Beginning (chapters one and start of two)

It's been a while since I read this part so this post is probably going to be quite short and light in content. Getting on with it now: I like Tolkien's voice in the beginning of the novel, but (so far) seems to lose it somewhere on the hobbits' journey. This voice I'm speaking ofis the tale-telling voice he had in 'The Hobbit'. His voice then and even in the first few chapters of 'Fellowship' is wonderfully light and his songs play well with it, but once the hobbits start getting on wih their journey it's almost as if he gets taken away by the memories of the trees and grasses he is describing and forgets for a moment that he's telling a story. I want it to be clear that I'm saying that Tolkien can't write, because it is obvious that he can. I just start to miss that lyrical quality he has that lends itself so well to the telling of this particular story. I love Tolkien's mind. He comes up with phrases that I can't help but be stunned by. I have tons of quotations marked and written down as simply being fantastic. I hope to make a quotes section on here laterso we compare our favorites. On page 46 (chapter 2) Gandalf is telling Frodo about the ring and its power and description is just mindblowing because you can understand and even feel this great power. Some authors get lost in these kinds of descriptions, but Tolkien is completely at home here. Then to cement this for us even more he adds Frodo's reaction which is nothing unexpected and exceptional until you get to the last sentence, "The sounds of Sam Gamgee cutting the lawn came in from the garden" (46). This parallel between the great and powerful ring and the mundane sounding and actions of cutting the lawn give the ring even more power and give the reader a since of the scope of journey to come. Keyboard is dying. That's all for now. More to come...