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Oct. 27th, 2004 04:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lotesseYou 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.
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Date: 2004-11-25 05:30 am (UTC)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 :)