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About Me

My first contact with Tolkien's brilliant writing was not, actually, a favourable one. Maybe because I never made it to the writing itself. Whoever was in charge of acquiring books in our school library seemed to dislike Tolkien a great deal, because to this day I'm convinced that I never saw a more unappealing book in my life. "Weird" would be the nicest thing to say about that cover, and there was no summary in sight. My older brother tried to provide one, but "older", in this case, doesn't mean "old enough to give a description of the story that actually makes sense", so I thought "Nope!", and went back to my beloved Wolfang Hohlbein and Federica de Cesco. I probably never would have even touched it again, if not for two things that luckily came together:

1. I entered a phase where I LOVED strong female characters who could fight and preferably had a horse. 

2. The first Lord of the Rings movie was not far off, and on some pictures/posters there was a woman with a sword and a white horse.

Naturally, I wanted to know everything about that character. Since that was before the time when "google it" became my go-to response to not knowing something, my options were limited. Again, my brother didn't know and the descriptions of the movie gave no hint either, so that left me with...the books. They were still ugly, but now i was motivated and so i got past the cover. Everyone familiar with the differences between the movie and the book of Fellowship of the Ring will know, I read that book front to back and still didn't know a single thing about the woman with the sword and the horse. But by then it didn't matter anymore. I was in love (and also the proud owner of my own copies of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, later joined by the Hobbit and the Silmarillion). 

 This was the beginning of a (so far) lifelong obsession with Middle-Earth. It may ease up at times, but in the end, I always come back to it and I still discover new things everytime get into it again.