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Evisse the Blue · 09-27-2002, 02:31 AM

I would happily trade E for ME any time. Every realm has its strange yet familiar wild fascination for me. It's both like a homecoming and a discovery.
I believe it has something to do with those places being "at once clear cut, as if they had first been conceived and drawn at the uncovering of the world and ancient as if they endured for ever". The quote is Frodo's impression of Lorien, but it sums up perfectly my own impression of the entire ME.

I believe Tolkien was able to awaken such feelings of longing into our hearts just by describing those places because of his own nostalgia for the pitoresque England that he loved and that was becoming more and more tainted by industrial development.

09-27-2002, 02:31 AM	#32
Evisse the Blue Brightness of a Blade Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: wherever I may roam Posts: 2,685	I would happily trade E for ME any time. Every realm has its strange yet familiar wild fascination for me. It's both like a homecoming and a discovery. I believe it has something to do with those places being "at once clear cut, as if they had first been conceived and drawn at the uncovering of the world and ancient as if they endured for ever". The quote is Frodo's impression of Lorien, but it sums up perfectly my own impression of the entire ME. I believe Tolkien was able to awaken such feelings of longing into our hearts just by describing those places because of his own nostalgia for the pitoresque England that he loved and that was becoming more and more tainted by industrial development. __________________ And no one was ill, and everyone was pleased, except those who had to mow the grass.