Well, it looks like cuturally, my Fandom will be ending with the culmanation of PJ’s LOTR film treatment. That is, what else is there possibly for me to look forward to? Yeah, there will always be a new interest, yet LotR is and was such a formative and personal structure of my life. I look on this with a bittersweet view, like a small Grey Haven of my heart. I move on, the world moves on, all passes. Happy and Sad. Young and Old.
I feel however, that I have outgrown and passed Fandom – like Frodo’s Dreme, I look at the home of Fanboydom and it’s not mine anymore. I’ll never be there again, never to return, for still they speak not, men that I meet.
When the EE for ROTK has come and gone, when the eventual Enormous DVD/CD sets have been released and purchased, Sí man i yulma nin enquantuva?
Namárië!
Ai! laurië lantar lassi súrinen,
yéni únótimë ve rámar aldaron!
Yéni ve lintë yuldar avánier
mi oromardi lissë-miruvóreva
Andúnë pella, Vardo tellumar
nu luini yassen tintilar i eleni
ómaryo airetári-lírinen.
Sí man i yulma nin enquantuva?
An sí Tintallë Varda Oiolossëo
ve fanyar máryat Elentári ortanë
ar ilyë tier undulávë lumbulë
ar sindanóriello caita mornië
i falmalinnar imbë met,
ar hísië untúpa Calaciryo míri oialë.
Sí vanwa ná, Rómello vanwa, Valimar!
Namárië! Nai hiruvalyë Valimar!
Nai elyë hiruva! Namárië!
