fiefoe

The book is relaxing in the sense that it's a book that uses 'faggot' in the original sense unselfconsciously. Also it's fairly easy to tune out chunks of the hobbits' journey and I do.

J. R. Tolkien sure wrote a lot of verse for this. "Hot Water" is my favorite song in the book so far.

Sing hey! For the bath at close of day
that washes the weary mud away
A loon is he that will not sing
O! Water Hot is a noble thing!

O! Sweet is the sound of falling rain,
and the brook that leaps from hill to plain;
but better then rain or rippling streams
is Water Hot that smokes and steams.

O! Water cold we may pour at need
down a thirsty throat and be glad indeed
but better is beer if drink we lack,
and Water Hot poured down the back.

O! Water is fair that leaps on high
in a fountain white beneath the sky;
but never did fountain sound so sweet
as splashing Hot Water with my feet!