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Jan. 19th, 2008 01:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sebastienneI've just finished re-reading the Lord of the Rings trilogy.
These are books that I loved, and read repeatedly, between the ages of 12 and 15, when the films came out. And the films ruined the books for me: I couldn't read them then. (Repeated failures to get through the Silmarillion at this time probably didn't help.) I have been consciously avoiding the films, the fandom, even still images, for upwards of two years. And, finally, just before Christmas, I found that my mental palette was clean enough that I could try them again.
And oh, oh, how much I love them.
Even if I was still driven to go and listen to Annie Lennox singing "Into the West" on a loop for an hour or so when I was done.
I've posted this before - perhaps many times? - but if there's one person here who has not seen it then I'm afraid it bears repeating.
When all was at last ready Frodo said: "When are you going to move in a join me, Sam?"
Sam looked a bit awkward.
"There is no need to come yet, if you don't want to," said Frodo. "But you know the Gaffer is close at hand, and he will be very well looked after by Widow Rumble."
"It's not that, Mr. Frodo," said Sam, and he went very red.
"Well, what is it?"
"It's Rosie, Rose Cotton," said Sam.
~p369
....
"I wish I could go all the way with you to Rivendell, Mr. Frodo, and see Mr. Bilbo," said Sam. "And yet the only place I really want to be in is here. I am that torn in two."
"Poor Sam! It will feel like that, I am afraid," said Frodo. "But you will be healed. You were meant to be solid and whole, and you will be."
~p372
....
1421 Frodo and Bilbo depart over the sea with the Three Keepers. Samwise returns to Bag End.
1427 Samwise is elected Mayor of the Shire.
1469 Master Samwise becomes Mayor for the seventh and last time, being in 1476, at the end of his office, ninety-six years old.
1482 Death of Mistress Rose, wife of Master Samwise, on Mid-year's Day. On September 22 Master Samwise rides out from Bag End. He comes to the Tower Hills, and is last seen by Elanor, to whom he gives the Red Book afterwards kept by the Fairbairns. Among them the tradition is handed down from Elanor that Samwise passed the towers, and went to the Grey Havens, and passed over the Sea, last of the Ring-bearers.
~Appendix B
Now, I think, I am ready to watch the films again...
These are books that I loved, and read repeatedly, between the ages of 12 and 15, when the films came out. And the films ruined the books for me: I couldn't read them then. (Repeated failures to get through the Silmarillion at this time probably didn't help.) I have been consciously avoiding the films, the fandom, even still images, for upwards of two years. And, finally, just before Christmas, I found that my mental palette was clean enough that I could try them again.
And oh, oh, how much I love them.
Even if I was still driven to go and listen to Annie Lennox singing "Into the West" on a loop for an hour or so when I was done.
I've posted this before - perhaps many times? - but if there's one person here who has not seen it then I'm afraid it bears repeating.
When all was at last ready Frodo said: "When are you going to move in a join me, Sam?"
Sam looked a bit awkward.
"There is no need to come yet, if you don't want to," said Frodo. "But you know the Gaffer is close at hand, and he will be very well looked after by Widow Rumble."
"It's not that, Mr. Frodo," said Sam, and he went very red.
"Well, what is it?"
"It's Rosie, Rose Cotton," said Sam.
~p369
....
"I wish I could go all the way with you to Rivendell, Mr. Frodo, and see Mr. Bilbo," said Sam. "And yet the only place I really want to be in is here. I am that torn in two."
"Poor Sam! It will feel like that, I am afraid," said Frodo. "But you will be healed. You were meant to be solid and whole, and you will be."
~p372
....
1421 Frodo and Bilbo depart over the sea with the Three Keepers. Samwise returns to Bag End.
1427 Samwise is elected Mayor of the Shire.
1469 Master Samwise becomes Mayor for the seventh and last time, being in 1476, at the end of his office, ninety-six years old.
1482 Death of Mistress Rose, wife of Master Samwise, on Mid-year's Day. On September 22 Master Samwise rides out from Bag End. He comes to the Tower Hills, and is last seen by Elanor, to whom he gives the Red Book afterwards kept by the Fairbairns. Among them the tradition is handed down from Elanor that Samwise passed the towers, and went to the Grey Havens, and passed over the Sea, last of the Ring-bearers.
~Appendix B
Now, I think, I am ready to watch the films again...
