ext_3181 ([identity profile] tcpip.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] delphipsmith 2014-12-20 08:39 am (UTC)

"In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit..."

And so it begins... :)

It's been so many years since I've read Tolkien. I was quite dotty about it all as a teenager. Something that really stuck with me was The Fall of Fingolfin, which for all the difficulties of The Silmarillion, I considered to be one of the best passages in English literature.

How wonderful it was to discover many years later that I was not alone in this opinion, and now I see fanfiction retelling of the story all of the place.

"Other hands and other minds" as the old professor said.


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