Audible & Tolkien...

[cairistiona]

Audible called for several well-known fantasy authors to share their thoughts on Tolkien... Michael J. Sullivan included his, the third one down. :)

A Tolkien Tribute

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[ysilme]

Meh, Audible prevents me from getting to that page, I get redirected to the German starting page all the time (also when logged out as I tried first). How I like it when things are made so easily accessible... not.
IDK, since they fused with Amazon, nothing works well for me any longer with Audible. Perhaps because I don't currently have a subscription, as I don't have a regular one, since I mainly listen to my Tolkien audiobooks over and over. ;)

[cairistiona7.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry. Here's the text of Michael's:

"I owe Tolkien numerous debts. When I was young, adults encouraged reading the same way they prodded me to clean my room and do my homework—I resisted each equally. And yet, on a dreary January day in the early 1970’s I stumbled through a secret door to a magical place in the form of a tattered paperback book with a curious cover. I spent that winter reading The Lord of the Rings. Then I read everything Tolkien wrote. Then I started reading other books and writing stories of my own. Sharing my love of Tolkien fostered bonds with people I’m still friends with forty years later. Tolkien taught me to read, gave me friends, and then a career. He was my first literary love and has stayed with me my entire life. I still think of Tolkien when I see a gnarled tree’s roots, fog on a field, or when walking a winding road. Happy birthday, John, and thanks for everything."

[ysilme]

Awww, thank you, that's so kind! <3
What a wonderful memory and story, this is such a precious!

[dreamflower]

What nice tributes! I always like seeing when/how other people got hooked on Tolkien!

[cairistiona7.livejournal.com]

And when it's so evident in their writing, it's nice to find out you didn't guess wrongly.

[shirebound]

Ohhh, those tributes make me so happy!

[cairistiona7.livejournal.com]

Aren't they nice?

[imbecamiel.livejournal.com]

What lovely tributes! Makes me so happy to see the effect Tolkien's had on others. And what Michael J. Sullivan said was particularly relatable - both in the way Tolkien has of igniting imagination and the way that that shared love has fostered so many long-lasting friendships.

(I have to admit, though, my editing brain kinda spazzed out as soon as I started reading that first section by Patrick Rothfuss. "It's probably impossible to underestimate how much Tolkien has influenced me." Waitwhat. Pretty sure you mean overestimate, there, Mr. Rothfuss?)

[cairistiona7.livejournal.com]

LOL...I had just skimmed Rothfuss' (because honestly, every word he writes that's not related to his third book makes me unreasonably bitter) but yeah, that's a tangle if there ever was one. Hmm. Impossible to underestimate... which I can kinda see where he was trying to go with that? Like he's say it's impossible to minimize Tolkien's influence? But it's very awkward for sure, and saying it "impossible to overestimate" makes it much more immediately clear.

Silly author. LOL