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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[cherise]

Dude. I read them once before, around the same age, but couldn't read anything over 400 pages except Harry Potter. You ... actually make me want to read them again. It's one of those impossible things. o.o

Linguistics! GLOTTAL STOPS! Everyone has so much trouble explaining them but I have found The Answer: Batman. Isn't that amazing!? :p I have fun in Phonology. It's also, um, really bad since I'm learning Greek too. x.x Thus whenever I try to write something out phonetically in class, it always looks like [kpaB] when it's supposed to be [kræb]. lmao.

I only know a couple friends who really love Lord of the Rings, including my friend Sonia who can write in Elvish, but none of them who know most of Elvish/Anglo-Saxon songs, lol! oh how much delight in this post. :3

Also, I find it ironic that you just changed your header. Doesn't the end of the Inferno seem more fitting for this post? :)

[spockodile]

Rediscovered a lost love, did we? There's an uncommon passion in this entry and it's pleasing to see. :D

Also, for the love of all things sane and stable, about The Twitter... (in the voice of Joker) WHY SO UPPERCASSSSE?

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

[aliseadae]

Oh, /this/! I had to run and grab my journals from ninth grade which was my year of Tolkien. I began to write the days of the week in Elvish. I should learn the Tengwar alphabet (I started to this summer but haven't quite finished.)

But this reminds me of days spent dreaming, wearing my white tree of Gondor shirt, (I /love/ that shirt) and dreaming of worlds, of cities. I kept designing my own. I memorized poems. I'd invent families of Tolkien fans (my father did read the books at the same time as me.)

I remember first learning that the movies would be made - at that point I'd just started The Hobbit - and I was excited about this prospect.

Oh, Tolkien. Oh.

[tobie_rosemary]

I can relate to more of this post than I will quote ... But these things, yes, I will quote them:

"It was Tolkien who reassured me that I could take forever and ever to write a book and it would turn out okay in the end..." -----> Yay. :)

"It was Tolkien who taught me about Story and the sacredness of it." -----> Being a writer. Grad school. If not who I am, then how I think of and interpret myself, which is almost as important.

I feel like I have a very strong relationship with Tolkien, especially when I read his letters.

And I may or may not have had a one-track mind about LotR during a certain phase of my life ... and translated things into Sindarin ... etc ...