{"id":5043,"date":"2017-04-29T13:27:40","date_gmt":"2017-04-29T20:27:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/?p=5043"},"modified":"2017-04-29T13:27:40","modified_gmt":"2017-04-29T20:27:40","slug":"the-ring-goes-south-by-j-r-r-tolkien","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/the-ring-goes-south-by-j-r-r-tolkien","title":{"rendered":"The Ring Goes South by J.R.R. Tolkien"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Balrog by Ted Naismith<\/p><\/div>\n

This is not so much a review as a progress report. After a fantastic start to my 2017 Reading Challenges<\/a>, things have slowed down quite a bit. I’m still keeping up with the Hobbit\/Lord of the Rings Readalong<\/a>, however, and according to Goodreads<\/a> I’m still seven books ahead of my overall schedule for the year.<\/p>\n

I’ve just finished\u00a0The Ring Goes South<\/em>, part two of\u00a0The Fellowship of the Ring<\/em> in the Millennium edition. I have to say that I’m really enjoying reading\u00a0The Lord of the Rings<\/em> in these smaller volumes. I’m not sure why exactly. Maybe it’s the hardcover format with the sturdy pages, or maybe it’s the feeling that the book isn’t as long. Not that I’ve ever minded reading a long book, but I think with the lack of time to read lately, it’s been a comfort to know that I can dip into the story every so often without having to commit a lot of time to it. It’s purely psychological, but isn’t reading fiction a largely psychological matter?<\/p>\n

In any case, the story of Frodo and the Fellowship still has the ability to move me, even after all these years and multiple re-readings. The highlight of\u00a0The Ring Goes South<\/em> for me is still the chapter called The Bridge of Khazad-d\u00fbm, as I’m sure it is for many readers. The confrontation on the bridge is one of my favorite scenes in all of literature.<\/p>\n

As I watch April turn into May, I hope to make more time to read, but also to blog. I’m way behind in reading posts from other bookbloggers, and I hope to get back into a more regular pattern of reading, writing, and commenting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is not so much a review as a progress report. After a fantastic start to my 2017 Reading Challenges, things have slowed down quite a bit. I’m still keeping up with the Hobbit\/Lord of the Rings Readalong, however, and according to Goodreads I’m still seven books ahead of my overall schedule for the year. I’ve just finished\u00a0The Ring Goes South, part two of\u00a0The Fellowship of the Ring in the Millennium edition. I have to say that I’m really enjoying reading\u00a0The Lord of the Rings in these smaller...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5045,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[158,910,30,65],"class_list":["post-5043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","tag-fantasy-fiction","tag-hlotr-readalong","tag-tolkien","tag-lord-of-the-rings"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/naismith_balrog_detail.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pOucj-1jl","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5043"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5050,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5043\/revisions\/5050"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}