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Posts by Clare Moore
Last night, the Big Read kicked off our read through of The Hobbit. If you joined us - thank you! If not, you can catch the recording soon. If you are not a Tolkien Society member, consider becoming one so you can join us as we read through Tolkienโs works! erikjampa.substack.com/p/narrating-...
๐๐ช๐ฏ๐ถ๐ท๐ช๐ฆ๐ญ! ๐๐ช๐ฏ๐ถ๐ท๐ช๐ฆ๐ญ!
๐๐ฆ ๐ค๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ฃ๐บ ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ท๐ช๐ด๐ฉ ๐ฏ๐ข๐ฎ๐ฆ;
๐๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ญ๐ต๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ญ๐ช๐ด๐ต๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ.
๐๐ฏ๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต ๐ด๐ต๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฅ ๐ด๐ฉ๐ฆ, ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ข ๐ด๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ญ
๐๐ช๐ด ๐ท๐ฐ๐ช๐ค๐ฆ ๐ญ๐ข๐ช๐ฅ ๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ: ๐๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ค๐ข๐ฎ๐ฆ,
๐๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฎ ๐ง๐ฆ๐ญ๐ญ ๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐๐ช๐ฏรบ๐ท๐ช๐ฆ๐ญ
My own rendition of Beren calling out to Luthien using Pre-Raphaelite paintings as inspiration ๐
#lotr #fantasy #elf
No guest appearances but there was a tossed popcorn bowl ๐
If there are two things I hate it's fascism and historical illiteracy.
I am the audience for this
Use of gif rating A+
Leading the session while babysitting some niblings so there might be guest appearances ๐
Woo hoo!!!
Will we see you there???
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Enjoying the California sunshine by sitting outside birdwatching and listening to the latest @athraplay.athrabeth.com episode ๐ฆโโฌ๐ชบ
Gandalf, Bilbo and the Smoke dragon :3
I loved Braiding Sweetgrass but my favorite is The Serviceberry!
Me after being left behind by AI
One reason why my boss and I work so well together is that during lunch time we sit at tables next to each other and read quietly to ourselves ๐
For those joining us for the Big Read, you can check out the recording of Erikโs inaugural presentation and join us for our first session on The Hobbit on Monday!
Postcards are coming ๐ฅณ
Donโt tease me with Muppets Middle-earth unless you can deliver on that promise, sir
Wait there was one more meme:
I would appreciate it if everyone would go watch Seven Dials on Netflix so I can have a second season please and thank you
I recently reread Northanger Abbey for a book club and then caught the bug and reread Emma and Pride and Prejudice on long flights to Australia! Absolutely worth it
A meme of a man (labeled Clare) slapping duck tape (labeled Virginia Woolf) over a leak in a water tank (labeled Tolkien).
lol there is more!
Yes, we will! Just the presentations, not the group discussions.
The first cohort meets at 8pm British time and the second cohort meets at 9pm Eastern time. Join either session! If you miss a session, recordings of the presentations will be shared afterwards.
Actual helpful info: the Big Read is a read along for Tolkien Society members. We meet every other week on Zoom to hear from a guest speaker and discuss the reading in small groups. We start our journey through The Hobbit on April 20! Members can sign up on the members area on tolkiensociety.org
A meme where a man (labeled Clare) slaps duck tape (labeled Jane Austen) over a water tank leak (labeled Tolkien).
I hope you joined the Tolkien Societyโs Big Read for our first session last Monday on โOn Fairy-storiesโ with @erikjampa.bsky.social! Very serious stuff, but now we are moving on to The Hobbit and unlike Erik I am very UNserious so hereโs my teaser for April 20thโs session:
From EARTHSEED: THE BOOKS OF THE LIVING Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen. To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies. To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.
Octavia E. Butler, 1998:
Not my dyslexia reading this as โthe king was kissingโ ๐
Book cover
Double page spread from book
A rare volume of J.R.R. Tolkienโs poetry, believed to be only one of three copies in private ownership, is up for sale by a Wallingford book dealer. โSongs for the Philologistsโ was printed by students at UCL but hastily withdrawn when their tutor realised Tolkien had not given permission.