[Finiel]

I haven't heard anything about Tolkien and his ME before until I saw the film last year merely because Cate Blanchett was in it.

The first time I saw the books at a store i didn't like it because of its cover. The cover was Elijah Wood holding his sword, Sting and I didn't like ELijah Wood that time. And I thought that LOTR was just copied from Harry Potter ( forgive me for my ignorance [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] ).

But when I saw the film I was encouraged to buy the THE HOBBIT book (since it was cheaper than the LOTR books) 11 months ago and I got hooked because it was one of those books that kinnda like takes you to places. I felt like I was with Bilbo & co. on their journey. It was great.
I mean the opening: "In a hole in the ground there lived a Hobbit..." just hooked me.

And the same thing happened when I read the LOTR books for the first time last September. And I almost flank in Anatomy class for reading LOTR rather than studying for the finals.

From then on I surfed the net for more info about ME. I'm saving money to buy the Silmarillon.

Thank God for Tolkien...and for Peter Jackson, too. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

[ December 23, 2002: Message edited by: Finiel ]