Today I’m going to buy an English version of the The Lord of The Rings. At present I’m reading an Italian version ( as is my language ) but I like to have the possibility to compare passages and maybe read the book in English instead.
Thanks friends for your support it’s really helping @anon67854825 @BorisKw @ncubeanelem @pierretomas18 @hellojaani @shern @srubio @wanttobreakfree @RecoverPeace
“Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible, and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works, or of the kinds of writing that they evidently prefer.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien
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I’m at the beginning of Chapter Six - Book One - Going into The Old Forest.
“Frodo began to feel restless, and the old paths seemed too well-trodden. He looked at maps, and wondered what lay beyond their edges: maps made in the Shire showed mostly white spaces beyond its borders.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien
“Sam was the only member of the party who had not been over the river before. He had a strange feeling as the slow gurgling stream slipped by: his old life lay behind in the mists, dark adventure lay in front.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien
“Do not tempt me! For I do not wish to become like the Dark Lord himself”
― Gandalf
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Day 10 - I’m at the beginning of the ninth chapter of book One At the Sign of the Prancing Pony.
“You are right, Frodo,’ said Gandalf: ‘to go back is to admit defeat, and face worse defeat to come…”
― J.R.R. Tolkien
“But even now there is hope left. I will not give you counsel, saying do this or do that. for not in doing or contriving, nor in choosing between this course and another, can I avail; but only in knowing what was and is, and in part what shall be. But this I will say to you: your Quest stands upon the edge of a knife. Stray but a little and it will fail, to the ruin of all. Yet hope remains while all the Company is true.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien
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Day 14 - End of Book one - Flight to the Ford
“The great storm is coming, but the tide has turned.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien
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Day 19 - A Journey in the Dark fourth chapter of Book Two.
“And I fell into darkness and foul dreams, and woke and found that waking was worse.”
“Ah! The Ring!’ said Boromir, his eyes lighting. ‘The Ring! Is it not a strange fate that we should suffer so much fear and doubt for so small a thing?”
― J.R.R. Tolkien
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I admire your persistance @anon59699586, keep on going!
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Listen to Summoning - Old Morning Dawn (Full álbum) while you’re Reading Tolkien, then you’ll be at Middle Earth
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Thank you for the suggestion brother 
I see that you are at 32 days now, @anon59699586. Congratulations 
You’re well on your way to breaking my all time record. Keep going, but watch out for Gollum!
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I stopped reading at the moment but the streak it’s keep going 
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That’s like a man saying he’s walking around the world with nothing for sustenance but a small bottle of water, and then deciding not to drink the water! You are tough! Keep it up!
