[ SECRET POST #261 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #261 ⌋

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 09 pages, 201 secrets from Secret Submission Post #038.
Secrets Not Posted: 0 broken links, [ 1 ] not!secrets, 0 not!fandom, [ 1 ] repeat.
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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Picture me nodding enthusiastically. Thank you for posting this, it was said far, far better than anything I could have ever written to make people comprehend the phenomenon.

I do appreciate the movies for causing a new wave of Tolkien-love, and they are a decent, very decent summary, but I just don't understand how people don't want to delve deeper into the world Tolkien has created just because it would require them to read a book. It's possible that this is the thing that irks me most, Lord of the Rings is just the medium it has become most observable in, and the one that touches me nearest because I love the books so much.

I really have to put myself in a different mindspace when I'm reading them. And that effort (and little effort, I think) people are unwilling to make... why?

our attention spans dwindling as society develops more than anything

In response to that I quote the Master:

[...]
I will not walk with your progressive apes,
erect and sapient. Before them gapes
the dark abyss to which their progress tends
if by God's mercy progress ever ends,
and does not ceaselessly revolve the same
unfruitful course with changing of a name.
[...]

(from Mythopoeia (http://home.ccil.org/~cowan/mythopoeia.html) - enough said.)