I can't concentrate!!

[guanin]

My Tolkiennite side has been dormant for so long, allowing me to delve into other stuff like Heroes and POTC and the Aubrey/Maturin series, but now she's awake! Like the balrog in Khazadum. No instead of military takeovers I'm thinking of Feanor and Ents and what happened to Thranduil and his people during the Fourth Age. And looking at Milo pictures, but I'm weak.

I want to see the movies again so much. Maybe it's better that I don't have the books here, else I'd be waist deep in First Age lore by now. That is, if I didn't have this pesky exams. *goes back to rehashing the Bourbon Reforms yet again*

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[visiblemarket.livejournal.com]

Darn Bourbons. They looked nothing like Milo and didn't care at all about Middle Earth ;)

Good luck concentrating!

[guanin.livejournal.com]

At least it's an easy question to answer, but I much prefer Milo and his geekiness.

Thanks! I'm having mixed results, but at least I wrote down a page of notes.

[rampant-chaos8.livejournal.com]

Gaaah, I haven't seen Lord of the Rings in forever. I should rewatch those, yes. *nods*

[guanin.livejournal.com]

I really, really want to try to watch it in little 20 minute chunks while on breaks, but come on! Like I really wouldn-t just keep going.

[saena17.livejournal.com]

As hesitant as I always am to say this to a Tolkienite, I have actually never read the book series, aside from The Hobbit (although I have seen and enjoyed the films). I am looking forward to one day reading them, although I worry about the inability of people to ever pull me away once I really get into them. I love the complexity and history and world-building of those books- just the surface experience I've gotten from attending Tolkien Society meetings at my school is intense- so how will I be able to resist all the good stuff in the actual books? I may become a total addict. But then again, what's one more fandom addiction? ;)

Sarah

[guanin.livejournal.com]

I get why you'd be nervous to say that. Some of us can get a little... edgy. The thing is, the movies got so many things wrong (Faramir in Two Towers, the elves at Helm's Deep, the characterizations of half the characters) that if you haven't read the books, you wouldn't understand how things actually work. I'm extremely glad my 8th grade English teacher assigned LOTR, although to be honest I'd forgotten most of it by the time FOTR came out. I love the movies, but there are some parts that I refuse to watch again. Faramir never appeared in TTT as far as I'm concerned.

You go to Tolkien Society meetings? *drools* All we have here is some Harry Potter club that I have zero interest in.

It does take a while to get through all the books though, even if you have a lot of time on your hands. And money, unless you live near a brilliant library. I'm lucky that FOTR came out in 2001, the year I started college, so plenty of time.