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Tilion the Wayward · 02-09-2009, 12:09 PM

Greetings Tolkien fans!

I stumbled upon this site a while back & was well-pleased with the intelligent conversation & number of active threads (in comparison to multitudes of other decrepit LOTR forums). Of course I promptly lost the link & the name, thankfully to find it again later.

I must admit I am new to Tolkien (& largely to fantasy in general - I am more sci-fi inclined), even though I am well past my teenage years. When the movies were released I told myself I would read the books 1st, but alas, college is a difficult time for pleasure reading. So I watched The Fellowship of the Ring, thoroughly enjoying it. Somehow I managed to miss the subsequent films in the theater but caught them both together at home on DVD later. I vowed that I would read the books. Time passed, again, (though I found paperback copies of the Trilogy + Hobbit for $.25 each at a used bookstore) & I finally found myself ready to experience The War of The Ring as it was intended.

Woe, thee Ring!
How beautiful and terrible is thy orbit!
The all-consuming fire scorches;
Though I darenot relinquish the flame!

I feel as though I was finally let in to a world for which I was destined, some 15 years late (my youth spent reading Grisham & Crichton seems wasted in comparison). Especially as our technology obsessed world wears very thin on me, Middle Earth resonated in my desire for a simpler world (but certainly no less dangerous). Having thought I knew the story from the film version, the books provided some delightful surprises. After falling unknowingly under the spell of a power far greater than I have encountered before, providence shined on me, allowing me to procure a beautiful 2nd edition hardcover of the works (my preciousss), as well as an illustrated Silmarillion (which I have yet to read as other books of immediate importance are occupying me). So, my hope is that this site will illuminate some of the shadows for me until Tolkien can do so himself.

02-09-2009, 12:09 PM	#3224
Tilion the Wayward Newly Deceased Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Among the stars Posts: 4	Greetings Tolkien fans! I stumbled upon this site a while back & was well-pleased with the intelligent conversation & number of active threads (in comparison to multitudes of other decrepit LOTR forums). Of course I promptly lost the link & the name, thankfully to find it again later. I must admit I am new to Tolkien (& largely to fantasy in general - I am more sci-fi inclined), even though I am well past my teenage years. When the movies were released I told myself I would read the books 1st, but alas, college is a difficult time for pleasure reading. So I watched The Fellowship of the Ring, thoroughly enjoying it. Somehow I managed to miss the subsequent films in the theater but caught them both together at home on DVD later. I vowed that I would read the books. Time passed, again, (though I found paperback copies of the Trilogy + Hobbit for $.25 each at a used bookstore) & I finally found myself ready to experience The War of The Ring as it was intended. Woe, thee Ring! How beautiful and terrible is thy orbit! The all-consuming fire scorches; Though I darenot relinquish the flame! I feel as though I was finally let in to a world for which I was destined, some 15 years late (my youth spent reading Grisham & Crichton seems wasted in comparison). Especially as our technology obsessed world wears very thin on me, Middle Earth resonated in my desire for a simpler world (but certainly no less dangerous). Having thought I knew the story from the film version, the books provided some delightful surprises. After falling unknowingly under the spell of a power far greater than I have encountered before, providence shined on me, allowing me to procure a beautiful 2nd edition hardcover of the works (my preciousss), as well as an illustrated Silmarillion (which I have yet to read as other books of immediate importance are occupying me). So, my hope is that this site will illuminate some of the shadows for me until Tolkien can do so himself. __________________ "Do not despise the lore that has come down from distant years; for it may chance that old wives kept in memory words of things that were once needful for the wise to know." Last edited by Tilion the Wayward; 02-09-2009 at 12:18 PM.