Tolkien's Writings

[Helkasir]

Aaah. My first real introduction was watching that Lord of The rings cartoon at the age of 2. Fairly young. Next, I saw the hobbit movie, just around the same time. They became my favorites. Watched em all the time. I believe I saw return of the king at age 5. At the age of seven, I saw a copy of the Hobbit in our local labor day book sale going for 10 cents. Not knowing there was a copy actually in the house, I bought it. I finished it within the week (Spent hours reading it) and while much of it was still a little over my head (Queer lodgings) I loved it just the same. Then came fourth grade, when I found, in our library, a genuine copy of lord of the rings. It took me one weekend to read it all. Gobbled them up. At 10, I started really thinking about the world of tolkien in general, and started picking up te details and the customs, underlying plots and themes, questioning about tom, etc. It was too long after that I got a set of LOTR and The Hobbit (Making 3 copies total in the house) and set out on my search for the histories. So far, I only have the Last Tales 1&2, the lays of Beleriand, The shaping of middle earth, the treason of Isengard, Morgoths ring, the end of the third age, UT and the Sil. Through all of this reading, I really truly believe I got my own sense of how to write. I have, so far, a 362 page story. I started it in seventh grade, and it's mostly a historical record of my writing improvement. The story starts out a bit disjointed, hopping from one thing to another. Later on, it runs smoothly. But the world it self reflects my imagination, and for once not something contemporary; which can only have come from such large amount of time in ME. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]