ALmost There!

I am nearing the end of the thirty days of my thrity day project. Now, I am proud to announce that I am ahead of schedule!!! *much cheering from the audience* According to my schedule I should be at page 270 today, and yet I am at page 276, six pages ahead of schedule!!! *massive applause* Yet technically I have finished the Silmarillion since on page 255 it says "here ends the Silmarrilion". But alas, the words continued to come. It started a new book called the Akallabeth. But I shall continue to read the thirty pages that is the Akallabeth. As this novel that I have been conquering over the past month begins to draw to a close, the pace begins to speed up. I am encountering very few of the obstacles that hindered be over the past few days. Especially as I am approaching the Rings of Power (dun dun DUNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!). The end of the book is drawing to a close and I am wondering how to present this. I figure that I will probably create a powerpoint presentaton. This presentation of awesomness will contain a brief summary but will for the most part compare this to other Tolkein books that I have read. But I am crossing my fingers that it will be awesome.

My quest to read the Silmarillion in thirty days!

               My first thirty day project for ATP is to read The Silmarillion By J.R.R. Tolkein in only thirty days. It is essentialy a prequel to the Lord Of The Rings and The Hobbit. More specifically it is a compendium of tales from the creation of the world to the Rings of Power. This book contains around 300 pages so that means I have to read about 10 pages per day.
               So far I have read 128 pages. While you may think that this would be easy, only reading 10 pages per day, but this book is not easy to read. The font is tiny and takes up the entire page. The majority of the book is just describing random places and people that never come up later in the book (if you have read any of tolkein's books you know what I'm talking about). The index of names lasts for 40 pages (which i am not counting in the total of 300 pages). But overall I have found that is a very good book. Over the next couple of weeks I hope that I can catch up to my goal of 10 pages per day.
                At the end of the 30 days all of the people taking part in this challenge will have to put together some sort of presentation for the rest of the class. I will probably create a PowerPoint presentation about this book and more specifically, comparing it to the other Tolkien books that I have read (the Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit).