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Originally Posted by donquixote99
A Moody Blues evening, I can see that. Myself, I've come down with a cold. Discomforts don't compare with the pain of jointwork, but it's still enough to have me watching The Fellowship of the Ring for the first time in a while. Comfort through art.
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Fond old memory reading this. When I was about 13 or 14 in 1970, I bolted to my older brother's apartment in 7 Corners, Virginia to escape home life and he turned me onto The Lord Of The Ring books. I'd sit there for hours reading the books while playing the Moody Blues on his stereo. The two are now inextricably linked in my mind.
At one point we took the now very collectable and expensive dustcover from his hardcover copy of the Hobbit and graphed it out and transferred it to the long wall in the living room of his rented apartment. Then we took jugs of tempera paint and faithfully reproduced 'The Lonely Mountain' including Smaug in his living room.
It must've taken several coats of primer to obliterate that wall once he moved out.
Patty and I have been enjoying the 'Rings Of Power' series immensely. The Second Age and the Silmarillion come to life. Even good old Tom Bombadil, his yellow boots and Old Man Willow have made a brief appearance.
Cheers, old man and thanks for sparking an old memory of a bygone era.