Today I will tell you all the story that I saved for another day; which will be today.
When I was young, and ignorant to say in the least, the second LotR movie and the third LotR movies came out. At each of these events my dad would re-read each book, that is just how it was.
Me, being well... me, thought that the books came out right before the movies did and that the author was still alive, haha funny right? Well I was wrong. The books came out way before the movies ever did and my dad was just re-reading them for the sake of doing just that. So, little 9 year old me thought that the books were newly published and that Tolkien was still alive. Well, all I can say is that I was wrong. I do wish that Tolkien were still alive and well though. There is so much that we could all learn from him, even if it is just spending a few minutes in his presence or perhaps a whole day.
These books seem to have taken over my life. I read Lord of the Rings every evening after I come home from school and then I am much too tired to read anything else. It is just so much detail and prose to take in all at one time. There are so many other books that I want to read at the same time and I just do not have the availability to do so! On the bus ride up to Northern Illinois University I did get some of Sherlock Holmes read. I started reading A Study in Scarlet, which is actually pretty good. I watched the BBC show Sherlock before I started to read the published story and I must say that the BBC did a fantastic job of creating the Sherlock Holmes that lived in my head for the past three years.
Tonight I will be taking a break from LotR for about two hours and I will be seeing The Shadow of the Raven at the Chillicothe library. It is a one man play put on by a man who portrays Edgar Allan Poe. I am so excited about this and I will probably post about Edgar Allan Poe later on this week. I have nothing bad to say about Edgar Allan Poe, well um, maybe one or two bad things, but the good things outweigh the bad.
I leave you today with this blog post and I hope you have as fantastic of a day as I do.
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