LOTRaThon/2003Schedule

Sign up in the schedule below to read chapters. Anyone who will be around to read can sign up, not just Easties or Mudd people. Note that times are approximate, calculated from page counts and timings from previous years, and are only warranted to fall in the right year. Be prepared to deal with shifts in the schedule. --MichaelVrable

Schedule (Times are estimates; times for The Hobbit may be quite off)

Format: (Estimated time / Actual Time)

Hobbit begins: Fri 5:00p

• I (Fri 5:00p / Fri 5:00p) An Unexpected Party -- BrianYoung
• II (Fri 5:45p / Fri 5:42p) Roast Mutton --JulieWortman
• III (Fri 6:15p / Fri 6:06p) A Short Rest -- MichaelVrable (this and all my other chapters are negotiable)
• IV (Fri 6:31p / Fri 6:21p) Over Hill and Under Hill --KatieLewis
• V (Fri 6:54p / Fri 6:39p) Riddles in the Dark -- WillShipley (was negotiable)
• VI (Fri 7:30p / Fri 7:18p) Out of the Frying-Pan into the Fire -- MichaelVrable
• VII (Fri 8:04p / Fri 7:54p) Queer Lodgings --EliBogart
• VIII (Fri 8:51p / Fri 8:37p) Flies and Spiders -- AdamField
• IX (Fri 9:42p / Fri 9:30p) Barrels Out of Bond --RobinBaur (read by LoriThomas)
• X (Fri 10:13p / Fri 9:57p) A Warm Welcome --JoshMiddendorf
• XI (Fri 10:34p / Fri 10:18p) On the Doorstep -- MichaelVrable
• XII (Fri 10:50p / Fri 10:34p) Inside Information --KatieLewis Is this the one w/ dragon? Yes.
• XIII (Fri 11:26p / Fri 11:10p) Not at Home -- BrianYoung
• XIV (Fri 11:46p / Fri 11:31p) Fire and Water --WillShipley
• XV (Sat 12:02a / Fri 11:49p) The Gathering of the Clouds --RobinBaur
• XVI (Sat 12:20a / Sat 12:12a) A Thief in the Night --ClayHambrick
• XVII (Sat 12:31a / Sat 12:22a) The Clouds Burst --ClayHambrick
• XVIII (Sat 12:52a / Sat 12:41a) The Return Journey -- MichaelVrable
• XIX (Sat 1:07a / Sat 12:57a) The Last Stage --RobinBaur

Hobbit ends: Sat 1:23a / Sat 1:14a

Lord of the Rings begins: Sat 1:23a / Sat 1:16a

• 0 Prologue (-- / Sat 1:16a) -- BrianYoung
• I.1 (Sat 1:23a / Sat 1:54a) A Long-Expected Party --ClayHambrick
• I.2 (Sat 2:03a / Sat 2:44a) The Shadow of the Past --WillShipley (this is a bad idea. someone should take this from me)
• I.3 (Sat 2:56a / Sat 3:44a) Three is Company --JulieWortman
• I.4 (Sat 3:44a / Sat 4:33a) A Short Cut to Mushrooms--Rachel Carter--never mind :) i guess i didn't sleep through it after all...
• I.5 (Sat 4:15a / Sat 5:00a) A Conspiracy Unmasked--Jessie Loebs
• I.6 (Sat 4:42a / Sat 5:23a) The Old Forest -- StephGrush
• I.7 (Sat 5:14a / Sat 6:05a) In the House of Tom Bombadil --ClayHambrick
• I.8 (Sat 5:41a / Sat 6:34a) Fog on the Barrow-Downs --Jessie Loebs (Does anyone know any appropriate tunes for the Tom Bombadil songs? They'd be so much better sung, but I have no idea how to sing them. Or maybe someone would like to step in and sing the songs for me...)
• I.9 (Sat 6:19a / Sat 7:06a) At the Sign of the Prancing Pony --RobinBaur (Heehee.. just noticed this one has one of the fun songs. But will negotiate)
• I.10 (Sat 6:45a / Sat 7:44a) Strider --Cypress Armstrong
• I.11 (Sat 7:17a / Sat 8:16a) A Knife in the Dark -- WillShipley
• I.12 (Sat 8:14a / Sat 9:08a) Flight to the Ford -- RichardGarfinkel (providing I'm awake and here)

