I’m about half way through the book now and am really enjoying it so far. The Hobbit turned out to be much lighter, easier, not to mention fun, reading than I thought it would be! I think I must have tried reading the LOTR trilogy at some point and that must have swayed my opinion of The Hobbit. Really, the more I read the more I remember about this series. I would have sworn before I started that I had never read any of these books before, apparently that is not so!

So I’ve decided to join the LOTR read-a-long. My husband is a huge fan of all of the books and I, sadly enough, have only ever read The Hobbit! I really have a lot to make up for in reading to him, and this will be just the tip of the ice berg, but I’m looking forward to spending the next few months getting to know the books that my husband loves to well.

To kick off the read-a-long we are starting in January with The Hobbit over at A Striped Armchair. Here are the first set of discussion questions: