Tag: tolkien

  • Tri-lingual Hobbit re-read: Chapter 15

    Tri-lingual Hobbit re-read: Chapter 15

    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.

  • Tri-lingual Hobbit re-read: Chapter 14

    Tri-lingual Hobbit re-read: Chapter 14

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

  • Tri-lingual Hobbit re-read: Chapter 13

    Tri-lingual Hobbit re-read: Chapter 13

    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?

  • Tri-lingual Hobbit re-read: Chapter 12

    Tri-lingual Hobbit re-read: Chapter 12

    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?

  • Tri-lingual Hobbit re-read: Chapter 11

    Tri-lingual Hobbit re-read: Chapter 11

    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?

  • Tri-lingual Hobbit re-read: Chapter 10 (German notes)

    Tri-lingual Hobbit re-read: Chapter 10 (German notes)

    And now, last but not least, the notes for Chapter 10 of the German edition of The Hobbit! Which are rather shorter than the French notes, but then, my grasp of German is still rather shorter than my grasp of French is these days, and I’m still not having those a-ha moments where I get…

  • Tri-lingual Hobbit re-read: Chapter 10 (French notes)

    Tri-lingual Hobbit re-read: Chapter 10 (French notes)

    This post is the French notes for Chapter 10 of the Tri-lingual Hobbit Re-read! Spinning the French notes off into their own post because um, yeah, they got kinda LARGE. Notes for the German edition will be in a subsequent post!

  • Tri-lingual Hobbit re-read: Chapter 10 (General notes)

    Tri-lingual Hobbit re-read: Chapter 10 (General notes)

    Been a bit, but now, getting back to it, let’s do Chapter 10 of The Hobbit! Objectively speaking, not terribly much actually happens in this chapter. We’re basically talking the following chain of events: Bilbo and dwarves: *float downriver to Laketown* Bilbo: *gets dwarves out of barrels* Thorin: “I am Thorin Oakenshield! KNEEL BEFORE ZOD–”…

  • Tri-lingual Hobbit re-read: Chapter 9

    Tri-lingual Hobbit re-read: Chapter 9

    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…

  • Tri-lingual Hobbit re-read: Chapter 8

    Tri-lingual Hobbit re-read: Chapter 8

    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…