Read it aloud?

[greyhavener]

I read The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings aloud to my then seven-year-old. It took us about ten weeks. There is poetry and cadence in the language that really comes out aurally (after all Tolkien was a language guy). Reading it aloud revives a kind of storytelling experience that myth is really all about. Then there is the enjoyment of watching someone fall in love with the story who has never heard it before.

I think it's a shame that people stop reading to children just because they can read for themselves. I think the spoken word awakens something different in the imagination and changes how we experience the information.

[ February 25, 2003: Message edited by: greyhavener ]