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# Carting Away Hobbits
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/53620/
- Published: 2021-02-14T15:35:08.000Z
- Updated: 2023-03-07T23:00:43.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: Humor, Literature, Middle Earth, #wpChunk, Briefly

### I've started to re-read *The Lord of the Rings*. While listening to Brad Birzer's three-part interview on the [*National Review* “Great Books” podcast](https://www.nationalreview.com/podcasts/the-great-books/?ref=thedailyeudemon.com), I realized that I had forgotten a lot of things about the books.

### More troubling, I had forgotten a lot of the charming things about the book. Or maybe I had never noticed the charming things since I read the books in my teens. Charm, after all, is unexpected grace or enchantment, which is something I suppose most teenagers are incapable of feeling or, if they are, of recognizing.

### Two weeks ago, I read the Prologue and Tolkien's libertarian paean to the Shire. Last week, I finished Chapter One, “The Long-Expected Party.” Now I'm in Chapter Two, where Gandalf confirms his suspicions about the Ring and Frodo decides to leave the Shire.

### I'm greatly enjoying it.

### As of this moment, though, my favorite passage is about the hobbits leaving the huge party:

> “About midnight carriages came for the important folk. One by one they rolled away . . . Gardeners came by arrangement, and removed in wheel-barrows those that had inadvertently remained behind.”