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And now Lothlorien is past. Only two chapters left in Book Two!

I definitely did not recall there being this much to this section in the book. Makes for a beautiful respite, however, after Moria and before the end of the first volume . . . .

The party is now through Moria. Much bigger sequence than I remembered it being! And yet also takes less pages than one might expect compared to some of what has come before and what is still to come. Magical storytelling in many ways though!

You know, it's kind of amazing that the couple of Rivendell chapters don't manage to get tedious, even when the Council of Elrond is a ton of exposition dump of a sort and by far the longest chapter of the entire thing.

But now the Fellowship is together and have begun making their way south! Moria and Lothlorien are to follow soon, when I finish I finish Fellowship either tomorrow or the day after . . . .

All went well and I finished Book One! Old Forest and Bombadil was very different in the audio than eyeball reading near 5 years ago! Understand more why some struggle with the Old Forest.

Still, everything else was just as wonderful as I remember, and much more in-depth than in the movie in some rather interesting ways. Love Strider, the Hobbits, & the Prancing Pony sequence in particular!

Now for Rivendell!

Right around halfway through Book One, and at a brilliant stopping spot after the main body of the Shire and before the Old Forest section! Delightful time again so far, and definitely loving the Andy Serkis narration as much as I did for The Hobbit earlier this year. Ought to finish Book One tomorrow if all goes well 😁

Just re-read the front-matter today (Foreword and Prologue), and they're definitely a big more investing and interesting (basically respectively) when you've already read the books (plus The Silmarillion) before. Still not sure the Prologue is necessary for first-timers as long as they've read the Hobbit, but that's probably still just me lol

Shall continue on proper tomorrow! A volume per week will be quite a pace!