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mark12_30 · 10-16-2002, 07:49 AM

Oh, Lots.

Although nothing so grandiose as Rimbaud. Where do you live, Rimbaud? In a mirky forest, or amid hardened towers, or in a desolate plain?

I first read Tolkien around three decades ago when I was twelve. What have I picked up since then because I thought it was Middle-Earthy? Fencing (foil and sabre); archery; pennywhislte, flute; harp (I built a crude one from scratch); walking in the woods; I made several cloaks (and one day, in Jr. High, wore one to school ALL DAY, to all of my classes; boy did I catch heat for that!)

More recently, climbing trees; learning to cook with mushrooms, hobbit-style; visiting the beach in order to think about paradise. (I always did like standing on the rocks and watching the waves roll in. Very westward-looking even when done on the eastern seaboard. (I wonder if Tolkien had been writing in New England if paradise would have been to the east. But then, CSLewis got it backwards too) )

10-16-2002, 07:49 AM	#11
mark12_30 Stormdancer of Doom Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Elvish singing is not a thing to miss, in June under the stars Posts: 4,349	Oh, Lots. Although nothing so grandiose as Rimbaud. Where do you live, Rimbaud? In a mirky forest, or amid hardened towers, or in a desolate plain? I first read Tolkien around three decades ago when I was twelve. What have I picked up since then because I thought it was Middle-Earthy? Fencing (foil and sabre); archery; pennywhislte, flute; harp (I built a crude one from scratch); walking in the woods; I made several cloaks (and one day, in Jr. High, wore one to school ALL DAY, to all of my classes; boy did I catch heat for that!) More recently, climbing trees; learning to cook with mushrooms, hobbit-style; visiting the beach in order to think about paradise. (I always did like standing on the rocks and watching the waves roll in. Very westward-looking even when done on the eastern seaboard. (I wonder if Tolkien had been writing in New England if paradise would have been to the east. But then, CSLewis got it backwards too) ) __________________ ...down to the water to see the elves dance and sing upon the midsummer's eve.

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