Saturday Snippet: The Greatest Adventure

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One (Booktober)

"In a hole in the ground there lived a Hobbit."

I ask you, who DOESN'T know this iconic first line? If you don't, you may as well have been living under a rock for decades. The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien is a fantastic way to start our Booktober, because it has it all: adventure, funky characters (here's looking at you, Gandalf), walkabouts in autumn, and a there-and-back again kind of story.

Also a dragon.

And the best thing? You don't have to move an inch from your favourite reading spot!

Bilbo Baggins enjoys a comfortable, unambitious life, rarely traveling further than the pantry of his hobbit-hole in Bag End. But his contentment is disturbed when the wizard, Gandalf, and a company of thirteen Dwarves arrive on his doorstep to whisk him away on a journey to raid the treasure hoard of Smaug the Magnificent, a large and very dangerous dragon ...

(from the book jacket)

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Game of Thrones: Winterfell

"We must fight together now ... or die."

Hello everyone!

IT'S HERE.

WE MADE IT.

Almost two years after season seven wrapped up, season eight of Game of Thrones has finally landed.

And boy, is it promising to be a whopper.

We've only really seen the introductory first hour to the last six episodes HBO will give us of this narration (the prequels and sequels and whatever else they cook up don't count at the moment), but already, things are gearing up. An exposition of a premiere, we've pretty much set it all.

How did Gandalf put it?

The board is set. The pieces are moving.

It's time to call the banners and pull out your dragonglass. Winter is here.

Saturday Snippet: Gandalf

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Tome Thursday: The Hobbit

Hello everyone!

Alright, alright, I will admit, I can never seem to get over the whole Tolkien phase at all, even for a little bit. I'm always reading something or other from the master, and recently I've discovered that I need to be very careful about what I do before bed or else I might end up awake until the wee morning hours.

So to try and combat that, I decided to read every night before I went to sleep, which means that I was going to pick something I would enjoy, of course.

Naturally, I picked the Hobbit, because for one thing it was meant to be a bed time story, and for another I just love reading about Bilbo and the Dwarves, who are pretty much a comedic relief in comparison to what you see in the movies sometimes.

Then of course, I'm now debating what else to read before bed and I might tackle the Silmarillion next, but we will see!

For the time being, let's dip into the review of the Hobbit, book version.