Strange place to read a book.

[Lush]

I re-read some parts of the The Hobbit at an old cemetary in Kiev, Ukraine on a sunny day once.

I read LotR during AP Modern European History my senior year of high school while paying zero attention to the lesson. I was a naughty girl.

[Child of the 7th Age]

This is interesting! Here are three additions:

1. In a hospital room in the early stages of labor, before I delivered my son.

2. Clinging to a deck chair in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, trying not to toss my cookies, while the ship was assaulted by gale force winds. (I stayed up on deck as long as the crew let me because being in a small, enclosed cabin was not good for my stomach.)

3. In an emergency room waiting for the doctors who took forever to get to me. There were some folk much more seriously injured who understandably came first. However, I had broken two ribs and was willing to try anything to take my mind off the pain.

[Carorëiel]

1) Somewhere above the North Atlantic.

2) During choir rehearsal.

[Nirvana II]

the summit of Mt. Kilimanjaro.

under the Kurt Cobain Bridge in Aberdeen, WA.

[Celebuial]

Um... I've read it in some really funny positions like sitting upside down and sitting in the mud behind a dog kennel.

The most interesting place I've read it though is The Energia Space Co-operation Hotel in Korolev, Russia. I went to the International Space Olympics in 2004 and took a copy of LOTR and The Sill with me. Oh, so that means that I also read it in the car park of the place where they train their cosmonauts and astonauts.

Other than that it's just pretty normal and dull. Though I did get away with reading it in a compulsory Religious Education lesson that I didn't want to be in. Well for 45 mins anyway. The teacher was very mad when he found out. He didin't appreciate the works of Tolkien!

[Encaitare]

I read LotR during AP Modern European History my senior year of high school while paying zero attention to the lesson. I was a naughty girl.

Heh heh... I read Lost Tales 1 in my Math SAT Prep class... but that's not LotR.

I haven't really read it anywhere exceptionally exciting, but I'm probably going to go see the Gates in Central Park, so I shall make a point to read LotR under them. I'll need something to read for the train ride, anyway.

Oh! I read RotK in the Majestic Theatre waiting for the curtain to go up for the Phantom of the Opera. That's sort of exciting.

[AbercrombieOfRohan]

This isn't the strangest place, but the most peaceful. I read LotR once in a teeny, tiny garden, in Madrid (Spain). It was the middle of spring and the garden had lovely walls with roses growing all around them. And right in the middle of the garden was a huge fountain and the water flowed all over the mossy cobblestones and watered all of the plants that grew around it. So picturesque...