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Nilaraniel · 03-09-2002, 11:20 PM

I live in south Georgia (!!), and didn't find it hard at all to read LOTR. There were a couple of words that I had to look up, but they just havn't been used in years.

But I'm used to reading lots of Shakespeare, Canterbury Tales, Beowulf, and more recent books written in the English we don't speak anymore. I always got aggrevated in school when the teacher would make us read Shakespeare in class because NOBODY understood it. She'd make us put pieces into modern language and I was the only one that could do it. :-p Of course then people laughed at me cause I was smart I guess. Oh well, geeks rule the world. ;-) I can't wait to get my hands on Silmarillion. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

Nila

03-09-2002, 11:20 PM	#17
Nilaraniel Animated Skeleton Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Georgia, USA Posts: 30	I live in south Georgia (!!), and didn't find it hard at all to read LOTR. There were a couple of words that I had to look up, but they just havn't been used in years. But I'm used to reading lots of Shakespeare, Canterbury Tales, Beowulf, and more recent books written in the English we don't speak anymore. I always got aggrevated in school when the teacher would make us read Shakespeare in class because NOBODY understood it. She'd make us put pieces into modern language and I was the only one that could do it. :-p Of course then people laughed at me cause I was smart I guess. Oh well, geeks rule the world. ;-) I can't wait to get my hands on Silmarillion. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] Nila __________________ AIM: nilaraniel