Sign up for the next chapter of Read Lotr Aloud: TT, Book IV, Chapter VI: The Forbidden Pool

[rla_staff]

This is the sign-up post for the next chapter of our reading: The Two Towers, Book IV chapter 6: The Forbidden Pool.

This time, we have 10 slots available and are looking forward to you all joining us in the reading!

I'll post the assignments as soon as possible after you signed up.
The readings are due from the 24th onward, and the whole chapter will go up on November 1st. I hope this is not too tight a schedule, please let me know if you like to join but would need more time.

1. vaysh
2. ink_gypsy
3. tanis2014
4. ysilme
5. lavendertook
6. ellie_nor
7. vaysh
8. ink_gypsy
9. arcadiaego
10. dreamflower02

Comments

[rla_staff]

Great! We're happy to have you join us. What do you need to know about how to proceed? I'll put a PN or Mail together for you with all the necessary info.

Here is your reading, please confirm to this entry to let me know if you got it.
It's part 6. Please start right away with the reading without any introduction, title, reader, part number or so, so the listeners can go from one part to the next without interrupting the narration.
Have fun with the reading! :o)

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Gollum crawled along close to the brink for a little way, snuffling and suspicious. Presently he stopped and raised his head. `Something's there! ' he said. `Not a hobbit.' Suddenly he turned back. A green light was flickering in his bulging eyes. `Masster, masster!' he hissed. 'Wicked! Tricksy! False!' He spat and stretched out his long arms with white snapping fingers.
At that moment the great black shape of Anborn loomed up behind him and came down on him. A large strong hand took him in the nape of the neck and pinned him. He twisted round like lightning, all wet and slimy as he was, wriggling like an eel, biting and scratching like a cat. But two more men came up out of the shadows.
'Hold still! ' said one. `Or we'll stick you as full of pins as a hedgehog. Hold still!'
Gollum went limp, and began to whine and weep. They tied him, none too gently.
`Easy, easy! ' said Frodo. `He has no strength to match you. Don't hurt him, if you can help it. He'll be quieter, if you don't. Sméagol! They won't hurt you. I'll go with you, and you shall come to no harm. Not unless they kill me too. Trust Master! '
Gollum turned and spat at him. The men picked him up, put a hood over his eyes, and carried him off.
Frodo followed them, feeling very wretched. They went through the opening behind the bushes. and back, down the stairs and passages, into the cave. Two or three torches had been lit. Men were stirring. Sam was there, and he gave a queer look at the limp bundle that the men carried. `Got him?' he said to Frodo.
'Yes. Well no, I didn't get him. He came to me, because he trusted me at first, I'm afraid. I did not want him tied up like this. I hope it will be all right; but I hate the whole business.'
`So do I,' said Sam. `And nothing will ever be all right where that piece of misery is.'
A man came and beckoned to the hobbits, and took them to the recess at the back of the cave. Faramir was sitting there in his chair, and the lamp had been rekindled in its niche above his head. He signed to them to sit down on the stools beside him. `Bring wine for the guests,' he said. `And bring the prisoner to me.'
The wine was brought, and then Anborn came carrying Gollum. He removed the cover from Gollum's head and set him on his feet standing behind him to support him. Gollum blinked, hooding the malice of his eyes with their heavy pale lids. A very miserable creature he looked, dripping and dank, smelling of fish (he still clutched one in his hand); his sparse locks were hanging like rank weed over his bony brows, his nose was snivelling.

[ellie-nor.livejournal.com]

Done! How do I get the file to you?

[ysilme]

Since you're a newbie, it would be best if you could send me the file by Email. I'll send you a pm with my address, upload it to tindeck, and then mail the URL and code for your reading bac.
Differently to podfic we all present the readings in our own journals. One of mine is here, as an example. You don't have to use your own journal, though, but can also use a community we created for just this purpose, rla_readings. You'll find some examples also there.
You can present your reading in any way you like, with or without the text, with images as some do; but what needs to be apart from the link to the audio file is the chapter title, and that this is part of the read_lotr_aloud project.
If you post this to your own journal it would be lovely if you also linked back to the community, and also give a link to the whole chapter once it's up, either in a separate post or as an edit to your reading, whatever you prefer.
When you "reading entry" is done, post the link to it here, please, where I will collect the links for the chapter entry which will look like this this.
If you have any questions, just ask! :o)
I can do this entry for you, too, if necessary.

[ellie-nor.livejournal.com]

Here :-) http://ellie-nor.livejournal.com/213666.html

[ysilme]

Thank you! :o)