the eye of the world

[threeplusfire]

I had a bagel with scrambled eggs, onions, tomato and smoked salmon for breakfast, while reading The Eye of the World. Melynda, Gene and I are all reading Robert Jordan right now, through some chain of events. That is perhaps the one thing I miss most about college, is being around people who are reading the same book at the same time, and talking about it. Branching off a conversation Melynda had last night with Sam, we were discussing the iconography of Tolkein and how it's made its way into so many other novels. For instance, Gollum and Strider being two of the most enduring figures to come out of Tolkein's work and how one sees their echoes in a great many other stories. Padan Fain and Lan, in the Jordan books, the twisted, hunting Darkfriend and the uncrowned King and Warder.

Don't even get her started on Harry Potter.

My lip gloss arrived, and it is quite shiny and wonderful. Its staying power is remarkable, and might even supplant my un-ending tube of peppermint lipgloss as a favorite. Plus, now I have one of Reive's Mary Kay cards.

Gene is still sleeping. I hope he is not sick. Tempted for a moment to wake him, but the boy has an alarm clock. If he wants to be up, he'll get up. Unless he falls and hits his head on something, and that would be bad.

There is a fan, and a large device for absorbing water out of the air and the carpet in the hallway. It's rather loud and will be here til Friday. Hopefully by then, the electrical short in the bathroom will be fixed as well. Yesterday, the man who came to look at the walls had a nifty device for measuring the humidity in the sheetrock, and it hit 100% on the back wall. Even today, it's still a bit malleable. Thank all our lucky stars that I figured this out before the ceiling came down on us or something like what happened to the neighbors.

Comments

[ex-verdandi713.livejournal.com]

'We were discussing the iconography of Tolkien and how it's made its way into so many other novels...don't even get her started on Harry Potter."

You mean like the way the Dementors were such a crashingly clear, er, *tribute* to the Ringwraiths, she said in disillusion after having seen FotR?

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[tsarina.livejournal.com]

Yep. It's definitely there, I think.

Gods, when I saw the Ringwraiths on the screen for the first time, I thought I was going to expire on the spot. More than a decade after I first read those books, and they still scare the hell out of me. I'm not looking forward to seeing the Dementors on the screen either.

[cyniccat.livejournal.com]

Like... I started to read Robert Jordan in High School, and made it to book 8, but I just forgot who the 09234 characters in the book are to continue it anymore. While reading it, I often thought to myself "this is a blatant ripoff of Tolkien". Meh.

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[tsarina.livejournal.com]

Well, it's definitely got Tolkien-esque imagery and story happening. But I think he does a good job of creating an original world. His writing style is good. That scene with Perrin and the battle at Two Rivers is one of the most cinematic scenes I've ever come across in a fantasy novel. I remember reading it the first time and seeing it all in Technicolor wash over the page.

It has been a long time since I read these too. There's a new one coming out sometime soon, so I thought I should read them again.