• II.1 (Sat 8:53a / Sat 9:55a) Many Meetings--Rachel Carter
• II.2 (Sat 9:43a / Sat 10:36a) The Council of Elrond -- MichaelMaindi & StevenVonderPorten
• II.3 (Sat 11:06a / Sat 12:16p) The Ring Goes South --Josiah Larson
• II.4 (Sat 12:03p / Sat 1:13p) A Journey in the Dark -- WillShipley
• II.5 (Sat 12:58p / Sat 2:17p) The Bridge of Khazad-Dum -- MichaelMaindi & StevenVonderPorten
• II.6 (Sat 1:34p / Sat 2:47p) Lothlorien --BenjAzose
• II.7 (Sat 2:17p / Sat 3:41p) The Mirror of Galadriel --Cypress Armstrong
• II.8 (Sat 3:00p / Sat 4:20p) Farewell to Lorien -- JonathanBeall
• II.9 (Sat 3:34p / Sat 4:53p) The Great River --JoshMiddendorf (read by MichaelVrable)
• II.10 (Sat 4:12p / Sat 5:34p) The Breaking of the Fellowship --NickJohnson

• III.1 (Sat 4:49p / Sat 6:15p) The Departure of Boromir--FrancesHocutt
• III.2 (Sat 5:08p / Sat 6:38p) The Riders of Rohan --PomonaSteve (I've currently come down with a cold, and as such may not be available to read. I should be well by then, but if someone else wants to take over, I'm more than happy to defer to him/her.)
• III.3 (Sat 6:09p / Sat 7:31p) The Uruk-Hai -- AdamField (read by RichardGarfinkel) (silly ConcertChoir?)
  • No, silly reading the introduction and thereby shifting the reading back. Grr... Glad someone could be found to cover for me, though.
• III.4 (Sat 6:47p / Sat 8:14p) Treebeard --NickHerman
  • I really wish I could do this one - stupid ConcertChoir? performance. -AdamField
    • Ditto. My favorite chapter! Oh well. I can be consoled by egotistically listening to my rendition last year, right? --RobinBaur
• III.5 (Sat 8:16p / Sat 9:20p) The White Rider --JulieWortman
• III.6 (Sat 9:02p / Sat 10:05p) The King of the Golden Hall -- MichaelMaindi & StevenVonderPorten
• III.7 (Sat 10:01p / Sat 11:00p) Helm's Deep --KatieLewis
• III.8 (Sat 10:34p / Sat 11:39p) The Road to Isengard --EliBogart (tenative)
• III.9 (Sat 11:19p / Sun 12:22a) Flotsam and Jetsam --KatieLewis If we keep being an hour behind, does anyone want to take this chapter? I might go to sleep now if I didn't have Helm's Deep. I don't know that I want to be up past midnight. Sure! I'd love to! --RobinBaur
• III.10 (Sun 12:03a / Sun 1:09a) The Voice of Saruman --NickJohnson
• III.11 (Sun 12:34a / Sun 1:48a) The Palantir --NickJohnson

