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jochenkeen
The Shire
Aug 13 2015, 12:48pm
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Reading along with the Lord of the Rings: A Short Cut to Mushrooms
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Thanks everyone for the warm welcome to the forum and all the thoughtful comments. I'm continuing my commentary on The Fellowship of the Ring: if you're interested, my latest is a meditation on the theme of procrastination in A Short Cut to Mushrooms It's also a great excuse to talk about one of my favourite characters in the trilogy: Farmer Maggot. Such an infelicitous name! But who else ever sasses a Ringwraith!
Matthew Sullivan Oldenhammer in Toronto
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noWizardme
Half-elven
Sep 6 2015, 10:31am
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I've been meaning to reply to your post, but not getting it done. My apologies. Yes, Frodo is certainly putting it off - on the one hand who can blame him, on the other I can see why Peter Jackson & his script-writing team bundled him out of the door immediately. As a reader, though, you get time to become a little frustrated and apprehensive - and a thing I really like about this chapter is how it dawns on us Readers that Something Is Wrong just a bit quicker than it dawns on Frodo. And no less an authority than Tom Bombadill thinks that Farmer maggot is a Person of Importance...
~~~~~~ Join us for a read-through of The Two Towers (Book III of Lord of the Rings) in the Reading-Room - 13 September- 29 November 2015. Schedule etc: http://newboards.theonering.net/...i?post=864064#864064
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