[bookshare-discuss] Re: My turn for recommendations

  • From: "A. J. Nolte" <a.j.nolte@xxxxxxxxx>
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  • Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 00:50:08 -0400

Oh man, wish I'd had a Brit Lit (as opposed to the more general and sadly consequently less British) world lit. Yup: I remember junior year being an unmitigated beast. Good preparation for college though. And if you're anything like I was, Braille paper won't be nearly as much of an issue in college as it was in high school. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Elfqueen" <elfqueen@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 

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*grins* Right...or The Fellowship of the Ringers, maybe. *grins*
High school,actually. One more year! This past year was pretty much a beast and a bummer (so the rumors about junior year that I kept hearing actually turned out true...), but next year I get to take British lit, and guess what one of the books is! The Hobbit! Technically I wouldn't even have to read that one, I know the story off by heart, but hey, who am I to turn down the excuse! Plus there are lots of other cool books on the list, too. ----- Original Message ----- From: "A. J. Nolte" <a.j.nolte@xxxxxxxxx> 
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Ah yes, that fellowship one feels toward other LOTR fans. I guess I might even call it a fellowship of the ring... 
<g>

You're in college I'm guessing?
----- Original Message ----- From: "Elfqueen" <elfqueen@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 
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*cheers* Oh yeah, definitely a culture, and definitely group loyalty! How often have you met someone, virtually or otherwise, and found out that they love LOTR as much as you do and felt this instantanious sort of fellowship with them?
I'm beginning my sixth or seventh read of the books (I lost count...) and I'm sooo excited to be jumping back into them! And I get to watch my annual LOTR movie marathon while I clean out the tons and tons and tons and tons of Braille papers from this previous school year. Oh, shoot, I have to start that tomorrow...I want to watch the movies, but I really do not want to clean all that stuff out! ----- Original Message ----- From: "A. J. Nolte" <a.j.nolte@xxxxxxxxx> 
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That true:
1. Language. Well, there are at least three for elves alone.
2. Shared experiences: reading LOTR, or having it read to us by our parents when we were kids, hoping against hope that they'd get around to making the movies, the mad rush to get a ticket as close to opening night as possible... 3. Shared customs: well, let's not get into dressing up to see the films shall we? 4. Common beliefs: that L?OTR is emphatically the best and most life-altering fantasy--and in some cases fiction--series ever written. 
5. Group loyalty...I'm gonna go with, yep, it's a culture. <g>
----- Original Message ----- From: "Elfqueen" <elfqueen@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 
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Ooo! I love that one! I have a really cool version of it, redone into the separate book units, and at the beginning and end of each book section, there's a little monologue in which Frodo talks about either the experiences themselves, or the writing of them. I love it.
LOTR culture...yes! Most definitely! *grins* We have all that you mention. ----- Original Message ----- From: "A. J. Nolte" <a.j.nolte@xxxxxxxxx> 
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Random aside: a friend of mine posted the entire thirteen-episode BBC radio version of Lord of the Rings for free download online. Absolutely fantastic stuff staring Ian Home as Frodo... Yes, I too am a hopeless Lord of the Rings geek. Hmm, I wonder if there's a Lord of the rings culture... <g> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Elfqueen" <elfqueen@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 
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*grins* I love analytical discussions...especially when randomness gets thrown in! Elfqueen. Well, I'm a big fan of The Lord of the Rings, and back when the movies first came out, I and a group of equally obsessed friends gave each other Lord of the Rings nicknames. I eventually ended up being Samwise Gamgee, the loyal Hobbit, which I loved (and still love, I must admit), but one of my friends started out saying I should be Galadriel, the elf-queen of the golden wood of Lothlorien, because, according to her, my facial expressions when I play the piano or am absorbed whole-heartedly in writing resemble what Galadriel looked like some of the time in the movie. I was about thirteen then, around the time I was getting well acquainted with the ways of computers, so when I made an e-mail account, "elfqueen" was the first thing that popped into my head. Even though it has virtually nothing to do with my personality and now has little enough to be tied to except my identity as a fanfiction writer, it has stuck. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rick Roderick" <rickrod@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
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Nicole,
Now, you have some very good points. I hadn't thought about all those other words. 

BTW, how did you come up with Elfqueen as your nickname?
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