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@bluejay I really need to go onto these forums more often, because I completely missed this topic! The Hobbit is definitely one of my very favorite books. Anywho, about the third and fourth chapters: “A Short Rest” and “Over Hill and Under Hill”. The first time that I read this book I also had a really difficult time focusing during these chapters. I think that the reason is because Tolkien spent a really long time in chapters 3 and 4 discussing characters that did not have much to do for the rest of the book (especially in chapter 3; Elrond and the elves, for example) and put in a lot of things that don’t mean much to anyone until they read LotR, like Rivendell/The Last Homely House and all of the poems (which is very strange, since when he wrote The Hobbit he had no plan of writing a sequel). For whatever reason, I didn’t really understand or care for these chapters until I watched the movie. As much as I disapprove of the first of the trilogy, (that’s a different discussion, of course) the book made a lot more sense after I watched it. This might be due to the fact that I was pretty young the first time I read it, and had not re-read it before watching “An Unexpected Journey”, thus I had forgotten a good bit of it. But back to the chapters, (sorry, I got off topic) they’re still pretty good and fit in the theme, plot, and style of the rest of the book.
I’m pretty sure that counts as a rant, sorry about that. I just think a lot about this. 🙂
Oh, I don’t know. Basically I want to finish, or at least get pretty far into, the first draft of my WIP before the end of the school year. I’m not sure that’s going to happen, though, since my outline just keeps growing and I have the terrible feeling now that my novel will end up reeeaaaallly long. 🙂
I’ll still raise my battle sword, though! Onward!
Hello again, all!
Deaus- Hello! Yeah, blogging is really fun. My book is a version of the King Arthur legends. I have a strange obsession with the legendarium, but I have not ever found a version of the story that I really liked, so I decided to write one myself. It’s been going pretty well so far. 🙂
Bluejay- Thank you for the many welcomes! I think that I have read all of Austen’s works, and I think that Pride and Prejudice is my favorite. Which is yours? I have not actually heard of the sequel, but I will have to look into that!
Thank you again for the many welcomes! (I like “The King and I” too. :))Kate Flournoy- Yes! I love meeting people who also love Shakespeare! Ooh, my second favorite play… I think that King Richard III might just be my second favorite. I did read The Taming of the Shrew, and Macbeth, Much Ado About Nothing, and most of his other works, but Henry V was one of the only ones I have not read. Oh, A Midsummer Night’s Dream was actually the first that I read, and I thought it was awful! I have no idea why I continued reading Shakespeare after that, but I am glad that I did!
I did read all of his sonnets, and did not like most of them, but I remember really enjoying a few. 25 was beautiful! It reminds me of some of Tolkien’s poems in LotR. 🙂
I cannot wait to see you around more on the forums!Thank you, Dragon Snapper! See you around!
Hello, Sarah Hoven, and thank you for the welcome! My sister Hannah tells me that this is the bestistest (who came up with that word, and how? :)) place on the internet. I’ll have to look around some more!
Gabrielle- Hi! Well, I try to post regularly on the blogs, but with school, my book, etc. I end up not posting very regularly :). Thankfully, I have some blogging partners for two of those blogs!
Oh, this is going to be impossible! Picking a favorite LotR book? 🙂 Let me think….. I’m pretty sure that The Return of the King is my favorite overall, though The Fellowship of the Ring has so many parts that I love!Greta- Hi! Are you the Greta that comments on hannahakrynicki.wordpress.com? That’s my sister’s blog, so I was wondering. 🙂 Oh yes, another Shakespeare, Tolkien, Austen, and Lewis lover! “Much Ado About Nothing” was my favorite play for awhile, but then I read Richard III and Hamlet. 🙂 Have you read those two? Richard III was so funny, and Hamlet was just wonderful for the entire play. I’m pretty sure that Hamlet was Shakespeare’s best. 🙂 I’ve read every single Jane Austen book, I think, (including “A History of England”, which was really funny), and I’m pretty certain that “Pride and Prejudice” was my favorite. I did really like “Sense and Sensibility”, though. I liked “Northanger Abbey”, I know, but I don’t remember much about it. Was it the one with gothic novels? “Mansfield Park” was pretty good, I thought, though it was incredibly long for Austen.
Have you read many of Charles Dickens’ books?Hello, Haley Long! It’s actually not very amazing, since I rarely post on them… :), but thank you! My goodness, you guys are so welcoming!
Rolena Hatfield- Thank you! I was a little nervous to jump in immediately, but if you say that it’s fine to do that okay! Thanks for reading my blog!
Jess- Whoa, you have a lot in common with me and with my older sister! She’s an INTJ too. It’s great that you like MBTI! I don’t often meet people who are really into it like I am. I’ve been playing the piano for nine years, and that is what I am teaching. I’m still learning the guitar and the violin (and I am not wonderful at either yet), and I been learning how to sing for the past eight months or so. I want to learn the flute (especially the Irish flute, because that sounds like bagpipes) and the harp, but I’m not sure either of those things will happen anytime soon. 🙂
Wow, you guys are all so welcoming! Thank you all so much again! I cannot wait to talk to you all more!
