Like Addie and Janet, I love Shadowfax. I love his relationship with Gandalf, and how he nuzzles him on the neck. You can tell how very much Tolkien loved and understood and appreciated horses.
Thank you very much, GW! I just realized that for the last two readings I gave you the very end of the chapter!
So if this were a baseball game, I'd be your closer? : ) I still get chills when Gandalf whistles for Shadowfax in the film and they cut to the horse running across the field to him. I name my cars and my current car is called Shadowfax. Also, Pippinfan1 and I went to a horse show in Ohio and saw Blanco, the horse who played Shadowfax. Sadly, I didn't get his autograph. He wasn't signing that day. : )
Thank you for this lovely reading of one of my favourite passages! I so love Shadowfax, and the scene where he nuzzles Gandalf's neck is so sweet... Once again, too, Tolkien's landscape descriptions are so evocative, I feel being right in the middle of it.
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I'm glad you enjoyed this.
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Thank you very much, GW! I just realized that for the last two readings I gave you the very end of the chapter!
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I still get chills when Gandalf whistles for Shadowfax in the film and they cut to the horse running across the field to him. I name my cars and my current car is called Shadowfax. Also, Pippinfan1 and I went to a horse show in Ohio and saw Blanco, the horse who played Shadowfax. Sadly, I didn't get his autograph. He wasn't signing that day. : )
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