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First Time Readers

Jon, Danny, Kristen, Jenn, Lizzy

It"s every fan"s dream to read the books they love for the first time again. The wonder, the joy, the excitement and forums and not knowing what is going to happen on the next page. It"s one of the best experiences ever. Join four readers as they read and talk about Harry Potter, Star Wars, Lord of the Rings and other nerd worlds. So come vicariously live through some first-time readers!

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00:09:34

This is the most BEAUTIFUL moment in the Fellowship...

First Time Readers ·

2025/09/15

Oh. My. Goodness. The words of Galadriel disarmed me, I cannot imagine what they did for Gimli.

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00:18:38

The Genius of Tolkien is FULLY Displayed in Lothlorien

First Time Readers ·

2025/09/14

If there is one thing that I’ve learned about Tolkien from my first read of Lord of the Rings, besides the fact that lots of people have very strong opinions about Tom Bombadil, is that he didn’t want anyone allegorizing his work.

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00:07:07

The Most Mysterious and Important Character of JRR...

First Time Readers ·

2025/09/13

J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings is filled with grand figures: mighty wizards like Gandalf whose wisdom and knowledge of Middle Earth is utterly priceless and vital for the fellowship, noble kings like Aragorn, who in the movies is more reluctant to take that role, but in the books, is ready to become king, and ancient evils like the evil of Saruman, where he makes a Ring himself and seems to lose all sanity for his actual purpose.

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00:18:33

The 13 INSANE changes from book to movie in the...

First Time Readers ·

2025/09/12

The Bridge of Kazad Dum is the most action packed chapter I have ever read in my life. I read this chapter in a plane, and the woman next to me, who was reading smut on her kindle…no shame…actually looked over to me to see if I was okay. When my jaw kept dropping and I kept taking sharp intakes of air because of how nuts this chapter was, so looked at me like I was a crazy person. BUT SHE WASN’T READING WHAT I WAS READING!!! This chapter was so good…and so different from the book too.

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00:20:39

The saddest story in Middle Earth

First Time Readers ·

2025/09/11

Okay. So this essay was originally something I was doing just on my own time. And it was so fun that I decided to start writing it down…and it became this. What I want to do is to take the little book that they found next to Balin's tomb that was kind of hard to read and had words covered over with blood and guts. And I want to just process out loud for myself what is going on there.

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00:13:23

I understand these FOUR characters so much better now...

First Time Readers ·

2025/09/10

I feel like I found another fun tidbit of Tolkien's writing in the middle of Fellowship of the Ring. Fire. Now fire is a common theme I think in the writing of Tolkien because it’s essential for survival and morale.

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00:15:56

This chapter from Tolkien is a MASTERCLASS in Horror...

First Time Readers ·

2025/09/09

I have been writing this essay for 2 days! And I’ve FINALLY figured it out. I could not figure out why this chapter was so captivating to me. I wrote about how I thought it was the most action packed chapter in the whole story. I wrote about the tales of Moria. I wrote about the characters and their own personal journeys through this chapter, but I COULD NOT FIGURE IT OUT, until I reread the stinking title of the chapter and it all clicked.

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00:14:48

Why does everyone in Middle Earth fear Moria?

First Time Readers ·

2025/09/08

I already fear this is going to be a weird essay because I’m going to do some live processing in this one. I don’t really know what I think or feel on this subject yet and have never really thought about it all that much, but this chapter just seemed to spark something in my mind that I found pretty interesting. So bear with me.

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00:19:11

The moment that Tolkien made me cry so badly I...

First Time Readers ·

2025/09/07

So it finally happened. I shed a tear while reading. Now, I have welled up and teared up before while thinking about certain sections of this book.

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00:11:25

My Real Life Caradhras Moment

First Time Readers ·

2025/09/06

That scene in the book when they are climbing Caradhras…phew. That is actually terrifying. And today the video is going to be a bit different than the typical book analysis. Because I had a moment happen to me that was eerily similar, and I want to tell that story.

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00:16:44

THIS was the moment where the movie TOTALLY changed...

First Time Readers ·

2025/09/05

There is a moment in most book to movie adaptations where the people who read the book just throw up their hands and communally yell, “Come on! That’s totally not how it is in the book.” It drives us MAD to see these moments—especially after falling in love with a book series.

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01:23:31

The Two Towers: Bk 4 - Ch 4-6

First Time Readers ·

2025/09/04

Jon, Jenn, Danny, and Lizzy talk over what makes these chapters so good and why Faramir is the BEST in the books.

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00:13:27

The Fellowship is TOTALLY different in the book...

First Time Readers ·

2025/08/08

In The Lord of the Rings film adaptation, the fellowship is very unbalanced. It’s essentially Aragorn doing all the work, and Sam is the real hero, but I have to say, as I am reading through Lord of the Rings for the first time, I am astounded at the beauty of the fellowship and how they rely on each other. It is VASTLY different from the book compared to the movie, and I want to talk about two examples where that is the case.

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00:17:10

We need to talk about Saruman

First Time Readers ·

2025/08/07

We need to have a long talk about Saruman. That’s it. That’s the whole intro. Because I don’t even know where to go with this because he is so vastly different in the book and the details that you get for what he is wearing and what his mentality is in the tale that Gandalf told of his imprisonment at Orthanc is so strange. I just flat out don’t know what to think of him. So I want to write an essay to figure it out…this one might be all over the place. I feel like the last few have been all over

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00:10:38

Elrond is Lying in the Movies

First Time Readers ·

2025/08/06

In the Fellowship of the Ring, when Elrond says, “you’ve been summoned here to answer…” He’s lying. And it’s actually the coolest part of the whole Council of Elrond section in the book.

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00:10:40

Revisiting the Lonliness of Bilbo Baggins

First Time Readers ·

2025/08/06

I want to revisit the very first essay I published on the very first chapter of Lord of the Rings the Fellowship of the Ring. In that essay I talked about the Loneliness of Bilbo Baggins and how I thought there were a lot of underwritten things as well as overt things that showed that Bilbo didn’t really seem to have too many good friends. And that he only realized a little too late how dear a friend Frodo was. And the same with Frodo…he only realized how much he loved Bilbo after Bilbo had left for

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00:16:24

Why Boromir is my Favorite Member of the Fellowship

First Time Readers ·

2025/08/06

There are no shortage of essays discussing the legend of Boromir in the books and the movies. He seems to be having some kind of resurgence in the last few years because enough time has passed from the films, which is what most people know LOTR from, that people are re-evaluating and looking at Boromir as a sympathetic character. But boy do they not know the start of it!

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01:42:38

The Two Towers: Bk 4 - Ch 1-3

First Time Readers ·

2025/07/15

Jon, Jenn, Danny, and Lizzy talk about how even though there isn't a lot that happens in the first three chapters, there is just so much character development. And they talk about what the Two Towers really are?

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00:07:26

Sauron Wanted to Unite with the Dwarves...

First Time Readers ·

2025/07/14

This blew my mind.

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00:12:15

The most beautiful line that JRR Tolkien ever wrote

First Time Readers ·

2025/07/13

My grandmother died when I was 9. She was the kindest, most gentle and amazing woman I have ever known. When she laughed she had a kind of hiss to her laugh, not really a menacing one like a snake or anything, almost like a little rattle. This chapter of LOTR reminded me of her.

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