• IV.1 (Sun 1:08a / Sun 2:32a) The Taming of Smeagol -- RichardGarfinkel
• IV.2 (Sun 1:45a / Sun 3:18a) The Passage of the Marshes -- StephGrush (don'tSee above)
  • I dunno what you two are on about. Note this is AM, whereas the choir concert is PM, i.e. early in Book VI. --RobinBaur
    • Read "Assuming we stick to schedule".
      • I henceforth take myself off the middle of the night reading. I'm dumb. -- AdamField
• IV.3 (Sun 2:24a / Sun 4:06a) The Black Gate is Closed --WillShipley
• IV.4 (Sun 2:55a / Sun 4:43a) Of Herbs and Stewed Rabbit--Rachel Carter
• IV.5 (Sun 3:25a / Sun 5:16a) The Window on the West --EliBogart
• IV.6 (Sun 4:20a / Sun 6:15a) The Forbidden Pool -- MichaelMaindi & StevenVonderPorten
• IV.7 (Sun 4:46a / Sun 6:44a) Journey to the Crossroads -- MichaelVrable
• IV.8 (Sun 5:07a / Sun 7:12a) The Stairs of Cirith Ungol--Jessie Loebs (with Rachel Carter)
• IV.9 (Sun 5:40a / Sun 7:44a) Shelob's Lair --ReginaCarns (read by MichaelVrable)
• IV.10 (Sun 6:09a / Sun 8:14a) The Choices of Master Samwise--Jessie Loebs (up for discussion if someone else wants it)

• V.1 (Sun 6:43a / Sun 8:49a) Minas Tirith --ReginaCarns
• V.2 (Sun 7:52a / Sun 9:57a) The Passing of the Grey Company --NickJohnson
• V.3 (Sun 8:45a / Sun 10:53a) The Muster of Rohan --RobinBaur
• V.4 (Sun 9:25a / Sun 11:40a) The Siege of Gondor --ClayHambrick
• V.5 (Sun 10:19a / Sun 12:40p) The Ride of the Rohirrim --PomonaSteve (I've currently come down with a cold, and as such may not be available to read. I should be well by then, but if someone else wants to take over, I'm more than happy to defer to him/her.)
• V.6 (Sun 10:48a / Sun 1:02p) The Battle of the Pelennor Fields --NickJohnson
• V.7 (Sun 11:14a / Sun 1:33p) The Pyre of Denethor --RobinBaur
• V.8 (Sun 11:36a / Sun 1:57p) The Houses of Healing --KatieLewis
• V.9 (Sun 12:11p / Sun 2:28p) The Last Debate -- MichaelVrable
• V.10 (Sun 12:37p / Sun 2:58p) The Black Gate Opens --ClayHambrick (read by NickJohnson; blame the concert)

• VI.1 (Sun 1:02p / Sun 3:29p) The Tower of Cirith Ungol--Rachel Carter
• VI.2 (Sun 2:08p / Sun 4:14p) The Land of Shadow --Jessie Loebs
• VI.3 (Sun 2:56p / Sun 4:53p) Mount Doom -- BrianYoung (I may be in the ac lab doing stems. If I'm not back and it's near time for this chapter, can someone come find me?)
• VI.4 (Sun 3:34p / Sun 5:33p) The Field of Cormallen --MicahSmukler
• VI.5 (Sun 4:00p / Sun 6:00p) The Steward and the King --RichardGarfinkel
  • (I will most likely be at a physics review instead and am sick to boot. Feel free to claim this. --FrancesHocutt)
• VI.6 (Sun 4:34p / Sun 6:40p) Many Partings --JulieWortman (read by RobinBaur)
• VI.7 (Sun 5:19p / Sun 7:26p) Homeward Bound --ClayHambrick
• VI.8 (Sun 5:37p / Sun 7:45p) The Scouring of the Shire -- WillShipley
• VI.9 (Sun 6:32p / Sun 8:43p) The Grey Havens --RobinBaur (Er, curses. Just realized this might conflict with something else. I'd still like it if it ends up not conflicting, but someone else should maybe double-claim it to replace me, in case...) I'll take it, unless someone else wants it. I feel like, as an alum, I should defer if anyone else does want it, though...--MicahSmukler (actually read by RobinBaur)

Appendices

• A: (Sun 9:13p) Annals of the Kings and Rulers --MicahSmukler and ManyOthers
• B: The Tale of Years
• C: Family Trees -No
• D: Shire Calendar
• E: Writing and Spelling
• F: The Languages and Peoples of the Third Age

• Index --No

Lord of the Rings ends: Sun 6:54p (actually ends Sun 9:13p)

• 52 hours and 13 minutes of LOTRaThon goodness!