It was once again a wonderful experience of reading, I have been present only for the latter part when we were reading the Voice of Saruman (myself taking the part of
Gimli and
Merry). A few highlights:
Saruwife (as opposed to Saru
man) is somebody to whose Voice you could really listen for hours, and we had also a very cool
Gwandalf. But also
Théoddwen was rather good and
Lommy's Éomer too, sort of young and brash.
Aganzir Wormtongue should perhaps have had more lines (but she was a good Pippin too). Our poor narrator
Kath, unfortunately, could not, after the reading, speak to us anymore because of exhausting her voice.
We had also brilliant sound effects, especially as we were getting closer to the end, with Saruman's staff breaking and then Palantír falling on the stairs, the stair cracking, the Palantír rolling on and at last falling down from there, the atmosphere was getting dense!
Later then, we still spent some time chatting as people were one by one leaving to their beds, eventually leaving me,
Eönwë (who was present in the first reading, I understand, but not present when I came, and he later came back),
Oddwen and
Pitchwife. We ended up discussing deep philosophical things and linguistics... all related to Fungoltch and Shcmurt... in my case, it was around 4 AM when we called it over. But it was a very deep and enlightening debate. (as you can surely imagine
)
But that said... this only confirmed the decision that we should continue doing this regularly. So, same time next month?