2021 Year-Long LOTR Read-Along - Week 3 - Jan. 17 - Three is Company

This week's chapter is "Three is Company". It's Chapter III in Book I of The Fellowship of the Ring, Part 1 of The Lord of the Rings; it's running chapter 3.

Read the chapter today or some time this week, or spread it out through the week. Spoilers for this chapter have been avoided here in the original post, except in some links, but they will surely arise in the discussion in the comments. Discussion will continue through the week, if not longer.

Phil Dagrash has an audiobook of The Fellowship of the Ring; here is the current chapter: Three is Company.mp3).

Here is an interactive map of Middle-earth. Here are some other maps: The Shire, Eastfarthing, Green Hill Country, Woody End, Woodhall.

If you are reading The Lord of the Rings for the first time, or haven't read it in a very long time, or have never finished it, you might want to just read/listen and enjoy the story itself. Otherwise...

• Synopses: The Fellowship of the Ring, Three is Company;
• Resources: Encyclopedia of Arda, Henneth Annûn, and Tolkien Gateway.

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