Do you feel you learn more from Tolkien and the Downs than School?

[lindil]

Arwen posted:

Also, I was a bit hesitant about revealing my age and I hope that it will not influence how seriously you take my posts and opinions.

While anyone can answer the Q. with something valuable to contribute, I tried to slant it a little towards younger folks still in school. So no Arwen your age detracts nothing at all from this [or any post]. I relly value the downs as a resource and potential inspiration for younger folks, possibly because in general it has such a warm and familylike atmosphere [no mean feat in such a large cyber-community] and because I was in 7th grade when I started on FotR myself.

MLD g'kepper W.: what do I mean by 'more'?
Well, as you intimated it was really meant as an open ended question. I did not really have quantity so much as quality in mind, but I was most concerned and intersted in drawing out peoples thoughts and experiences whatever they may be and generating some reflection and appreciation for the opportunities at hand, both here and at school.

As for being in the Books, I thought of that and Estelyn is of course free to move it if she sees fit, but I deliberately put it here in the hopes that some of the younger folks might be more likely to post on it [ not that being young means you are a novice or a newcomer mind you [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] ] but I figured I would err on the side of a sweeping generalization.


Joy, brings up a point that I share myself. A desire to go back to school. Though in my case it is extremely unlikely, and therefore am coming more and more to the realization of the need to improvise an education especially in the area of English basics [ so I can learn Quenya and a couple other languages like Greek and Spanish]and improve my writing so as to hopefully be able to do it professionally.