i finished Art in the Blood, a sherlock holmes pastiche that is not a fantastic book but i think still a very very cool mystery novel with sherlock holmes in it and i started the Fellowship of the Ring which i've never read before (i had a beef with tolkien in my teen years which i dont feel like going into now).
the opening of the book is SO SLOW but luckily im really into the bullshit of fantasy race society and politics and the fact bilbo's family HATES frodo sustained me until they got on the road and the plot is actually moving. i just watched the lord of the rings movies a little bit ago before i went to the lord of the rings magic: magic the gathering pre-release so a lot of the plot is fresh in my brain so i'm really interested to see where the plot changes and diverges from the original text. i'm listening to the rob inglis' audiobook since i could get it sooner than andy serkis' version, though there is a little part of me that wants to re-listen to his version of fellowship after i complete the series.
i'm not that far into it yet, but i think the nomadic elves that just insta call out to frodo are funny.