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[lotesse]

You 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.

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[dark-skada.livejournal.com]

I love Tolkien for the details. For the fact the more I study it, and go in depth, the more I find I don't know. From the customs and traditions to the very different cultures, to the extensive and realist languages, to the lines more elborate than the bible, I love the details.

I love Tolkien for the weaponry. Maybe that's still details, but it's up there with D&D for the amounts, types, classes, etc. Who uses what, who makes what, the designs, the shapes, the form. Yeah... it's amazing.

I love Tolkien for not backing down to editors. He spelled 'Elven' the way he wanted to, and it's a better world because of it.

I love Tolkien for leaving us his works to read. Most writers who write for themselves, keep it to themselves. He share with us. I feel blessed because of it...

and there's more. but the trig homework calls... *siiiiiigh*

[lotesse]

Yay trig!

He's just amazing, isn't he? No matter how far you dive down there's always more.

[dumortierite.livejournal.com]

I love Tolkien because of his world. It really IS a whole full-fledged world, and every part and region and race is fleshed out so that we feel like we actually live there, or at least can visit from time to time.
I love Tolkien because he's universal. He has power. Look at the books, and the movies, and their impact - huge! His characters lived, and live still.
And most of all, I love Tolkien for the line in RotK about Eomer and Aragorn speeding up the wall together. I can remember exactly where and when I read that for the first time, and every sensory detail about it. I have no idea why, but that line has stayed with me since the second grade, imprinted on my mind.

By the way, what is your icon from? It is SO familiar...like Snow White or something? Hm...

[lotesse]

yup. Trina Schart Hyman.

Hi from random person!

[http://users.livejournal.com/lady_alatariel_/]

I was just looking through random people's info and your name struck me as cool, so I came over here to check out your journal and I just had to answer this post, lol.

I love Tolkien for so many different reasons. The fact that more than 50 years later his books are still applicable to the world around us. I love that he is so immersed in his world and knows everything about that there aren't the holes you find in another fantasy stories. And even if you did manage to find one, the language and everything is so beautiful and captivating that you're willing to go with it anyway and suspend any disbelief because you want to believe.

One of my favorite passages is something that Haldir says "The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater."

I friended you, btw! Hope that's ok :)