in the forest singing sorrowless

[faeriemaiden]

you guys, YOU GUYS. I cannot believe I haven't watched The Lord of the Rings in years (YEARS! REALLY TRULY YEARS!) because it is beautiful beyond all reckoning. Also I apologise to everyone who follows me on Twitter for how I tweeted ten straight hours of movie and near the end of Return of the King my capslock button got stuck.

Look. Once upon a

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Tolkien Epiphanies are DELICIOUS

[aohdwyn]

*laughs* Oh man, just reading this made me feel 13 again, with my own copy of LOTR, FINALLY, which I stayed up late on Christmas break, breaking the spines in reading them straight through, literally cheering aloud during the more climactic moments, and shuddering in fear reading Shelob's Lair at 3 in the morning. (NEVER READ CHAPTER NINE AT 3 IN THE MORNING OMG) This reminds me of how watching the very first trailer for FOTR online (on a crappy dial-up connection which made Aragorn stutter, "Not n-nearly f-f-f-fr-frightened enough" which made me and my sister laugh SO HARD, which we mocked for years -- YEARS! -- afterward "Are you frightened?" "Yes" "Not n-nearly f-f-frightened enough!" ah, stupid nerdy inside jokes.) made my heart beat SO FAST, just that little tiny glimpse of a world that, up to that point, had only existed inside my head.

And I actually quite enjoyed reading your tweets. They were bloody hilarious at points *grins* And I'm sorry about the chip-eaters. Tch.

Oh, Tolkien. I could write a post almost identical to this one. How many geeky geeks have been formed, from the 60's onward, by that exposure to Middle Earth? We all of us, the nerds, the outcasts, the dreamers of distant lands, owe whole swaths of our soul to that man, I swear.