LotR-sparked relationships

[vanwalossien]

My English teacher in lower secondary school told me once when we were talking about books that another girl in my class also read Tolkien. I'd hardly talked to her before that day, but for the rest of our last year at the same school we got pretty close friends. In my lower secondary school, there were very few who had read LotR, and when I started upper secondary (which I will be sad to leave next spring) I felt as if it was a way of showing how different the schools were when already in the first week of school, people began to talk about the upcoming movie which wasn't out 'til half a year later.

I also fell a bit in love with one of my classmates who suggested to our Norwegian teacher that we should write fantasy. He's a wonderful guy, and sure got my attention with that. We're great friends now, and I still bask in the glory from once having won over him in a Tolkien quiz. This was a very serios arrangement, I tell you, properly supervised by our classmates who wanted to find out which one of us was the ultimate nerd I might've won the quiz, but he definetly scored high by summarizing the SILM in ten words ("Bad Elves, bad Men, bad Dwarves, bad Gods, happy ending") for me for a BD-thread

But one of the most Tolkien-influenced relationships I have is the friendship with the terribly nice Dane Melephelwen, whom I haven't seen at the 'Downs for a while, but I still talk to her over MSN. We missed a great chance at meeting each other in real life a year ago (jeez, a whole year already?), but geeky as I am, I think online friendships can as real as offline ones.