Sign-up for Chapters 4 & 6

[ex-lbilover.livejournal.com]

It's that time again! This round of Reading LOTR Aloud will work a little differently. I've been counting up chapter pages, and Chapter 4 is a very short one at only 12 pages, as are most of the following chapters up until 'The Council of Elrond' (which is a whopping 32 pages long and will present a different challenge!) Tolkien clearly wasn't consistent with his chapter lengths, lol!

Because of the shortness of the upcoming chapters, my fellow mods and I have decided it would make more sense to do two chapters at once rather than severely limit the number of participants or give each person only a few paragraphs to read.

When I did a trial run of this project a while ago, the chapter we read was Chapter 5, A Conspiracy Unmasked. For that reason, we will be skipping over Chapter 5 and instead read Chapters 4 & 6. (I will post links to the previous reading of Chapter 5 when we are done with this month's readings.)

I hope this is as clear as mud! :)

Ideally, it would be great to have 20 readers, 10 for each chapter, without duplication if possible so everyone has a chance to participate. In signing up, if you have a preference for either Chapter 4, A Short Cut to Mushrooms, or Chapter 6, The Old Forest, please let me know. I will do my best to accommodate everyone's requests. If you don't have a preference, I'll randomly assign a section to you.

Additionally, if you are one of those brave souls who doesn't mind reading a bit of poetry or singing a song, let me know! I already have the names of a couple of people who are willing to do this, but it's helpful to know in advance who else is game for the challenge! :)

So, sign-ups will run from today until next Monday, January 19th. You will then have a week to practice and the actual readings will begin on January 26th.

I'm really looking forward to another reading!! Yay! :D

ETA: we have a full complement of readers! Thank you all so much!

Comments

[ex-lbilover.livejournal.com]

It's not hard to do a voice post. If you go to the user info page for this community, you'll find a link to the FAQ that explains how to do it. It's really very simple to set up.

I'm so happy you're going to give it a go! Yay!!

Thanks for offering to do poetry singing- not everyone (like me) is comfortable with that. And I can guarantee that you will get some Smeagol when the time comes. *g*

[lavendertook.livejournal.com]

I just looked over the faq. I'm not going to be able to do it. I don't know a thing about mp3's and using sound on my computer. I thought you could do it by telephone, but apparently not. Ah well.

[ex-lbilover.livejournal.com]

Oh no no, it *is* done by the telephone. Go here: http://www.livejournal.com/manage/voicepost.bml

All you have to do is plug in your phone number and choose a pin number. Be sure to turn auto-transcription off (as it will give a terribly garbled transcription of your post if you don't). Then when it's time to do your post, click on where it says 'You can voice post by calling one of the access numbers' and you will see the list of phone numbers to call. (Toll free, btw.) When you make your call, just follow the prompts. It's quite easy!

[lavendertook.livejournal.com]

OK, thank you, hon! Where it said choose format, that threw me off from thinking it was by phone. Do you leave it set to mp3?

[ex-lbilover.livejournal.com]

Yes, leave it set to mp3. I hope you'll find doing the reading as fun as the rest of us have been!! :))