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Well, I'm back to Tom Bombadil. Tom Bombadil is the reason I stopped reading Fellowship the first time around. I got to this chapter and slogged and slogged through it and it was so ridiculous and pointless and boring and it didn't seem to have anything to do with the story. I stopped at page 167 last time. Just gave up on the book. This time I am going to grit my teeth and get through it.

I couldn't just pick up and start again after T.B. either, because I'd forgotten everything that happened before. Which pretty much seemed to be: big party, Bilbo leaves, Frodo sells Bag End, Frodo and Sam and Pippin trudge through the woods, meet some elves, eat some mushrooms, hook up with Merry and Fatty, ditch Fatty and trudge through the woods some more. Not much going on, really.

Now it's Goldberry this and River-Daughter that and o-ho-ho and a Bombadillo, I could just puke.

And yet I am incapable of skipping anything. Have to read through it. I can't skim, either. I used to be able to skim but I lost that ability as an adult.

(Yes, my sociolinguistics final is tomorrow and my theatre final the day after and there are three plays that I never finished reading for theatre and yet I'm sitting around reading Tolkien. Well. I plan to improvise my way through the finals anyway, it's too close to Christmas for serious studying, dammit.)

Stupid Tom Bombadil, just go away. I want some action already.

Why are you in Tavie's head? 3:11 PM | shower me with attention