
Amethyst Dooley wrote:QUOTE (Amethyst Dooley @ Jan 10 2006, 01:05 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Its "there and back again" nature makes it comfort reading for me, one of those books you might read late at night for the 20th time (if you're almost 30) if you've been stressed and just need a good tale to take your mind off of RL.
This is the way I feel also. I have read it so many times, but I never tire of it. Sometimes, I'll get bored and just grab it off the shelf and give it a quick read.
I mistakenly read The Hobbit in junior high school; I thought I was checking out The Borrowers but couldn't remember the name. When I saw that it had little people in it, I thought I must have the right book. Once I discovered my mistake, it was too late... I was hooked. LOTR naturally followed because I couldn't get enough of it.
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Venefica vom Lehn wrote:QUOTE (Venefica vom Lehn @ Aug 15 2006, 01:18 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>(And please please do it before Sir Ian McKellen feels too old to play Gandalf - I don't want any other Gandalf but him!)
100% agree with you! No matter how I love the books much better than the movies, there'sno way I can see another Gandalf... Although is we think in DUmbledore's case...![]()
Anyway same happens with Bilbo Baggins: Can you see anotherone but Ian Holms performing him?...
*sigh hope is the last that fades...
Phlox Flammula wrote:QUOTE (Phlox Flammula @ Aug 4 2007, 03:44 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>But really I just love tolkien's style. It makes you feel as if you have someone sitting right there with you telling you a true tale, like history class only much more interesting.
So true, Phlox! That's what I love about Tolkien, too. *nods enthustiastically* It could be real history, in a way. It feels true to me. (I do know that Elves and Dwarves and Hobbits never existed, but you can still dream, can't you?)Maybe life is like rain. Alive if you let it be; lousy and depressing if you don't.
Taken from 50% Chance of Lightning by Cristina Salat.
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Venefica vom Lehn wrote:QUOTE (Venefica vom Lehn @ Aug 9 2007, 01:40 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>So true, Phlox! That's what I love about Tolkien, too. *nods enthustiastically* It could be real history, in a way. It feels true to me. (I do know that Elves and Dwarves and Hobbits never existed, but you can still dream, can't you?)
*nods* You can always dream... and then pretend that you really did see them. Then people would think that you're crazy, which is always fun.
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