# Fellowship 

We watched Peter Jackson's Fellowship of the Ring last night. It's a wonderful film to return to. The cast, the visuals, the music, the dialogue, the powerful friendships - it all comes together beautifully.

I first picked up The Hobbit in the library at my primary school, and from reading the introduction, about the correctness of writing 'dwarfs' or 'dwarves', I was hooked. Lord of the Rings was the biggest reading undertaking of my childhood and it felt epic.

I remember browsing through Christopher Tolkien's Histories of Middle Earth in book shops, mesmerised by the scale and earnestness of the worldbuilding. I don't know if they are out of print now, but it certainly seems that there are more varied fantasy books to fill the store shelves now than there were in the 90's.

I eventually got around to reading the Silmarillion which is something very different and hard to appreciate or even look back on without being deep in the nimbus of a journey through Tolkien.

I want to reread these things, and watching the film last night stirred that feeling further, though now is not the time for that. And it's reassuring to know those books are always at hand.

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