Journal Entry 1 by Escalla from Lisboa - Parque das Nações, Lisboa (cidade) Portugal on Monday, June 30, 2003

This text is an exploration of the inspirational power of language. It proposes that the entire body of J.R.R. Tolkien's writing dealing with Hobbits was essentially the product of a list of associations with the word "Hobbit".  

Journal Entry 2 by karendawn from Lafayette, Indiana USA on Thursday, May 06, 2004

Book arrived today. It's so cute and pretty. Thank you so much for sending it! 

Journal Entry 3 by karendawn from Lafayette, Indiana USA on Monday, June 21, 2004

Tolkien was fascinated by words and languages (he was, after all, a linguist and philologist). This book does a pretty good job at showing how Tolkien used words in his creation of Middle Earth. A few times, I found the author's connections to be a bit tenuous (I've studied Anglo-Saxon), but other times, I found him to be spot on.

Also, this is a very cute book. A fun size and lots of wonderful drawings. My only complaint with the design is that the text was extremely small and was sometimes difficult to read. 

Journal Entry 4 by karendawn at on Tuesday, July 06, 2004

Released on Tuesday, July 06, 2004 at Mailed to a fellow Bookcrosser in n/a, n/a Controlled Releases.

sent to Nik-the-Stik

Thank you for helping me clear off a bit of my TBR stack.

I'm sorry it took a while to send this - I was sick all last week and couldn't make it to the post office. :( 

Journal Entry 5 by Nik-The-Stik from London, Ontario Canada on Tuesday, July 13, 2004

Received this in the mail today from Karendawn as a RABCK! Thanks a lot... it is such a beautiful, cute little book. I cannot wait to check it out; I just love some of the pics too... what a great looking book!! If you ever see anything on my available list in the future that interests you, Karendawn, don't hesitate to let me know! :)

Thanks again!