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Oct. 27th, 2004 04:58 amYou know what? I love Tolkien.
Sometimes I forget, if I go too long without reading the text. It becomes just another one of my fannish loves. Yeah, I love Tolkien, but I also love Cooper and Pullman and Lewis. Except not really. Because as soon as I go back to what Tolkien really is I'm swept off my feet again. And I realize that there is nothing else for me. Those books are mine in a way that no others are, and they have marked me as theirs in a way that I can't believe and others ever will. And always I cannot believe how easy it was for me to forget.
So: I love Tolkien. And I don't ever want to forget that completely. Go back to the books; plunge into them again. Remember what it felt like the first time. Remember why we fangirl LotR. Remember that it's worth fangirling in a way that nothing else I know of is. Remember why you love Tolkien.
And then tell me about it.
Sometimes I forget, if I go too long without reading the text. It becomes just another one of my fannish loves. Yeah, I love Tolkien, but I also love Cooper and Pullman and Lewis. Except not really. Because as soon as I go back to what Tolkien really is I'm swept off my feet again. And I realize that there is nothing else for me. Those books are mine in a way that no others are, and they have marked me as theirs in a way that I can't believe and others ever will. And always I cannot believe how easy it was for me to forget.
So: I love Tolkien. And I don't ever want to forget that completely. Go back to the books; plunge into them again. Remember what it felt like the first time. Remember why we fangirl LotR. Remember that it's worth fangirling in a way that nothing else I know of is. Remember why you love Tolkien.
And then tell me about it.