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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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[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.