Thanks to the horrors of work, I’m now almost done with TTT. What’s really funny is that I got to the Mere of Dead Faces right when I started doing the day shift across the Bay, and so for part of my way I’m walking through the marshy parts of the Peninsula before dawn, and there was enough moonlight for me to see the mist coming off a lake I cross by bridge, and I’m all like, “Aaaaah! Spirit candles! Smeagol says don’t look!” :D
the Return of the King?
THis post is 9 months old so I am guessing you have. How many times have you read the LOTR? Its been quite a few years since my last complete reading but all told I think I have read it maybe 6 times. Add to that the dozens of times I randomly read sections, chapters, paragraphs.
I thought they did a pretty fair job with the movie. Of course they left out a lot and even changed some facts around. But I was pleasantly surprised they did include scenes I thought they would surely skip or cover only briefly.
This has been time number two. Everyone I tell this to nearly dies of shock. Believe it or not, I used to not like Tolkien. A year ago, I rediscovered the books and became a huge fan.
when we are in a receptive place to hear them. That’s my experience.
I have met people who didn’t like the LOTR though not many. So glad to hear you now like it. I actually don’t care for the Harry Potter books, but perhaps, like you did with LOTR, in a few years may come to appreciate them.
Who can tell?
I came back to the books at a difficult time in my life. It’s given me a newfound appreciation for the way all of the characters deal with the hard choices before them. And Éowyn is basically the story of my life for the past three years (well, if you take the slaying of the Witch-King in the allegorical sense… I read it as being symbolic of Éowyn confronting the darkness within herself, as well).
nonnacookbooker wants to learn Tai Chi
Drive across the USA
quit saying I want to write and actually write
make love in the rain
stay awake for three days straight
Give my bedroom a makeover
be more spiritual
tone my body
bungee jump
learn to speak Portuguese
Become a wizard
get my tounge pierced
find song titles
never settle for anything less than I deserve
funniculee wants to Practice yoga 30 times in 30 days
publish a book
do yoga
go vegetarian
Design and build my own house
be beautiful
be a better lover
become a veterinarian and open my own vet clinic
get and STAY in shape
watch the oc
pull a prank involving 100 lawn gnomes
mediaxjunkie wants to stop hating
think positively
watch all 6 seasons of sex and the city
