When did you first get your hands on Tolkien?

[Tears of the Siren]

Animated Lord of the Rings *shudder* gave me nightmares when I was little. That movie had a severe lack of pants.  

[Puddum]

Yeah, gotta give PJ props for adding pants into the mix. xd  

[The_Great_White_Snark]

I wish Mystery Science Theatre 3000 would have a go at The Lord of the Rings. Now that would be awesome. <3  

[Galad Aglaron]

I tried writing a Hobbit musical once, when I was twelve. I was going through my Shakespeare phase... I had trolls going off on long, heartbreaking soliloquies and dwarves singing their song in "An Unexpected Party" to the tune of Copacabana...  

[Tears of the Siren]

If they ever did make a Hobbit musical, I will be there opening night to see it. I mean, who doesn't want to know the inmost thoughts of a troll?  

[The_Great_White_Snark]

Galad Damodred

I tried writing a Hobbit musical once, when I was twelve. I was going through my Shakespeare phase... I had trolls going off on long, heartbreaking soliloquies and dwarves singing their song in "An Unexpected Party" to the tune of Copacabana...

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AHAHAHA.


I formally beg you to finish it. I too would be there opening night. razz  

[Puddum]

Galad Damodred

I tried writing a Hobbit musical once, when I was twelve. I was going through my Shakespeare phase... I had trolls going off on long, heartbreaking soliloquies and dwarves singing their song in "An Unexpected Party" to the tune of Copacabana...

Shakespeare when you were twelve? Ridiculous! So many smart youngsters in this guild!  

[Rudhe]

I reckon, I didn't even know who Shakespeare was until I was 12...  

[Freckled Firebird]

My mom read both the Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit to my sister and I when we were seven. Took a year to get through all of them, but by the end I was stealing the book and reading ahead, and creating a love that would last. (I have journals written in character, in my horrible 7-year-old handwriting as proof. biggrin ) I remember once getting my entire 2nd grade class to role-play Lord of the Rings with me, and getting all uppity at certain classmates' character choices. ("There are not magical unicorn-riding fairy princesses in Lord of the Rings! You have to be a real character...") *nerd*  

[Galad Aglaron]

Puddum

Galad Damodred

I tried writing a Hobbit musical once, when I was twelve. I was going through my Shakespeare phase... I had trolls going off on long, heartbreaking soliloquies and dwarves singing their song in "An Unexpected Party" to the tune of Copacabana...

Shakespeare when you were twelve? Ridiculous! So many smart youngsters in this guild!

Eurgh, I'm only thankful I've outgrown him. Hate his dialogue. He's good at storylines and plot twists, but his dialogue is yucky.

Guess what? Oscar Wilde and Virginia Woolf are my anti-drugs now. cool  

[Rudhe]

MMmm I suppose with Shakespeare its just out of our time....we're all for the in depth modern characters...

Although I do agree he is good with storylines and plot twists.

I found Wilde's work really intriguing. Not sure if I like it, but he is a genius. Don't think I've read any of Virginia Woolf's work.  

[Freckled Firebird]

::Galad Damodred - I just wanted to say I love your sig. XD

As for Shakespeare, my 4th & 5th grade class always put on a Shakespeare play, so I don't think I'll ever stop liking his plays. I'm a sentimentalist, I guess. Or just a sucker for double entendres, puns, and witty banter.  

[Tears of the Siren]

I love Shakespeare though. Admittedly there are parts that make me curl up in a ball and go into conniptions, but I still love it. I think The Tempest is my favorite, but the sonnets are really good as well.  

[Lawliet Riuzaki]

I started reading about early 3rd grade, My dad told me about them and got me a Tolkien Bio, LotR, and the Silmarillion for my birthday. When I heard about the movies I went insane! So every year for my dads birthday for the next years we went to On the Border Mexican resturaunt, Then to AMC Movies and saw the (in order, and not on the same day ((duh))) TFotR, TTT, and TRotK. And when I was around seven (Without knowing it was made by tolkien) I read The Hobbit! My dads co-worker had a bookshelf full of all of tolkiens works. He even had three of the origionall maps that Tolkien himself drew. His office had statues and figurenes of LotR. My Language Arts teacher is having us do a term paper on the Elizabethan Era, the time Shakespeare wrote those plays. I am planning on writing on the cullinary endevours of that era.  

[Galad Aglaron]

Tears of the Siren

I love Shakespeare though. Admittedly there are parts that make me curl up in a ball and go into conniptions, but I still love it. I think The Tempest is my favorite, but the sonnets are really good as well.

Okay, I'll admit that his sonnets are amazing. BLOODY BRILLIANT.

O me, what eyes hath Love put in my head,
Which have no correspondence with true sight!
Or, if they have, where is my judgment fled,
That censures falsely what they see aright?
If that be fair whereon my false eyes dote,
What means the world to say it is not so?
If it be not, then love doth well denote
Love's eye is not so true as all men's 'No.'
How can it? O, how can Love's eye be true,
That is so vex'd with watching and with tears?
No marvel then, though I mistake my view;
The sun itself sees not till heaven clears.
O cunning Love! with tears thou keep'st me blind,
Lest eyes well-seeing thy foul faults should find.

heart heart heart heart heart heart heart heart heart

Although, for poetry, I generally go to Tennyson and Gordon and Milton. Not that I like Milton that much, I just adore Paradise Lost.