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Shade of Carn Dûm
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Hey.. to start things off I love all of Tolkiens books. If it werent for him, I would have never read more than a page if I didnt have to - Now I find myself delving into my schoolbooks when the rest of the class could care less. <img src=smile.gif ALT="
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But for how much I like it, I sure dont understand it well. For example, reading the letter that Tolkien wrote in the beggining of The Sillmarillion had me so confused that I felt like I was reading jibberish. I dont understand any of the books to the depth that some of you do - by a longshot. I didn't really realize how much of the book was blank in my mind, and how much I did not take into consideration until I came to this site and saw some of the discussions.. then being totally baffled. Its like I have to re-read any of the big conversations some of you have to understand what you mean.
So I want to know.. did you not understand things the first time you read some of the books? - Especially The Sillmarillion which is WOW! I will have to re-read that ten times through to remember everything. But when I get to the end of the tunnel, I hope to be as smart as all of you. <img src=smile.gif ALT="
"> I was pretty sad when I first started writing this, but now in a way Im happy that I will be reading these books for years... even though I will never get a kick out of it as much as I did the first time.
Most of you are older, I know.. Im just a lowly Highschool student. Does college help?
"Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends."</p>