I am a JRR Tolkien fan. I have been since I was in 7th or 8th grade. In those days we had "reading groups" within an English class. Kids were divided up into groups depending on their reading ability. My reading group read The Hobbit.
I was in love. It had adventure and swashbuckling and arrows flying through the air and a Dragon and gold and greed and lots of other human emotions.
That was the year I had my appendix out. In 1972 this was a stay-in-the-hospital-for-a-week procedure and then I was home for 3 more. My Language Arts teacher at the time bought the other three books in the series and brought them to me in the hospital so I would have something to read.
And thus began another lifelong love affair. These have become my favorite books and the ones I probably have read the most. I have made knitwear from patterns based on these books/characters. I made my first round shawl (Evenstar), my largest beaded shawl (In Dreams) and a cowl from LOTR based patterns…
I was in love. It had adventure and swashbuckling and arrows flying through the air and a Dragon and gold and greed and lots of other human emotions.
That was the year I had my appendix out. In 1972 this was a stay-in-the-hospital-for-a-week procedure and then I was home for 3 more. My Language Arts teacher at the time bought the other three books in the series and brought them to me in the hospital so I would have something to read.
And thus began another lifelong love affair. These have become my favorite books and the ones I probably have read the most. I have made knitwear from patterns based on these books/characters. I made my first round shawl (Evenstar), my largest beaded shawl (In Dreams) and a cowl from LOTR based patterns…