Read LotR Aloud: The Two Towers: Book IV, Chapter I, "The Taming of Sméagol"

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Sign-ups for the next reading, Book IV, Chapter I,"The Taming of Sméagol" begin today and continue through next Tuesday, May 6. Please comment here at this post if you would like to participate and/or would like to be a pinch hitter.

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[vaysh]

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[ysilme]

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BOOK FOUR

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‘Or another and another and another,’ muttered Sam. ‘Or maybe no day. We’ve come the wrong way

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[ysilme]

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Here is your reading assignment. Please comment to this post to confirm you have received it. Posting the assignments starts on May 20th, the whole chapter go up on May 27th.

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But that day wore on, and when afternoon faded towards evening they were still scrambling along the ridge and had found no way of escape

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‘And if we’re going to try and get down, we had better try at once. It’s getting dark early. I think there’s a storm coming

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[ysilme]

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Here is your reading assignment. Please comment to this post to confirm you have received it. Posting the assignments starts on May 20th, the whole chapter go up on May 27th.

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Have fun! :o)

Sam heard him and crawled with an effort to the edge. ‘Master, master!’ he called. ‘Master

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Thunder growled and rumbled in the distance, and the rain was still falling heavily. The hobbits crawled away back into the gully; but they did not find much shelter there. Rills of water began to run down; soon they grew to a spate that splashed and fumed on the stones, and spouted out over the cliff like the gutters of a vast roof

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Frodo thought for a while. ‘Make it fast to that stump, Sam!’ he said. ‘Then I think you shall have your wish this time and go first. I’ll lower you, and you need do no more than use your feet and hands to fend yourself off the rock. Though, if you put your weight on some of the ledges and give me a rest, it will help. When you’re down, I’ll follow. I feel quite myself again now

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Sam scratched his head. ‘No, I can’t think how, begging your pardon,’ he said. ‘But I don’t like leaving it, and that’s a fact.’ He stroked the rope’s end and shook it gently. ‘It goes hard parting with anything I brought out of the Elf-country. Made by Galadriel herself, too, maybe. Galadriel,’ he murmured, nodding his head mournfully. He looked up and gave one last pull to the rope as if in farewell

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[ysilme]

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Here is your reading assignment. Please comment to this post to confirm you have received it. Posting the assignments starts on May 20th, the whole chapter go up on May 27th.

I'm sorry I have to split up the assignment this time. Please let me know if you prefer to have your assignment in one piece by mail or so.

Have fun! :o)

‘I suppose so,’ said Frodo. ‘I’m tired, and I don’t think I can scramble among stones much longer tonight - though I grudge the delay. I wish there was a clear path in front of us: then I’d go on till my legs gave way

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‘Careful!’ whispered Frodo coming behind. ‘Don’t alarm him! He’s much more dangerous than he looks