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this contributor's biography sounds strangely familiar:
"After being dragged to see The Fellowship of the Ring back in 2001 with her dad, Myla fell head-over-hobbit-feet in love with Middle-earth. Myla is a self-proclaimed hobbit who would love nothing more than to be able to live peacefully in the Shire and go on the occasional adventure with Bilbo.She has a habit of becoming too attached to fictional characters and buying too many books. When she’s not in class or studying, Myla enjoys creating art whenever she can and collecting all things relating to Tolkien. She never gets tired of exploring everything there is concerning J. R. R. Tolkien’s world."
"After being dragged to see The Fellowship of the Ring back in 2001 with her dad, Myla fell head-over-hobbit-feet in love with Middle-earth. Myla is a self-proclaimed hobbit who would love nothing more than to be able to live peacefully in the Shire and go on the occasional adventure with Bilbo.She has a habit of becoming too attached to fictional characters and buying too many books. When she’s not in class or studying, Myla enjoys creating art whenever she can and collecting all things relating to Tolkien. She never gets tired of exploring everything there is concerning J. R. R. Tolkien’s world."
posted by melilotnfosco | 10:47 PM
12 Comments:
You guys should become friends!
You hadn't read LOTR until the movies came out?
nope. i had no interest in it, cuz i hated 'the hobbit' so much. nobody told me they were so different. but it was hobbitsister's hubby's turn to pick their movie for date night, and she begged me to come with her because she didn't want to be alone in her suffering. i decided that since i could tell this movie was going to be a big deal so i'd have to see it eventually, i'd rather see it on the big screen cuz it looked like a big screen movie. you should've seen how upset hobsis and i were when the movie didn't end and we realized we'd have to see the next one. while it had been fine, we didn't want to HAVE to see the next one. no one had told us it was one story, not a story with sequels. other than that, the only thing i remember saying as we came out of the theater was, 'i love sam.' obviously it grew on me, though, and i started reading the books after seeing TTT. i bought them (along with 'the hobbit') at a garage sale for a buck, sure that i wouldn't be able to finish a library copy of fotr in 3 weeks. i finished it in 3 days. and the rest, my dear, is history. :)
oh, and fotr is now my favorite of the movies, as it's the one that stays most true to the book.
did you change your name to myla?
Even without Tom Bombadil? (I'm sick and I don't feel like looking up spelling)
thank heaven there's no tom bombadil. i skip that part of the book.
no, i did not change my name to myla, though it is close to mel.
also, i can't art
I'm so glad you are not a Bombadil fan! I get bored by him myself, but everyone else seems so offended that he's not there...
I just don't feel like he fits (in addition to the fact that he annoys me). Tolkien himself said that Bombadil is not important to the narrative. I think he was trying too hard to fit all his writings together.
You mean Tom is in the other books as well? Good thing I haven't read them. :/ (No offense. Wish I could've read FotR in three days! It was way too hard for me...)
no, he's not in the other books. he's in a book of poetry Tolkien wrote.
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