the cosmolinguist ([personal profile] cosmolinguist) wrote in [personal profile] poliphilo 2005-10-26 06:36 am (UTC)

I read a lot of stuff when I was too young for it. My reading level was quite a bit ahead of my age, and I had no real experiences that didn't come from a book; I didn't understand a lot of what I read, and I retain only vague memories of it. I remember reading the Narnia books (most of them, at least) but I know I didn't get much out of them. I paged through one as a teenager, seeing it in the home of the kids I was babysitting, and it was just Christian symbolism and thus bored me.

I don't get to see movies these days. :-) But even if I did, I wouldn't want to see this one. Then, I saw the Lord of the Rings movies only as social events with my much-more-obsessed friends. (At least there's something I can get into there. In my Old English class, someone recognized a line from the poem we were translating as something a king says before a huge battle in the movie, so I went home to watch my roommate's copy of the movie and see that myself. I do like that Tolkien seems my kind of geek, just multiplied by a million.)

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