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Post by fanuidhol on Mar 25, 2016 20:28:33 GMT -6
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Post by Andorinha on Mar 26, 2016 7:29:47 GMT -6
Thanks for the URL, Fan! LOL, I did not know there was a "Read Tolkien Day."
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Post by Stormrider on Mar 26, 2016 9:29:05 GMT -6
Yes, It is held on Laurelin. Fan and I both have characters who signed up for it. You have to ask one of the promoters (Erenor??) to give you the secret password and channel. I usually listen in on it if I happen to be online at Laurelin during the time frame--usually from Wednesday evening thru Thursday evening every week.
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Post by fanuidhol on Mar 26, 2016 10:24:10 GMT -6
Stormy, the one on Laurelin is a totally different thing than the annual Tolkien Reading Day held on March 25th, the day Sauron was defeated. I've known about the annual one for a number of years now, reading something aloud to some victim, mostly grandson now.
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Post by Stormrider on Mar 26, 2016 15:12:52 GMT -6
Oh! This was something different than what is on Laurelin? oh! Okay!
Reading The Silmarillion to your grandson? Is he 'getting' any of it? I mean, it is tuff for me and he is so young yet! Hopefully, you aren't reading him anything too battle oriented! Maybe the singing of the Ainur or the waking of the First Children? or a love story?
If I read out loud to some victim of my own ... err, who is around? oh husband ... he would just fall asleep.
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Post by fanuidhol on Mar 26, 2016 16:39:23 GMT -6
Nooooo. Not Sil, silly Stormy. Grandson would look at me in a daze and try to flip the pages, looking for pictures. I have read some of The Father Christmas Letters, some poetry out of The Adventures of Tom Bombadil, and tried to get him interested in The Hobbit. "Why the Man in the Moon Came Down Too Soon" was one he really liked.
I've read a couple of things to the residents of the nursing home I worked in The Smith of Wooton Major and some of the poetry in LotR and Adv of TB.
Hubby would give me "The Face" and say "I watched your Movies and that's all you're going to get."
It's TOLKIEN reading day. Not Sil reading day.
The point of my posting that URL was the fact that the article was posted on the Entertainment Weekly website.
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Post by Stormrider on Mar 27, 2016 6:00:10 GMT -6
okay okay! Your article (Entertainment weekly, eh? cool!) was about The Sil, so I thought we were to read it (or parts of it) out loud to someone! My Hubby would most likely have left the room to watch sports on the other TV in our house if I had tried that. Gee, your hubby actually watched the movies with you? Lucky girl. Mine has been in the room and started to watch with me but falls asleep or goes to find sports somewhere else in the house. I feel like I want to "Clockwork Orange" him--strap him in an uncomfortable chair and pin his eyes open and bombard his senses with the movies so he has to watch them all with me--with my luck, he would still fall asleep during it all anyway.
Whew! I didn't think you would read anything scary to your Grandson. There are lots of other good Tolkien stories out there for Grandson to enjoy! I have some of those other stories and have read them myself. Even though The Hobbit is lighter than LOTR, there are still some pretty dark and scary parts to it. I wonder how old Tolkien' children were when he told them the tale?
March 25th--I should be able to remember that next year. That was my Dad's birthday!
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Post by Andorinha on Mar 27, 2016 6:43:32 GMT -6
Maria allows me to read her some of the poetry and the songs, but otherwise is unimpressed with the Tolkien corpus -- I cannot sing, so I just chant. None of my nieces or nephews have expressed any interest in the books though most have seen the movies, but again, no abiding interest there either...
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Post by Stormrider on Mar 27, 2016 8:27:29 GMT -6
Good thing we found each other and all of our Tolkien's Ring Friends! We need each other!
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Post by fanuidhol on Mar 27, 2016 8:29:22 GMT -6
If I remember correctly, the publisher's son, as a child, read it and gave a book report to his father saying that The Hobbit should appeal to children 5-9. And that's how it got published.
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