Celebrate Tolkien Reading Day!

[Tolkien]

Celebrate Tolkien Reading Day by purchasing the newly released book Middle-earth Lore: Tolkien's Legends Revealed.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CV9D26V3

 

[pmmg]

Tolkien gets his own reading day? I want one of those...

 

[Incanus]

Well, I can see why 3/25 would be a Tolkien reading day.

For myself, I've been celebrating for the last month or two. I'd been kind of avoiding Tolkien while I developed my own work, because LotR is the first (adult) book I ever picked up and read. I think the amount of influence he has on me is about where it should be.

I've been re-reading the books containing the early drafts of LotR, and it is quite fascinating. I also picked up the Oxford Blackwell Companion to J.R.R. Tolkien--a book of 36 collected essays by language and literature scholars. Neat stuff--I'm about 2/3 through it.

As big a fan as I am, I don't want my works to be derivative of his. Other than they are both epic fantasies, that is.

 

[Tolkien]

Tolkien gets his own reading day? I want one of those...

Well next time you write a masterpiece like LOTR, perhaps you will!

 

[pmmg]

Working on it