Resolve

Epiphanies come in all places, usually when you least expect it, like when I'm on tour. Ready? Ok. I have discovered that I am lazy. No no, I can see you saying "Yeah we already knew that", this goes beyond my normal laziness. It is 13 years of slothful thinking that I must now, finally, blow up with a compact nuclear device.

KABOOM!!!!!!!

Ahem. I have never read the Lord of the Rings. *hides in shame* This is for two basic and simple reasons. 1: See the above paragraph. 2: I do worry that it will infect my writing. Ewe, the Frodo flu. It is such a landmark in a genre that I love and wish to participate in that well, lets just say that I've always been cautious around it. I've read other things by Tolkien, The Hobbit, The Silmarrillion, the Lay of Luthien and the Children of Hurin. Love them all, especially the Sil. And strangely buying the stupid books is and always has been a deeply important memory for me. Family vacation, used book store, I was 12, and when I opened the book it was right at the description of the Black Riders. My mind went blank for a second and I think I blinked alot after reading that. Pivitol (I wasn't 100% sold on fantasy at the time). And yet to this day, despite having two sets of the trilogy I've managed to get through 2 of the 3 books in, I say again, 13 years.

Well no more. Once my TBR falls to 20 I will start to read it from the beginning, (well I'll skim the Hobbit chapter, I know what a hobbit is) to end. No books in between and then maybe my lack of effort will stop bugging me. Plus I'm a bit more of a conscious person than I was at 12 or 20 when I picked up The Two Towers. It'll be interesting to see what I get out of it at 25.