Reading LOTR Aloud: Book 3: Chapter 7: Helm's Deep

[belleferret]

Comments

[shirebound]

I love hearing everyone read. It's like we're in a room together, taking turns. You did great. :)

[belleferret]

Thanks Janet!

Would you like some more tea and could you pass me the biscuits? :-)

[shirebound]

Absolutely.

*holds out pinkie while daintily sipping tea*

[addie71]

This is such an exciting part and you read it well. :)

[belleferret]

Thank you Addie! So much thrilling stuff this chapter!

[rlaadmin]

Ooh, a very dramatic reading of a very dramatic part! Well done!! And thank you for pinch hitting at such short notice. I appreciate it! *squoosh*

[belleferret]

Thank you! I was thinking of the movie as I read this, so thrilling!

[ysilme]

I love this moment when Aragorn stands there and lets his innate power and regalness exude, and the Uruk-Hai are all affected. I remember well when I first read LotR being quite surprised that this man, strider, was to become a king later. But this was the moment where I fully understood for the first time. (I was 12 at the time, so many of the finer points in between probably had escaped me then! *g*)
This was a very beautiful reading, bringing this scene so vividly before my mental eye.

[belleferret]

Thank you so much! Yes Aragorn shows his kingliness here, and it's a stirring passage.