What inspiration do you get from Tolkien? - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Aaron · 12-02-2006, 06:12 AM

Me too! Yeah, I won a few poetry competitions back in the day, it's so fulfilling to see that others apreciate your work too.

Holbytlass · 12-02-2006, 06:51 AM

Tolkien's work for me reaffirms the inspired notion that a person of less significance can make a difference. To keep trying in what I feel is right.

I naturally gravitate to more simple/rural living and Tolkien's descriptive writing inspires me to make my home a more pleasing and welcoming place to be.

Like Folwren, I sew a bit more and love to make cloaks, too.

shieldmaiden4xsword · 12-02-2006, 06:29 PM

it makes me aware of the times i live in, that there's always a spiritual battle going on between good and evil.

Lalwendë · 12-03-2006, 09:34 AM

I've done all the usual stuff like writing, drawing Boromir's death scene (I wonder how many of us have done that?), vandalising my school books and coat by adding the emblem of the White Tree to them. I've made a cloak, a shield and a humungous beech staff made of fallen wood from one of my favourite woodlands (I whittled the wood while sitting on the banks of a moorland stream which turns into the magical Derwent downstream, a blessed river to the old Britons round there, apparently).

My next project, if I move house, will be to create a Hobbit garden. I want to have a shed with a fake round door and a green roof (I currently have a seaside garden with pots on the shed roof). I'll have lavender hedges and willow fences, and a fine vegetable patch with a secret bench where I can go for a smoke and a sulk, hidden behind the raspberry canes.

Legate of Amon Lanc · 12-04-2006, 08:00 AM

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Originally Posted by Lalwendë

My next project, if I move house, will be to create a Hobbit garden. I want to have a shed with a fake round door and a green roof (I currently have a seaside garden with pots on the shed roof). I'll have lavender hedges and willow fences, and a fine vegetable patch with a secret bench where I can go for a smoke and a sulk, hidden behind the raspberry canes.

Wow! That's cool! I'll come and visit you

I always wanted to live in Orthanc, or at least replica of Orthanc... but... you know

Lalwendë · 12-04-2006, 02:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Legate of Amon Lanc

Wow! That's cool! I'll come and visit you

I always wanted to live in Orthanc, or at least replica of Orthanc... but... you know

You sometimes get old water towers and lighthouses for sale in the UK. One of those could make a great little Orthanc if converted!

I think most of my gardening exploits are in some ways inspired by Tolkien as I always start feeling very virtuous and industrious and Hobbitish when I get the shed open and start potting things up. Just the few minutes spent in inspecting the plants on the daily rounds makes you feel like Sam, especially if you're growing edible crops. Though I only managed two tomatoes on my novice growing season this year. It's very pleasant to spend time with growing things who ask for little more than water and good light.

The other slightly odd inspiration I get is when I go out for a walk and end up walking further than I'd intended. I start to get this sense of determination and adventure as if I'm off on my own quest and then get to a point where I actually don't want to stop...just keep on to the next mountain kind of thing (or turn in the path at any rate).

Aaron · 12-04-2006, 04:01 PM

I'm making a maquette at the moment, not too easy.

12-02-2006, 06:12 AM	#1
Aaron Haunting Spirit Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: England Posts: 96	Me too! Yeah, I won a few poetry competitions back in the day, it's so fulfilling to see that others apreciate your work too. __________________ Remember, stranger, passing by: As you are now, so once was I. As I am now, so you shall be. Prepare thyself to follow me.

12-02-2006, 06:51 AM	#2
Holbytlass Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: May 2003 Location: The Party Tree Posts: 1,042	Tolkien's work for me reaffirms the inspired notion that a person of less significance can make a difference. To keep trying in what I feel is right. I naturally gravitate to more simple/rural living and Tolkien's descriptive writing inspires me to make my home a more pleasing and welcoming place to be. Like Folwren, I sew a bit more and love to make cloaks, too. __________________ Holby is an actual flesh-and-blood person, right? Not, say a sock-puppet of Nilp’s, by any chance? ~Nerwen, WWCIII

12-02-2006, 06:29 PM	#3
shieldmaiden4xsword Wight Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: where people stick out their tongues at their youth pastor.... Posts: 183	it makes me aware of the times i live in, that there's always a spiritual battle going on between good and evil. __________________ Sometimes the peril is not in what is around us, what enemies or trials that may come, but what is in our own hearts.

12-03-2006, 09:34 AM	#4
Lalwendë A Mere Boggart Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: under the bed Posts: 4,737	I've done all the usual stuff like writing, drawing Boromir's death scene (I wonder how many of us have done that?), vandalising my school books and coat by adding the emblem of the White Tree to them. I've made a cloak, a shield and a humungous beech staff made of fallen wood from one of my favourite woodlands (I whittled the wood while sitting on the banks of a moorland stream which turns into the magical Derwent downstream, a blessed river to the old Britons round there, apparently). My next project, if I move house, will be to create a Hobbit garden. I want to have a shed with a fake round door and a green roof (I currently have a seaside garden with pots on the shed roof). I'll have lavender hedges and willow fences, and a fine vegetable patch with a secret bench where I can go for a smoke and a sulk, hidden behind the raspberry canes. __________________ Gordon's alive!

12-04-2006, 04:01 PM	#7
Aaron Haunting Spirit Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: England Posts: 96	I'm making a maquette at the moment, not too easy. __________________ Remember, stranger, passing by: As you are now, so once was I. As I am now, so you shall be. Prepare thyself to follow me.