What you're saying here reminds me of the way philosophers and theologists talk about sacred texts. I know, not your meaning, but there's this idea that the ssame text will mean different things at different points for same practicer, and more so for different points and histories - and multiple points in history. All true. It's part of what I was talking about at my own LJ last night.
Which is just my way of saying, there's a grand tradition of folks feeling much the same way, going back and back and back. For whatever that's worth. :-)
well, that's too much credit for my musings! But I get your meaning. There are a few books I re-read consistently, and I love how different things gain meaning at different times. I usually got caught in the "Don't go to the elves for counsel" but lately I've come to understand the pain that comes with failed advice, and it makes me smile.
I miss the Tolkien muse. I miss being that obsessed with something. I miss the experience of sharing stories with other obsessed people. I have a bit of fanfic I think I'll write one of these days but it's not the same.
There was a lot of creativity flowing around those Tolkien movies. I too miss that. I have sat before an unfinished story a hundred times and not been able to go beyond a few paragraphs at the time..
While I've never been a great fan of saying "told you so", I've now come to equate those words to failure. My failure to communicate my understanding of things.
Holy Moly. I have never before thought of it like that.
(I'm so stealing that. It makes total sense to me.)
You are a much nicer and more evolved person than me. I'm still at 'I told you so.' stage, (although it's more the turning away, rolling my eyes and muttering 'idjit' under my breath stage.)
Than again, I don't give advice for a living.
On another note, giving advice is dangerous because it can put you at blame when the advice you give doesn't work.
Of course there's the danger that people will follow your advice and then put the blame on you, and I had always taken Gildor's words in that sense, how aloof and separate from mortals the elves themselves are.
But there's saturation in everything. Too many "told you so"s and you won't find any dark glee in it anymore. Instead there's sadness there, world-weariness, in knowing that most times things are doomed to failure because our inability to accept and follow advice.
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Which is just my way of saying, there's a grand tradition of folks feeling much the same way, going back and back and back. For whatever that's worth. :-)
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Holy Moly. I have never before thought of it like that.
(I'm so stealing that. It makes total sense to me.)
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Than again, I don't give advice for a living.
On another note, giving advice is dangerous because it can put you at blame when the advice you give doesn't work.
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But there's saturation in everything. Too many "told you so"s and you won't find any dark glee in it anymore. Instead there's sadness there, world-weariness, in knowing that most times things are doomed to failure because our inability to accept and follow advice.
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