Hols..
Tuesday, May 31st, 2005Holidays are getting very very boring… So far, I’ve done nothing except study, sleep, watch TV, online, read books, eat and waste time. Mostly, wasting time. The only interesting company I’ve had lately compile of elves, dwarves, kings, wizards and hobbits. (Well, that is excluding the short breaks I’ve had in church, those bits were interesting.) After reading Tolkien, I am starting to despair at my own sparse vocabulary.. He is such a genius, to come up with maps, languages and whole histories. I believe that his family must have felt neglected in comparison to his writings. I think he lived his life more in Middle-earth than Planet earth. He must have spent all his waking hours dreaming, planning and plotting. He has tremendous imagination, I truly admire him. Neway, Im rambling.
But did you know that he was friends with C.S Lewis? Good friends even. And even the great Tolkien worried over book sales when he saw how succesful his friend’s Chronicles of Narnia was. Wow. These 2 authors have my respect. But C.S Lewis catered for a different audience, on hindsight. His books were much easier to understand, written for children. Tolkien, on the other hand, was for a much more matured audience, adults/teens who were young at heart. But strangely, LoTR feels real, it doen’t feel mythical or magical. Its more grounded on reality. Definitely much more than Harry Potter Enid Blyton and whatnot.
Haha, hope I’m not being a bore. All book and no play will make Liz a dull girl. Farewell.