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| | The Fellowship of the Ring |
 | | What with the movie version fast approaching, I felt it was probably about time for another re-read of the Lord of the Rings books (which, as an aside, I'm quite happy to own in old hardcover editions, so as not to be forced to go by the promotional copies put out by the movie people). |
 | | And as a work of world-building, they have no peer-- Tolkien worked on the background for years and years (leading to the seemingly endless series of volumes compiled from scraps of paper found in his desk...), and the depth of the history, language, and myth underlying the story is unmatched. |
 | | I was talking to Kate about re-reading the books, and mentioned the long slog across Mordor in the third book, which she also recalls dreading, but says tends not to be as tedious as memory makes it. |
| www.steelypips.org /library/Fellowship.html (1615 words) |
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