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Nope, I haven't set a date. How many are participating in the Silmarrillion read on JameRetief's threads? That might conflict, where people don't have time to do both.

I am not reading Sil right now, because I haven't had time, and don't actually even own it, except the e-copy. But I think we could start TTT next week if everyone else is ready!

I do think TTT can be broken into sections, this group can handle discussion of more than one chapter at a time, sometimes better than just one chapter, because some of the themes span a few chapters... I think it worked a little better before to focus on related longer segments of the story, because some of the chapters alone are short.

For instance:

Book 3
Chapter 1 The Departure of Boromir (already discussed at length)
Chapter 2 The Riders of Rohan

Chapter 3 The Uruk-Hai
Chapter 4 Treebeard

Chapter 5 The White Rider
Chapter 6 The King of the Golden Hall
Chapter 7 Helm's Deep

Chapter 8 The Road to Isengard
Chapter 9 Flotsam and Jetsam
Chapter 10 The Voice of Saruman
Chapter 11 The Palantir

Book IV
Chapter 1 The Taming of Smeagol
Chapter 2 The Passage of the Marshes
Chapter 3 The Black Gate is Closed

Chapter 4 Of Herbs and Stewed Rabbit
Chapter 5 The Window on the West
Chapter 6 The Forbidden Pool
Chapter 7 Journey to the Cross-roads

Chapter 8 The Stairs of Cirith Ungol
Chapter 9 Shelob's Lair
Chapter 10 The Choices of Master Samwise