All that to say we've had a lot of LOTR going on at our place lately. As evidenced by how much we talk about it during normal conversations. For instance, the other day I was at dinner with my friend Denise. She's taking on old testament survey class at the local seminary. I told her that I'd started reading deuteronomy and I was really taken aback by how the nation Israel acted in warfare:
Ashley: I mean they went into cities and killed men, women and children. That's what the Orcs did Denise! God's people acted like Orcs!
And another example, last night at dinner I asked Brian if he could have been born in any country besides America which country he would have been born in.
Brian: Gondor. No, wait .... somewhere in Middle Earth like the Shire. Yeah, that's where I'd want to be born.
Ashley: Uh ... I meant somewhere that actually exists.
Ashley: Uh ... I meant somewhere that actually exists.
So there you have it. We are officially weird. After Brian's comment last night I decided to take a break from the LOTR books for a couple days. Sorry to our friends who haven't seen LOTR. You probably didn't understand this post at all.
heh heh. One of our first major purchases as a couple was a really nice omnibus edition of LotR, plus a copy of the Hobbit, illustrated by Alan Lee. Yeah, we were very conscious of wedding and moving-to-Des-Moines expenses upcoming, but we couldn't resist when we found them at Hastings. We did it for the children!
ReplyDeleteI love it! James and I are the same way with The Office and Smallville.
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