Tolkien Day! (and other random things...)
About writing LotR...and where he began with inspiration :
I began with language, I found myself involved in inventing 'legends' of the same 'taste'. The early work was mostly done in camps and hospitals between 1915 and 1918--when time allowed. But I think a lot of this kind of work goes on at other (to say lower, deeper, or higher introduces a false gradation) levels, when one is saying how-do-you-do, or even 'sleeping'. I have long ceased to invent (though even patronizing or sneering critics on the side praise my 'invention'): I wait till I seem to know what really happened. Or till it writes itself. Thus, though I knew for years that Frodo would run into a tree-adventure somewhere far down the Great River, I have no recollection of inventing Ents. I came at last to the point, and wrote the 'Treebeard' chapter without any recollection of previous thought: just as it now is. And then I saw that, of course, it had not happened to Frodo at all.
~The Letters of JRR Tolkien: letter #180, January 14, 1956
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Watching "50 Cutest Child Stars All Grown Up" at the moment and so thinking that Elijah should've been #1--he was down at 16...i'm like totally incredulous on who's "better" than him ...Macaulay at #2? LAME! Seriously...Elijah so outdid him in his subsequent roles!... The Olson twins? ew...only teens like them...(no offense to who likes them ...)
gosh, who judges these things, anyway? :p :/
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My cousin just asked me to be maid-of-honor next year for her wedding... i'm like afja!#!@$??? are you serious??? 0_0
I began with language, I found myself involved in inventing 'legends' of the same 'taste'. The early work was mostly done in camps and hospitals between 1915 and 1918--when time allowed. But I think a lot of this kind of work goes on at other (to say lower, deeper, or higher introduces a false gradation) levels, when one is saying how-do-you-do, or even 'sleeping'. I have long ceased to invent (though even patronizing or sneering critics on the side praise my 'invention'): I wait till I seem to know what really happened. Or till it writes itself. Thus, though I knew for years that Frodo would run into a tree-adventure somewhere far down the Great River, I have no recollection of inventing Ents. I came at last to the point, and wrote the 'Treebeard' chapter without any recollection of previous thought: just as it now is. And then I saw that, of course, it had not happened to Frodo at all.
~The Letters of JRR Tolkien: letter #180, January 14, 1956
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Watching "50 Cutest Child Stars All Grown Up" at the moment and so thinking that Elijah should've been #1--he was down at 16...i'm like totally incredulous on who's "better" than him ...Macaulay at #2? LAME! Seriously...Elijah so outdid him in his subsequent roles!... The Olson twins? ew...only teens like them...(no offense to who likes them ...)
gosh, who judges these things, anyway? :p :/
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My cousin just asked me to be maid-of-honor next year for her wedding... i'm like afja!#!@$??? are you serious??? 0_0