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Why I love Tolkien...
Nov. 16th, 2009 08:05 pmHe wrote this...
Faerie is a perilous land, and in it are pitfalls for the unwary and dungeons for the overbold. And overbold I may be accounted, for though I have been a lover of fairy-stories since I learned to read, and have at times thought about them, I have not studied them professionally. I have been hardly more than a wandering explorer (or trespasser) in the land, full of wonder but not of information.
The realm of fairy-story is wide and deep and high and filled with many things: all manner of beasts and birds are found there; shoreless seas and stars uncounted; beauty that is an enchantment, and an ever-present peril; both joy and sorrow as sharp as swords. In that realm a man may, perhaps, count himself fortunate to have wandered, but its very richness and strangeness tie the tongue of a traveller who would report them. And while he is there it is dangerous for him to ask too many questions, lest the gates should be shut and the keys be lost.
in his essay On Fairy Stories. From this you can tell that he immersed himself in his world and travelled there often. I just love that he truly transported himself there and walked among the elves.
I am making this my current reading as I want to know more about JRR Tolkien and what he thought. This is just the beginning of it but it seems so interesting to me and I thought I would share.
I never doubt I am in the right fandom for me. I find endless wrinkles to it and consider myself a traveller too.
Faerie is a perilous land, and in it are pitfalls for the unwary and dungeons for the overbold. And overbold I may be accounted, for though I have been a lover of fairy-stories since I learned to read, and have at times thought about them, I have not studied them professionally. I have been hardly more than a wandering explorer (or trespasser) in the land, full of wonder but not of information.
The realm of fairy-story is wide and deep and high and filled with many things: all manner of beasts and birds are found there; shoreless seas and stars uncounted; beauty that is an enchantment, and an ever-present peril; both joy and sorrow as sharp as swords. In that realm a man may, perhaps, count himself fortunate to have wandered, but its very richness and strangeness tie the tongue of a traveller who would report them. And while he is there it is dangerous for him to ask too many questions, lest the gates should be shut and the keys be lost.
in his essay On Fairy Stories. From this you can tell that he immersed himself in his world and travelled there often. I just love that he truly transported himself there and walked among the elves.
I am making this my current reading as I want to know more about JRR Tolkien and what he thought. This is just the beginning of it but it seems so interesting to me and I thought I would share.
I never doubt I am in the right fandom for me. I find endless wrinkles to it and consider myself a traveller too.
