Tolkien Tuesday: Tolkien....Today?
For this week's entry, I'm going to take a break from books for a bit (I will undoubtedly return to that at some point...but not 'books by Tolkien', though...) This week's post is a collection of random thoughts, but they all bear a similar theme or idea. I just turned 32 years old this year. Which means, that Tolkien was not alive in my lifetime. Reading about him, I've learned to appreciate the many parts of Tolkien: as an author, as a 'Professor' (his love and contributions to the scholarly and academic world, as well as his love of old, ancient epic poems) and other things. One thing that has repeatedly crossed my mind, and I'm going to share that thought with you this week, is "what if Tolkien ere around now??" I am of course not speaking of living very long , but if instead of living 1892 - 1973 he lived in another space of time. What has prompted this question, was reading about his likes and dislikes, what technology he lo...