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Spotify LotR audiobook thoughts 4/?

Hot take: book!Merry is the true mom friend of the Hobbits. Sam is protective of Frodo, but Merry’s the one who’s looking at maps and worrying about where they’ll go next and talking with Strider about what they should do. Not to mention he was the one that spearheaded the whole conspiracy to keep Frodo from going alone. I always knew I liked book!Merry.

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[angelabowermicelli]

Continuing thoughts on LOTR: The Felowship of the Ring:

I believe now I have read into chapter 11??

I thought it was very good and wholesome that all the friends came along and they totally knew Frodo’s secrets and they were just like ‘were coming & you can’t do anything about it!’ 😩

‘Worried for the ponies’ - this is literally the note that I took as I was listening to the audio book 😂 There was one point where they said they might have to abandon the ponies!!! And I was so sad for them!! And then they got scared and made friends with Fatty Lumpkin, and then they got released again from Bree (Brih? Brie? I know none of the spelling in here is right. Again, I’m doing the audiobook, and like could I look it up, yes, but am I going to, no.) and went back to her and finally ended up at the inn- I am like legit kinda sad that they all got separated from their ponies 🥲

I love Tom Bombadill!! SO MUCH. Like does he have a Spotify page and like how can we be friends??

‘Wild time in the downs and with the wites’- like I don’t think I fully understood what happened there and felt like a thing that is going to reappear/come back in the future.

So glad they made it to the pony inn. But also a lil sketched out- feels like a trap?

Okay. Yeah. Wack- the inn got hacked!! So scary what the heck I thought this was a book for like children?? Older children??

Where is Gandalf?????

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[jenyifer]

I’ve finally finished reading the lord of the rings. It’s been a big part of my life.

When I was 5 I watched the hobbit and lord of the rings animated movies memorized it. Still sing “where’s there’s a whip” and start stories with “Frodo of the nine fingers”. Being the consumer of all the audiobooks I could carry from the library I demanded to listen to the book even though my parents warned me not to. (My dad had been an avid fan since his teen years so knew I definitely won’t get through it. Of course I didn’t understand and cried inconsolably when I lost the plot and didn’t understand the long names and events. Then when the movies came out I was 7 and I went to the theater so excited. Even though the movies gave me nightmares I loved them. I went to the library again and stubbornly listened to LOTR. It was the only book series to challenge me. I listened to the whole thing but as an ADHD child I struggled. The only things that stuck with me was Tom Bombadil and Tree-beard. I adored Tree-beard so much I’d go out into the backyard and talk to the trees 🤣 Throughout my school career I’d always go back to trying to read LOTR over and over. Each time I’d get frustrated and give up. I read/listened fantasy and sci-fi like a sponge. Always had the most books read for my class. But LOTR was unattainable. Looking back I think it became my Mount Doom. I built it up in my head that I wasn’t smart enough that I didn’t have the attention span blaming it on my ADHD instead of realizing it was a fake mental block I had given myself. I stopped being the voracious reader after giving LOTR one more time in University. Went on to get a career and my goal to read and understand LOTR faded into the background. My love of Fantasy never stopped when I did art on this tumblr there were dragons and warriors and when I wrote my own fan fiction for whatever obsession it was always epic fantasy. But I avoided my old nemesis lotr like a shadow in the back of my mind. My girlfriend lived on the filming site for Mount Doom in New Zealand with a tattoo of Andúril on the back of her neck and I still tried to avoid the challenge. It finally took my little sister turning off my BTS music on a road trip and playing The Hobbit from the Unexpected Journey on Spotify. She’d never tried reading the series before. I was immediately a moth drawn to the flame. I had to try again. 5 years since my last try.

I have finally done it at age 28. I listened to the Hobbit, Fellowship, Two Towers, and Return of the King. I’ve conquered this massive hurdle and I’m so glad. I loved the books this time. I finally had the life experience to understand the characters and story. I had more fun than I would have thought possible. I’ll probably even watch the movies again (something I haven’t attempted since I was 13). I feel so accomplished I had to post about it. It feels like a major milestone I want to scream out into the world. But since I can I’ll just post on Tumblr and be privately proud and a little sad to have finally accomplished a challenge I set for myself over 20 years ago.

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Spotify LotR audiobook thoughts 2/?

The sheer absurdity of Tom Bombadil’s whole character never quite struck me until listening to it on audiobook.

*pitch meeting voice*

“So then they meet this guy named TOM BOMBADIL”

“Oh yeah? What’s his deal?”

“Oh he’s fricken NUTS sir! He sings nonsense and shows up just in time to keep Merry and Pippin from getting eaten by the evil sentient tree. Then he invites the Hobbits to his house and they find out that he’s an ageless being who isn’t affected by the Ring at ALL!”

“Oh wowwowwowwow. Wow. So do they ask him to join their quest? I mean, he must turn into a pretty important character if he can control the Ring.”

“Oh no, they leave him after two chapters and never talk to him again.”

“... What?”

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Spotify LotR audiobook thoughts 3/?

Tolkien really said “75% of all problems can be solved by singing.”

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Spotify LotR audiobook thoughts 1/?

First, whoever picked the tracks to score “The Shadow of the Past” did just a phenomenal job. Weaving the themes in with Gandalf’s narration elevates the whole thing and really helps you feel the stakes of the story growing.

Second, I’m realizing now that that whole chapter is pretty much Tolkien’s TL;DR for the end of The Silmarillion.

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