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Lyta_Underhill · 03-07-2005, 10:46 PM

...Uh...what Nurumaiel said!

I haven't gone through and read the books in awhile, and I'm currently reading about the fall of the Japanese Empire. It makes for interesting mental mixups when I try to remember points about Pippin and the Palantir or more importantly, when I try to think of something that would be good to post in that particular chapter that is on topic and not so high-falutin' as the discussion of the Secret Fire! Started reading the Taming of Smeagol CbC but got behind...perhaps I should take an interlude after the fall of Nanking and join Frodo, Sam and Gollum in the stinking marshes...strangely enough, almost every time I pick up LOTR for the on-the-spot read from the middle, I read "from the middle!" I always start with "The Uruk-Hai," because I want to read about Pippin's clever escape and relive the particular magic of the Ents...and from there I go on as far as I feel like. I think I've read the Palantir chapter about 50 times! (Well, maybe it is an exaggeration.)

It is further disorienting because I'm bogged down on the Walk to Mount Doom, going from shell hole to shell hole in Mordor, sometimes feeling like I'm moving as slowly as Frodo must feel he is going. I think I've been in Mordor forever! Maybe y'all will get to Mount Doom in the CbC before I get there on foot!

Cheers!
Lyta

P.S. Of course, there's no law about going back and posting in "A Long Expected Party" if I want to, right?

03-07-2005, 10:46 PM	#17
Lyta_Underhill Haunted Halfling Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: an uncounted length of steps--floating between air molecules Posts: 841	The Rising Sun over the Dead Marshes... ...Uh...what Nurumaiel said! I haven't gone through and read the books in awhile, and I'm currently reading about the fall of the Japanese Empire. It makes for interesting mental mixups when I try to remember points about Pippin and the Palantir or more importantly, when I try to think of something that would be good to post in that particular chapter that is on topic and not so high-falutin' as the discussion of the Secret Fire! Started reading the Taming of Smeagol CbC but got behind...perhaps I should take an interlude after the fall of Nanking and join Frodo, Sam and Gollum in the stinking marshes...strangely enough, almost every time I pick up LOTR for the on-the-spot read from the middle, I read "from the middle!" I always start with "The Uruk-Hai," because I want to read about Pippin's clever escape and relive the particular magic of the Ents...and from there I go on as far as I feel like. I think I've read the Palantir chapter about 50 times! (Well, maybe it is an exaggeration.) It is further disorienting because I'm bogged down on the Walk to Mount Doom, going from shell hole to shell hole in Mordor, sometimes feeling like I'm moving as slowly as Frodo must feel he is going. I think I've been in Mordor forever! Maybe y'all will get to Mount Doom in the CbC before I get there on foot! Cheers! Lyta P.S. Of course, there's no law about going back and posting in "A Long Expected Party" if I want to, right? __________________ “…she laid herself to rest upon Cerin Amroth; and there is her green grave, until the world is changed, and all the days of her life are utterly forgotten by men that come after, and elanor and niphredil bloom no more east of the Sea.”