you that not only did the Professor write his tale but also challenged the conventional thinking of what it means to be the hero of one's tale.
After discussing the idea of giving up publishing the Sil...
When those whose advice and opinion I sought corrected little hope to no hope, I went back to the sequel, encouraged by requests from readers for more information concerning Hobbits and their adventures.
After his return to his home he never spoke of it again to anyone, save Gandalf and Frodo; and no one else in the Shire knew of its existence, or so he believed. Only Frodo did he show the acount of his Journey that he was writing.