Eowyn was a strong character, I've always thought higher of women like her than like "Charlie's Angels". For a young girl (I was sixth grade when I read the books), what better role model?
Ican'twaitIcan'twaitIcan'twait!!!!
I started reading in my dorm room in Graham Hall at LSU on a Monday afternoon after classes, my sophomore year in college, in the spring.
I read until I fell asleep, about 4 AM on Tuesday. I had no morning classes on Tuesday and Thursday. I awoke, ate lunch at the cafeteria by Kirby Smith dorm, went to class Tues PM, and then returned to my room and started reading again.
I skipped class Wednesday and read.
I skipped class Thursday and read, only pausing to eat when I noticed the time.
Friday morning about 9 or 10 AM, I finished. I had LIVED in Middle Earth for almost four days. It had become more real than reality.
I was heartbroken as I walked back to Sam's cottage with him, knowning that while someday Sam, as a bearer of the ring, might sail across the sea and be reunited with Frodo, Bilbo and Gandalf, that I would never see them again... I wept.
It was the most all-encompassing reading experience I could possibly conceive anyone of having. I have always read intensely and into oblivion, becoming engrossed and unaware of my surroundings. It is a "cinematic" experience for me as I am a strong visualizer (you ought to see some of the dreams I have!)
I have never duplicated that experience again, even when I have reread the Hobbit plus the Trilogy hard on the heels of one another.
Maybe - just maybe - this movie (these movies) will bring me there for a second time.
The Road goes ever on and on
Down from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the Road has gone,
And I must follow, if I can,
Pursuing it with eager feet,
Until it joins some larger way
Where many paths and errands meet.
And whither then? I cannot say.