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dreamflowerWell, March is upon us once more. And you know what that means, right?
"Miss the golden days of the Lord of the Rings fandom? Get homesick for Middle-Earth?
Then this is for you!
You don't need to sign up anywhere to participate. But if you see this on your friends-page and like the idea, please post this text to your LJ to spread the word.
How to participate:
1. Pick a day of the week (or more than one) on which you resolve to always post something LotR-related in March, and let your friends-list know.
2. Go back and read your favourite chapters from the book, or watch the movies again. Let the beauty of LotR inspire you. And then, share the love.
3. Start your subject line with (B2MEM) when you post, and use a "b2mem" tag. This'll make it easy to spot your B2MEM-entries.
No matter if you just ramble about your undying love for LotR, picspam us, post wallpapers, icons, or write fan fic / create fan art, the plan is to get as many LotR-related entries on our friends-pages as possible throughout March.
Sounds good? We've been there, let's go back again!"
I am going to try two days a week: Tuesday and Thursday. And my contribution will be quotations from some of my favorite books *about* Middle-earth and JRRT!
The first one is from The Battle for Middle-earth: Tolkien's Divine Design in The Lord of the Rings by Fleming Rutledge, and is taken from her chapter on The Hobbit
"The Hobbit is a prelude to The Lord of the Rings. It introduces several important characters and describes events that are crucial for understanding the larger work. More to the point, a few of Tolkien's most powerful themes make their first tentative appearance in this earlier volume. We will understand them better if we begin here. At the same time, however, I call the reader's attention to the curious fact that the transcendent dimension so very present in The Lord of the Rings is largely missing from the introductory book, The Hobbit. That is one of several reasons for beginning with it, so that one can see the huge leap that Tolkien makes when he enters upon the tale of the War of the Ring.
Tolkien has told us that he was not entirely conscious of his own subtext when he was writing The Lord of the Rings. He says that it was "in the revision" of the Ring epic that he began fully to realize what he had been doing. As is so often the case with the writers, the work took on and independent life as it progressed, so that it spoke back to its author. Many writers have testified to the surprising autonomy of their work, but Tolkien, looking back later, was explicit; he acknowledged the hand of God in the Ring saga by referring to "the Writer of the Story", "the Great Author" and "the supreme Artist"...
When Tolkien was writing The Hobbit, therefore, he was as yet only dimly aware of the great structure that was to come into being around his early conception."
"Miss the golden days of the Lord of the Rings fandom? Get homesick for Middle-Earth?
Then this is for you!
You don't need to sign up anywhere to participate. But if you see this on your friends-page and like the idea, please post this text to your LJ to spread the word.
How to participate:
1. Pick a day of the week (or more than one) on which you resolve to always post something LotR-related in March, and let your friends-list know.
2. Go back and read your favourite chapters from the book, or watch the movies again. Let the beauty of LotR inspire you. And then, share the love.
3. Start your subject line with (B2MEM) when you post, and use a "b2mem" tag. This'll make it easy to spot your B2MEM-entries.
No matter if you just ramble about your undying love for LotR, picspam us, post wallpapers, icons, or write fan fic / create fan art, the plan is to get as many LotR-related entries on our friends-pages as possible throughout March.
Sounds good? We've been there, let's go back again!"
I am going to try two days a week: Tuesday and Thursday. And my contribution will be quotations from some of my favorite books *about* Middle-earth and JRRT!
The first one is from The Battle for Middle-earth: Tolkien's Divine Design in The Lord of the Rings by Fleming Rutledge, and is taken from her chapter on The Hobbit
"The Hobbit is a prelude to The Lord of the Rings. It introduces several important characters and describes events that are crucial for understanding the larger work. More to the point, a few of Tolkien's most powerful themes make their first tentative appearance in this earlier volume. We will understand them better if we begin here. At the same time, however, I call the reader's attention to the curious fact that the transcendent dimension so very present in The Lord of the Rings is largely missing from the introductory book, The Hobbit. That is one of several reasons for beginning with it, so that one can see the huge leap that Tolkien makes when he enters upon the tale of the War of the Ring.
Tolkien has told us that he was not entirely conscious of his own subtext when he was writing The Lord of the Rings. He says that it was "in the revision" of the Ring epic that he began fully to realize what he had been doing. As is so often the case with the writers, the work took on and independent life as it progressed, so that it spoke back to its author. Many writers have testified to the surprising autonomy of their work, but Tolkien, looking back later, was explicit; he acknowledged the hand of God in the Ring saga by referring to "the Writer of the Story", "the Great Author" and "the supreme Artist"...
When Tolkien was writing The Hobbit, therefore, he was as yet only dimly aware of the great structure that was to come into being around his early conception."