dangerous business
no knowing might be swept off to
follow your bookmark
I couldn’t help myself.
It was sitting there and it was only a $1.
Sitting there in the Friends of the Bluffton Library shelves of cheap books.
It was an oversize paperbound, what we used to call ‘trade edition’ of Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings.
I have owned many different editions of Tolkien over the years but circumstances of late have reduced my holdings to just e-editions.
So I bought it.
I doubt it has ever been opened and it is a solid one volume with a strong binding and pretty much it stays open to what ever page I have the book open to, even when laying flat.
So I am off into Middle Earth once more.
Don’t ask my thoughts on the movies as my opinion is the same in that I wish that those folks who made the movies had bothered to read the books.
But I digress.
I will say this about ebooks versus printed books.
I truly do miss following my bookmark as it moves through the pages.
With that, I am off.
As Frodo quoted Bilbo, “It’s a dangerous business, going out of your door,” he used to say. “You step into the Road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to.”
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