So, there is life in the hive...
As to former comments and queries:
1) Yes, my cat is named Doom, not only does it fit her personality, it's what I'll bring to the yabos that decided letting her out into the wild was a perfectly fine method of ditching their owner responsibilities, should I ever meet them.
2) Under almost every other circumstance, I agree, I'd rather read than listen to a book...but reading the Silmarillion is very much like what I imagine skinning your own face would be like (I hyperbolize, but you get the drift). A fantastic pre-history story of the world, written rather more like a history text than a novel. And, I'll point out that, with few exceptions, the story told is not overall a happy one - so dry and depressing is hard to wade through in block text.
3) There seemed other things, but that's too many pages back...Forward...HOOOOOOOOOOO!