Tolkien Fandom - How much is too much?

[Lindale]

Originally Posted by Beregond

For me, The Lord of the Rings is the reason I have an interest in languages, in English, in maps, in art, in medieval history and culture, in archery, and in other things that do not spring to mind.

Same here. Back when I took my archery class, I always fancied myself as an Elf, and because our archery professor was never strict with uniforms, I came to class with my hair loose and in a Harry Potter-ish knitted dark green hooded coat, the nearest thing I can get to any Elvish thing I imagined. And I can say I learned my English from JRRT and JKR--they being the two authors I have read during my elementary and high school days. In history and the social sciences, however I found parallels and similarities, I never quite forgot the line between reality and his fantasy.

Oh and I took German as my foreign language because... I thought it resembles a bit the Rohirric, the harshness my Filipino ear perceives whenever I read out loud their names. I don't quite know how wrong I am on that one, but I chose it over Spanish, the easiest European language next to English for a Filipino to learn.

I may be a closet Don Quixote lost in Tolkien's legendarium in my daydreams, but I have my rather successful attempts to repress it.