Mushy Sentimental Fangirl Reminiscence

I have not been in school for three months now. Almost three months. 2.9 months. Also I don't have a boyfriend to take me to Disneyland, and I can't afford to take myself to Disneyland, so I have far too much time on my hands, which means I get to watch/read LOTR/The Hobbit as many times as I want. Summer for me basically means being in full-blast Tolkien mode.

I try not to talk about it too much because I don't want people to get sick of me, but today, I have worked hard, and now I'm going to sit down with a Nice Cup Of Decaf and talk about Tolkien as much as I want.

WARNING: SENTIMENTAL REMINISCENCE OF A HOPELESS FANGIRL

Note: I don't really like the word "fangirl," even though I use it plenty. Somehow it makes me even less intelligent.

Some of my favorite early memories are of my parents reading The Hobbit/LOTR to me and my big sister. I must've been about seven or eight. My favorite first encounters of Middle-Earth are

1. Asking my ma what a hobbit was, and she said the explanation was coming up, and the next sentence she read was "The mother of this particular hobbit-what is a hobbit?"

2. My parents reading the "Blunt the knives" song

3. Getting chills reading the chapter title "Riddles in the Dark"

4. Being scared of the illustration of Gollum

4.5 Feeling sorry for Bombur

5. Being indignant and depressed when Fili and Kili died [they were my favorites. and that was before they were this good-looking]

6. Getting excited feel-good heebie jeebies reading the title of the first chapter of Fellowship and noticing it was just like the first chapter title of The Hobbit 

7. Surprised when we found out Merry wasn't a girl

8. Chills from the chapter title "A Knife in the Dark"

9. Chills from Frodo imagining dark fingers trying to steal the Ring

10. Astonished at the story of Gollum's life

11. Super excited feel-good heebie jeebies when Frodo meets Gloin in Rivendell

12. My ma explaining Sam's "not dropping no eaves"

13. My Big Sister saying she didn't realize how much she liked Boromir until he died

14. Laughing at Legolas and Gimli counting dead orcs

15. Thinking Pippin was really smart tricking the orcs

16. Weirded-out at the illustration of Treebeard and my ma telling us he's actually a good guy

17. Saying "they should make a movie" and my dad saying that they are

18. Fangirl giggling when Bilbo gives Sam a bag of gold in case Sam wants to get married

19. Sam saying "well, I'm back."

I have the best parents in the world.

If I have kids, first thing I do will be to read to them. Actually no, I'm going to hire Laurence Fishburne to put on shades and say "Welcome...........to the Real World" when each of them is born, so that'll be the first thing. Of course they won't get the reference, but I will and it's going to be hilarious.