Did you ever get a really big surprise that you REALLY weren't expecting? Yeah, that's what I was. So, on October 22nd, 1988, the same year my older brother graduated from highschool, I came into this world! No booing, please. From birth, the outlook was grim, I had serious heartproblems, and shouldn't really have survived. Obviously, though, I did. I was a quiet baby, and a very well behaved kid, my only major problem being that once I learned to talk, I never ever stopped. Once I started school (which I had looked forward to for a whole year), something changed. By about 3rd grade, I'd went from a hyperactive kid that would never shutup, to one that wouldn't talk almost at all. It probably had to do with the fact I got made fun of a lot when I was little (aren't childen terrible?). I also started to discover there was a world outside of rainbow brite and the carebears, a world that included power rangers, and later, anime. Sometime around 4th grade, I wrote my first poem, and found I enjoyed it very much. My parents, for a long time, didn't believe I'd acctually written it on my own, and remained thus unconvinced until I started doing it regularly. The next year I tried my hand at writing a story and discovered, though I was worse at it (it really was terrible), I enjoyed it better. I've always been a daydreamer (my parents still wonder at the fact I can kill an hour day dreaming), but now, suddenly, I had an outlet for built up creativity. I've been drawing and writing poetry and stories ever since.
That summer, I was bored out of my mind, so my brother brought me something one day. It was a tattered copy of The Hobbit. Looking at the cover, I was a bit skeptical (it just didn't look like the type of bok an 11 year old girl would enjoy). My brother, as a kid, was really big into D&D, and had positivity loved The Hobbit, and The Lord ofthe Rings even more. I decided to give it a try, at least, and read a couple of chapters. More than anyone else, I've discovered, my brother always knows what I will or won't like. From the first few pages, I was hooked. I discovered I was fascinated with hobbits. I finished the book in about 2 days, and reread it about a week later. For a while, I really wanted to find the LOTR books, but no one had really heard anything about the movie yet, so they weren't in every store like they are now. I found copies of The Two Towers and The Return of the King, but not The Fellowship of the Ring, so the second two got tossed somewhere in the back of my closet. I really didn't think anything else about middle-earth until the first movie came out. Honestly, I hadn't heard anything about it until right before it came out. They were advertising Harry Potter like crazy, and when I first saw a little article in a magazine titled "LOTR vs. Harry Potter?" (or something similar) I was like "huh..." I went and saw both that year. Harry Potter? Okay... But Lord of the Rings...? I was so nuts about it after I saw it, my friends thought I'd lost my marbles - of course, until I finally convinced them all, one by one, to go see it. Then they became as bad as me. The next year, we saw The Two Towers opening weekend. Of course, by then, I'd once again found my copies of TTT and ROTK and read them both. Now, I am admittedly obsessed with all things LOTR. For a long while, and still sometimes, I felt more cofortable in my daydreams of middle-earth than real life.
I still consider writing a huge part of my life. It's an outlet for my creativity and frustration, and as much an escape as anything else. I figured out pretty early on that I don't really enjoy where I am, and while reading takes you to new places, writing lets you invent your own places. Admittedly, just as soon as I'm burrowed deeply into one idea, it's easy for me to get terribly disracted by another and forget the first. I also get discouraged rather easily, as I'm still not quite as good a writer as I should like to become some day. what better way to improve, however, than practice?

Well... Lets see... A bit of my history, how I got into lord of the rings, and a bit about my writing... Yup. That's me in a nutshell.

wow!

Okay first of all, I wanna say that you seem like an incredibly brave girl to me! I know kids can be real pains in the ass! (or pain in the asses? ;)2 )

anyway, I think it is really good for kids to write at such a young age. It develops you more.

anyway, just want to say I really admire you and hope to see a lot of your writing here!

Brave? Nah. And, truth be told, I was probably a pain in the ass too.
(Hmm, perhaps its pains in the asses?)
Thank you, though. And don't worry, I've already got a few fics in planning, besides the one I'm already working on. ^-^