Day 852

Read a bit of the life of Johnson over tea. Quite interesting actually, he had a mental crisis when he was 20, like yours truly.

in the evening read Fellowship of the Ring. In the radio version he misses out Tom Bombadil and the Barrow-downs; fair enough, but he forgets that the Barrow was where the hobbits got their knives/swords from. And he has the Mouth of Sauron say 'Blade of the Downfallen West' forgetting that this means the Barrow-blade which he has removed from the story and not Sting.