[2Jedismom]

I love it! Thank you so much for posting it.

I am beginning to wonder what it is about my character that so loves Tolkien's writings and also enamours me so to Celtic music! I always loved the music, though I admit since obtaining my whistle it has really exploded.

No one in my family is that crazy about it and my parents have thought I'm a little odd because of it. Sure, I have liked my share of other music, but it's the old Celtic tunes I come back to over and over. Just like books...I like other books, but it's Tolkien I come back to again and again.

I don't think it has anything to do with my heritage. I'm a Heinz 57!

[SuziQ]

No one in my family is that crazy about it and my parents have thought I'm a little odd because of it. Sure, I have liked my share of other music, but it's the old Celtic tunes I come back to over and over

It's funny you mention that. My older and just younger sister have developed a love of Celtic music, as I have, though we all came to it seperately and without the others knowing about it. Our maternal grandmother was Irish, but she never talked about her Irish roots; I'm not even sure when her family came over. Her paternal grandparents, the Selbys, were from Kentucky and her great grandfather was a colonel in the Confederate Army, but I'm not sure about the maternal side, the Dolans. I don't think anyone in our family ever asked her about or did any sort of search.

My younger sister loves to go to Celtic fests and Highland games, neither of which I have ever done. Living in MA, I could avail myself of some live Celtic music, but I just don't feel like schleping into Boston!