Tolkien Day!

[periantari]

"The Lord of the Rings as a story was finished so long ago now that I can take a largely impersonal view of it, and find ‘interpretations’ quite amusing; even those that I might make myself, which are mostly post scriptum: I had very little particular, conscious, intellectual, intention in mind at any point. Except for a few deliberately

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[dreamflower02]

Last year they called it "Back to Middle-earth Month". This year it's "Celebrating Middle-earth Month" People are encourage to make posts and tag them "cmem08". So if you check that tag, you should find a number of interesting entries!

[periantari]

Thanks for that info, Dreamflower! I hope that there will be lots of entries this year and that i will be able to put some up as well. :)

[shirebound]

the sensibility to linguistic pattern which affects me emotionally like color or music; and the passionate love of growing things; and the deep response to legends

What a perfect description of the essence of the Professor's writings.

[periantari]

That is one of my favorite lines as well! =) Indeed his legendarium grew with every stroke of his pen through a long process.