This week's chapter is "Lothlórien". It's Chapter VI in Book II of The Fellowship of the Ring, Part 1 of The Lord of the Rings; it's running chapter 18.
Read the chapter today or some time this week, or spread it out through the week. Discussion will continue through the week, if not longer. Spoilers for this chapter have been avoided here in the original post, except in some links, but they will surely arise in the discussion in the comments. Please consider hiding spoiler texts in your comments; instructions are here: Spoiler Marking.
Phil Dagrash has an audiobook of The Fellowship of the Ring; here is the current chapter: Lothlórien. And Liam Lynch (/u/Fitness_Jack_) is working on an audiobook: here is his rendition of Lothlórien.
Here is an interactive map of Middle-earth. Here are some other maps: Middle-earth, Misty Mountains, Rhovanion, River Anduin, Lothlórien.
If you are reading The Lord of the Rings for the first time, or haven't read it in a very long time, or have never finished it, you might want to just read/listen and enjoy the story itself. Otherwise...
- Synopsis: The Fellowship of the Ring, Lothlórien;
- Resources: Encyclopedia of Arda, Henneth Annûn, and Tolkien Gateway.
Announcement and Index: [2021 Lord of the Rings Read-Along Announcement and Index](https://www.reddit.com/r/tolkienfans/comments/kgtmzo/2021_lord_of_the_rings_readalong_announce
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Having finally completed their collection of art with questionable provenance, The Lothlórien Museum finds that it has some extraneous pieces. To avoid potential investigation and/or taxes they have decided that the basement inventory needs to disappear. There are 10 paintings and 3 statues (all genuine).
The rules are simple. Comment up to three pieces of art that you are missing. If I have one of them it's all yours. FCFS; max 1 per person. I will send you a DM when I'm ready for you to come claim your art (please be patient). This post will be marked as closed once all items have been claimed.
EDIT: Everything has been claimed! If you haven't been contacted to pick up your artwork yet, rest assured that I am working my way down and won't forget about you!
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If you've not read/listened to it recently, do so if you have time and let me know if you share my fondness for this chapter. (See audiobook chapter from the full audiobook)
(Also see my earlier reddit post The long defeat.)
I'm currently re-reading The Lord of the Rings, and one chapter that really stood out too me, entirely unexpectedly, was the chapter Lothlórien.
It features more of Legolas as a character - the poetry, the history of Lothlórien. I find him quite compelling. He's not merely a warrior, or eye candy. He's pensive, gentle, and a good device for adding depth and a kind of grace to the book.
'Lothlórien' deals with the aftermath of Gandalf's fall, and demonstrates the kindness and understated leadership of Aragorn as he is prematurely forced to take a leadership role within the fellowship. The closing few sentences of the chapter, in particular, also show a kind of tender and thoughtful side to him.
Gimli has human moments, like taking Frodo to see Kheled-zâram, not just the comic relief that dominates the portrayal of his film counterpart. In this chapter, Gimli is treated with suspicion, demonstrating the enmity between dwarves and elves, or perhaps more accurately, the divergence of lives and shared experience of the two 'races'. You get a sense that for a period of many years, different 'races' of middle earth have become sundered from one another, which has a sadness to it. Tolkien writes this beautifully.
Haldir also laments a kind of decline that is a recurring theme of Tolkien's work, i.e. "...Yet I do not believe that the world about us will ever again be as it was of old, or the light of the Sun as it was aforetime. For the Elves, I fear, it will prove at best a truce, in which they may pass to the sea unhindered and leave Middle-Earth for ever." Tolkien writes this kind of mournful prose so well.
Sam has one of his most 'Sam' lines in the book, in terms of verbiage, not necessarily character - "Not even my uncle Andy ever did a trick like that!" I had forgotten it. Isn't it just the sweetest line?
Frodo's fleeting encounter of sorts with Gollum (though he doesn't yet know who it was) in the talan works so
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Hi guys! I finally finished Lothlórien. I'd be glad to see you over there! :) DA-1483-0413-2808
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Lothlórien. I am looking for a movie which has the same atmosphere as Lothlórien in Lord of the rings.
It is not tuched by physicality or attachment. Its a completelly sacred spiritual place where everyone is walking with the existencial experience of the whole cosmos. Everything contains the pearl from the depth of its own ocean. Untouched wonder in the pure existance.
So i am looking for something where i can see this :D in the lotr its such a short part...
Apologies if this question appears somewhat uneducated, it's my first time reading the books and I have a very basic knowledge of the Lore.
So, I'm up to the part in The Fellowship Of The Ring where the party has arrived in Lothlórien and they are about to climb Cerin Amroth. There is a sentence that goes thusly... "When he had gone and passed again into the outer world, still Frodo the wanderer from the Shire would walk there, upon the grass among elanor and niphredil in fair Lothlórien"
I took 'the outer world' to mean, The Undying Lands. Am I right in assuming that or am I way off the mark?
If my assumption is correct, could someone explain how Frodo was able to travel from The Undying Lands to Lothlórien please, as I always thought that you couldn't leave once you were there?
Just watched this scene and I never remembered this part. What does Gimli say that’s so disrespectful that Aragorn has to have a go at him.
