It's finally time to start our Journey through Middle Earth. Kearsten has never been happier and Tatyana is just very excited for an excuse to watch Viggo in action. We are starting this journey with a chat about the Hobbit book and all 3 Hobbit films. This is an extra long episode, but who is surprised? No one! We hope you enjoy step one in our journey and join us on Instagram for a Tolkien readalong schedule for all of the books and an exciting announcement at the end of our journey. 

**This episode contains spoilers from The Hobbit and the entire Lord of the Rings series by JRR Tolkien and the movies

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We are currently reading House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune for the June Book Club read, click here to join in: The Bookish Banter Book Club.

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