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littlemanpoet · 02-06-2002, 08:48 PM

I enjoy Tolkien because
1) LOTR & his other works take me back into a time that has passed and never will be again
2) the land is so real; I want to go to the Shire, to Minas Tirith, to Dimrill Dale, Lorien, Rivendell, Bree
3) everything is wrought into a whole, the languages and the histories and the peoples who spoke the languages and lived the histories
4) Elves. Galadriel. Elrond.
5) The light, the lembas, the beauty
6) the sadness, especially of Galadriel's song and "fighting the long defeat"
7) the rebuilding of the Shire
8) Sam going home to Rose
9) Elessar and Arwen in the appendices
10) Gandalf's pipe rings and old Southfarthing

What a rich tapestry! And even the legends are fully wrought! In most works they're only hinted at and scarfed up for "seeming's" sake in order to give the false impression of something really being behind it, but with Tolkien the something really is behind it, and you go further back and further back and find that there are legends behind the legends and I could go on and on and ......

02-06-2002, 08:48 PM	#16
littlemanpoet Itinerant Songster Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: The Edge of Faerie Posts: 7,066	I enjoy Tolkien because 1) LOTR & his other works take me back into a time that has passed and never will be again 2) the land is so real; I want to go to the Shire, to Minas Tirith, to Dimrill Dale, Lorien, Rivendell, Bree 3) everything is wrought into a whole, the languages and the histories and the peoples who spoke the languages and lived the histories 4) Elves. Galadriel. Elrond. 5) The light, the lembas, the beauty 6) the sadness, especially of Galadriel's song and "fighting the long defeat" 7) the rebuilding of the Shire 8) Sam going home to Rose 9) Elessar and Arwen in the appendices 10) Gandalf's pipe rings and old Southfarthing What a rich tapestry! And even the legends are fully wrought! In most works they're only hinted at and scarfed up for "seeming's" sake in order to give the false impression of something really being behind it, but with Tolkien the something really is behind it, and you go further back and further back and find that there are legends behind the legends and I could go on and on and ......