Writers and Tolkien

[Arwen Eruantale]

I write because I enjoy it. I love to write, plain and simple. I think I've been inspired by Tolkien to add depth and emotion, and write as it comes to me. But I still don't know why I like to write- it might have something to do with my equal passion for reading. If that is the case, does reading necessarily make one a writer?.... is the urge to create something good, deep, and lasting something I got from Tolkien?

You cannot possibly know how much I completely identify with all of that, Luthien.

I don't understand either why I have such a passion to create in the form of word on paper.
To create pictures with words that hold more depth, feeling, thought, truth, and life than any drawing could ever hope to portray is one of my most ardent desires. To give something to the reader that causes profound thought, and invokes deep memory.
That is what Tolkien has done for me, in causing all these things he has inspired me to press on -knowing that I could probably never equal (much less rival) his own genius- but to try, if only to find my own happiness in the creation, and discovery, of my own realm- and it has, and is, happening for me, in much the same way I believe it did for him. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]