My Tolkien Reading
Mar. 25th, 2010 08:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dreamflowerWell, since I was not sure anyone would show up at my reading (besides my husband) I was quite gratified when a girl did show up, right at 6:30.
We talked a while-- she's a student at OSU.
I read two passages from RotK. The one you recommended,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
shirebound, in which Sam speaks of stories, and the passage from "The Field of Cormallen" which begins with Sam's awakening and ends with "and tears are the very wine of blessedness".
Then I read an excerpt from "On Fairy Stories", the passage about eucatastrophe. It seems almost a companion piece with the Cormallen passage, where he tells of "joy beyond the walls of the world, poignant as grief."
Then we talked a while. She's familiar with fanfic, though she said she's not read a lot of LotR fanfic-- mostly HP. She usually reads at ff.net, and didn't know about some of the LotR only archives, so I'm going to send her some links.
I would have *liked* a couple more people to show up, but considering that I arranged it on short notice, I will consider it a moderate success.
The DH is already thinking of things we can do next year, bless him!
We talked a while-- she's a student at OSU.
I read two passages from RotK. The one you recommended,
shirebound, in which Sam speaks of stories, and the passage from "The Field of Cormallen" which begins with Sam's awakening and ends with "and tears are the very wine of blessedness".Then I read an excerpt from "On Fairy Stories", the passage about eucatastrophe. It seems almost a companion piece with the Cormallen passage, where he tells of "joy beyond the walls of the world, poignant as grief."
Then we talked a while. She's familiar with fanfic, though she said she's not read a lot of LotR fanfic-- mostly HP. She usually reads at ff.net, and didn't know about some of the LotR only archives, so I'm going to send her some links.
I would have *liked* a couple more people to show up, but considering that I arranged it on short notice, I will consider it a moderate success.
The DH is already thinking of things we can do next year, bless him!