For everyone wanting to read the tales of Middle Earth from the beginning, starting next Monday (Dec 30th) I will be posting the "Tolkien Virgin" articles twice a week (every Monday and Friday). If you would like to read along or even just comment on the impressions that the Tolkien Virgin writes about as he reads Tokien for the first time, this will be a nice leisurely pace with which to do so.
The articles start with the Silmarillion and will cover The Hobbit and Lord Of The Rings in that order. If you follow along with the articles, you will work your way through all of the above books finishing Return Of The King at about the same time the third movie is released.
The first article begins with The Silmarillion, starting with The Ainulindalë. This will be discussed Monday. I will post a reminder here at the end of this week so that everyone that wishes to follow along will have notice to prepare and read the portion discussed.
I'll be looking forward to those posts. I was going to start posting chapter summaries from
The Silmarillion over here for discussion, but it sounds like your threads may be the place to do it.
Although I kind of like the idea of keeping everything on this thread.
Merry Christmas Jame.
Jame, would check to see if I am on you Ping list?, and like that you will be informing us about what is coming up so we can prepare.
Hope I've got my system set up by then!