D&D&Frodo&Gollum; Living in a Fantasy world

[Amy Z]

Barb wrote:

> >There is a vast difference between
> >being a reader of SF and fantasy and being a D & D addict, even
> >though there is admittedly some overlap in the groups.

When I was just getting to know my dh, he said he loved LOTR and I, 
still a novice in Middle Earth, said something about the connection 
to D&D . . . Hoo boy.  It's amazing he kept talking to me, still less 
married me, because he was as avidly anti-D&D as he was pro-Tolkien.  
I'm not sure whether he had objections to D&D stuff himself, or just 
hated being lumped in with something that didn't interest him in the 
least.

I realized recently, as I thought about the books that dh and I are 
currently reading together or separately, that the list is heavily 
dominated by fantasy and/or scifi.  We have some other things going 
as well, but the list includes:

LOTR (Fellowship in French [we're up to the Council of Elrond! I 
think we may finish the trilogy by the time we're 75], Return of the 
King in the car)

The Silmarillion

Master of Middle-Earth

The Birthday of the World, LeGuin

The Golden Compass, Pullman

HP (PoA--dh is listening to it, can you believe it?!  I think he 
concluded that I would divorce him if he didn't, and I'm letting him 
think so)

and most nights we watch a segment or two of Mystery Science Theater 
3000.

Geekily,

Amy
who is very glad that Binx has seen the light