It’s Tolkien reading day! This year the theme is ‘Unlikely heroes’

For those who don’t know, March 25th is the date which the ring was destroyed and is now celebrated by nerds by reading and sharing Tolkien’s words🩷

What works of Tolkien are you guys reading? I’m currently re-reading The Return of the King 👑

I’d like to share one of my favourite moments featuring two ‘unlikely heroes’ : (SPOILERS FOR ROTK)

📚 “But suddenly he too stumbled forward with a cry of bitter pain, and his stroke went wide, driving into the ground. Merry's sword had stabbed him from behind, shearing through the black mantle, and passing up beneath the hauberk had pierced the sinew behind his mighty knee. 'Éowyn! Éowyn!' cried Merry. Then tottering, struggling up, with her last strength she drove her sword between crown and mantle, as the great shoulders bowed before her. The sword broke sparkling into many shards. The crown rolled away with a clang. Éowyn fell forward upon her fallen foe. But lo! the mantle and hauberk were empty. Shapeless they lay now on the ground, torn and tumbled; and a cry went up l into the shuddering air, and faded to a shrill wail-ing, passing with the wind, a voice bodiless and thin that died, and was swallowed up, and was never heard again in that age of this world.” 📚

I chose this passage as Éowyn and Merry were both not meant to be on the battlefield, yet they went forth together to aid their friends in battle and ended up slaying the Witch King of which no man can kill. Too bad he met a woman and a hobbit on the battlefield haha