You'll love this one...!! A book club & more discussion

I have always wanted to do this trail (realistically, a bit of it). Recently having read A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail, it seemed like a fitting topic.

If I never get to the original, at least I would have done (yet again, a part of) this fictional trail.

Rules

Challenge Thread

Frodo & Sam's route through Middle Earth:

https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Quest....

Start - Bag End Hobbiton.

Bag End was a smial (underground dwelling) in Hobbiton. It was the residence of the Baggins family.

Task: Read a book with home, homeward, or homebound in the title.

Checkpoint 1 - Bree

Bree was the first stop that Frodo, Sam, Merry and Pippin made on their quest, and it will be our first Way Stop on our trip. There, they met Strider for the first time.

Task - Read a book that is the 1st book of a series of 4 (that represents Frodo, Sam, Merry & Pippin).

Checkpoint 2 - Rivendell

Rivendell is a valley in J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional world of Middle-earth, representing both a homely place of sanctuary and a magical Elvish otherworld.

Task: Read a book with "Sanctuary" or "Valley" in the title, or subtitle.

Checkpoint 3 - Moria

Khazad-dûm, latterly known as Moria (The Black Chasm, The Black Pit), was the grandest and most famous of the mansions of the Dwarves. There, for many thousands of years, a thriving Dwarvish community created the greatest city ever known.

Task: Read a book with a cover that is 75% black.

Checkpoint 4 - Black Gate

The Black Gate was built by Sauron after he chose Mordor as a land to make into a stronghold. He built it of iron.

Task: Read a book with "Iron" in the title.

Finish - Mount Doom

Mount Doom was obviously a stratovolcano, composited by alternating layers of ash and lava. Towering at only 4500ft, it was relatively short.

Task: Read a book that is between 400 and 450 pages.

Start - Home Fire
Your choice - Things You Save in a Fire
Your choice - I'm Thinking of Ending Things

(reset)

Checkstop 1 - The Man in the Brown Suit
Your choice - Our Wives Under the Sea
Your choice - Grief Works: Stories of Life, Death and Surviving

(reset)

Reset means you may break the linked books if you chose. If you are a gluten for punishment, you may connect them all.

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I dont know why I thought picking up a 1000 pager as the first book for my challenge was a good idea, especially considering my difficulty with tomes. Coming Home

400 pages and 5 months in, I picked up another book and finished it in 2 days. Phew.

Badge 1: Book 1


◾Hike: Lord of the Rings
◾Home Fire
◾Kindle edition- 288 pages
◾Task - Home, Homeward, or Homebound is in the title
◾Explanation - Home is in the title.
Connection - Fire in the title

It's great you're on the board after struggling with Coming Home. I find that I'm gravitating towards shorter books these days.

Badge 1: Book 2

◾Hike: Lord of the Rings, Connecting book 1
◾ Things You Save in a Fire
◾ 9 hours 36 minutes
Connection - Fire in the title

Badge 1: Book 3

◾Hike: Lord of the Rings, Connecting book 2
◾ I'm Thinking of Ending Things
◾ 240 pages
Connection - Things in the title

Badge 1 Book 4

Checkpoint 1
2 The Man in the Brown Suit
3 381 pages
4 read book 1 of a 4 part series
5 This is book 1

Badge 1: Book 5

◾Hike: Lord of the Rings
◾ Our Wives Under the Sea
◾ 6 hours, 10 minutes
Connection - Happens on/in the ocean (ship/ submarine)

Badge 1: Book 6

◾Hike: Lord of the Rings
◾ Grief Works: Stories of Life, Death and Surviving
◾ 320 pages
Connection - Grief Theme