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02-21-2005, 12:59 PM
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Shade of Carn Dūm
Join Date: Nov 2004
Posts: 311
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This isn't the strangest place, but the most peaceful. I read LotR once in a teeny, tiny garden, in Madrid (Spain). It was the middle of spring and the garden had lovely walls with roses growing all around them. And right in the middle of the garden was a huge fountain and the water flowed all over the mossy cobblestones and watered all of the plants that grew around it. So picturesque...
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02-22-2005, 07:51 AM
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Shade of Carn Dūm
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: the Shadow Gallery
Posts: 276
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The weirdest place...
I dunno, in a cabin in Quebec on a bed the size of a breadbox, French Canadian people talking outside, mosquitos everywhere, pictures of hobbits crossing Abbey Road on the wall... I only have the three-volume set, so in lines for amusement park rides, or waiting for a friend to finish a test at the Slippery Rock Language Competition, or standing around at the train station, I'm usually found reading that Guide to Tolkien's 16 Middlearth Languages... ...while sketching a picture of the Phantom of the Opera... *violent sigh* *love*
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02-22-2005, 06:25 PM
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Ghost Prince of Cardolan
Join Date: May 2002
Location: Where young people go to retire
Posts: 709
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Random Words and the Roar of an Engine
Now that I think of it, I have read the Lost Tales in the backseat of a Toyota Camry-on a highway-in a lush green national forest-on the way to the Coast-of the Pacific Ocean.
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02-23-2005, 02:47 AM
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Princess of Skwerlz
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: where the Sea is eastwards (WtR: 6060 miles)
Posts: 7,500
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The most memorable place I have held a most memorable copy of LotR in my hands: Last summer, several Downs members met in Oxford to go to Tolkien's grave and see the sights. We stopped at the 'Eagle and Child', the pub where JRRT, C. S. Lewis and others met regularly, and there Squatter showed us (and let us page through) his first edition copy of LotR.
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02-23-2005, 10:14 AM
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I must go to a funeral of o person I don“t realy know so well. It was very boring, so I took my Manga out and read it secretly under the bench.
Well, that was not very pious, but the dead man don“t grumble me. |
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02-26-2005, 03:45 AM
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Hauntress of the Havens
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: IN it, but not OF it
Posts: 2,538
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In the Philippines. Isn't that country strange?
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03-01-2005, 07:16 PM
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Shade of Carn Dūm
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Tossing half-sick between grotesque reality and savage, frightening dreams
Posts: 360
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hi. been a while, hasn't it?
The strangest place I ever read Lord of the Rings was when I entred an all-night dance-off with my boyfriend. We were so bored and weary after about three hours that I read all of the Two Towers and part of The Return of the King hanging over his shoulder while he read The Fellowship of the Ring hanging over my shoulder. I read The Silmarillon on top of Signal Hill, St. John's Newfoundland (Canada). The most Eastern point in North America. (I know it isn't very exciting, but it's something)
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