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French edition of The Hobbit. The cover is based on the original one from 1937, with the color red added back, a color that was not used originally, to cut down on printing costs.

I have the black and gold pocket edition you have. I read it first with it in 2022. And I'm currently reading to my kid the version in the picture.

By color or by sizes, maybe?
Spotted the French ones!

So there is a part of my homeland in Arda. That's a nice thing to learn about. (I'm from the other side of the Röstigraben but shhhhh)

And furthermore, the actor in the gif is not Sir Ian McKellen. It's obviously Nicholas Hoult.

Oh you're mean!

LotR ending is so bittersweet. I'm reading The Silmarillion myself. I like it very much.

Caution, it could be The Great Polar Bear. Father Christmas would be in trouble if GPB couldn't help him get ready for Christmas.

Do you intend on releasing one of the performances on bandcamp? Please? Pretty please? 💜

130£ ? I hate people doing this. Snatching Lego sets at the time of their release and making a profit out of them.

Le Hobbit grand format en édition pour enfant avec des illustrations de Tolkien lui-même. Le Silmarillion en grand format illustré par Ted Nasmith, avec une jolie jaquette. Le Silmarillion en version Pocket avec dorure sélective sur la couverture.

Mes lectures du moment.
Le Hobbit avec ma fille.
Le Silmarillion seul. Je le lis en grand format à la maison et en poche à l'extérieur.
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Omg I laughed out loud.

Are you a Mary Renault toxic lesbian fujoshi (hated apartheid but was also a homophobe" ex Tolkien student or a Diana Wynne Jones "every book I have ever written for chilldren encouraging anti authoritarianism keeps being mistaken for cottagecore settler belief" ex Tolkien student

#Bookvember

I don't remember most of them. So I'm choosing to talk about Ende again. I really loved the way he could make difficult topics accessible to children through his stories. Be it the appeal of power in The Never-ending Story or the lie that is our current work ethic in Momo.

#Bookvember

I remember Milne's Winnie the Pooh books. My mother used to read them to me. I loved the pictures and the stories.

Later, I read some Michael Ende. The Never-ending Story, obv. But also Momo, a great story about a girl resisting literal time thieves.

#Bookvember

My grandparents own a bookshop. Books are a staple of growing up for all kids in the family.

#Bookvember A book share prompt game for writers and readers by @woodenvelt.bsky.social Introduce yourself and share how you came to be a reader/writer. Share a children’s book that influenced you as a writer or reader. Share a children’s author that sparked a love of reading/writing in you. Share your favorite non-fiction children’s book or series. Share your favorite children’s poetry book / author. Share a children’s book with illustrations that captivated you. Did anyone monitor your reading as a kid? Or was it a free for all. Share a book by a female author that you love. Share a book by a queer author that you love. Share a book by an author of color that you love. Share a book by a neurodivergent author that you love. Share a book you love by an author from an underrepresented demographic. Share a book that acted as a window to someone else's life. Share a book that acted as a mirror, reflecting a part of yourself. Share a book you love from your favorite genre. Speaking of genres, what’s your favorite(s) and why do you love it? Share a book you consider an overlooked gem from your favorite genre. Share a book you consider overhyped from your favorite genre. Which 4 authors from your favorite genre would you enshrine on your genre Mt. Rushmore? Share a book you love from a genre you don’t usually read. What genre do you refuse to read? Why is it off limits? Share the book with your favorite hero/ heroine’s journey. Share the book with your favorite unreliable narrator. Share the book with your favorite heel turn. Share a book you love with a mentor character. Share a book you love with a setting that acts like its own character. Cliff hangers. Love them? Hate them? How do you read? Paperback in a cozy corner? Ebook on the train? Audiobook while folding laundry? A mix? What’s at the top of your current TBR or TBW list? If you could only recommend one book to someone to turn them from a non-reader to a reader, what would it be?

Just throwing this out there! November is now #Bookvember for writers and readers who want to yap about books and authors they love.

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I paid 250€ for both. I'm satisfied with them.

Entry-level Shanling, the Q1. With a pair of Listen Wireless (usually wired) from Focal.

There's also the fact that an album on vinyl in 44 min long tops. It's easier to stay focused on the music with albums that long than with longer ones, I think. And having to interact with it every 20 min or so is even better, IMO.

I love using mine. Rarely get it out of the box anymore though. For physical media to be useful to me, I need to have it lying around and minidiscs in piles in the living room. My spouse is made uncomfortable when there is too muich junk lying around. So I use my DAP. Next best thing after MDs.

I bought my first minidisc player-recorder in Geneva in 1999. Loved it so much.

I still take my player out of the box for a spin from time to time. Minidisc will forever be my favourite music listening medium.

I read in French. The first Silm translation is infamous for being quite bad. We got a new one a few years ago and it is waaaaay better.

My son didn't get into The Hobbit and wasn't interested in LotR. We watched The Fellowship of the Ring and now he wants to read The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion. 😊

A friend of my kid went as Claudia from Interview with a Vampire, but like at the very moment she is dying in the sun, with cracks in her skin.

Scary [1] Tolkien Time

"The way is shut. It was made by those who are Dead, and the Dead keep it, until the time comes. The way is shut"

[1] Consider to stop using spooky. It's got serious racist connotations.

I'm not surprised. I watched the video essay Boromir and our Relapse into Fascism for the 5th time last night and it resonates quite well with Mills' analysis.

I suppose Tolkien thought of them as demons or something of the sort. Or maybe I hope he did. I want to believe he didn't see any race as lesser than the other. And yet, he was born in South Africa and was an Englishman of colonial United Kingdom so there are racist undertones in his writings.