Language and Random

So seriously though, J.R.R Tolkien knew, wait for it...35 languages. First of all, how does someone even do that, like really? Okay to show you I'm gonna list them ALL; Latin, French, German in his childhood, but while at school he learned Middle English, Old English, Finnish, Gothic, Greek, Italian, Old Norse, Spanish, Welsh, and Medieval Welsh, but wait there's more, he also knew these last "few" Danish, Dutch, Lombardic, Norwegian, Icelandic, Russian, Swedish, Middle Dutch, Middle High German, Middle Low German, Old High German, Old Slavonic, and Lithuanian. Really though he knew languages I didn't even know were a thing until I read his biography. He even (if you read the books) made his own languages, most famous being Elvish which he created as an odd spin off of Finnish. Yet here I am with my wonderful English...hooray.
 Heh, so his story of Lord of The Rings and The Hobbit are crazy no doubt right? Well he was very questioning of the fans he had made with The Lord of The Rings or just LORDT for short, he was always calling his fans "lunatics" and other things as he found they were dimwitted compared to him being a professor and all. He meant it saying that the fans would never fully understand his work but only just enjoy it from time to time. Another cool thing my book taught me was that the only person in the movies who actually knew Tolkien personally was Christopher Lee. See, Christopher was loving of LORDT books and was giving permission to play Gandolf if ever there were to be a movie made. That sounds pretty cool, obviously. As well as if you've ever seen the movies and know who Christopher Lee is you'd know that he never played Gandolf....but he did play Saruman, or in simpler terms: the bad wizard guy trying to take over Middle-Earth. To me that seems like a good bit to end off on.

Edith and Ronald

It's later now by about ten seconds. As I was saying though, he wanted to see Edith again so very much. By the time he was a legal adult at eighteen he DID see Edith again, but she came with bad news..she was getting married. This sunk Ronald's heart to his stomach, but he was determined and after a few short weeks he convinced her to cancel the marriage and break up with her fiance. That's some pretty good convincing. So him being an adult now he and Edith spent much of their time together, if not then they sent letters.
Ah, young love...I have no clue what it's like. That aside a tragedy happens. Shocker, right? As I said in the post before this, it's the war times and Oxfords student numbers went from three thousand to only about one thousand. Ronald wanted to join just because he felt left out and wanted to go, Edith of course did not care and wanted him to stay so he joined a program that let him finish his degree (A.K.A mostly to see Edith more) then enroll. Although he was not sent out immediately, which was good, however Edith wanted to stay near Ronald which just led to her jumping from house to house as he went from camp to camp. Sounds....fun. Oh boy, next is when he actually goes to war, more fun.

J.R.R Tolkein...again

Okay, so apparently he's a vet, like what. He didn't kill any one, though he saw countless lives taken away. Hmmm...seems a bit like Mordor, oh wait, that's what Mordor was inspired from you know that horrific place with the Orcs and Sauron....yeah that one. Oh and Bilbo Baggin's village is based off of where he grew up. I never knew biographies would actually teach me interesting things. Well, he only really joined the war because he felt left out, literally just went so he wouldn't feel left out, that was only after finishing his degree at Oxford.
Also I don't know if I've said this before but when he was in his later teens he was in love with a girl, Edith, after hanging out for several months they eventually figured out they both had feelings for each other. Alas she moved away after they had no contact with each other, not even letters, because Father Francis, legal guardian of the Tolkien boys, forbid it as Tolkien began to mess up is school work. He became desperate and waited around the town market wanting to "accidentally" see her and engage in small talk. Oh hey...I'll finish this later.