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First meeting in August | Southfarthing Mathom 2012
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Previous blogsite and reports. The new blog for the Tolkien Reading Group (Southampton UK). First meeting in August. We began a very busy meeting with a continuation of our plans for a ‘Wessexmoot’, and got as far as deciding on a date. The matter of a location for dinner remains to be decided, but the event is taking shape. Carol sent her comments for the meeting and those that did not form part of the wider discussion are added as usual at the end. Eileen noted that they have a lot of help along the way.
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Oops! | Southfarthing Mathom 2012
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Previous blogsite and reports. The new blog for the Tolkien Reading Group (Southampton UK). Checking through Carol’s comments on our recent discussions I have discovered that I have got out of sync and somewhere in the sequence of blogs I have missed out part of a complete set of Carol’s comments on The Ring Goes South, so I am posting them here separately. Apologies for the omission. Carol’s comments for ‘The Ring Goes South’. Talking of naming things – Hollin. i grew up on the edge of a distr...Gimli g...
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Last Meeting in May | Southfarthing Mathom 2012
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Previous blogsite and reports. The new blog for the Tolkien Reading Group (Southampton UK). Last Meeting in May. For our late Spring Bank holiday meeting our reading had included the rest of ‘The Council of Elrond’ and ‘The Ring Goes South’, for which Carol had also sent her comments. We started with updates on research, including Scull and Hammond’s revision of their reference to the Tolkien family’s holiday in north Wales following Ian’s careful investigation of this matter. Eileen commented on the nee...
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May: first meeting | Southfarthing Mathom 2012
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Previous blogsite and reports. The new blog for the Tolkien Reading Group (Southampton UK). After some journeys of our own around the library we eventually settled, rather suitably, in the Learning Centre, for our meeting on ‘The Council of Elrond’. We began with Ian’s report on his continuing research into the work of Tolkien’s tutor Joseph Wright, and his wife Elizabeth. Ian noted the significance of their work on dialect. Angela and Tim queried who the messenger from Sauron really was? Tim went on to ...
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Last meeting in July | Southfarthing Mathom 2012
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Previous blogsite and reports. The new blog for the Tolkien Reading Group (Southampton UK). Last meeting in July. In relation to Celeborn’s harsh reaction to Gimli and Galadriel’s defence of him, Angela remarked that Galadriel was not involved in the ancient war between the Elves and the Dwarves, and Carol observed that Galadriel learned much from Melian while in Doriath. Tim added that Tolkien was reflecting on racial intolerance, and Galadriel has more empathy and a wider view. Laura suggested that Cel...
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June: First Meeting – main report | Southfarthing Mathom 2012
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Previous blogsite and reports. The new blog for the Tolkien Reading Group (Southampton UK). June: First Meeting – main report. Mike noted Tolkien’s choice of vocabulary when he described the mountain as ‘frowning’ rather than the usual ‘brooding’, and Laura remarked that the choice made it seem as though the Company were doing something wrong. Mike noted that the description close to Moria is given in intense detail, and Eileen observed that it makes the reader feel the environment like the Company.
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Lynn Forest-Hill | Southfarthing Mathom 2012
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Previous blogsite and reports. The new blog for the Tolkien Reading Group (Southampton UK). All posts by Lynn Forest-Hill. We were also treated to Ian’s Powerpoint presentation which showed among other things his reconstruction of the Wrights’ house in Oxford (long torn down) which he had created using Minecraft, the online building tool. The house was important in Tolkien’s life as it was the venue for hobbit-sized Sunday teas during the years when Wright was his tutor. For Ian, the highlight of his pre...
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June: last meeting | Southfarthing Mathom 2012
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Previous blogsite and reports. The new blog for the Tolkien Reading Group (Southampton UK). To begin the afternoon we caught up with matters relating to Ian’s latest research, then we touched again on the possibility of a Wessexmoot / symposium later in the year. This will need finalising. We also looked forward to Carol and Rosemary joining us for the annual visit later this month. Laura questioned the reference in Gimli’s ancestral song to the ‘unstained’ moon. Pat suggested this referred to the ne...
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July: First meeting | Southfarthing Mathom 2012
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Previous blogsite and reports. The new blog for the Tolkien Reading Group (Southampton UK). Although our reading for today was officially ‘Lothlorien’ and ‘The Mirror of Galadriel’, we still found ourselves working our way through the aftermath of Moria. Carol’s additional comments are added at the end of this report. Laura observed that Moria is like a cathedral with its great rows of columns, but why, she asked, are they tree-shaped in the dwellings of dwarves? Eileen, on the other hand, commented that...
