After I did acid I really became fond of tolkiens hobbit and Lord of the Rings trilogy. I can really see the ultimate meaning behind his words and relate his themes to life easily. One basic analogy is how hobbits live in tunnels and most people are buried in their own tunnel realities. There are so many awesome correlations to hallucinogenic drug use. Those hobbits love mushrooms a little too much, one of the chapters is called "A shortcut to Mushrooms." During their quest to destroy evil they pretty much talk to god (Tom Bombadil). Some characters can talk to each other telepathically. Does anyone else here enjoy Tolkien?
I never really did enjoy Lord of the Rings, but I can definitely see the relation there to psychedelic drug use. I would consider LSD activating other senses beneficial if it didn't screw with your vision in the mean time though, so I consider baseline/sober reality the true reality, but maybe they both are.
which one of his books is the one that starts saying that world was created with sound? I remember reading that one a long long long ago, before I really understood the concept of that, but I was always fascinated with it.
The Silmarillion. But it starts with Thought, that the manifestation of which is taught how to play music. It is very similar to Vaisnava concept of creation, actually. But in a made up, fantasy, novel kind of way :tongue:
Yeah I just read it was actually his son that wrote that one. Edit: Wikipedia is trying to trick me. The son actually just collected, edited and publish it.
If I remember correctly, wasnt it written by the original author but in the form of scattered notes, which his son peiced together and added missing parts to make it a complete book?
Yeah, I read that after clicking on the link of the book. It said on Tolkien's page how his son publish the book heavily influenced by his father's note and I got confused and thought he wrote it, inspired in his father's writing.
I read more on the net and a few sites partially attributed tolkien's success as a novelist to a cult which would do acid and read tolkien's books as part of their religion.
I dropped some tabs the other day and the Lord of the Rings trilogy was on tv. I watched all 3 and yet I have seen them before this was the first time watching it tripping. There is soo many hidden messages and very acidic elements in these movies.
I agree, please share specifically any messages and acidic elements you picked up on if you can remember.
Yeah I was in love with the books back when I was young, I've read them all a couple times and seen all the movies (haha I was a major dweeb back then...). I still like the plotline and his writing style so much, it feel like the biggest Viking saga ever written except everything that happens is all representative and clever. Also doesn't the hobbit neighborhood seem like a wonderful place to live? The homes would be so warm in the winter and cool in the summer and everything looks so natural and in harmony, in a sort of feng shui (sp?) kind of way. The movies were good, but they could have been muuuch better if they had left some really neat sections in there. I kinda hope they do a decent version of the Hobbit as well, that could be really neat. Wasn't there a few other books related to the series as well? I remember reading them in fascination, but I don't remmber theur names...
