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Aiwendil · 02-03-2006, 10:31 AM

I had a great deal of trouble deciding which boxes to check in this poll. While I do engage in many of the activities listed, it's hard for me to say whether I do so, or began to do so, "under the influence of Tolkien". In the end, I decided to construe "under the influence of Tolkien" fairly loosely, and voted for writing prose, poetry, and music, role-playing, and creating artificial languages. Of these, the only one that I clearly started to do specifically because of Tolkien is role-playing; when I was about seven or eight, my quest for more stuff in the vein of TH and LotR led me to Dungeons and Dragons. Writing prose and poetry and creating artificial languages are things that I might have started doing because of Tolkien, but (as I first read the books so long ago) it's hard to recall. Writing music is something that I definitely did not start to do because of Tolkien, but I have made a few attempts to write Middle-earth related music.

I certainly also play computer games, but I don't think that this has anything to do with Tolkien at all.

02-03-2006, 10:31 AM	#7
Aiwendil Late Istar Join Date: Mar 2001 Posts: 2,224	I had a great deal of trouble deciding which boxes to check in this poll. While I do engage in many of the activities listed, it's hard for me to say whether I do so, or began to do so, "under the influence of Tolkien". In the end, I decided to construe "under the influence of Tolkien" fairly loosely, and voted for writing prose, poetry, and music, role-playing, and creating artificial languages. Of these, the only one that I clearly started to do specifically because of Tolkien is role-playing; when I was about seven or eight, my quest for more stuff in the vein of TH and LotR led me to Dungeons and Dragons. Writing prose and poetry and creating artificial languages are things that I might have started doing because of Tolkien, but (as I first read the books so long ago) it's hard to recall. Writing music is something that I definitely did not start to do because of Tolkien, but I have made a few attempts to write Middle-earth related music. I certainly also play computer games, but I don't think that this has anything to do with Tolkien at all.