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[poorneedyand]

Have any of you read J. R. R. Tolkien's work? I can't recommend it highly enough--I really--oh, it's just great, you ought to read it. I read a book a night, I just couldn't put them down.

I mean, The Hobbit was a good book, no denying that, I read it when it came out, but these Lord of the Rings stories of his are above and beyond in quality.

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[i_speak_softly]

Is there anyone who hasn't read it?

((Read them, hated them, forgot the whole plot. This thread may be less factually accurate than our last one. T_T))

[poorneedyand]

Oh, have you heard of them? Good, Tolkien ought to get his laurels for these books.

((OOC: WE WILL TRY OUR BEST, DESPITE OUR TOLKIEN-HATING STATUSES. :|))

[i_speak_softly]

[In a "This is common knowledge; how are you not aware of it" tone:] He did. [Long pause.] Are you saying you just found out about them?

[poorneedyand]

[In a 'well, of course I did' kind of tone:] The copyright is almost a year into the future for the first one, and they don't exactly hand out advance copies like candy.

[Voice] | I needed an excuse to tag her...

[semper_cogitans]

[Robert blinks at this for a moment. "The Lord of the Rings"...? ... Hadn't he seen that name in a literary database once? If he had, it was ages ago.]

I am afraid that I have never read the story, but... I may vaguely recognize the name.

... [Questioningly, because this is the part he latched onto the most:] Is there a reason you switch from "female" to "women" with your description? They are not the s-same identifier...

[Transgender rights: not a concept Kay is going to be familiar with. At all.]

[Voice] | I needed an excuse to tag her...

[poorneedyand]

Well, they're great. You should pick up a copy if you're out of things to read. Hell, even if you aren't.

[At his question, she frowns at the book, completely unsure of what he means by "identifier."] No reason. She's just a great character--really strong, really well-written.

((OOC: And if you don't mind sidestepping the issue of Kay's complete and utter cluelessness regarding trans people, her character isn't at a point where she'd be able to discuss the subject without her being amazingly transphobic, and I feel like that isn't really fair to make you play through. ♥))

[Voice]

[semper_cogitans]

(OOC: For the record, I don't mind Robert dealing with phobia of all kinds~ But if you'd rather not, it's fine with me. :3 I'm just... not bothered by much of anything... [and Robert's seen some admittedly-mild transphobia here already, wouldn't be the first time].)

[Well, the question seemed to be... more or less unanswered, but Robert blinks a few times. Well. It's not too unlikely for somebody to not understand the difference... as much of a shame as that is. Robert decides to let it go for now, though... He wants to pursue the topic, but this "Lord of the Rings" things seems fascinating.]

I am not entirely surprised that I do not recognize the series. Assuming multiversions with similar histories, most people here come from some point significantly in the past relative to myself.

... But I may have to look at this book then, at some point. It is a pity there is no way to read it via my nanocomputer... [Oh, how Robert longs for database access to Terra.]

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[poorneedyand]

...A nanocomputer? [As fascinating as Lord of the Rings is, Kay's attention has shifted pretty much completely from the subject. YOUR FUTURE TECHNOLOGY, SHE WANTS IT.] What's a nanocomputer?

((OOC: Well, if/when the time comes when the conversation would have some promising long-term effects on her, you will be the person I hit up. ♥))

[intangible_girl]

[Smilingly:] I'm glad to see you liked them.

[poorneedyand]

They're really fine works. You'll have to tell me if you've got any other recommendations.

((OOC: And I just want to apologize for not managing to get back to the thread they were in previously. BUT THEY COULD TALK NOW, THAT'D BE COOL. ♥))

[intangible_girl]

I have a feeling you'd enjoy A Wrinkle in Time. And- oh, when was The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe published? There's a whole series by C. S. Lewis. They're both children's literature, but they're very good.

Eowyn was wonderful, but I sort of preferred Galadriel, among the women.

((OOC: \o/ Yay for literature discussions! /majored in English. And it's been too long since I read them, so we can muddle our way through together.))

[poorneedyand]

...A Wrinkle in Time? Sounds interesting--[and presumably the familiar title is just a coincidence]--I'll have to pick it up.

Oh, Galadriel was good, too, but she didn't get to do that much. I liked that she saw that she shouldn't hang on to the Ring right off the bat, though.

((OOC: ...Oh, my God, she'll have to read A Wrinkle in Time next and complain about plagiarism, because she and her husband wrote the in-world equivalent. >> /minored in English, likewise finds this fun))

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[ohmykethe]

[Mildmay has been at the coffee table making sandwiches though all of Kay's breathless exclamations on these goddamn books of hers. The sandwiches are fairly simple-- or, at least, simple for Kay: bread (white! bread! pre-sliced!!!!), cabbage, ham and mayo (!!!!). Mildmay cuts them and places them on a plate between them both before looking up with some skeptical interest at Kay.]

So what're these books about again?

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[poorneedyand]

[Kay's in favour of this whole eating-ham-sandwiches-at-the-coffee-table thing and is tempted to make one herself--probably with less sauerkraut, though.]

They're a quest, mostly. Frodo Baggins and his merry men have to get rid of an evil ring. There's a war going on, too, and a few other things, but the ring is the most important part.

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[ohmykethe]

[CABBAGE IS GOOD FOR THE SOUL OKAY.]

[Dryly:] An evil ring, huh? [Sounds... pretty interesting. Okay, you have Mildmay's curiosity piqued. You win this round.] So it's a story book, then? [He motions to the green be-treed tome in her hands.]

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[poorneedyand]

[THAT'S A LOT OF SAUERKRAUT, MILDMAY, IT MIGHT BE OVERKILL.]

Makes you invisible when you wear it, but it turns you evil. [She looks down at the book, shrugging--'story-book' implies something for children to her.] It's a long story, but--yeah, basically. [Pause.] Here, you want to hear some?

[onebluebamf]

Nah, but the movies were pretty cool. The effects were totally tight.

[... alas, Kurt is not a Tolkien geek like his mun.]

[poorneedyand]

...They made movie adaptations? This place doesn't happen to have a theater I didn't notice, does it?

[onebluebamf]

Nah, no theaters. Pretty lame, huh? But I've got them on DVD. Which is great, because the third one wasn't even out yet back in my world.

[poorneedyand]

DVD? That some kind of industry term for canisters?