Where Are You (in the reading of LOTR)?

[Grey_Wolf]

At the moment I've reached "The Taming of Smeagol". Frodo and Sam has just gotten down from the cliff after those hairy moments when Frodo took his spill and got back up on the cliff again with the help of Sam and the elven rope.

[gollum9630]

Right now I am at the part were Merry and Pippin meet Treebeard.

[Lalaith_Elf]

I'm starting to read them again. So I'm right at the Prologue.:)

[mithrand1r]

I am After the end or Before the begining, depending how you wish to look at it.

[entss89]

im at the appemdixe sp...

[azalea]

I read chapter one last night.:cool:

[Beruthiel's cat]

"Many Meetings"

Specifically "Earendil was a Mariner" .

I can't find any time to read!!!

[brownjenkins]

chapter one... playing along at home ;)

[Fewin Greenleaf]

shelob's lair!:D

[Rían]

last chapter of FOTR ... I started re-reading LOTR about 2 weeks before azalea started the LOTR project, so I'm a bit ahead.

[Grey_Wolf]

Sam, Frodo and Smeagol have reached The Black Gate and it's closed. Smeagol tells them of another way which he knows of.

[Lalaith_Elf]

I hate to say it, but I've put LOTR's down in order to read the Sil. I've directed my full attention to it!

[Grey_Wolf]

Frodo & Sam has met with Faramir and his men. Sam has revealed the purpose of the two hobbit's journey. I'm at Chapter Six: The Forbidden Pool

[katya]

I'm at "Journey in the Dark". I always feel like I'm there, so I tend to stop before difficult journeys and unpleasantness. Like the company, I am hesitant to go into Moria. :) Is that weird?

[Grey_Wolf]

Originally posted by katya
I'm at "Journey in the Dark". I always feel like I'm there, so I tend to stop before difficult journeys and unpleasantness. Like the company, I am hesitant to go into Moria. :) Is that weird?

Not really. You could skip ahead. But I suggest that you push through until you come to Lorien and so on. I don't really like the whole "Frodo, Sam & Gollum"-bit, but if you want to read the book you should read it all.

[katya]

I know, I know. (I have already read the book, just so you know) A lot of times, I just feel like reading this chapter or that chapter, but I'm at Journey in the Dark in my reading all the way through, you know?

Actually, it was weird, at the beginning of TTT, when Aragorn and Legolas and Gimli are looking for Merry and Pippin, I literally tried to read faster because somewhere in the back of my head I thought it would help them go faster in the book. That was a little weird...

[Mrs Maggot]

Well I'm about halfway through chapter 1. That could have something to do with the fact that I am attempting to read it in French and have just gotten stuck cos I only know about half the vocab. It's not that bad cos I can guess most of it from my knowledge of the story and Tolkien's turn of phrase, but it takes so bloody long! Oh well, you've gotta have a challenge.

[Lefty Scaevola]

Finished it in the 1960s.

[Artanis]

LOL Lefty! :p

I'm in book 4, The Choices of Master Samwise.

[Fat middle]

I'm in Farewell to Lorien.

[Grey_Wolf]

Originally posted by katya
I know, I know. (I have already read the book, just so you know) A lot of times, I just feel like reading this chapter or that chapter, but I'm at Journey in the Dark in my reading all the way through, you know?

Actually, it was weird, at the beginning of TTT, when Aragorn and Legolas and Gimli are looking for Merry and Pippin, I literally tried to read faster because somewhere in the back of my head I thought it would help them go faster in the book. That was a little weird...

I read it several times too. This is my twenty-first time. A bit weird perhaps is the concept of actually reading faster to make characters go faster.

[Grey_Wolf]

Am at the moment at The Stairs of Cirith Ungol and Gollum has just given the F/S the slip.

[Grey_Wolf]

Now I've reached The Choices of Master Samwise.

[Lady Ravyn]

i'm on chapter 2; i'm going really slowly cuz i'm reading that and The Bell Jar at the same time (and a book for school :rolleyes: )

[Grey_Wolf]

Now I'm at Minas Tirith and Pippin has just been sworn into the service of the Lord of the city.

[Grey_Wolf]

I'm at The Last Debate

[Grey_Wolf]

Now I've come to the end of Mount Doom , Frodo and Sam are have just exited the Sammath Naur.

[brownjenkins]

just read chapter two at lunch yesterday... all prepped for discussion :)

[Grey_Wolf]

Has finished off my latest reading of LOTR. Perhaps I'll give the appendixes a closer scrutiny.

[Caro]

I'm reading Fellowship of the Rings for the first time at the moment. I'm currently reading the chapter ''A Journey in the Dark''. I'm almost done with that chapter though.:)

I've never read any Tolkien book before. :o I had difficulty to get into FOTR at the beginning (I started to read it in January) but I begin to really like it now. :D

[Fenir_LacDanan]

Stick with it Caro!

The first read of Lord of the Rings itself it hard, and the first reading of fellowship is a grueling task. Once you get through the whole history of hobbits and the origins of Bilbo in the beginning, it gets damn good damn fast.

So I say to you read on, my good Caro, read on! You won't ever regret it!

[azalea]

Caro, welcome to the moot! Are you going to participate in the chapter by chapter discussion we have going on? Chapter 2 has just been posted. It's a good way to help understand what's going on and you can ask questions, too, or add your impressions as a first time reader.:)

[Fewin Greenleaf]

well, believe it or not, i'm still in shelob's lair. have not enough time.

[Caro]

Thank you everybody! :)

Yesterday, I finished the chapter ''Lothlórien''. :)

Originally posted by azalea
Caro, welcome to the moot! Are you going to participate in the chapter by chapter discussion we have going on? Chapter 2 has just been posted. It's a good way to help understand what's going on and you can ask questions, too, or add your impressions as a first time reader.:)

I don't think that I'll join the chapter by chapter discussion for now... I started to read Fellowship of the Ring in the beginning of January so I don't remember the first chapters really well... Thank you for the offer though. :)