Day 3: The 30 Day Book Meme
Went back to my old work again (I was like, where are my childrens?!?!) and everything is very different. How is I leave for 3 months and don't know anything and anyone anymore?
Also, the Ouran epilogue--made me laugh! I <3 that series and now Kyouya has captured my imagination yet again...damn him. :D GO READ IT PEOPLE!
But, more books, shall we?
"It must often be so, Sam, when things are in danger: someone has to give them up, lose them, so that others may keep them." - Return of the King
For the record, choosing between Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter was like choosing between my children. But, in the end, I have to go with my beloved first love that I ruined my eyes reading by flashlight under the covers long after I was supposed to be in bed. In truth, I loved loved loved Bilbo in The Hobbit and did not trust Frodo, at first. But I got over that.
There are parts of these books that I just love and wish I could do over the first time once more. I remember reading the Mines of Moria scene very late at night and was terribly creeped out about it. And Balin's tomb hit me hard the first time way back in 7th grade. "Here lies Balin, Lord of Moria," indeed.
And Smeagol, what a terribly tragic figure. And Frodo. And Sam. And the horribly galling part that they took out of the movie at the end of Return on the King which is the terrible Scouring of the Shire, where you truly realize everything that was at stake. And as much as I love the movies (the last scene with Frodo writing in the book wherein he has the speech "How do you pick up the fragments of another life?" is sheer transcendent brilliance that I went and looked for in the books and realized was only hinted at), the books are just wonderful and I read them again and again with that same child-like kind of excitement. And when I realized that Tolkien was actually a super-brilliant college professor, all of my studies of both Celtic and Norse myths just add to all of it
And, admittedly, I have dressed up like Galadriel for a class presentation in English. And then taught the class how to speak Elvish. I have never gotten out my graduation robe and pretended to be a witch from Hogwarts.
Although I have thought about it...
Also, the Ouran epilogue--made me laugh! I <3 that series and now Kyouya has captured my imagination yet again...damn him. :D GO READ IT PEOPLE!
But, more books, shall we?
"It must often be so, Sam, when things are in danger: someone has to give them up, lose them, so that others may keep them." - Return of the King
For the record, choosing between Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter was like choosing between my children. But, in the end, I have to go with my beloved first love that I ruined my eyes reading by flashlight under the covers long after I was supposed to be in bed. In truth, I loved loved loved Bilbo in The Hobbit and did not trust Frodo, at first. But I got over that.
There are parts of these books that I just love and wish I could do over the first time once more. I remember reading the Mines of Moria scene very late at night and was terribly creeped out about it. And Balin's tomb hit me hard the first time way back in 7th grade. "Here lies Balin, Lord of Moria," indeed.
And Smeagol, what a terribly tragic figure. And Frodo. And Sam. And the horribly galling part that they took out of the movie at the end of Return on the King which is the terrible Scouring of the Shire, where you truly realize everything that was at stake. And as much as I love the movies (the last scene with Frodo writing in the book wherein he has the speech "How do you pick up the fragments of another life?" is sheer transcendent brilliance that I went and looked for in the books and realized was only hinted at), the books are just wonderful and I read them again and again with that same child-like kind of excitement. And when I realized that Tolkien was actually a super-brilliant college professor, all of my studies of both Celtic and Norse myths just add to all of it
And, admittedly, I have dressed up like Galadriel for a class presentation in English. And then taught the class how to speak Elvish. I have never gotten out my graduation robe and pretended to be a witch from Hogwarts.
Although I have thought about it...