I read LOTR for the first time with my knowledge being only the movies and fandom osmosis here's my notes
I see now why in the book it was years between Bilbo disappearing at his party and Frodo going on his journey Gandalf waited until the evil was actively looking and getting near the shire, but Frodo still put it off for a while so no one would get suspicious
Why did he sell Bag-End to Lobelia of all people?!
Merry and Pippin are more clever able to catch on Frodo is up to something by visiting his old haunt and plan to follow him
there was a fourth friend Fatty but he stayed behind to spread rumors of Frodo’s whereabouts
They travel and rest when they are in danger of getting eaten by a tree, I read a Japanese story with this plot
Oh so this is the legendary Tom Bombadil and the ring doesn’t work on him, is this his only appearance
so Bombadil managed to pull a hottie, but why is her name Goldberry? I get she has blonde hair but you think the daughter of a river would have a nature or water based name
“but this one is taller than some and fairer than most, and he has a cleft in his chin; perky chap with a bright eye.”
Frodo gets out of town, Barman: “oh yeah I have a letter for you I procrastinated in mailing" 'Hey you need to get out of town!'-Gandalf :)
“Going to Mordor!” cried Pippin. “I hope it wont come to that!” Narrator: “It did in fact come to that”
they eat under the trolls that tried eat Bilbo
“I am sorry: sorry you have come in for this burden: sorry about everything. Don’t adventures ever have an end? I suppose not. Someone else always has to carry on the story.”
to elves all mortal look alike
Legolas: “We lost our only prisoner cause we gave him walkies”
Book 2 Chapter 2 Exposition
Sam once again eavesdrops
Bilbo brings out the mirthril shirt Thorin gave him, ouch my little Bagginshield heart
Oh, so that’s why Sam’s pony Bill was in the movie
Sam: “Rope better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it, and I forgot it”
Legolas fucking off in a snowstorm: “I go to find the Sun!” Legolas coming back: “I have not brought the Sun”
elves and dwarves tolerate each other at the best of times but Narvi and Celebrimbor made a door together that you have to say “friend” to open, shippers do with that what you will
So it was Boromir who was the dumbass and summoned the lake monster not Merry
Gandalf: “I have no memory of this place at all!” and thus the meme was born
Gandalf: “I know what is the matter with me, I need a smoke!”
Did Bugs Bunny calling Elmer Fudd a Nimrod happen before of after this book was published
tight rope walk across a river
was the not beast shaped beast Gollum
Haldir talks shit about Legolas’s home forest
I know they’re the good guys here but the elves are creepy out of context imagine the uncanniness of these seemingly perfect beings and going to their home where time doesn’t pass right and you don’t feel like leaving
oh, good, Sam got his rope
Legolas went from being hostile that he would not get to see the forest because Gimli to them being friends over several days
“but if you keep it and see your home again at last, then perhaps it may reward you. Though you should find all barren and laid waste,” does she know about the scourge of the shire?
and now they’re scattered
400 pages of walking stop walking stop walking stop walking stop oh they change it up with boats
there's also a lot of songs that were cut from the movies which I don't blame Jackson for cause of pacing and tonal reasons but every time I saw one it was like I went back to 2010 and found a songfic on FF.net
