by Meriadoc Brandybuck » Mon Apr 23, 2012 3:26 pm
Aisling of the Woods wrote:welcome, welcome! I'm glad you agreed to read it! now...you must read The Silmarillion, which I have not read but want to. It is necessary to understanding LotR, from what I hear.
Theoden wrote:Where now are the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing?
Where is the helm and the hauberk, and the bright hair flowing?
Where is the harp on the harpstring, and the red fire glowing?
Where is the spring and the harvest and the tall corn growing?
They have passed like rain on the mountain, like a wind in the meadow;
The days have gone down in the West behind the hills into shadow.
Who shall gather the smoke of the deadwood burning,
Or behold the flowing years from the Sea returning?
by TawnyDestrange » Mon Apr 23, 2012 4:41 pm
Aisling of the Woods wrote:welcome, welcome! I'm glad you agreed to read it! now...you must read The Silmarillion, which I have not read but want to. It is necessary to understanding LotR, from what I hear.
by Bilbo Baggins. » Tue Apr 24, 2012 12:04 am
Lady of the Rings wrote:Aisling of the Woods wrote:same here. I see the world differently than everybody else I know. I long ago gave up on trying to explain how I see things to people, because no one ever understands.
I know, right? I try to explain to people that LOTR isn't just about Orlando Bloom, but it has many themes and ideas and theories that go deeper than one might first see. The ideas behind the elves, Tolkien's perfect people, and their love for nature, the theories of nobility and the honor system and kinsmanship and going beyond expectations and finding deeper emotions and appreciation of what Tolkien created and how difficult it was and how much we can learn from it and, and, and this is also a very long run-on sentence so I shan't try to put my feelings into words. I can't quite describe exactly how I feel about it either, because it's just kind of the kind of thing that you either appreciate the tangible and intangible aspects of, or you don't.
by ☆ ★TARDIS » Tue Apr 24, 2012 1:40 am
by TawnyDestrange » Tue Apr 24, 2012 5:39 am
-|-||Stybba||-|- wrote:So many people think that Lotr is just about 'a ring that some midget throws into a volcano'. But it's so much more than that! I have have a friend who hates fantasy stories. She quit Narnia after the first paragraph, which was a sentence long because it started with one upon a time. *sigh*
My Dad and I have tried to convince her otherwise, without success.by Lunaestrella » Tue Apr 24, 2012 5:47 am
by Bilbo Baggins. » Tue Apr 24, 2012 11:25 am
by Meriadoc Brandybuck » Tue Apr 24, 2012 11:27 am
Theoden wrote:Where now are the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing?
Where is the helm and the hauberk, and the bright hair flowing?
Where is the harp on the harpstring, and the red fire glowing?
Where is the spring and the harvest and the tall corn growing?
They have passed like rain on the mountain, like a wind in the meadow;
The days have gone down in the West behind the hills into shadow.
Who shall gather the smoke of the deadwood burning,
Or behold the flowing years from the Sea returning?
by Crow Jane » Wed Apr 25, 2012 1:49 am
Daisaku Ikeda wrote:Living here on Earth,
we breathe the rhythms of a universe that extends infinitely above us.
When resonant harmonies arise between this vast outer cosmos and the inner human cosmos,
poetry is born.
by Lunaestrella » Wed Apr 25, 2012 6:59 am
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