Location Taken: Rainbow Falls Provincial Park, Ontario
Time Taken: June 2010
I just saw the Hobbit today, and it was great, so I’m looking for the best Hobbit-like photo I have.
Hmm… Sunset photo, not really, beach, no. Cars? Not in the least… Food, possibility…
Ah, waterfalls and rocks! There were a lot of those in the movie!
(I don’t think THAT needs a spoiler alert.)
I did rather enjoy the movie, and if you have any interest in it at all, I suggest going to see it. And I’m solidly in the “glad they split it into three movies” camp, by the way.
The Hobbit has always been my favorite of Tolkien’s books. I grew up with those books, something about my parents being really into Tolkien in college. We have a large collection of both all the books he wrote and a nice array of books written about the books.
Though one of my favorite books about that universe wasn’t one I found in my parents’ collection. It was a very detailed atlas of middle-earth that I found in the library at my middle school. I think it was The Atlas of Middle-earth, by Kare Wynn Fonstad, but it’s been so long I’m not certain.
I loved my middle school’s library. It was full of a wide variety of interesting books, and if you stopped in first thing in the morning, you could get a pass to go to the library during lunchtime. So I’d grab that pass, eat my lunch quickly, and head to the library. I was friends with a few other girls who did the same thing, but I wasn’t heading there to gossip. I was there to read. I’d delve through the shelves and come up with some really fascinating books.
I should track down a copy of Mischling, Second Degree and re-read it. I ran across it while looking for a good book for a book report, and really liked it. It’s a tale about a young girl in Nazi Germany with secret Jewish heritage, and how she survived. It was a really eye-opening book that taught me about how human and varied even the most repressive societies can be, and about how most people on such sides are good people just trying to live their lives going along with the flow and trying not to think too hard about what those in charge are doing. In other words, it taught me not to demonize the enemy, and to watch out for propaganda and mob mentalities. Which is a great thing to learn at a young age, by the way.
