[06.04.23]

[facethestrange]

➽ I'm sort-of-re-reading Lord of the Rings, I'm probably not going to get far because 'officially' I'm reading other books, but who knows. :D I only ever fully read it once, in early 2004, and it was exactly the thing that I needed at that point - if not the content, then simply the three long-ass books that I could just keep reading when my brain was not cooperating. So the first word that comes to my mind when I think about the LOTR books is 'soothing', even if I remember relatively little from them anymore. ♡

➽ My Yellowjackets rec month at fanart_recs is now finished, here are all my entries. ♡ And in April I'm doing The Wilds. :D

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[senmut]

I was assigned The Hobbit in ninth grade, and flung it to the side after five chapters. I just couldn't deal with it at that point in my life. By the end of that year, I had actually tackled the LotR trilogy, made it through them once, and never gave the property another thought until the Peter Jackson movies.

Hysterically, I had read enough fantasy that I barely passed the test on it, despite the wide divergence from the one canon for it I had seen.

(In my Defense re: The Hobbit, I LOVED the Rankin-Bass late 70s adaptation and the book wasn't living up to that.)

Hilariously, because I was not GROUNDED in Tolkien properly, I read The Sword of Shannara without realizing how much of a pastiche of LotR it actually was. Fortunately, the next two books in the story, despite falling the quest idea, are different enough that I can still revisit the series from time to time.

[tellshannon815]

It was around that time when I read the books as well, that was in my final year at St Andrews. My grandad had seen about five minutes of my cousin's The Two Towers DVD, and had heard the character Gollum's name as Golluph and continued to insist that was his name for ages afterwards. So when I'd taken the book with me to his house over spring break, I found out after leaving that he'd actually changed one of the Gollums to Golluph in the book. Mum wasn't happy because it was her old book.