Hello there
I just wanted to rant a bit about something that I didn't want to annoy everyone on Facebook with. I am a huge Lord of the Rings fan. I used to have larger than life posters of Legolas as a teenager and even a cardboard cut out. As I grew up though, I became enamored with the books and other works of J.R.R. Tolkien. As a fan of LotR and the Hobbit, you have to appreciate that Tolkien took his stories to another level. He made a world out of them! So if you've never read the Silmarillion I would get cracking right away! (My goodness that sounded British) It is an entire history on Middle Earth and the Gods and Goddesses who made it.
So anyway, back to my rant. I was watching the Return of the King on Christmas Eve with my husband and son. When it ended we got into a conversation about the Undying Lands and the ships that sail from Middle Earth. My husband, while a fan, has never read more than the LotR books and therefore has no knowledge of the history. He asked me why they can't just come back after they've sailed. It's a ship and an ocean, obviously there's a way back right? No...and I couldn't tell whether he was trying to wind me up or not because he knows how much of a nerd I can be when it comes to anything Tolkien related. I started explaining about the Ainu and Illuvatar and the fact that you don't die when you go there. Then he asked about the people that died in battle, which opened another huge can of worms. Finally I got so upset I shouted 'READ THE SILMARILLION I can't explain it to you! It'd be like explaining Christianity to you from the Bible!' I nearly threw the book at him. So my question is, have any of you ever loved a story so much that you couldn't help but feel overwhelmed with information? Did you ever want to share it with someone and they replied with a blank look?
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