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And now, it ends. We finish our close reading of The Fellowship of the Ring with chapters VIII – Farewell to Lórien, IX – The Great River and X – The Breaking of the Fellowship, moving from a last little … Continue reading →

The penultimate episode of our close reading brings us out of Moria, and into Lothlórien, with Chapter VI – Lothlórien and Chapter VII – The Mirror of Galadriel, with a sharp contrast against the preceding Dwarf TimeTM, with Tolkien going … Continue reading →

Episode six of our close reading takes us through chapters III – The Ring Goes South, IV – A Journey in the Dark and V – The Bridge of Khazad-dûm. In contrast to the last section, a whole lot of … Continue reading →

The fifth section of our close reading brings us into the start of Book 2, with chapters I – Many Meetings and II – The Council of Elrond. We just tackled two this time, because the second one is a … Continue reading →

In this fourth section we cover another three chapters: X – Strider, XI – A Knife in the Dark and XII – Flight to the Ford, bringing us to the end of Book 1. One sixth of the way through … Continue reading →

Our third session of close reading The Fellowship of the Ring takes us through four chapters: VI – The Old Forest, VII – In the House of Tom Bombadil, VIII – Fog on the Barrow-downs and IX – At the … Continue reading →

The next section of our close reading takes us through Chapter III – Three is Company, Chapter IV – A Short Cut to Mushrooms and Chapter V – A Conspiracy Unmasked, a total of 44 pages in my edition. We … Continue reading →

My partner and I decided a little while ago it would be a fun project (because we know how to party) to read The Lord of the Rings together, in small chunks and discuss it in detail over a number … Continue reading →