What do you love about Tolkien's books

Elvengirl · 03-06-2003, 06:44 PM

What exactly is it about Tolkien's books that you all love so much, that you'll read them several times and spend hours discussing them.

I have my reasons, but I'm curious about yours?

***IronParrot*** · 03-06-2003, 07:40 PM

Hi,

I'm going to move this to one of the Tolkien-specific forums so it's not buried in all the discussion here.

Elvengirl · 03-06-2003, 07:48 PM

Sorry, I wasn't sure which forum it would belong in.

Spock · 03-07-2003, 08:18 AM

I love the use of words. The ability transfered to paper to involve your imagination to such a degree that you feel you're along with the Fellowship, or Bilbo or whomever, when you read their part of the story. It all comes to life in vivid scenes and all in your mind as clear as a memory of childhood.

Linaewen · 03-07-2003, 08:55 AM

That's what i was going to say, Spock!
I love his the language especially, and the world he so masterfully created is so wonderful
*sigh*

Thorunn · 03-07-2003, 09:03 AM

I coldnt agree more it is a wonderfull thing to enter this world

Elvengirl · 03-07-2003, 09:25 AM

I agree, I am fascinated with the fact that Tolkien spent so much of his life writting about Middle Earth and all the races and languages. Almost as if he were writting down a history of a time period that already existed.
One can just pick up a book and be pulled into this world that seems to exist.

Spock · 03-07-2003, 11:29 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Linaewen
That's what i was going to say, Spock!
I love his the language especially, and the world he so masterfully created is so wonderful
*sigh*

It's a joy to find another who thinks this way. Now each of our continents have one person who can tell them what it's all about.

Spock · 03-07-2003, 11:32 AM

OH someone from the land of the "rotted sharks" treat. I became an honorary Icelander years ago at such a ceremony in Reykjavik. Truth be known, I only enjoyed the vodka part.

Blackboar · 03-07-2003, 01:07 PM

His commitment to the books, the language and descriptions gripped me. The lands he transformed into his own world of mythology, and the creatures.
I loved reading how he used Beowulf as his main resource of information, as well as idea's fron King Arthur and Atlantis.
I loved the way he wrote it, not having a person like Aragorn to bear the ring, but someone more weak, so it was more of a challenge, I loved letters and seeing about the whole story.
I loved the range of mountains, to hills, and marsh's and cities.

I love it all!

markedel · 03-07-2003, 03:10 PM

I'd say unparallelled world-building. The mythology he built has depth and staying power. That is what kept me, over and above the story itself.

#1GaMGeeGuRL · 03-07-2003, 03:58 PM

I agree with Spock and Linaewen. I mean while you're reading the books its like you're transferred into that world completely. After reading them you think about the events you just read about and what you would do in that situation and such. I could go on and on but its like its really happening you know? And NO I'm not mental. I think...dunno, haven't checked recently and a little afraid to

Gwaimir Windgem · 03-07-2003, 06:24 PM

In a word:

Perfection.

***Rían*** · 03-07-2003, 08:57 PM

In another word:

Beauty!

Gwaimir Windgem · 03-07-2003, 09:42 PM

Yeah, that's a good word too.

***azalea*** · 03-07-2003, 11:18 PM

His works are written so vividly and with such depth, and the world and it's characters he has created are so appealing that it actually makes me sad that I can't go meet Bilbo or Sam, walk around Hobbiton, explore the Shire, take a trip to Rivendell, Lothlorien, etc.

Linaewen · 03-08-2003, 06:40 AM

i agree entirely
im so depressed. I love nature's beauty ( the only human buildings i think are beautiful are the really old ones, like the ones in Greece and Italy i.e. Colosseum etc)
So its really sad that one can't be in some place like Rivendell or Lothlorien. I think i would stand there and gaze for hours. I swear i would. I've done that before here on earth, and that's probably not as beautiful or breathtaking as ME.

Ithilwin · 03-08-2003, 01:29 PM

I really love the way he uses language,it's so...poetic.And the way he describes everything.It's perfect!

Ithilwin · 03-08-2003, 01:31 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Gwaimir Windgem
In a word:

Perfection

exactly that

#1GaMGeeGuRL · 03-08-2003, 02:21 PM

The poetry in it is awesome too.

