Welcome!

So I know that we aren't doing our first posts till Saturday, and that Eric is slammed with law school at the moment so won't be joining us till week 2, but the giant blank space on the blog main page was starting to bother me, so, to paraphrase Beckett, I decided to stain the silence with my words.

To any random passer-byes, this blog is about as straight-forward as the sub-title indicates: we are three old college roommates who have, against all odds, kept in touch over the years, despite being scattered across the country.  We were all English majors (two of us went to Law School, while another entered a PhD program) and Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy was one of our formative influences growing up; so we thought another fun way to stay connected would be to re-read said trilogy, see how they hold up, reminisce, and have some fun.  Since we're all busy with careers and families and grad school and etc, we are pacing ourselves at one chapter a week, updated roughly every Saturday.  I presume we'll be commenting on each others posts, as well.

I myself am way excited for this project, since I personally haven't read Lord of the Rings since High School, when I devoured them in prep for the Peter Jackson movies then in production (just to date myself a bit).  In many ways it feels like my entire life has happened since then, so I'm especially interested to see to see how I experience these books now (not to mention to find out if I can even picture Frodo as someone other than Elijah Woods anymore).

 

Also, let's give a big hand to Ben Gillis for the snazzy site design!