Epic Tolkien Bookclub: Week Two
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sigridhr Epic Tolkien Bookclub: Week Two (The Hobbit)
Chapter III: A Short Rest
Chapter IV: Over Hill and Under Hill
Rules
I very much doubt we'll require much in the way of formal rules, but just for the sake of formality and clarity:
Chapter III: A Short Rest
Chapter IV: Over Hill and Under Hill
Rules
I very much doubt we'll require much in the way of formal rules, but just for the sake of formality and clarity:
- Discussion is welcome and encouraged, as is disagreement. Name-calling and personal attacks will be punished by a blind date with Gollum at the Mordor Fried Warg Emporium. I highly recommend the Mildewed Troll Innards (a deep, earthy dish, with plenty of flavour), and Boiled Nazgul Backside (light and airy, what it lacks in substance it makes up for in its sharp, stabbing taste that will stay with you long after you've left).
- There is no spoiler policy in place. Although we're reading the Hobbit, please feel free to bring in things from other Tolkien works, any of the films, the History of Middle Earth, the Letters of JRR Tolkien, and, if you should like, other literary sources.
- There is no such thing as too much geekery. Or taking the text too seriously.
- If you have any concerns at any point, I'm the closest thing this gong show has to a mod, so feel free to get in touch. I can be reached either by PM through this site, or directly by email at sigridhr.lokidottir@gmail.com.
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Date: 2013-01-21 04:29 pm (UTC)Was I the only one who enjoyed the Elves' song? I rather liked the tra-la-lally! I felt like they were giving some kind of lightness of heart to the travelers, and while it's out of usual character for the elves, it's kind of fitting in the scene? I haven't read the LoTR trilogy in nearly ten years so I'm rusty in the details of how they /should/ behave, but it seemed...nice. And Bilbo definitely felt its effects as it lifted his weary spirits.
I also have to comment on the goblins' dialogues, because I expected a lot of crudeness in their language (probably because I'm so used to that in the movies), so when they started speaking full and proper sentences and sang songs (albeit not friendly songs), my eyebrows rose very high. Books are always better.
I have to say, the differences between the book and the movie are surprising. I guess for movie purposes they made certain changes, but I prefer the book's approach--and it makes a lot more sense.
I think this wasn't a very useful comment and I sort of just rehashed a lot of things others have already said, but that's what I feel so far~
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Date: 2013-01-22 06:09 am (UTC)Hahaha, I enjoy Tra-la-lally more when I'm picturing them all drunk as lords. I think you're right though – there's a sort of parallel with the (less silly) description of Lothlórien as a place where time seems to stand still, and the weight of their quest becomes much lighter. I guess Rivendell is meant to be carefree in that same way – oddly removed from the world and the bookended trouble on either side of their visit (trolls and goblins, respectively).
I was much less impressed with the Hobbit as a film than the LotR films – I think it's mostly because I find the Hobbit is a nicely contained narrative, and that all the additions bogged down the script. But, then again, Richard Armitage, so....
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Date: 2013-01-22 03:12 pm (UTC)