Welcome, everybody, guests as well as regular readers, to the International Tolkien Reading Day 2015 at Read Lord of the Rings aloud!


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Your mods apologize for not mentioning it sooner: b2mem has taken up a lot of our time. However we'd like to maintain the tradition of special readings for International Read Tolkien Day! So even though it is short notice, we encourage you to make a short reading of any favorite passage from ANY of Tolkien's writings for that date; LJ voicepost is most ( Read more... )

Here are the readings for the International Tolkien Reading Day 2014:

We have a small but nice selection for you, from poem to essay to article to book passages.

blslarner read from the essay On Fairy Tales

dreamflower02 read Bilbo's Last Song

ink_gypsy read excerpts from Letters from Father Christmas

lavendertook read a passage of an early draft of A long expected party from Lord of ( Read more... )

Tuesday March 25 is International Tolkien Reading Day. Every year we celebrate by asking people to choose and read a favorite passage from any of Tolkien's writings ( Read more... )

Here are links to all the Tolkien Reading Day posts. I'm delighted so many of you did readings from The Hobbit!! Thank you!! I have a couple left to listen to and comment on, but I've so enjoyed the ones I have listened to so far. Maybe when we are done with LOTR (if we are all still alive by that point, lol!!) we can tackle The Hobbit!

The Hobbit ( Read more... )

Happy Tolkien Reading Day, all!! And Happy Gondorian New Year!!

If you do a reading from The Hobbit today, please post a link to it here! I will gather all the links into a separate post tomorrow for your listening pleasure!! (Don't forget to unlock your post if your LJ is flocked.)

Don't forget that Tolkien Reading Day is fast approaching, this Sunday March 25th in fact. The theme for this year's TRD is '75 Years of The Hobbit'. So select a favorite passage from The Hobbit to read, post it to your LJ, and on Sunday I will make a post here where you can comment with a link. I'll be doing a reading and I hope a lot of the rest ( Read more... )

March 25th is Tolkien Reading Day, and as in the past few years, I'd love for us to celebrate here at Reading LOTR Aloud. The theme for this year's TRD is '75 Years of The Hobbit'. So, in keeping with that theme, if you are so inclined, please read a section from 'The Hobbit' and on March 25th, I will put a post up here where you can link to your ( Read more... )

It's Tolkien Reading Day!! *throws confetti* Please post links to your readings here! I'm so looking forward to hearing what everyone chose to read!!

Don't forget that Tolkien Reading Day is March 25th! If you are so inclined, read a favorite passage from Tolkien and post it to your LJ. On the 25th I will make a post here where you can link to your reading and I will gather them all up into a master post so everyone can listen and enjoy ( Read more... )