i need some help....

[Tolkienwork]

Hi..
Im doing a peoject about tolkien and need your help:

please tell me how tolkien and his works influenced you as a person and as a reader..
if you could please send me the answers to my e-mail sum42@hotmail.co.il
thanx a lot

[Jesse]

Question: Why not just post our answers here on the board? It'd be WAY easier becuase people don't like to keep logging into their inbox to send emails. It gets frustraiting after awhile.

[YayGollum]

I guess it changed my life in that it started it. If it weren't for LOTR and all that, my mom and evil father would never have getten together. It's just a good thing that they kept trying to find other things they had in common in time for me to show up. :D

[legolasismine]

Not really,but now I act like I lived in middle earth,does that count?

[Galdor]

Yep, it got me interested in fantisy, I've spent tons of time reading Tolkien's works, and works on Tolkien's works.....:rolleyes: And I came here, got into RPing, met a bunch of people, etc.

[Kellivara]

I was about to say that it was just a really good book, but then I thought of something, I met Dragonblade on a Tolkien site, and she's like a sister to me, the best of friends! And she found this site, and showed it to me, and we've both met some really cool people here^_^ also the best of friends! so yea, I guess tolkien DID change my life, and think about cases like Wonks n Snags for instance. I wonder what Tolkien would say if he knew he would influence people's lives like that....

[FoolOfATook]

Now that is an interesting question. I suppose that Tolkien probably had some subtle or subconcious influence on my decision to become an English Major, which I guess was a fairly important decision in my life, but when I consider the fact that most of my talents lie in the field that I chose, it seems likely to me that I would probably have decided to pursue a major without hope of future employment regardless of our favorite philologist. I've certainly made some friends because of Tolkien, but I simply can't honestly describe any of the resulting friendships as truly life-changing.

However, now that I re-read the actual prompt/question, it seems to me that I'm not actually answering the question that you really asked. How has Tolkien influenced me? Well, I've always been someone who focuses a great deal on words and language, and Tolkien certainly introduced me to a degree of studying language and usage that I never considered before, and in doing so, I think, probably altered my speech and writing patterns and style in a fairly meaningful way. As a writer (a title that I apply to myself with a fair amount of reluctance, but one that I have the clippings to justify) Tolkien has influenced me greatly.

I'd also have had more money and free time if I had never been introduced to a particular hole in the ground, where a particular Hobbit lived, but my life would be the worse for it, I think.