pedo mellon a minno

Yes, I've read the Silmarillion, and yes it is my biggest obsession. If you gave me a test on it, would I pass? Absolutely not. But it's great.

Since none of my friends are lotr fans, I can't get over how smart I must sound to them when I go on rants about it. I'm over here speaking in a different language 50% of the time whether it be from talking about people or places. And just the amounts of random history that I've soaked into my common knowledge over the years. Not to mention that most of the time, I'm watching more Middle-earth history yt videos than anything else ever. One time, I was going through my copy of the Silmarillion (which has color coded sticky notes popping out of every page probably twice) and my sister's friend walks in on me. After brief conversation they said "you're so intelligent if your book looks like that" and all I could say was "oh thanks" because I was not about to tell them that every marked page on the book was an instance where I thought there was some cute gay connotation behind what certain characters just said or did. Anyways, it's sort of cool that this obsession is able to mask how stupid I actually am.

Tolkien's works are so renown in society, half of which has to do with the production of the films. A lot of meme culture comes from the movies, and a lot of phrases people say in every day conversation do as well (such as "you shall not pass" and "my preciousss"). Even some of Tolkien's poems from the books have become famous, even if most people don't know where they're from. Everyone has at least heard of Lord of the Rings at some point in their lives. So if it's so popular, WHY CAN'T I FIND ANY FELLOW FANS OUTSIDE OF THE INTERNET? It's INSANE. Even the people I know who've read the books or seen the movies don't seem to have very huge interest in it. And even less people know/have read the Silmarillion. I don't know if this is everyone's experience, but those of you who know of what I speak, then alas that these evil days should be ours.