Yeah...that was on the next page. 😉

Now, I'm on RotK, and Eowyn just told Theoden and Eomer that Aragorn had taken the Paths of the Dead. 😀

Wow, jesusgirl4ever, you do read pretty fast. I read all the Narnias in one week one time. I read through all the LOTR in one week. The Hobbit in a day. What I last read was A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, by Mark Twain. No joke, it is one of The Best Ever books out there.

"But no living man am I! You look upon a woman!"

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Sheesh, Jaygee, I think you're going through LOTR faster than I did! 😯

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MAJOR SUGGESTION! Mark Twain's Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's court. I think I told you that, but READ IT!
Next down on my list from LOTR, which is just below Narnia, which nothing comes before. lol

ALL RIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I MADE IT TO APPENDIX A!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I read through the bit about the kings of Gondor, but then I had to go to bed.

What, all through?

You are a fast reader!

And appendix A is a great story, unless the prose style (drier than the novel) puts you off, especially at the end.

Some other appendices add more "background" than "story". I like that about tengwar and certhar (D? E?).

Mark Twain's Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's court.

I disagree. I read it in Classics Illustrated, not full text.

It is unfairly biassed in favour of modernity. Try Malory.

@Jaygee: *whistles* I like the Aragorn/Arwen backstory, Aragorn's genealogy (not exactly sure why, honestly), and the charts of Tenwar and Angerthas. 😀

Yeah, the back stories were great. 😀 Appendix E was confusing (and mostly over my head)! Tolkien, we know you're a linguist. We get it. *nods*

I'M DONE!!!!!!!!! I read the entirety of The Hobbit and LotR in less than a week...including the appendices. *headdesk*

*snickers*

*shakes head* You crazy. Anyway, on that note, congrats on finishing! Now you have to read The Silmarillion and Children of Hurin and the Adventures of Tom Bombadil and -- 😛

The Silm is definitely on the list for when we go on a college visit in February. I'm already planning on buying it on my Kindle. 😉

You do read very fast. Now quote all of Gandalf's lines from memory to show you read it. Just kidding. I need to beat that record sometime. 🙂

*highfives Jaygee*

Back when I used to read LotR regularly (often during Lent, taking LWW and Narnia for Easter), reading all used to take me a week.

Appendix E:

tengwar, not tenwar

Tolkien may be a linguist, but he is not writing it to show off, he wrote it so that linguists interested in his stuff (and there are some of those!) should be able to know more of what he did and why.

I wonder if appendices weren't added after the US copyright affair with Ace Books, so another publisher should have a non-identic edition to copyright. by then Tolkien CERTAINLY knew of readers who had been interested in Moria Gate Inscription or phrases in Sindarin or Runes on Balin's tomb.

One thing is, assume vowels spoken of are like Italian, except Y, assume ch in both Sindarin and Quenya stands for ach-laut, not for the sound in Church.

And believe me, history of real alphabets has sometimes been as complicated. Letter O may in Hebrew be transcribed as Vav, at least if long, but it derives from Ayin. E derives from one of the H sounds, and HTA (Greek long E letter) from a somewhat rougher H sound. Hence vowel tehtar vs Beleriand mode. Also, letters take different sounds, sometimes in Greek, Latin, Runes (hence the other differences).

So, Merry Christmas!