03-06-2003, 07:40 PM	#2
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03-07-2003, 08:18 AM	#4
Spock An enigma in a conundrum Join Date: Oct 1999 Posts: 6,476	ducking under the repositioning phase I love the use of words. The ability transfered to paper to involve your imagination to such a degree that you feel you're along with the Fellowship, or Bilbo or whomever, when you read their part of the story. It all comes to life in vivid scenes and all in your mind as clear as a memory of childhood. __________________ Vizzini: "HE DIDN'T FALL?! INCONCEIVABLE!!" Inigo: "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

03-07-2003, 11:32 AM	#9
Spock An enigma in a conundrum Join Date: Oct 1999 Posts: 6,476	OH someone from the land of the "rotted sharks" treat. I became an honorary Icelander years ago at such a ceremony in Reykjavik. Truth be known, I only enjoyed the vodka part. __________________ Vizzini: "HE DIDN'T FALL?! INCONCEIVABLE!!" Inigo: "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

03-07-2003, 03:10 PM	#11
markedel 'Sober' Mullet Frosh Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Queen's Posts: 1,245	I'd say unparallelled world-building. The mythology he built has depth and staying power. That is what kept me, over and above the story itself. __________________ "Earnur was a man like his father in valour, but not in wisdom"

03-07-2003, 03:58 PM	#12
#1GaMGeeGuRL Enting Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: #3 Bagshot Row, Hobbiton, The Shire Posts: 71	I agree with Spock and Linaewen. I mean while you're reading the books its like you're transferred into that world completely. After reading them you think about the events you just read about and what you would do in that situation and such. I could go on and on but its like its really happening you know? And NO I'm not mental. I think...dunno, haven't checked recently and a little afraid to __________________ "When life gives you lemons, clone them and make SUPER LEMONS!!!!!" ~Professor Scudworth LONG LIVE THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE WEE SCARVIES! you'll have to excuse me, i'm not at my best i've been gone for a month i've been drunk since i left there so-called vacations will soon be my death i'm so sick from teh drink i need home for a rest we arrived in december and london was cold so we stayed in thebars along charing cross road we never saw nothin' but brass taps and oak kept a shine on the bar with the sleeves of our coats -chorus- euston station the train journey north in the buffet car we lurched back and forth past odd crooked dykes through yorkshire's green fields we were flung into dance as the train jigged and reeled you'll have to excuse me, i'm not at my best i've been gone for a month i've been drunk since i left there so-called vacations will soon be my death i'm so sick from teh drink i need home for a rest take me home.... by the light of the moon she'd drift through the streets a rare old perfume so seductive and sweet she'd tease us and flirt as the pubs all closed down then walk us on home and deny us a round -chorus- the gas heater's empty, it's damp as a tomb and the spirits we drank are not ghosts in the room i'm knackered again, come on sleep take me soon and don't lift up my head 'till the the twelve bells at noon you'll have to excuse me, i'm not at my best i've been gone for a month i've been drunk since i left there so-called vacations will soon be my death i'm so sick from teh drink i need home for a rest take me home....

03-06-2003, 06:44 PM	#1
Elvengirl Mirthful Maiden Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Rivendell Posts: 1,252	What do you love about Tolkien's books What exactly is it about Tolkien's books that you all love so much, that you'll read them several times and spend hours discussing them. I have my reasons, but I'm curious about yours?

03-06-2003, 07:48 PM	#3
Elvengirl Mirthful Maiden Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Rivendell Posts: 1,252	Sorry, I wasn't sure which forum it would belong in.

03-07-2003, 08:55 AM	#5
Linaewen Fair Dinkum Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Houston, TX Posts: 2,319	That's what i was going to say, Spock! I love his the language especially, and the world he so masterfully created is so wonderful sigh

03-07-2003, 09:03 AM	#6
Thorunn Hobbit Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Iceland Posts: 15	I coldnt agree more it is a wonderfull thing to enter this world

03-07-2003, 09:25 AM	#7
Elvengirl Mirthful Maiden Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Rivendell Posts: 1,252	I agree, I am fascinated with the fact that Tolkien spent so much of his life writting about Middle Earth and all the races and languages. Almost as if he were writting down a history of a time period that already existed. One can just pick up a book and be pulled into this world that seems to exist.

03-07-2003, 01:07 PM	#10
Blackboar Legolas's beloved sister and Queen of the Wood Elves of Mirkwood Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Under the hill at Bag-end, Hobbiton the Shire Or Rivendell,I can't remember!!!!!!!!!! Posts: 1,086	His commitment to the books, the language and descriptions gripped me. The lands he transformed into his own world of mythology, and the creatures. I loved reading how he used Beowulf as his main resource of information, as well as idea's fron King Arthur and Atlantis. I loved the way he wrote it, not having a person like Aragorn to bear the ring, but someone more weak, so it was more of a challenge, I loved letters and seeing about the whole story. I loved the range of mountains, to hills, and marsh's and cities. I love it all!

