The Fellowship Of The Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings (The Lord of the Rings, 1)

I’ve finally started reading this series!
I loves it. Sam will forever be my fav.

“All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost… But what was lost may yet be found.” “You may be sure that it was not for any merit that others do not possess: not for power or wisdom, at any rate. But you have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.” “That is the purpose for which you are called hither. Called, I say, though I have not called you to me, strangers from distant lands. You have come and are here met, in this very nick of time, by chance as it may seem. Yet it is not so. Believe rather that it is so ordered that we, who sit here, and none others, must now find counsel for the peril of the world. “Now, therefore, things shall be openly spoken about that have been hidden from all but a few until this day. And first, so that all may understand what is the peril, the Tale of the Ring shall be told from the beginning even to this present. And I will begin this tale, though others shall end it.” “The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out.” “The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.” “I would not have come, had I known the danger of light and joy. Now I have taken my worst wound in this parting…Alas for us all! And for all that walk the world in these after-days. For such is the way of it: to find and lose…But I count you blessed…for your loss you suffer of your own free will, and you might have chosen otherwise. But you have not forsaken your companions, and the least reward that you shall have is that the memory…shall remain ever clear and unstained in your heart, and shall neither fade nor grow stale.” J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Fellowship of the Ring was a perfect parallel for my adventure in Uzbekistan this summer.

Love love love LotR! I'm rereading it for the Game of Tomes virtual book club. Getting to relive this world after the last time I read it five years ago is amazing. I like more of the characters this time and love my favorites even more. Pippin and Boromir forever. The outright cookiness of the characters, especially Legolas, brings a lovely hilarity to the story in some of its darkest moments. I have already begun The Two Towers. I have to finish LoTR before the end of June.

Sam is the truest of friends. We can all only hope for someone to care for us enough to stick by our side no matter what. For the love of friendship true… give this a read

This is too long winded and there are so many other things in life I'd like to do than hear about what a tree looks like for 30 minutes :/