Reading Group meeting 25/3/06

On this day....

'There was a roar and a great confusion of noise. Fires leaped up and licked the roof.....the Mountain shook....Sam ran to Frodo and picked him up and carried him out to the door.'

'A brief vision he had of swirling cloud, and in the midst of it towers and battlements, tall as hills, founded upon a mighty mountain throne above immeasurable pits; great courts and dungeons, eyeless prisons sheer as cliffs, gaping gates of steel and adamant: and then all passed. Towers fell and mountains slid; walls crumbled and melted....'

The Return of the King, Mount Doom

The 25th of March is the Tolkien society's 'Reading day'.

Reading Group meeting 11/3/06

On this day....

'....at length Faramir said: 'I do not oppose your will sire. Since you were robbed of Boromir, I will go and do what I can in his stead - if you command it.'

The Return of the King, The Seige of Gondor