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VanimaEdhel · 04-07-2002, 05:37 PM

I love Tolkien for many reasons!

His wording is just extraordinary. It is amazing...I cannot describe it. It has no emotion, yet so much emotion behind it
Because he wrote so many books about Arda, going and reading a new book is like returning to an old friend. When I am down, it is like calling up an old friend and hearing stories involving people and places I've been to or seen
There's another thing: the explicit detail...I feel as though I am there, gazing over the wall of whatever city he describes into the landscape ahead
The characters' personalities are great. Just one page with a new character and I feel as though I know them intimately all ready
Many other reasons that I cannot even put into words

[ April 07, 2002: Message edited by: VanimaEdhel ]

04-07-2002, 05:37 PM	#34
VanimaEdhel Etheral Enchantress Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Wellesley College! Posts: 1,461	I love Tolkien for many reasons! His wording is just extraordinary. It is amazing...I cannot describe it. It has no emotion, yet so much emotion behind it Because he wrote so many books about Arda, going and reading a new book is like returning to an old friend. When I am down, it is like calling up an old friend and hearing stories involving people and places I've been to or seen There's another thing: the explicit detail...I feel as though I am there, gazing over the wall of whatever city he describes into the landscape ahead The characters' personalities are great. Just one page with a new character and I feel as though I know them intimately all ready Many other reasons that I cannot even put into words [ April 07, 2002: Message edited by: VanimaEdhel ] __________________ "I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each others dreams, we can be together all the time." - Hobbes of Calvin and Hobbes