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Hobbit
Join Date: Jan 2003
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At a Doctor's Office
I couldn't believe this happened, and I doubt you will -- or maybe this has happened to some of you before. Listen, I was at a doctor's office, and I had brought along the LotR to read during the wait. This man I didn't know -- he was a complete stranger -- got up when he saw me, walked over, and told me, "That is a beautiful book. JRR Tolkien was an absolutely brilliant man. His works are marvelous... beautiful, beautiful." It was really weird. So that brings me to this question: How obsessed do you think people could be with LotR and Tolkien's other works?
How far could your obsession take you? How much could it change your life? Could it make you go crazy? I know these are weird questions, but as soon as I saw that man, they kind of "woke up" in my brain. I just started thinking, if a grown man can walk up to a girl and tell her how wonderful a book is, what else can he do to prove that it is as wonderful as he said? I wonder... Heh. This was kind of a pointless post. I was just thinking about it and decided to post something about it. I wonder if anyone will reply. ((Hum hoo! as Treebeard would say)). Anyway, that's it. *g* ~~Firhithiel~~
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~~In Moria, after Frodo gets hit by the "orc-chieftain", The Fellowship of the Ring~~ Aragorn picked up Frodo where he lay by the wall and made for the stair, pushing Merry and Pippin in front of him. The others followed; but Gimli had to be dragged away by Legolas: in spite of the peril he lingered by Balin's tomb with his head bowed. Boromir hauled the eastern door to, grinding upon its hinges: it had great iron rings on either side, but could not be fastened. "I am all right," gasped Frodo. "I can walk. Put me down!" Aragorn nearly dropped him in his amazement. "I thought you were dead!" he cried. ~~While Frodo, Sam, and Gollum are climbing the Stairs of Cirith Ungol, in The Two Towers~~ And so Gollum found them hours later, when he returned, crawling and creeping down the path out of the gloom ahead. Sam sat propped against the stone, his head dropping sideways and his breathing heavy. In his lap lay Frodo's head, drowned deep in sleep; upon his white forehead lay one of Sam's brown hands, and the other lay softly upon his master's breast. Peace was in both their faces. If that isn't a suggestion that they're in love, I don't know *what* is!!! |
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Death of Mooters and [Entmoot] Internal Affairs
Join Date: Oct 2002
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The last thing I would ever do is burning, or in any other way harm my Tolkien-books...except, perhaps, for killing another human being.
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Elf Lord
Join Date: Sep 2001
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![]() i would never burn a book! unless it was a math book
![]() ![]() u kno how u said about the going crazy thing, when i was 11 one of my friends said something about Pro. Tolkien going crazy and dying in a mental instutution. I'm pretty sure that that's not true!!
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The Buddy Rabbit
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Trapped in the headlights..
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Nope he died because of an agravated gastric ulcer........but the poor man did develop alzeimers before the end
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Elf Lord
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Slow down and I sail on the river, slow down and I walk to the hill
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I thought he died of a lung infection.
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I Antha
Join Date: Sep 2002
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I dont' know how he died. I would never burn a book!!!Unless it was a text book like ArwenEvenstar said.
PS. ArwenEvenstar, your avatar looks like it's hitting itself! ![]()
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Elven Warrior
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: I am every where and I am no where, I am everyone and I am no-one! HAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!
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How old was he. He could of known Tolkien.
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Death of Mooters and [Entmoot] Internal Affairs
Join Date: Oct 2002
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Tolkien was 82 years when he died, if I recall correctly...
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Hobbit
Join Date: Jan 2003
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~~In Moria, after Frodo gets hit by the "orc-chieftain", The Fellowship of the Ring~~ Aragorn picked up Frodo where he lay by the wall and made for the stair, pushing Merry and Pippin in front of him. The others followed; but Gimli had to be dragged away by Legolas: in spite of the peril he lingered by Balin's tomb with his head bowed. Boromir hauled the eastern door to, grinding upon its hinges: it had great iron rings on either side, but could not be fastened. "I am all right," gasped Frodo. "I can walk. Put me down!" Aragorn nearly dropped him in his amazement. "I thought you were dead!" he cried. ~~While Frodo, Sam, and Gollum are climbing the Stairs of Cirith Ungol, in The Two Towers~~ And so Gollum found them hours later, when he returned, crawling and creeping down the path out of the gloom ahead. Sam sat propped against the stone, his head dropping sideways and his breathing heavy. In his lap lay Frodo's head, drowned deep in sleep; upon his white forehead lay one of Sam's brown hands, and the other lay softly upon his master's breast. Peace was in both their faces. If that isn't a suggestion that they're in love, I don't know *what* is!!! |
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Greatest Elven woman of Aman
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Having way too much fun with Fëanor's 7
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I think that man had experienced great joy from reading this book and wanted others to get the same experience. It always feels good to see other people enjoying the same things as you do yourself. If someone would speak to me like that when I'm reading my books in public places, I would love it.
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Join Date: Jan 2002
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And all the time the waves, the waves, the waves Chase, intersect and flatten on the sand As they have done for centuries, as they will For centuries to come, when not a soul Is left to picnic on the blazing rocks, When England is not England, when mankind Has blown himself to pieces. Still the sea, Consolingly disastrous, will return While the strange starfish, hugely magnified, Waits in the jewelled basin of a pool. |
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Long lost mooter
Join Date: Apr 2002
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This is a little OT, but when I was 12 I was at a Renoir exhibit at the Boston Museum of Art. A middle-aged man came up to me and said, "Don't be afraid! You have a Renoir woman's face..." and went on for a minute as to why. I was speechless because it kind of freaked me out, moreso because he began by saying "Don't be afraid!" like that! Later I told my family that I felt badly about not saying thank you for the compliment, but they said he probably understood. I think it's natural for young women to feel a little ill at ease when a strange man approaches and starts talking to them in an intimate way, but as someone said, when people are passionate about art or other things, they only naturally want to share their feelings about it. I think great artists and writers inspire meaningful communication, as opposed to speaking to a stranger about a shared interest being characterized as "crazy."
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Elven Warrior
Join Date: Feb 2002
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I always sort of wish people will come up and talk to me about the books I'm reading. There really aren't enough people my age who read at all, much less like to talk about Lord of the Rings and other books.
I guess that's why I come here! Rosie
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Join Date: Oct 2002
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well, i've never let my sister touch my LOTR trilogy, because she bends the spines on the books, so if she did that i'd probably hit her with a broom (or something close to hand).
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Legolas's beloved sister and Queen of the Wood Elves of Mirkwood
Join Date: Nov 2002
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I would never do anything to a book, except maybe read it
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Join Date: Mar 2002
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Elven Warrior
Join Date: Feb 2002
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My brother does that to my books. I have an old set of Wheel of Time that he read. All of the pages are falling out.
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