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Mood: Embarrased ]
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Currently: Listening to My Son Watch Justice League ]
Hey! Remember me? Yeah, well I got busy this week and took a little break from the blogging but not the reading.
So where am I in Lord of the Rings? Well after a long bit about Frodo living in Bilbo’s house, and Gandalf wandering through the wilderness, we get Frodo, Sam and Merry running through the forest being chased by Ringwraiths.
Not exactly as shown
During this flight, there is much hardship, with the running through bushes and the forgoing of inns with really good beer. This is apparently a tragedy for Merry, in a theme that I am sure will reappear in the book. Hobbits, like me, don’t travel well.
No beer for you. Come back 5 years.
Our Hobbit trio meets up with some elves, who they spend the night with. And in a way we are all so familiar with, the one night stand ends with the Hobbits waking up in the morning to find the elves gone!
Again, not exactly as pictured
I left off just as the trio arrived at Farmer Maggot’s, where Frodo spent much of his youth pilfering. Since then Farmer Maggot has acquired three lovely puppies named Grip, Fang and Wolf that help scare away pilferers. Apparently Farmer Maggot doesn’t remember the pilfering. How nice!
Nice puppies.
So that’s it. Hopefully I can check in in the next few days and update you on my progress.