Hullo Friends – We are overdue for our next Chapter, so I hope you are ready! I have gotten super busy at work, so this will be another post and run for me, but this week we are covering my very favorite chapters (top of my list being the Council of Elrond) so I hope we have a lot of good talk about that!
Fellowship of the Ring
Topic: Rivendell
Pertinent Chapters - Book II (all or part)
Chapter I – Many Meetings
Chapter II – The Council of Elrond
Chapter III – The Ring Goes South (beginning)
In this section Frodo wakes to find himself, and the rest of the company, in Rivendell. There are many happy surprises here, and many things learned here.
Frodo woke and found himself lying in bed. At first he thought that he had slept late, after a long unpleasant dream that still hovered on the edge of memory. Or perhaps he had been ill? But the ceiling looked strange; it was flat, and it had dark beams richly carved. He lay a little while longer looking at patches of sunlight on the wall, and listening to the sound of a waterfall.`Where am I, and what is the time?' he said aloud to the ceiling. 'In the House of Elrond, and it is ten o'clock in the morning.' said a voice. `It is the morning of October the twenty-fourth, if you want to know.'
`Gandalf!' cried Frodo, sitting up. There was the old wizard, sitting in a chair by the open window.
`Yes,' he said, `I am here. And you are lucky to be here, too, after all the absurd things you have done since you left home'…
Movie Pictures – Many Meetings through The Council of Elrond
And here is ecurbh’s Timeline if you would like to keep track of what day it is as we go!
And here is a Map of Middle-Earth So we don't get lost!
Index to thread… click link to find the start of each prior chapter discussion:
(First Five chapters are re-posts of highlights from the old forum)
Prologue and Chapter One – A Long-Expected Party
Chapter Two - The Shadow of the Past
Chapter Three – Three is Company … And also here – double post! ugh!
Chapter Four – A Shortcut to Mushrooms
Chapter Five – A Conspiracy Unmasked
End of re-posts
Chapter Six – The Old Forest
Chapter Seven – In The House of Tom Bombadil
Chapter Eight – Fog on the Barrow-Downs
Chapter Nine – At the Sign of the Prancing Pony
New "section" format:
Bree (chapters 9-11)
Journey from Bree to the Ford(chapters 11-12)
Rivendell – Current Section (Book 2 - chapters 1-3)Sections still to come:
The Ring goes South (chapters 3-4)
Moria (chapters 4-5)
Lothlorien (chapters 6-8)
The Breaking of the Fellowship (chapters 9-10)
So Hullo! – Good Morning! – talk amongst yourselves!