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Lindarielwen
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on: January 09, 2014 05:59
Erwedraith asked this question in the Games Forum and I could not answer it immediately. It is a great question and your answers would be very interesting.

What if Tolkien were still alive and you were able to meet him? What would you say? Would you tell him things about his books you do not like? Would you ask him questions about languages, Middle-earth, the characters? Would you ask him what he thinks of the movies? Would you ask him about The Silmarillion?

What would you ask him if you had the chance?
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on: January 11, 2014 06:45
How much time do you need to complete the Silmarillion in the light of the massive round-earth redo you were contemplating?
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on: January 12, 2014 06:06
I would say well done! I would ask him if he truly believes that this world used to be that world, or if he just thinks of it as a story.
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on: January 12, 2014 10:11
I would say: You're a genius! Tell me *everything*!
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on: January 12, 2014 06:42
I would say, "Sir, I pity you -- deeply -- to have come up with such a wonderful world on paper, and yet be doomed to live in this one." Why? Because he went straight into his, our hearts and brought out our deepest wishes for life . . . only to see practically nothing of it in reality. I say practically, because there are still Aragorns and Elronds here and there, still a few folksy Hobbits about. And there are still a few places like Lothlorien and the Shire. And of course there are people like us who have our various entanglements in this modern world, but long for the Shire, for Rivendell, for Middle Earth.
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on: January 14, 2014 02:45
I would ask him where he got his inspiration.
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on: January 17, 2014 06:35
I would ask him if he could please show me all the different ideas he had on Middle Earth...all his journals and notebooks and maps he made and songs/poems he wrote
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on: January 19, 2014 05:18
Ditto to that, Erwedraith!
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on: January 19, 2014 06:04
You guys should come with me in that hypothetical visit. The "tell me *everything*" part really meant everything, lol. We'd be there for days listining to stories. Eating cookies or something, drinking tea, with Tolkien smoking his pipe...Very english and storytime like. *.* *sigh* would have been awesome.
"O môr henion i dhû: Ely siriar, êl síla. Ai! Aníron Undómiel. Tiro! Êl eria e môr. I 'lîr en êl luitha 'úren. Ai! Aníron…"
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on: January 19, 2014 06:50
More like weeks, after we ask all of the questions we want to ask and get our books signed and everything...oh, happiness.
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on: January 24, 2014 03:16
I want to come too!!! (づ｡◕‿‿◕｡)づ

And at the end of the day (or weeks) I'd ask: How about a sequel?
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on: January 24, 2014 05:40
Haha!
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on: September 23, 2014 10:07
I would definitely tell him that he's my hero.
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