the problems about being in the silm fandomā¦
nobodyās in the silm fandom.
ā¦at least, people Iāve met in real life. Thereās an amazing community here on tumblr with a good amount of (super talented!!) people in it, but so far Iāve barely met a single one in real life.
Which makes about sense, considering most people, especially considering that Iām in an academia environment with other young people that think of lotr more of an āold-timey,ā āstuffy,ā and āanother one of those old classic boring books our teachers make us read,ā and sure, yeah itās sort of justified for them to think that, but it just makes me go ARRRGH YOU JAIL CROW OF MANDOS
Iāve met a fair amount of people whoāve at least watched the movies or read some of the og trilogy and the hobbit (yay!)ā¦but havenāt read Tolkienās other books, such as the silm (nay!).
ā¦THE PROBLEM WITH THIS THOUGH is that I, being an avid Tolkien nerd, get beyond excited to hear them say āoh Iāve watched the movies and they were pretty good :)ā and dump a butt ton of lore on them.













