Google| Subject | Reading LotR and the newsgroups (was Re: Don't aspire to succeed - that right belongs to America alo |
| From | Christopher Kreuzer |
| Date | 08/14/2004 10:50 (08/14/2004 10:50) |
| Message-ID | <dnkTc.2$df3.385221@news-text.cableinet.net> |
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| Newsgroups | alt.fan.tolkien |
| Follows | John Swanson |
| Followups | John Swanson (2h & 50m) > Christopher Kreuzer ?jevind L?ng (6h & 41m) |
John Swanson <nospam@nospam.com>wrote:
How so? I realise that not everyone likes LotR to the same degree, but how do these newsgroups reveal your memories (in your opinion) to be false? Surely your re-readings would do that, not the newsgroups?John Swanson
And I re-read LOTR now and then, but with less enthusiasm. Reading these newsgroups has also been a thorough remedy against the faint reminiscences of literary magic in Tolkien's work....
That makes a lot of sense. The 'trying to understand the fascination' bit, not the 'curing' bit. This is probably the wrong place to get 'cured' of Tolkien! Unless you really feel that these newsgroups helps get it out of your system? But I still don't quite get what you mean.So I guess my presence in aft/rabt is a combination of curing myself of a long-lasting fascination with Tolkien, of trying to understand this fascination (with the help of others)
That's very true.now that it is gone, and of simply feeling at home here because we share a common ground.
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Well, at least I enjoy my occasional, compulsory re-readings... but that's rather because in every page I can (elusively) remember some thrill or sensation I experienced during my first reading, or my fourth, or my eleventh. Or the first couple of times I read it in English. So I read the books in some random order and reflect on memories...My experience rather is of finding _new_ things with each re-reading that I hadn't noticed before. Maybe I haven't read it enough times yet... Seriously, I would hope that the magic of reading certain passages would never fade or grow stale, but I have noticed my preference for certain passages changing over the years. What I think other people have said is that as their lives change with time, so their experience of re-reading LotR is informed by this and hence is a different experience from the readings of their youth.
I wonder how many people feel like you, and 'grow out' of LotR? (If I may use such a phrase to describe your experiences of re-reading). Probably not too many like that around here...
Christopher
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