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Re: Keep Going Man
I'm right there with you Gandalf! This site has helped alot, before I started surfing the Tolkien web, I didn't even know about the Sil. <img src=redface.gif ALT=":O"> yeah, reading that changed everything! I had just finished LOTR at the beginning of the summer, and after reading the Sil and Unfinished Tales, I'm reading it again because it means so much more now! That and I love it.. <img src=smile.gif ALT="
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Keep in mind, too, that just because you aren't seeing things the way others do, or you miss something that someone else feels is a key part, doesn't make you wrong. Everyone adapts what they read to their own feelings and experiances at the time. That's what I like about this place, seeing other's views. I read at TheOneRing this guys views on the role of day and darkness in the story. I had noted it subconciously, but nothing like he had seen. It was cool. You learn alot about a person's personal experiances through their interpretation of literature. For me, the theme I best understood was that of a hopeless passing of innocence and beauty. Although it turned out great in the end, Frodo had no hope of life, and everything from the old world was passing away. At the time I was reading, I was really sick and having to have alot of test run and stuff like that. Like Frodo, I felt I was facing something greater than I, but it was still something I had to go through if I wanted my world to mature and grow, be it for better or worse. All that to say, most peoples interps of LOTR are also interps of themselves. So you're all good. <img src=wink.gif ALT="
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~ Elerrina ('Crowned with stars'; a name of Taniquetil; Only thing that wasn't taken) 'Many are the strange chances of the world,'said Mithrandir,'and help oft shall come from the hands of the weak when the Wise falter."</p>