Finally, Chapter 17 of the Tri-lingual Hobbit Re-read! Featuring the Battle of Five Armies, and more pissed-off dwarves than you can shake a sword at.

Chapter 16 of The Hobbit, in which Mr. Baggins makes off with the Arkenstone, and startles assorted elven sentries as well as Bard and the Elvenking himself.

Chapter 15 of the Trilingual Hobbit Reread gives us the Lake-town men and Elves showing up to demand some of Thorin’s treasure, and Thorin not having ANY of this.

Chapter 14 of the Tri-lingual Hobbit Re-read, in which Bard shoots Smaug and Anna geeks RIGHT out all over three different languages.

Been a while since my last Trilingual Hobbit Reread post, and with my interest renewed by the coming of the trailer for The Desolation of Smaug, let’s get going on chapter 13, shall we?

When last we left our hobbit and his merry dwarf boy band, they’d just finally found the secret door into the Lonely Mountain! And we know what this means, yes we do, my precious: SMAUG. Let’s get right down to the dragon-y goodness, shall we?

After another pause, I finally bring you Chapter 11 of The Hobbit, “On the Doorstep”! All prior Hobbit re-read posts can be found here. Let’s get started, shall we?

Well, Chapter 8 was pretty exciting with all the Bilbo being heroic and OHNOEZ SPIDERS and YAY STING and OHNOEZ THORIN and stuff. Now, though, we get daring barrel-based escapes from cranky elves! (Because I’m kind of with Thranduil on this; if my house was infested with dwarves I’d be a bit cranky too. Unless…

This is the first of the Tri-lingual Hobbit Re-Read posts I’m making from angelahighland.com rather than annathepiper.org; I hope those of you who’ve been following me on the other site will pick them up again here. And for those of you who may be just recently joining me on angelahighland.com (hi, fellow Carina authors!), I…