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Guinevere · 09-06-2002, 02:08 PM

Hullo everyone !

I am about as old as child of the 7th age, so she`s not the only "grandmother" on the downs!
The difference is, I only discovered Tolkien last year, with 5O ! I now wonder why on earth I hadn`t heard about him before, (I read a lot of English books and I stayed in England in the USA in the seventies, but none of my friends and teachers mentioned him...)
It seems that nearly everybody else started reading Tolkien as teenagers. Well, better late than never !!
It was really through my son (then 15)who read LotR (in German) that I became interested. I read the Hobbit, found it delightful, read LotR and was immediatly spellbound! Hardly ever have I been so moved and fascinated by any book. Since then I read anything by or on Tolkien that I can lay hands on. I finished the Silmarillion, read "Tree and leaf", a biography, then Tom Shippey`s "Tolkien , author of the century". Now I`ve ordered and got Tolkiens letters (after so many interesting quotations from these here on the downs i decided I MUST have them) and next I`ll read UT.
None of my friends shares my craze, so I`m ever so glad to have discovered the Barrowdowns!

Hope I haven`t bored you with this too long post... Namarië ! Guinevere

09-06-2002, 02:08 PM	#191
Guinevere Banshee of Camelot Join Date: May 2002 Location: Switzerland Posts: 5,830	Hullo everyone ! I am about as old as child of the 7th age, so she`s not the only "grandmother" on the downs! The difference is, I only discovered Tolkien last year, with 5O ! I now wonder why on earth I hadn`t heard about him before, (I read a lot of English books and I stayed in England in the USA in the seventies, but none of my friends and teachers mentioned him...) It seems that nearly everybody else started reading Tolkien as teenagers. Well, better late than never !! It was really through my son (then 15)who read LotR (in German) that I became interested. I read the Hobbit, found it delightful, read LotR and was immediatly spellbound! Hardly ever have I been so moved and fascinated by any book. Since then I read anything by or on Tolkien that I can lay hands on. I finished the Silmarillion, read "Tree and leaf", a biography, then Tom Shippey`s "Tolkien , author of the century". Now I`ve ordered and got Tolkiens letters (after so many interesting quotations from these here on the downs i decided I MUST have them) and next I`ll read UT. None of my friends shares my craze, so I`m ever so glad to have discovered the Barrowdowns! Hope I haven`t bored you with this too long post... Namarië ! Guinevere __________________ Yes! "wish-fulfilment dreams" we spin to cheat our timid hearts, and ugly Fact defeat!