Ten Years

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Ten years ago, it was a Wednesday. And my life changed forever.

I have SO MANY THOUGHTS, you guys. SO MANY. I may be back to say something profound later.




(In an amusing coincidence, Mark Reads starts Fellowship today. The list of "things he knows" is somewhat funnier than usual.)

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[eldanna.livejournal.com]

Is dying of the giggles.

If I could wish for one thing, I would be that I could read these books again as an innocent. I remember the wonder the first time (and the second and the third). I remember the awe of sitting in the theatre the first time for each movie. I want that again!

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I love re-reading them and thinking "HOW DID I MISS THAT?" or "HAHAHAHAHA: haunted castle in Scotland" or "EEEEEEEEEEEEEE!". ;)

I hope there are icons soon. I want one with him jumping over the fence.

[shadadukal]

LOTR certainly is an experience.

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An experience and MY WHOLE LIFE, sometimes. ;)

[sholio]

Mmm, LoTR ... my most vivid memory of it, actually, is from when I was about four, because my sister and I became acquainted with the books at a very early age - in the '70s, my mom read them to us as bedtime stories. And I still remember VERY vividly lying snuggled in bed with her and having her very earnestly explain that book 2 ends on a cliffhanger, but when she got there, she wasn't going to read any more tonight, because it was late and we had to sleep. And then she got there. And I'm all "....?!" and then "NEXT BOOK NOW PLZ! HOW CAN YOU LEAVE THEM THERE!" But no, she stuck to her guns and we had to go to bed, and I didn't get to find out how Frodo & Sam got out of Shelob's lair 'til the next night. *g* I am not sure why I remember that so well, when there must have been a whole lot of cliffhangers due to having the whole story serialized a couple of chapters at a time, but I really remember that one.

It was one of the first books I read when I learned how to read a year or two later, because I already knew the story.

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Dad read us the Hobbit when we were 4 and 6, and then I tackle LotR with I was 8. GOOD TIMES, and yes about the end of The Two Towers! I remember being QUITE SURPRISED.

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I cannot remember not knowing about Middle-Earth, and Gandalf, and Hobbits -- my mother reading my brother and I The Hobbit is one of my earliest memories. I first read The Lord of the Rings when I was 11 or 12, and I did have to stop for a bit (like, a day) after the bridge at Khazad-Dum because Gandalf was my very, very favorite character, and it wasn't until I peeked at the appendixes and knew how that came out that I dove back in & finished the set over the weekend.

Foundational books to my life, in many ways.

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OH, GOD, WHEN GANDALF DIED? I CAN'T EVEN. I was DEVASTATED as a kid. And I still cry every time in the movie. Just...yes.

(Mark Reads is going to FLIP OUT.)

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OMG it's been ten years!?!?! *feels old* It was the first and so far only time my mind has been completely blown away by a movie. In a way, that made The Two Towers feel a bit like a disappointment... I expected to be blown away twice.

And thanks for linking to Mark Reads. I've forgotten he was going to do LotR, and I've been stuck on the Mark Watches pages for a while now.

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I thought so too (which, for the record, is also how I feel about the Matrix), but FotR blew my mind with Moria/the Balrog, The Two Towers blew my mind with Helm's Deep (and Gandalf's charge), and then THE RIDE OF THE ROHIRRIM, OMG.

So basically, even though The Two Towers was COMPLETELY OPPOSITE OF THE BOOKS, I still love them all to distraction.

[smor.livejournal.com]

Wow... I cannot believe it's been 10 years. I remember just finishing up reading RotK for the first time, just in time for FotR to come out in theaters. I still wish so much that I'd read them earlier in my life, since I loved The Hobbit since I had to do it for summer reading assignments between 6th and 7th grade. But it really was a life-changing thing for me. *hugs Tolkien* And FotR really was a mind-blowing movie experience.

If I ever have kids of my own, I'm so reading these to them. All of them.

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I AM STEALING OTHER PEOPLE'S KIDS FOR THE SAME REASON! :)