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i just realised that out of the 275 pages left of this book, about 120 of them are the appendices lol man really was a historian for his own damn universe. i respect it but i also admittedly will not be reading the appendices i do apologise mr tolkien sir

i’m about to say something that feels illegal but i have to speak my truth and that is… i am bored. i cannot deny it. this third book has been a slog to get through so far 😔😭🤧

‘Kokum was a seed in a mound of dirt. How far away from her was I that she could look so small when all my life she had been a mountain?’

‘She had the softest eyes, and when she held me in them, I knew that no one else in the entire world could ever love me like she did.’

‘I prop my laptop on the counter and put on an old playlist, a mix of emo songs I’ve been listening to since high school, and start deep cleaning my fridge.’

she is so me

justice for sabine

‘Perhaps that is what it is like being with other people. Perhaps even people you like and admire immensely can make you see the World in ways you would rather not.’

and that is book two finished!! my god, what an ending! 4.5 stars!! only a few days before my loan for book 3 arrives and i can finish my journey alongside sam and frodo aaahhh

“‘Don’t leave me here alone! It’s your Sam calling. Don’t go where I can’t follow!’”

stop it 😭🤧

see now i understand why they did that but also piranesi why tf did you do that 😒

“‘Of course, it is likely enough, my friends,’ he said slowly, ‘likely enough that we are going to our doom: the last march of the Ents.’”

not me crying over this

‘Many of those trees were my friends, creatures I had known from nut and acorn; many had voices of their own that are lost for ever now.’

oh treebeard 😭

‘But, supposing for a moment that a lesser mind existed, why would I want to control it?’

this has been incredible so far

just read a passage that felt familiar from both my parents but i also recognise that same behaviour in myself yikes ! good thing i don’t want children i suppose…

so comforting in a way to read this and be like “aaahhh, yes, okay that explains a lot”

and with that, my first reading of the fellowship of the ring is complete! what a journey. really enjoying listening to the audiobooks narrated by andy serkis as i read along with this behemoth of a physical book. 4 stars! now to wait for my library loan of the second book to come in…

“There are older and fouler things than Orcs in the deep places of the world.”

ain’t that the truth

“I began.”

listen, i have known this was coming since the first few pages but my god