Voice Post - Book 2 Chapter 9

[telstar_gold]

Here is my reading from Chapter 9 of Book 2, 'The Great River'. Transcript under the cut.

Comments

[addie71]

Lovely. I could listen to you read all day.

[telstar_gold]

Thanks! It was good to do one of these again. :)

[grey_wonderer]

This part is so very eerie. They are all nervous and looking for the meaning in even small things like seeing the eagle. It shows that the danger is growing. I like this part. Thank you for a very lovely reading.

[telstar_gold]

I like this part
Me too! Tolkien does a great job conveying the uncertainty of their situation, and the way the very landscape seems to be against them.

Thanks for listening! :))

[ex_lbilover]

I remember the first time I read the book that I was really worried that they were going to crash on those rocks! Tension adds to tension in this chapter, and you just know something bad is coming.

A lovely reading, Tel! Thank you so much!!

[telstar_gold]

There's a real air of menace in this part of the book. Thanks for listening! And of course, for organising it all again! :)

Read LotR Aloud

[vaysh]

A wonderful, precise reading. I love all of Tolkien's descriptions on this passage, of the landscape, the far-off mountains and ridges and the river. Your reading was perfectly suited to them. :)

Re: Read LotR Aloud

[telstar_gold]

What a lovely comment - thank you so much! :))

[hildigard_brown]

You have such a lovely voice, Tel! I always enjoy listening to you read, and this passage was no exception... such a building of tension and foreboding here.

[telstar_gold]

Thanks Hildi! Tolkien conveys the menace around them so well.