It has been a while since anyone posted anything. Since theres nothing new I'll just post a review on one of my favourite books. I can't remember the last time I read this but anyways...
For those who enjoy a bit of fantasy and adventure, this book might just interest you. Written by the author of the infamous Lord of the Rings trilogy, J.R.R. Tolkien, this book is filled with the main aspects of a traditional fantasy story i.e dwarves, orcs, fairies, goblins, wizards etc. The figurative language made it interesting and a game happened to be made for it too.
It made me read on and i hope it'll be the same to you too. Heres an extract from one of my favourite chapters in the book:
Riddles in the Dark
''I am Mr Bilbo Baggins. I have lost the dwarves and i lost the wizard, and i dont know where i am; and i dont want to know, if only i can get away.''
''what's he got in his handses?'' sadi Gollum, looking at the sword, which he did not quite like.
''A sword, a blade which came out of Gondolin!''
''Sssss,'' said Golloum, and became quite polite.''Praps ye sits here and chats with it a bitsy, my preciousss. It like riddles, praps it does, does it?'' He was anxious to appear friendly, at any rate for the moment, and until he found out more about the sword and the hobbit, whether he was quite alone really, whether he was good to eat, and whether Gollum was really hungry. Riddles were all he could think of. Asking them, and sometimes guessing them, had been the only game he had ever played with other funny creatures sitting in thier holes long,long ago, before he lost all his friends and was driven away, alone, and crept down, down, into the dark under the mountains.
''Very well,'' said Bilbo, who was anxious to agree, until he found out more about the creature, whether he was quite alone, whether he was fierce or hungry, and whether he was a friend of the goblins.
''You at first,'' he said, because he had not had time to think of a riddle.
So Gollum hissed:
For those who enjoy a bit of fantasy and adventure, this book might just interest you. Written by the author of the infamous Lord of the Rings trilogy, J.R.R. Tolkien, this book is filled with the main aspects of a traditional fantasy story i.e dwarves, orcs, fairies, goblins, wizards etc. The figurative language made it interesting and a game happened to be made for it too.
It made me read on and i hope it'll be the same to you too. Heres an extract from one of my favourite chapters in the book:
Riddles in the Dark
''I am Mr Bilbo Baggins. I have lost the dwarves and i lost the wizard, and i dont know where i am; and i dont want to know, if only i can get away.''
''what's he got in his handses?'' sadi Gollum, looking at the sword, which he did not quite like.
''A sword, a blade which came out of Gondolin!''
''Sssss,'' said Golloum, and became quite polite.''Praps ye sits here and chats with it a bitsy, my preciousss. It like riddles, praps it does, does it?'' He was anxious to appear friendly, at any rate for the moment, and until he found out more about the sword and the hobbit, whether he was quite alone really, whether he was good to eat, and whether Gollum was really hungry. Riddles were all he could think of. Asking them, and sometimes guessing them, had been the only game he had ever played with other funny creatures sitting in thier holes long,long ago, before he lost all his friends and was driven away, alone, and crept down, down, into the dark under the mountains.
''Very well,'' said Bilbo, who was anxious to agree, until he found out more about the creature, whether he was quite alone, whether he was fierce or hungry, and whether he was a friend of the goblins.
''You at first,'' he said, because he had not had time to think of a riddle.
So Gollum hissed:
what has roots as nobody sees,
is taller than trees
up,up it goes,
and yet never grows?
''Easy!'' said Bilbo. '' Mountain, I suppose.''
''Does it guess easy? It must have a competition with us, My precious! IF precious asks, and it doesn't answer, then we does what it wants, eh? Weshows it the way out, yes!''
''All right!'' said Bilbo, not daring to disagree, and nearly bursting his brain to think of riddles that could save him from being eaten.
''All right!'' said Bilbo, not daring to disagree, and nearly bursting his brain to think of riddles that could save him from being eaten.
Thirty white horses on a red hill,
first they champ,
then they stamp,
then they stand still.
That was all he could think of to ask- the idea of eating was rather on his mind. It was rather an old one too, and Gollum knew the answer as well as you do.
''Chestnuts, chestnuts,'' he hissed. ''Teeth! teeth! my preciousss, but we has only six!'' Then he asked his second:
Voiceless it cries,
wingless it flutters,
toothless bites,
mouthless mutters...
Well i hope youve enjoyed the extract, there happened to be a game for but i do recommend this book if you like fantasy or any of J.R.R Tolkien's stories likeThe silmarillion, The Lord Of The Rings,Farmer Giles of Ham and The Father Christmas Letters.
