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#TROPRewatch, Round 2, S1E1 A Shadow of the Past. Season 1 isn’t my favorite, but it is absolutely beautiful. And here comes Celebrimbor, all happy and un-seduced by Sauron! I’m going to miss him in Season 3. 💔

Worth every minute!

I’m ready to ride at dawn, if you need me and my pitchfork.

Two cats curled up on my lap and the book cover of Robert J. Dobie’s The Fantasy of JRR Tolkien: Mythopoeia and the Recovery of Creation

A lap full of cats and my next read: a voyage through philosophy and faith in Tolkien’s works. A holiday weekend well spent!
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Book cover of JRR Tolkien: A Secret Vice (Tolkien on Invented Languages), edited by Dimitra Fimi and Andrew Higgins.

Three day weekend! Finally have some time to continue Reading All the #Tolkien Things. Despite my love of phonics and morphology (reading specialist), I’ve never really been interested in learning Quenya or Sindarin. This book may or may not change that. 😂
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I’ve read LOTR dozens of times, but after having read all the legendarium this year (and watched RoP), reading through The Mirror of Galadriel just hits different now, in all the best ways. How Tolkien invented her on the spot yet poured so much history and lore into her & that chapter is amazing.❤️

The book The Lord of the Rings, open to Book 2 Chapter 3: The Ring Goes South. Illustrated edition with Tengwar script on the edges of the pages.

Starting the new school year has seriously cut into my reading time. I’m re-reading LOTR for comfort.
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Cover of the book The Road to Middle-Earth: How JRR Tolkien Created a New Mythology by Tom Shippey.

I know this book has rave reviews, but I’m really finding it a slog to get through. I think Shippey’s writing style and organization of the text is just not my cup of tea. The information itself is fascinating, but the way it’s written keeps putting me to sleep. 🤷🏻‍♀️
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Hahaha same!

A picture of my lap, with my open book (JRR Tolkien’s biography by Carpenter) wedged between two tabby cats, one above and one below the book.

Trying to see my book around two cats vying for prime space on my lap is an Olympic sport.
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Cover of the book The Collected Poems of JRR Tolkien (1919-1931) showing an illustration he drew of a bird amongst a vine of flowers.

Currently reading Vol 2 of Tolkien’s poems, alongside Carpenter’s biography (also glad that I recently read Tolkien’s Letters)—together they give a good timeline to understand where he was when and what he was writing at the time. Need to read Shippey’s Road to M-E next.
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SQUEEEEE!!!

I have Beowulf in my TBR—definitely saving that for last haha! I started with The History of Middle-Earth series in January, and it’s been a great ride ever since. Thoroughly enjoying my Tolkien Era now that my kids are grown and I can buy stuff for me! 🥰

Cover of Humphrey Carepenter’s book JRR Tolkien, a Biography, showing a picture of the Professor himself.

Next in my 2025 quest to Read All the Tolkien Things: Humphrey Carpenter’s classic biography.
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Text from The Fall of Númenor: “But Ar-Pharazón was not yet deceived, and it came into his mind that, for the better keeping of Sauron and of his oaths of fealty, he should be brought to Númenor, there to dwell as a hostage for himself and all his servants in Middle-Earth. To this Sauron assented as one constrained, yet in his secret thought he received it gladly, for it chimed indeed with his desire. ‘This is a hard doom,’ said Sauron, ‘but great kings must have their will,’ and he submitted as one under compulsion, concealing his delight; for things had fallen out according to his design.”

Two pictures of Sauron from the Rings of Power series, one of his Annatar guise on the left and of his Halbrand guise on the right, both smirking.

You know you’ve watched #RingsofPower a million times when you read this in The Fall of Númenor and picture THAT smirk. Can’t wait to see this scene on screen!

Life goals: establish a sheep ranch with a group of other women, call it Emerië, and make men say, “I will go from this misenchanted isle of daydreams where women in their insolence would have men cringe.”
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#Erendis
#Aldarion

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Three, but I’ve also read all of the History of Middle-Earth series, which I think counts as at least another seven times thanks to all the Silmarillion drafts in it! 🤣

My tabby cat Blake on the left and the book The Fall of Númenor by JRR Tolkien on the right.

How I spent my summer vacation: reading All The Tolkien Things with my cats.
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The covers of three books: The Making of Middle-Earth, by Christopher Snyder The Art of Mercy in Middle-Earth: Paintings Inspired by Tolkien’s Legendarium, by Miriam Ellis The Story of Kullervo, by JRR Tolkien, edited by Verlyn Flieger

Current reading: one Tolkien tale (that I picked because I love Túrin’s story so much) and two Tolkien-related books (that I picked because they are beautiful). A great mix of Tolkien’s love for stories and our love for Tolkien’s work. ❤️
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So many, but I got lost in her painting Elrond and Arwen Depart the Feast at Rivendell in her book yesterday—the banners with the heraldry of Melian, Idril, and Lúthien in the background are perfect!

Enjoy! I went on that adventure earlier this year and absolutely loved it.

Map of The Shire showing distance walked, from the Conqueror app, The Hobbit Virtual Challenge. 12 miles completed.

I’ve been taking my lazy hobbity-self out on walks in our local parks, and trying to ignore the fact that I only have 3 weeks of summer vacation left!

I’ve now added FAUNA OF MORDOR to my lexicon when yelling at my cats. Thanks! 😹😹😹

This is amazing! Your hard work has definitely paid off. 💚💚💚

Book cover of Tolkien’s Beren and Lúthien, showing Beren walking alongside Huan the hound who has Lúthien riding on his back.

Finishing up the last of Tolkien’s three Great Tales. (Last because it’s my least favorite of the three, although I do appreciate the connection to Tolkien’s own love story). For me, Huan will always be the true hero of this story!
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Angry Annatar holding a spear about to stab tortured and wounded Celebrimbor in the background while in the forge of Eregion. Scene from Rings of Power, Season 2

If I was in charge of the Enmys, these two would win all the awards.
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Screenshot of The Conqueror app showing a map of the Shire with a marker with my initials on it at the starting point at Bag End, from the Hobbit Virtual Challenge. The more I walk, the farther my marker will move on the map!

Finally found the motivation to get my lazy Hobbit butt outside and walking!
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Looking forward to it! Congrats!