Snowstorms on January the Twelfth
... he heard Bilbo's voice speaking. "I don't think much of your diary..."
Speaking of which - while I'm planning my reading in my 2024 diary, here's my diary from 2004!
I said in my first blog post that I almost certainly read An Unexpected Party in 2006 - here's some proof that this is a decades long obsession!
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Today, I'm reading my oldest copy of Fellowship, a 1966 editon of the wonderfully strange The Fellowship of the Ring - the "official" US edition following the pirated edition scandal!
This was my mum's copy of Fellowship - which she told me she gave up on after The Council of Elrond. I actually found a bookmark halfway through The Ring Goes South, on the "His arm has grown long" page. I thought it only right to pick up reading from where my mum abandoned it over 30 years ago!
Speaking of which - while I'm planning my reading in my 2024 diary, here's my diary from 2004!
I said in my first blog post that I almost certainly read An Unexpected Party in 2006 - here's some proof that this is a decades long obsession!
image upload
Today, I'm reading my oldest copy of Fellowship, a 1966 editon of the wonderfully strange The Fellowship of the Ring - the "official" US edition following the pirated edition scandal!
This was my mum's copy of Fellowship - which she told me she gave up on after The Council of Elrond. I actually found a bookmark halfway through The Ring Goes South, on the "His arm has grown long" page. I thought it only right to pick up reading from where my mum abandoned it over 30 years ago!
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