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How do you actually describe the book you both love more than any other, and also consider the best book ever written from a more or less objective point of view? I assume that the mysticism, nerdgasms, and glorification around Tolkiens´ work and its immense impact make it (subjectively for me too, not even mentioning the nostalgic touch) one of the most fertile cornerstones of the maybe biggest popular fictional genre. Of course, his inspiration came from the millennia of storytelling that formed the works he took for his reinterpretations, so any aspiring fantasy author could see her/himself as an ancestor of a tradition to not just pass the stories themselves. He was a philologue, meaning that he studies in-depth the origins of the English language and chaired the Philology Department at Oxford for decades.
The interrelations between all the invented names and languages make Middle-Earth feel real, in a way no other fantasy world ever has. But every once in a while, he had to go back to this huge brick to remember that there existed something even better. The Daemon of Self-Pity, though, had begun to DEVOUR me, spitting out tiny bone fragments at the everyday world.
It’s a feel-good piece that you can immerse yourself within and decide yourself what is happening through the open door. The quest is extremely long, and it kept reiterating the fact that they are taking on a quest that might not be successful. Too many different psychological, sociological, etc implications to name them all, but poor Smeagols' quest towards looking freaking emo zombie style could easily be seen as the decision between happiness and sadness, the seductive potential of power, or simply the easygoing simplicity of evil. Sure it was respected and loved by those who knew it, but knowing it was not a foregone conclusion as it is today, and its audience was almost completely genre oriented.
The Atlas of Middle-Earth has been my favorite supplemental work for longer than some of you have been alive! Tolkien’s most popular works, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings are set in Middle-earth, an imagined world with strangely familiar settings inhabited by ancient and extraordinary peoples. Not giving excuses for what they do, but making them feel more human/inhuman if they´re fantasy creatures (bad wordplay), and their actions comprehensible and not just evil. I am so very grateful to have been given the chance to come along on the journey of the Fellowship of the Ring.It could also be seen as the perverting energy of power, with the good old saying that total perversion totally corrupts, that good people get nasty as soon as they get money, influence, or a fancy invisible mindpenetrating bling bling, that would also be a fantastic bluetooth fingerset to always stay in touch with your evil overlord. I finally moved out of my parents’ house this past summer, but I still spent the High Holidays with them, including Rosh Hashanah, a two day holiday, which I did not bring enough books for.
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