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02-26-2005, 03:45 AM
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Hauntress of the Havens
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: IN it, but not OF it
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In the Philippines. Isn't that country strange?
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03-01-2005, 07:16 PM
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Shade of Carn Dûm
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Tossing half-sick between grotesque reality and savage, frightening dreams
Posts: 360
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hi. been a while, hasn't it?
The strangest place I ever read Lord of the Rings was when I entred an all-night dance-off with my boyfriend. We were so bored and weary after about three hours that I read all of the Two Towers and part of The Return of the King hanging over his shoulder while he read The Fellowship of the Ring hanging over my shoulder. I read The Silmarillon on top of Signal Hill, St. John's Newfoundland (Canada). The most Eastern point in North America. (I know it isn't very exciting, but it's something)
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03-01-2005, 09:23 PM
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Bittersweet Symphony
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: On the jolly starship Enterprise
Posts: 1,814
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This weekend, I read RotK under the Gates (as promised) and in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, choosing to refresh my memory of the Battle of the Pelennor Fields rather than look at a bunch of creepy fur and feather outfits. |
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03-02-2005, 09:19 AM
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Ghost Prince of Cardolan
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: STILL a drought
Posts: 529
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(1) Standing and swaying in the Kiev, Ukraine, metro, riveted by the sheer grandeur of the language in the Pelennor Fields chapter.
(2) Reading FotR aloud to three brothers, two cousins, and their friend (all male), all of us in authentic American Civil War garb, sitting on the top of a hill in a stiff March breeze with the camps spread out below us. (3) Reading all of the LotR aloud to my father this summer, during our 35 minute (each way) drive to work. (4) Skimming the Silm for riddle material during geology lecture - two weeks ago. (5) Finishing FotR for the first time at my brother's Little League game. (That's when I first discovered that the LotR is one story, not three related stories.) I know there's more, but I'm so used to having a book with me anywhere and everywhere I go that I can't separate the occasions. Fun topic!
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03-02-2005, 02:26 PM
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Pile O'Bones
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Brazil
Posts: 12
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1- During an endless trial at the Local Court of Justice, pretending to be reading the case files (if my boss ever knew...).
2- Inside a 40 feet Container laden with 25 pound bags of Canadian lentil during the stevedores' lunch break.
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03-30-2011, 07:10 PM
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Blossom of Dwimordene
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: The realm of forgotten words
Posts: 10,493
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Hm. I haven't read Tolkien in any really weird places... well, no. I have. My room is the weirdest place you'll find on Earth.
 - In Nijniy Novgorod, Russia - In Boston, Massatchusette (I still can't spell that, even though I've lived there for over 2 years...) USA - In Toronto Ontario Canada... where I've read most of it... but that's not weird... - In the middle of nowhere in a cabin. Well, not exactly "nowhere" - it was northwestern Ontario. - In the middle of nowhere in northeastern Ontario, but this time in a tent - In a car - On a bus - On a plane - In Varadero, Cuba - In school, when I think that the lesson is not important enough for me to listen - When my parents think I'm doing homework... (me bad girl!  )- When my friends are talkin about a topic that I'm not passionate about (one of them says that I look up every time she calls my name, even though I don't pay attention to what they say. Weird!) - In a bathtub (I stopped reading Tolkien there after I accidentlly dipped a tip of The Sil in the watter... It dried, but it's a bit lumpy now. It's not pretty. But I read other books like that - books that I don't care about how they look as much.) - At night with a flashlight. Long useless list, most of which applies to everybody. 
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03-31-2011, 06:56 AM
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Curmudgeonly Wordwraith
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Ensconced in curmudgeonly pursuits
Posts: 2,515
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On a porcelain throne.
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04-01-2011, 09:57 PM
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Mighty Quill
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Walking off to look for America
Posts: 2,230
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I used to cart along my copies of LotR with me everywhere. They've been all over Alaska, down the Alcan, stayed in Washington, and even been to Britain. Yes, I had a bag full of Tolkien books in Britain. They were heavy. I read Tolkien at the Girdwood Forest Fair (emphasising the word 'exotic'). Which really isn't the most exciting place, but I was surrounded by hippies. I've read Tolkien driving across lakes in the middle of winter, and at the Moose Dropping Festival (yeah, there is actually such a thing). I have also read Tolkien in Yellowstone. The best place to read Tolkien, though, is outside under a tree on a warm summer's day.
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