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Narrating Enchantment: Clare Moore on the Textuality of The Hobbit The Tolkien Society 'Big Read': Session 2

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 Tolkien’s works! erikjampa.substack.com/p/narrating-...

𝘛𝘪𝘯𝘶𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘭! 𝘛𝘪𝘯𝘶𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘭!
𝘏𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘣𝘺 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘦𝘭𝘷𝘪𝘴𝘩 𝘯𝘢𝘮𝘦;
𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘴𝘩𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘭𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨.
𝘖𝘯𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘰𝘥 𝘴𝘩𝘦, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢 𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘭𝘭
𝘏𝘪𝘴 𝘷𝘰𝘪𝘤𝘦 𝘭𝘢𝘪𝘥 𝘰𝘯 𝘩𝘦𝘳: 𝘉𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘯 𝘤𝘢𝘮𝘦,
𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘥𝘰𝘰𝘮 𝘧𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘰𝘯 𝘛𝘪𝘯ú𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘭

My own rendition of Beren calling out to Luthien using Pre-Raphaelite paintings as inspiration 🌟

#lotr #fantasy #elf

No guest appearances but there was a tossed popcorn bowl 😅

If there are two things I hate it's fascism and historical illiteracy.

I am the audience for this

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Leading the session while babysitting some niblings so there might be guest appearances 😂

Woo hoo!!!

Will we see you there???

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Enjoying the California sunshine by sitting outside birdwatching and listening to the latest @athraplay.athrabeth.com episode 🐦‍⬛🪺

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 😅

For those joining us for the Big Read, you can check out the recording of Erik’s inaugural presentation and join us for our first session on The Hobbit on Monday!

Postcards are coming 🥳

Don’t 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.

The Tolkien Society The Tolkien Society is an educational charity, literary society, and international fan club, devoted to promoting the life and works of J.R.R. Tolkien.

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 Society’s Big Read for our first session last Monday on “On Fairy-stories” with @erikjampa.bsky.social! Very serious stuff, but now we are moving on to The Hobbit and unlike Erik I am very UNserious so here’s my teaser for April 20th’s 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 “the king was kissing” 😂

Book cover

Double page spread from book

A rare volume of J.R.R. Tolkien’s poetry, believed to be only one of three copies in private ownership, is up for sale by a Wallingford book dealer. ‘Songs for the Philologists’ was printed by students at UCL but hastily withdrawn when their tutor realised Tolkien had not given permission.