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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*