oh hai!!!

i have been in love with tolkien's arda since 1996. i came to it through "the hobbit", which i borrowed from the small library in a youth delinquency prison i was sitting in at the time. when i sneaked away from the prison, the book "happened" to follow me in my worn-out back-pack.

let me explain why i love these books. i learnt late to read and appreciate books. did not even appreciate comic book magazines. i'm a nature child. i love to climb trees, jump into blue lakes, wander with my bare feet, feeling the soft grass and the warm black soil under my feet.

i am a touch person. i love sensations.

i am also a drifter. i have not finished primary education (i'm 33 years old), and between the ages of 12 and 25 i basically lived as an outsider, with no home, no family, drifting around. often it could be frightening. but often wonderful as well. i think tolkien captured the sense of travelling by foot very well, and i can "feel" what he describes as visual impressions. his main medium, like 99% of all people, is sight. my medium is touch. but he can describe what i sense with my nerves.

i love him, even though i know he would probably have loathed me.