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Non-Rec: A Slice of Canon
Jan. 3rd, 2019 11:28 amDay 3 - Fandom Snowflake Challenge
In your own space, share a favorite piece of original canon (a TV episode, a song, a favorite interview, a book, a scene from a movie, etc) and explain why you love it so much.
Ugh, this is so much harder than the last two (but I suppose that's what makes it a challenge ;P).
Sometimes I'm really into the canon, but more often than not I fall in love with the fandom and fanon content instead. One of the biggest exceptions is anything to do with J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth. *sigh* I am such a Tolkien nerd. My father gifted me with a secondhand copy of The Hobbit when I was about eleven or twelve and I have been in love ever since. The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion followed in the years after, but when Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy came out just as I was becoming an adult it felt like a rebirth of love. I love all of it, the casting, the acting, the sets, the props, the details, the locations, the movies, and the making ofs. One of the most effecting things was the music. I'm sure I'm not the only one to feel that way.
Fast forward, now I'm well and truly an adult™, and the new Hobbit trilogy has been released. Now, don't get me wrong there are a LOT of things I love about the newer trilogy, but a lot of the plotting and pacing did not work for me. (I've ended up loving more of the fandom/fanon side of the divide with this one.) But there is one moment in The Hobbit trilogy that for me captures the strange, magical feeling that I remember from my childhood and young adulthood. When Thorin and the dwarves all sing "Far Over the Misty Mountains" in Bilbo's front parlor, I am filled with a sense of profound loss and nostalgia for a place and time that has never been and never will be. It is the sum total of the feelings I hold for Middle-earth itself. I miss that place, regardless of whether it exists or not, with an aching sweetness that I feel I'll always carry with me.
I found the clip on Youtube if you wanted to have a listen. :)
In your own space, share a favorite piece of original canon (a TV episode, a song, a favorite interview, a book, a scene from a movie, etc) and explain why you love it so much.
Ugh, this is so much harder than the last two (but I suppose that's what makes it a challenge ;P).
Sometimes I'm really into the canon, but more often than not I fall in love with the fandom and fanon content instead. One of the biggest exceptions is anything to do with J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth. *sigh* I am such a Tolkien nerd. My father gifted me with a secondhand copy of The Hobbit when I was about eleven or twelve and I have been in love ever since. The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion followed in the years after, but when Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy came out just as I was becoming an adult it felt like a rebirth of love. I love all of it, the casting, the acting, the sets, the props, the details, the locations, the movies, and the making ofs. One of the most effecting things was the music. I'm sure I'm not the only one to feel that way.
Fast forward, now I'm well and truly an adult™, and the new Hobbit trilogy has been released. Now, don't get me wrong there are a LOT of things I love about the newer trilogy, but a lot of the plotting and pacing did not work for me. (I've ended up loving more of the fandom/fanon side of the divide with this one.) But there is one moment in The Hobbit trilogy that for me captures the strange, magical feeling that I remember from my childhood and young adulthood. When Thorin and the dwarves all sing "Far Over the Misty Mountains" in Bilbo's front parlor, I am filled with a sense of profound loss and nostalgia for a place and time that has never been and never will be. It is the sum total of the feelings I hold for Middle-earth itself. I miss that place, regardless of whether it exists or not, with an aching sweetness that I feel I'll always carry with me.
I found the clip on Youtube if you wanted to have a listen. :)
