Tolkien

So quick explanation. I’ve been posting less because I just got a new job offer which will require a big move. That was the root of my last post. I was realizing how precious time was because it could so easily be taken away. Today I wanted to bring things around to what I’ve recently been listening to and that is Tolkien.

If you’ve heard of nothing else you’ll know of the Lord of the Rings movies, whether you’ve seen them or not. They were amazing in so many ways. Even better were the books themselves, but as I’ve delved deeper into the writings of Tolkien a whole new world has appeared.

Tolkien was an amazing writer, but on top of that, he was an amazing world builder. I mentioned before I felt a sort of kinship to Tolkien and that comes from his world-building side. I love world-building. My book began as a story has evolved so much over the time I’ve been writing it, and a lot of that is because I’ve looked deeper into the world.

One of the amazing things Tolkien did was incorporate lore he’d created in his youth and placed it into the Lord of the Rings books. So much of the lore surrounding Lord of the Rings is completely lost if you don’t look deeper into Tolkien’s writings and try to understand the deeper world he created. I love that about Tolkien.

I think that speaks to us, beginning writers. Tolkien created a world and he wrote a compelling story that held to many of these strange ideas, and information not necessary to the moving forward of the story. As a beginner, I think I get so caught up in telling a story in a way readers will understand I forget to let the world of my story play a part in the tale.

Tolkien is an inspiration on letting creativity pour out in the way that suits the artist, and not for the sake of the beholder. Writing is good, but it should mostly be for oneself. Creativity is something powerful and important no matter how much money you gain from it. Never let creativity die.