03-07-2003, 06:24 PM	#13
Gwaimir Windgem Dread Mothy Lord and Halfwitted Apprentice Loremaster Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Thomas Aquinas College, Santa Paula, CA Posts: 10,820	In a word: Perfection. __________________ Crux fidelis, inter omnes arbor una nobilis. Nulla talem silva profert, fronde, flore, germine. Dulce lignum, dulce clavo, dulce pondus sustinens. 'With a melon?' - Eric Idle

03-07-2003, 08:57 PM	#14
*Rían* Half-Elven Princess of Rabbit Trails and Harp-Wielding Administrator (beware the Rubber Chicken of Doom!) Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Not where I want to be ... Posts: 15,254	In another word: Beauty! __________________ . I should be doing the laundry, but this is MUCH more fun! Ñá ë?* óú éä ïöü Öñ É Þ ð ß ® ç å ™ æ ♪ ?* "How lovely are Thy dwelling places, O Lord of hosts! ... For a day in Thy courts is better than a thousand outside." (from Psalm 84) * * * God rocks! Entmoot : Veni, vidi, velcro - I came, I saw, I got hooked! Ego numquam pronunciare mendacium, sed ego sum homo indomitus! Run the earth and watch the sky ... Auta i lómë! Aurë entuluva!

03-07-2003, 09:42 PM	#15
Gwaimir Windgem Dread Mothy Lord and Halfwitted Apprentice Loremaster Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Thomas Aquinas College, Santa Paula, CA Posts: 10,820	Yeah, that's a good word too. __________________ Crux fidelis, inter omnes arbor una nobilis. Nulla talem silva profert, fronde, flore, germine. Dulce lignum, dulce clavo, dulce pondus sustinens. 'With a melon?' - Eric Idle

03-07-2003, 11:18 PM	#16
*azalea* Long lost mooter Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Florida Posts: 3,342	His works are written so vividly and with such depth, and the world and it's characters he has created are so appealing that it actually makes me sad that I can't go meet Bilbo or Sam, walk around Hobbiton, explore the Shire, take a trip to Rivendell, Lothlorien, etc.

03-08-2003, 06:40 AM	#17
Linaewen Fair Dinkum Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Houston, TX Posts: 2,319	i agree entirely im so depressed. I love nature's beauty ( the only human buildings i think are beautiful are the really old ones, like the ones in Greece and Italy i.e. Colosseum etc) So its really sad that one can't be in some place like Rivendell or Lothlorien. I think i would stand there and gaze for hours. I swear i would. I've done that before here on earth, and that's probably not as beautiful or breathtaking as ME.

03-08-2003, 01:29 PM	#18
Ithilwin Elven Warrior Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Imladris Posts: 332	I really love the way he uses language,it's so...poetic.And the way he describes everything.It's perfect! __________________ ~[color=sky blue]*[/color]~ ...White was her garment and it had no ornament, save a silver girdle, but above her brow her forehead was adorned with a slender silver lace, and small gems were on it, glittering white, yet her hair was dark as the evening and her eyes were bright as the starlit heaven; queenly she looked and she shone as a white star in the sunlight.

03-08-2003, 02:21 PM	#20
#1GaMGeeGuRL Enting Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: #3 Bagshot Row, Hobbiton, The Shire Posts: 71	The poetry in it is awesome too. __________________ "When life gives you lemons, clone them and make SUPER LEMONS!!!!!" ~Professor Scudworth LONG LIVE THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE WEE SCARVIES! you'll have to excuse me, i'm not at my best i've been gone for a month i've been drunk since i left there so-called vacations will soon be my death i'm so sick from teh drink i need home for a rest we arrived in december and london was cold so we stayed in thebars along charing cross road we never saw nothin' but brass taps and oak kept a shine on the bar with the sleeves of our coats -chorus- euston station the train journey north in the buffet car we lurched back and forth past odd crooked dykes through yorkshire's green fields we were flung into dance as the train jigged and reeled you'll have to excuse me, i'm not at my best i've been gone for a month i've been drunk since i left there so-called vacations will soon be my death i'm so sick from teh drink i need home for a rest take me home.... by the light of the moon she'd drift through the streets a rare old perfume so seductive and sweet she'd tease us and flirt as the pubs all closed down then walk us on home and deny us a round -chorus- the gas heater's empty, it's damp as a tomb and the spirits we drank are not ghosts in the room i'm knackered again, come on sleep take me soon and don't lift up my head 'till the the twelve bells at noon you'll have to excuse me, i'm not at my best i've been gone for a month i've been drunk since i left there so-called vacations will soon be my death i'm so sick from teh drink i need home for a rest take me home....

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