And I am not, even with the excuse of a fever, writing fanfic to find out.
And here I was, grinning, waiting until the end of the post where you would declare that to be your intention! You've made ME want to do so. Or perhaps a poem from Belladonna's perspective.
1. And here, actually, is one of the sentences Tolkien revised for the edition I've never read, thank you, Google Books: "It was often said (in other families) that long ago one of the Took ancestors must have taken a fairy wife. That was, of course, absurd, but certainly there was still something not entirely hobbitlike about them . . ." I am definitely going to need the correct edition; I have no idea what other small stray changes I've missed. I was going to write that a library is next on my to-do list, but it will probably be simpler just to raid Eric's shelves.
And here I come to understand the depth of my obsession with this book; when I read what you quoted further up, I blinked and thought it was misquoted, because I distinctly remembered the construction being "taken a fairy wife." And then you said you had an older revision, and then wrote this, and I am such a Tolkien fangirl I'm a little pink in the cheeks right now. I really want to read your edition!
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And here I was, grinning, waiting until the end of the post where you would declare that to be your intention! You've made ME want to do so. Or perhaps a poem from Belladonna's perspective.
1. And here, actually, is one of the sentences Tolkien revised for the edition I've never read, thank you, Google Books: "It was often said (in other families) that long ago one of the Took ancestors must have taken a fairy wife. That was, of course, absurd, but certainly there was still something not entirely hobbitlike about them . . ." I am definitely going to need the correct edition; I have no idea what other small stray changes I've missed. I was going to write that a library is next on my to-do list, but it will probably be simpler just to raid Eric's shelves.
And here I come to understand the depth of my obsession with this book; when I read what you quoted further up, I blinked and thought it was misquoted, because I distinctly remembered the construction being "taken a fairy wife." And then you said you had an older revision, and then wrote this, and I am such a Tolkien fangirl I'm a little pink in the cheeks right now. I really want to read your edition!
I hope you feel better soon!