A milestone: won't you introduce yourself?

[pegkerr]

Hey, my friends list just hit 100! I remember when I first started this journal, I felt as nervous as if I was getting ready for a party (is the house clean enough? Do I have enough pistachio nuts?) I'm so pleased to meet you all. How did you find my LiveJournal (and why do you stick around)? Won't you please introduce yourself? Or just wave "hi" if I know you already?

Thanks!

Cheers,
Peg

Comments

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

It's been interesting that some people have read the books first and then found the LiveJournal, whereas others have gotten to know me through my LiveJournal first and then read the books. (Of course, there are those who never get around to the books at all, but that's okay, too.)

Yes, I've been a long-time LOTR fan (I first read the books over twenty years ago). I won the regional award in a Tolkien national essay contest back in 1986 (topic: "Why I want to go to Middle Earth"). I still have the T-Shirt I won (Frodo Lives!). I also did one of my Plan B papers for my masters degree on Tolkien and the rest of the Inklings, so yes, I've been thinking and writing about Tolkien from way before the movie.

Because I love Tolkien so much, I was pretty pleased when The Wild Swans was a finalist for the Mythopoeic Award. (Alas, I didn't get to take home the Aslan statue; Peter Beagle snabbled it up that year.)

Cheers,
Peg

[lcohen]

heh. long ago and far away, i won a lovely copy of the hobbit by winning a hobbit trivia contest sponsored by a local bookstore. i still have that copy, as well as the annotated hobbit and the regular copy that i bought for myself with my own dime (literally) at the library book sale after my fourth grade teacher read it to us. i waited to read lord of the rings until i was eleven or so--i don't think i understood huge chunks of it--i reread it every year for about five years and it made more sense and i liked different parts each time.

it's fun to recall discovering the books all those years ago.

[pameladean]

Isn't the nomination a great sensation, though? TAM LIN, along with three or four other books, lost to A WOMAN OF THE IRON PEOPLE. But wow, that was a great few weeks beforehand. Fantasy in the tradition of the Inklings. Whee!

Pamela