Read LotR aloud: TT, Book IV, Chapter V: "The Window of the West"

Jun 04, 2015 19:33


This is the sign-up post for the next chapter: Book IV, Chapter V, "The Window on the West".

We are offering 10 slots for reading and are looking forward to you all joining us, old hands and newbies alike!

Please comment here for signing-up or any questions.

Assignments will go out on June 11th - though if you like to start before that date, let me ( Read more... )

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starbrow June 5 2015, 23:40:50 UTC
I would like to give this a shot! I'm a newbie, I've never done this before but it sounds really awesome.

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ysilme June 6 2015, 08:57:16 UTC
Yay, welcome! *\O/* It's awesome to have a new voice to listen to.

What kind of experience do you have with recording sound/voice, or reading aloud, and what do you have available for recording? In the end, you'll need an MP3 file, but I can help with converting if necessary. I'm happy to help you with any question.

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starbrow June 6 2015, 15:51:46 UTC
Not terribly much experience with recording my own voice, I'm afraid, but it's definitely something I'm interested in. I've been told I have a nice reading voice. :)

I have a Microsoft LiveChat headset and Garageband, I'm sure I can manage to produce an MP3 file. It'll be fine. I've watched tutorials.

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ysilme June 6 2015, 18:48:48 UTC
That sounds great! I'm not familiar with Garageband, O
m afraid, as I'm using Audacity, but I suppose the basics will be the same. Working with a headset is fine!
When you're done I'll give you the info about how to upload your file onto our Tindeck account.
I'll post your assignment later; I don't have the text on the notebook, and it's currently too hot to go back inside to power up the desktop.;o)

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periantari June 6 2015, 03:43:52 UTC
Me too! Love this chapter ! Please remind me several days before deadline or I'll do it right when I get the passage. Cheers! :D

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ysilme June 6 2015, 08:53:11 UTC
Great to have you! :o) I try to remind to remind you. *g*

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ysilme June 6 2015, 08:53:56 UTC
We're changing the routine a bit and give out the assignments now right after signing-up, so you have more time for your readings. So here you go. :o ( ... )

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rla_staff June 7 2015, 10:05:05 UTC
(part 2 ( ... )

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arcadiaego June 6 2015, 20:09:45 UTC
I'm in!

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rla_staff June 6 2015, 21:22:10 UTC
Yay! :o)

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rla_staff June 7 2015, 10:07:10 UTC
We're changing the routine a bit and give out the assignments now right after signing-up, so you have more time for your readings. So here you go. :o)

Please comment to this post to confirm you have received it. Posting the assignments starts on June 17th and continues until Juni 24th. The whole chapter will go up on June 25th. Let us know if you encounter any troubles or need a pinch-hitter. Most importantly, have fun with your reading! :o)

The hobbits were taken to a corner and given a low bed to lie on, if they wished. Meanwhile men busied themselves about the cave, quietly and in orderly quickness. Light tables were taken from the walls and set up on trestles and laden with gear. This was plain and unadorned for the most part, but all well and fairly, made: round platters, bowls and dishes of glazed brown clay or turned box-wood, smooth and clean. Here and there was a cup or basin of polished bronze; and a goblet of plain silver was set by the Captain's seat in the middle of the inmost table ( ... )

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rla_staff June 7 2015, 10:07:42 UTC
(part 2 ( ... )

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Read Aloud tanis2014 June 11 2015, 18:38:58 UTC
Okay - if you haven't filled the last two spots, I'll take one of them, though I'm no longer writing in this fandom.

My apologies - RL has been very demanding of late. My 87 year-old father-in-law recently had open-heart surgery and juggling work and taking my mother-in-law back and forth to the hospital twice a day has really cut into ANY fandom time.

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Re: Read Aloud rla_staff June 11 2015, 22:51:56 UTC
Yay, thank you! :o) It's lovely to have you also this time.

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Re: Read Aloud ysilme June 12 2015, 10:11:36 UTC
Here is your assignment. Please comment to this post to confirm you have received it. Posting the assignments starts on June 17th and continues until Juni 24th. The whole chapter will go up on June 25th. Let us know if you encounter any troubles or need a pinch-hitter. Most importantly, have fun with your reading! :o)

After so long journeying and camping, and days spent in the lonely wild, the evening meal seemed a feast to the hobbits: to drink pale yellow wine, cool and fragrant, and eat bread and butter, and salted meats, and dried fruits, and good red cheese, with clean hands and clean knives and plates. Neither Frodo nor Sam refused anything that was offered, nor a second, nor indeed a third helping. The wine coursed in their veins and tired limbs, and they felt glad and easy of heart as they had not done since they left the land of Lórien ( ... )

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Re: Read Aloud ysilme June 12 2015, 10:11:57 UTC
(2nd part ( ... )

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