Solstice calendar finished & shipped off to youngsters just in time.
Having covered The Hobbit, LOTR & and bit of Silmarillion in past years, this is El Silmarillion pt 2 - very fond of the Spanish flavour for Middle Earth.
Image shows a Silmarillion themed solstice calendar - like the usual advent calendar with doors, sweets etc but with a picture of a middle earth scene and only 21 windows
This years Solstice callender continues with the Silmarillion, covering the misdeeds of Sauron the deceiver into the second age and the rise of the Numenorians!
Just finished reading the Fellowship of the Ring out loud to my 11yo. The book has its flaws but boy is that last chapter good. For all that #Tolkein is sometimes regarded as a stuffy conservative, Frodo viewing the world from the top of Amon Hen is as fine a piece of mystical writing as you'll find. bookstodon group